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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 28 November 2005
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 28 November 2005
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 28 November 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 28 November of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 28 November see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 1
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many cases in Scotland where tax credit overpayments have been disputed (a) they have been written off, (b) additional tax credits have been awarded to deal with hardship and (c) claimants in receipt of additional tax credits due to hardship have also (i) disputed their overpayment and (ii) had it written off in (A) 2003-04, (B) 2004-05 and (C) 2005-06 to date. | | (33018) | 2
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many cases in Scotland HM Revenue and Customs and its predecessors applied to the Appeals Service under section 32(1) and (2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Tax Credits Act 2002 for a summons against an individual for failing to provide information or evidence or failing to comply with a requirement regarding a final notice in (a) 2003-04, (B) 2004-05 and (C) 2005-06 to date. | | (33019) | 3
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many tax credit cases from 2003-04 in Scotland an overpayment was identified where there was no ongoing award. | | (33020) | 4
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many cases in Scotland where a tax credit has been processed there was a delay in the computer system generating an award of child or working tax credit in (a) 2003-04 and (b) 2004-05; and how many such cases there have been in 2005-06. | | (33021) | 5
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many tax credit awards, in Scotland, in 2003-04 income rose by (a) up to £1,000 to £1,999, (b) £2,000 to £2,499, (c) £2,500 to £2,999, (d) £3,000 to £3,499, (e) £3,500 to £3,999, (f) £4,000 to £4,999, (g) £5,000 to £5,999, (h) £6,000 to £9,999, (i) £10,000 to £14,999, (j) £15,000 to £19,999, (k) £20,000 to £24,999, (l) £25,000 to £29,999 and (m) over £30,000. | | (33022) | 6
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total number of overpayments is in Scotland due to official errors in the new tax credit system; and what their value was in each year since April 2003. | | (33023) | 7
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Treasury Minister has attended each ECOFIN meeting since 1st May 1997. | | (31922) | 8
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the life expectancy of (a) men and (b) women in each (i) region, (ii) county, (iii) socio-economic group and (iv) age cohort (A) 30 to 39, (B) 20 to 29, (C) 10 to 19 and (D) 0 to 9 years. | | (32416) | 9
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of his Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32591) | 10
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reduce duty on renewable fuels to accompany the introduction of the Government's Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations. | | (33039) | 11
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officers from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Department have been (a) permanently and (b) temporarily based outside the United Kingdom in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (33237) | 12
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33258) | 13
N | Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the UK's net contribution to the EU budget was in (a) 2004-05 and (b) 2005-06; and what he expects it to be in 2006-07. | | (31862) | 14
| Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the (a) costs and (b) benefits of the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. | | (32857) | 15
| Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received from the Financial Services Authority on the implications of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. | | (32862) | 16
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much value-added tax was paid by voluntary and charity sector organisations in each of the past five years for which figures are available. | | (32687) | 17
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he last assessed the merits of using Capital Gains Tax relief to encourage new landlords to offer alternative accommodation to retiring farm tenants; and what his conclusions were. | | (32581) | 18
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total value was of British exports to (a) the eurozone area, (b) the pre-enlargement 15 EU member states and (c) the post-enlargement 25 EU member states in each year since 1997. | | (32649) | 19
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will set out the calculations and background statistics used in the compilation of Chart B6 of the Financial Statement and Budget Report of March 2005, HC 372, showing business investment relative to gross domestic product. | | (32670) | 20
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33226) | 21
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the annual yield from taxes with an ecological impact in each year from 1996-97 to 2005-06; and what the amount is as a percentage of (a) total tax revenue and (b) GDP for each tax. | | (32436) | 22
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the capital gains tax treatment is for shared ownership schemes in non-charitable housing associations; and if he will make a statement. | | (32479) | 23
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the revenue cost in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07 of exempting demolition costs from value added tax. | | (32480) | 24
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the extra annual yield in 2005-06 had the (a) landfill tax, (b) vehicle excise duty, (c) air passenger duty and (d) fuel duty been raised in line with (i) the GDP deflator and (ii) GDP, (A) since its introduction and (B) since 1996-97; and what the (1) rate would be and (2) percentage difference between that rate and the current rate is in each case. | | (33123) | 25
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the extra annual yield in 2005-06 had the (a) climate change levy and (b) aggregates tax been raised in line with (i) the GDP deflator and (ii) GDP since its introduction; and what the (A) rate would be and (B) percentage difference between that rate and the current rate is in each case. | | (33124) | 26
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many deaths in (a) Houghton and Washington East, (b) Sunderland and (c) Tyne and Wear alcohol was the primary cause in each of the past five years. | | (32871) | 27
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of the registered unemployed in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency were (a) 25 years and under, (b) 26 to 35 years, (c) 36 to 45 years, (d) 46 to 55 years and (e) over 55 years on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (32756) | 28
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have been investigated by HM Customs and Revenue to determine whether IR35 applies to them in each of the last five years; how many of these were found to fall within IR35; what the (a) total cost and (b) average duration of such investigations was in each year; and what estimate he has made of the additional tax revenue raised as a result of those investigations in each year. | | (32454) | 29
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average new mortgage loan was in (a) the UK and (b) East Midlands in each of the last five years. | | (32310) | 30
N | Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total tax revenue collected by the Government from British taxpayers and businesses was in 2004-05. | | (30098) | 31
N | Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total tax revenue collected by the Government from (a) taxpayers in Wales and (b) businesses in Wales was in 2004-05. | | (30099) | 32
N | Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the percentage of Government revenue during the year 2004-05 which was derived from businesses and taxpayers in Wales. | | (30100) | 33
N | Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money the British Government has spent on military operations in Iraq since 20th March 2003; and if he will make a statement. | | (30101) | 34
N | Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding was allocated to the Welsh Assembly in the form of a block grant under the Barnett Formula in each tax year since 1997-98. | | (30102) | 35
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which EU countries have not transposed the Money Laundering Directive into their national law. | | (32897) | 36
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have been stopped by HM Customs and Excise for importing road fuel in excess of the 10 litres allowed free of excise duty in each year from 2001. | | (32484) | 37
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Inland Revenue will have access to the Valuation Office Agency's Automated Value Model computer database used for council tax valuations. | | (33159) | 38
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Valuation Office Agency's Automated Value Model computer database will be used by the Northern Ireland Valuation and Lands Agency for the purpose of its rates revaluation. | | (33161) | 39
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32989) | 40
| Mr Ian Taylor (Esher & Walton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ask the Tax Office to provide claimants with a full explanation of how the demands for repayment of (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit are calculated. | | (32421) | 41
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32835) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 42
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33253) | 43
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what proportion of posts in (a) the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and (b) the No.10 Policy Unit (i) is occupied by non civil-servants and (ii) was filled after open competition recruitment processes. | | (32491) | 44
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what proportion of Government services have been accessible online in each year since 1998. | | (32778) | 45
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much the Cabinet Office and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33200) | 46
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32992) | 47
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32826) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs 48
N | Mr William Cash (Stone):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, in what circumstances she would propose amendments to the Human Rights Act 1998. | | (32379) | 49
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many of her Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32587) | 50
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, for what reasons the British Association of Play Therapists was not included in consultations in relation to the Adoption and Children Act 2002, with particular reference to the role to be played by adoption support agencies. | | (33038) | 51
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if she will list the constituencies which have (a) all and (b) part of their marked registers from the 2005 general election missing; and if she will make a statement. | | (32655) | 52
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what (a) land and (b) property her Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if she will make a statement. | | (33254) | 53
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11th November, Official Report, column 1339W, on probate costs, why the fee structure for grant of probate in Northern Ireland is calculated on a different basis from England and Wales; and what the sliding scale system operating in Northern Ireland is. | | (32741) | 54
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many warrants were issued from Dartford magistrate's court for the arrest of non attendees resident in Gravesham in the last year for which figures are available. | | (32641) | 55
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33213) | 56
N | Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many departmental Civil Service jobs have been relocated to Scotland in each year since 2001. | | (32378) | 57
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what eligibility UK nationals with rights of residency in a mobile home for nine out of 12 months a year and a full time address elsewhere in the UK have to vote in (a) general elections and (b) local elections in the UK in the constituency where the mobile home is located. | | (32869) | 58
N | Mr Jim McGovern (Dundee West):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many legal providers have gained accreditation to operate in the field of asylum law since April 2004 in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Dundee. | | (32717) | 59
N | Mr Jim McGovern (Dundee West):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many asylum cases have been undertaken by lawyers paid for under legal aid or community legal service funding in each of the past three years. | | (32729) | 60
N | Mr Jim McGovern (Dundee West):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many asylum cases have been undertaken by lawyers who had (a) gained accreditation and (b) not gained accreditation since April 2004. | | (32730) | 61
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many sentences have been passed under Part 12 Chapter 5 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; and what guidance has been provided by (a) the Government and (b) the courts on the assessment of dangerousness in section 229 of that Act. | | (32851) | 62
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what guidance her Department has given the English Regional Chambers on the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998. | | (33120) | 63
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what research projects commissioned by her Department are in progress and what the publication arrangements are. | | (33033) | 64
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments her Department had completed in the period (a) April 2004 to March 2005 and (b) April 2005 to November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32822) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 65
N | James Brokenshire (Hornchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what factors will be examined by her Department when assessing the impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on the 10 named scrutiny local authority areas; and when she expects to publish the results. | | (32386) | 66
N | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on the use of sanctions by Ofcom on broadcasters which do not meet their targets under the Ofcom Code on Television Access Services; and what discussions she has had with the Chief Executive of Ofcom on such sanctions. | | (31962) | 67
N | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many of the broadcasters that are covered by the Ofcom Code on Television Access Services are on track to meet their targets for television access services in 2005. | | (31963) | 68
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what eligibility criteria are used to distribute Lottery monies to projects directed towards facilities for young people. | | (33148) | 69
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether Lottery monies may be used to fund community sports and leisure centres. | | (33149) | 70
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to visit Coventry in the next 12 months. | | (31427) | 71
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many of her Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32604) | 72
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effects of the Licensing Act 2003 on the Government's Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy; and if she will make a statement. | | (32790) | 73
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) land and (b) property her Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if she will make a statement. | | (33263) | 74
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33214) | 75
N | Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many departmental Civil Service jobs have been relocated to Scotland in each year since 2001. | | (32374) | 76
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many households in Houghton and Washington East are in receipt of free television licences. | | (32872) | 77
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the consideration by her Department of the possibility of England bidding to host the 2018 World Cup will include an assessment of suitable venues in Sunderland City Council area. | | (32873) | 78
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what advice the Government has given to (a) local authorities and (b) the police on planning enforcement for licensed premises opening at times permitted by their licensing consent when their planning consent does not permit them to open. | | (32482) | 79
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions officials in her Department have had with the Anschutz Entertainment Group regarding plans for a casino at the site of the Millennium Dome. | | (32492) | 80
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations she has received since the general election on increasing the number of regional casino licences. | | (32493) | 81
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what provisions and regulations govern the size of the non-gambling space in casinos licensed under the Gambling Act 2005; and whether alcohol sales can take place in the non-gambling spaces. | | (32494) | 82
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the timetable is for the (a) implementation of the Gambling Act 2005, (b) consultation on and publication of secondary legislation and (c) announcement of the gambling licence applications. | | (32495) | 83
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will place in the Library (a) the Regulatory Impact Assessments for the Licensing Act 2003 and (b) her Department's statutory guidance and subsequent secondary legislation. | | (32496) | 84
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment the Government has made of the potential impact on crime and disorder of reducing the legal drinking age to 16 years. | | (32497) | 85
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of licensed premises have applied for a variation extending their licensing hours under the Licensing Act 2003. | | (32498) | 86
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate the Government has made of the number of (a) village halls, (b) sports clubs and (c) community centres which have applied for a full premises licence under the Licensing Act 2003. | | (32499) | 87
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate the Government has made of the average cost to (a) village halls and community centres and (b) sports clubs of applying for a full premises licence and personal licences under the Licensing Act 2003. | | (32500) | 88
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what research the Government has undertaken into the impact on public welfare of increasing the number of fixed odds betting terminals. | | (32543) | 89
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to her Answer of 17th November, Official Report, column 1403W, on licensing appeals, what guidance has been provided to magistrates' courts by (a) the Magistrates' Association and (b) the Justices Clerks' Society. | | (32716) | 90
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what research projects commissioned by her Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32994) | 91
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been awarded from the National Lottery to the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. | | (32951) | 92
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments her Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32831) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 93
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32603) | 94
N | Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the capitation cost is of (a) relocating a civil servant in his Department on public interest terms and (b) an average redundancy compensation payment for non-mobile civil servants. | | (31865) | 95
N | Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Post Project Evaluation for the relocation of works from Harrogate to RAF Wyton which took place between 1994 and 1996. | | (31866) | 96
N | Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost was of the relocation of work from Harrogate and RAF Swanton Morley to RAF Wyton that took place between 1994 and 1996. | | (31867) | 97
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33264) | 98
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what training in leadership is offered to participants in University Officer Training Corps schemes. | | (33136) | 99
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many reservists in the armed forces are teachers. | | (33143) | 100
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress is being made in clearing landmines from the Falkland Islands. | | (31915) | 101
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his latest estimate is of when the Joint Strike Fighter will be operative; and what the cost of the Joint Strike Fighter will be. | | (32455) | 102
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations the UK Government has made on referring the Burmese military regime to the UN Security Council. | | (32473) | 103
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish consultation documents relating to the decision on the replacement of Trident. | | (32474) | 104
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the rules of engagement of the latest NATO deployment into Southern Afghanistan. | | (32475) | 105
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the subsidised mail allowance for service personnel serving abroad; and what is the average time taken to deliver mail to troops serving in Iraq. | | (32636) | 106
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's policy is on the use of unarmoured road vehicles in the transportation of HM Forces personnel in (a) Iraq, (b) Northern Ireland and (c) Afghanistan; and if the policy changed in each case. | | (32470) | 107
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33215) | 108
N | Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many departmental Civil Service jobs have been relocated to Scotland in each year since 2001. | | (32260) | 109
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the current Lynx fleet he expects to be used as donors for the Future Lynx project; and when he expects this process to begin. | | (32699) | 110
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average repair times were in the last period for which figures are available on Harrier jets (a) at RAF Cottesmore and (b) the Defence Aviation Repair Agency St Athan. | | (32700) | 111
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates 2005-06 (HC 672), for what reasons actual expenditure under Request for Resources 1: Provision of Defence Capability in the first six months of the current financial year has exceeded forecasts. | | (32701) | 112
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates 2005-06 (HC 672), if he will break down the (a) current and (b) revised Request for Resources 1 provision for each of his Department's top level budget holders by (i) direct resource Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL), (ii) indirect resource DEL and (iii) capital DEL. | | (32702) | 113
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of (a) his Department's output categories for financial years (i) 2004-05 and (ii) 2005-06 and (b) the STPO5 Overseas Security and Policy Paper. | | (32703) | 114
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to remove in-service fighting equipment and associated intangible assets from the top-level budget-holder balance sheets to a central balance sheet; and if he will make a statement. | | (32704) | 115
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates 2005-06 (HC 672), for what reasons the total additional net resource requirement is lower than the additional net cash requirement. | | (32705) | 116
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library copies of the monthly forecasts of payment and receipts provided by his Department to the Treasury under its cash management scheme for (a) financial years 2002-03 to 2004-05 and (b) the first six months of 2005-06. | | (32706) | 117
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, by how much his Department's end of year flexibility was changed under the Treasury's cash management scheme in financial year 2004-05. | | (32707) | 118
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of (a) the voluntary Code of Conduct for European defence equipment sales and (b) the EU's Military Requirements Catalogue. | | (32708) | 119
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what role he expects British Forces to play in delivering combat logistics for the European Rapid Reaction Force. | | (32709) | 120
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions his Department has had with its French counterpart on the Neuron programme; and whether it is his policy that the United Kingdom will participate in the programme. | | (32710) | 121
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is his policy that the United Kingdom should join the European Airlift Transport Co-ordination Cell. | | (32711) | 122
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the programmes covered by the capital commitments which are contracted for, but not provided for, in 2004-05. | | (32712) | 123
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Defence Procurement Agency personnel are working on the Landing Ships Dock (Auxiliary) at the Swan Hunter yard; and in what roles. | | (32713) | 124
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has asked BAE Systems to second personnel to work on the Landing Ships Dock (Auxiliary) at the Swan Hunter yard. | | (32714) | 125
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to sign the contract for the Future Lynx Helicopter; and when he expects it to enter service. | | (32715) | 126
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15th November, Official Report, column 1092W on Royal Ordnance, from which country each of the munitions listed are to be sourced. | | (32744) | 127
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria the Prime Minister used in making the statement to the press that Swan Hunters should be permitted to bid for inclusion in the CVF programme. | | (32881) | 128
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost was of the Media Facilitation Day at Deepcut Barracks on 26th October, broken down by main budget heading; if he will list the media organisations represented at the event; and how much press coverage resulted, broken down by (a) newspaper column inches and (b) broadcast minutes on (i) television and (ii) radio. | | (32942) | 129
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the defined objectives for the Media Facilitation Day at Deepcut Barracks on 26th October. | | (32943) | 130
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the outcomes of all cases handled by the Army Prosecuting Authority in the last 12 month period for which figures are available in which all proceedings are complete; in what percentage of cases proceedings were abandoned; and what the reasons were in each case. | | (32944) | 131
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on (a) progress on the Royal Navy's future aircraft carrier (CVF) programme and (b) French involvement in the CVF programme. | | (32558) | 132
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on progress on introducing the Joint Strike Fighter. | | (32559) | 133
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the recommendations by RAND to co-ordinate the Royal Navy's submarine design work with the United States of America. | | (32681) | 134
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on progress with introducing the Communications Electronic Support Measures system aboard Trafalgar-class nuclear-attack submarines. | | (32682) | 135
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on progress with introducing the new non-depleted uranium ammunition for Challenger 2 tanks. | | (32683) | 136
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on industrial relations with the Gibraltar Services Police. | | (32697) | 137
N | Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer to the Right honourable Member for North East Fife of 17th November, Official Report, column 1415W, on military airfields, if he will list the occasions in the last five years when his Department has recorded the pilot and aircraft details of aircraft transiting through military airfields. | | (31590) | 138
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which companies at the Defence Systems and Equipment International 2005 exhibition exhibited (a) stun guns, (b) leg irons and (c) stun batons; and if he will make a statement. | | (32638) | 139
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the types of equipment exhibited at the Defence Systems and Equipment International 2005 exhibition which are banned for direct export under British law. | | (32639) | 140
N | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21st November, (PQ 17735/17745) by what means the reports referred to were received; what the original sources of the information were; and what action has been taken as a consequence of these reports. | | (32255) | 141
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the number of military aircraft using RAF Northolt in a year is restricted. | | (33055) | 142
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21st October, Official Report, column 1250W, on RAF Northolt, how many (a) civil and (b) military aircraft landed and departed from RAF Northolt outside the hours of 8.00 a.m to 10.00 p.m. in (i) 2002, (ii) 2003 and (iii) 2004. | | (33273) | 143
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21st October, Official Report, column 1250W, on RAF Northolt, what process is used to authorise increases in the number of civilian aircraft that land and take off from RAF Northolt; who authorises such increases; and whether an increase has been authorised for 2006. | | (33277) | 144
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the running costs for each of the classes of vessel in service with the Royal Navy were in the last year for which figures are available; what the costs were in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (32501) | 145
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list each of the Royal Navy's operational shore establishments in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland including training establishments and dockyards; how many (i) civilian employees and (ii) service personnel worked at each in (A) 1997, (B) 1990, (C) 1985 and (D) the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (32502) | 146
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (33003) | 147
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what definition he uses of the special nuclear materials referred to in the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement. | | (32680) | 148
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32829) | 149
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Defence Advisory (DA) Notices were issued to the media in each month since January 1997; and how many were (a) DA-Notices 01, (b) DA-Notices 02, (c) DA-Notices 03, (d) DA-Notices 04 and (e) DA-Notices 05. | | (33063) | 150
N | Mark Williams (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) servicemen and (b) servicewomen from Welsh regiments have been (i) killed and (ii) wounded in military service in Iraq since 20th March 2003. | | (29393) | 151
N | Mark Williams (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the defence budget was in each year since 1997. | | (29394) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 152
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what funding streams are available to tackle areas of deprivation in Wirral South. | | (32723) | 153
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what programmes the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund has funded in Wirral South. | | (32724) | 154
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans his Department has to use super output areas as a means to direct funding towards pockets of deprivation. | | (32725) | 155
| Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many certificates were granted under section 191 of the Town and County Planning Act 1990 in each of the last 10 years. | | (32658) | 156
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what regional variations there are in right to buy sales discounts; and what changes there have been in such discounts in each region since 1997. | | (32415) | 157
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many of his Office's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32602) | 158
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether he plans to make the Arup report on mobile telephone masts publicly available. | | (32381) | 159
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what guidance his Department provides to (a) elected representatives and (b) the general public on planning applications relating to areas indicated on the website of the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as prone to flooding; and if he will make a statement. | | (32619) | 160
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he expects each regional fire control centre to be operational; and if he will make a statement. | | (32661) | 161
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33259) | 162
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many households applying under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 in each authority in Norfolk and Suffolk have been found to be (a) homeless and in priority need, (b) homeless but not in priority need, (c) intentionally homeless and (d) not homeless in each year since 1997. | | (32538) | 163
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many homeless households have been placed in temporary accommodation in each authority in Norfolk and Suffolk in each year since 1979. | | (32539) | 164
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the role of NowMedical in determining the vulnerability of those applying as homeless under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996. | | (32540) | 165
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether the Homelessness and Housing Support Directorate has encouraged local authorities to use NowMedical to determine the vulnerability of those applying as homeless under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996. | | (32541) | 166
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will commission research into the accuracy of decisions being made by private companies providing paper-based assessments of the vulnerability of homeless applicants. | | (32542) | 167
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much his Office and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33202) | 168
N | Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many departmental Civil Service jobs have been relocated to Scotland in each year since 2001. | | (32376) | 169
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what recent representations he has received regarding the availability of life insurance for firefighters; and whether all firefighters are covered by insurance in all of their duties. | | (32870) | 170
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the number of uninhabited homes in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) the Tees Valley and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. | | (32453) | 171
| Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what proportion of spending by (a) Derbyshire County Council, (b) Derbyshire Dales District Council and (c) Amber Valley Borough Council has been financed from council tax in each of the years since 1st January 1996. | | (32720) | 172
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many (a) fires and (b) road traffic accidents have been attended to by (i) Retford and (ii) Worksop fire station crews in each of the last five years. | | (32309) | 173
| Mr George Mudie (Leeds East):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the average percentage contribution by local authority employees to the Local Government Pension Scheme was in each of the last five years; and what the total employee contributions were in each year. | | (32459) | 174
| Mr Andrew Pelling (Croydon Central):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what proportion of the (a) European Structural Fund Objective 2, (b) Community Chest and (c) Estate Action funding stream from the Government Office for London was made available to the London Borough of Croydon in 2004-05. | | (32433) | 175
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what monitoring he undertakes of the operation of local strategic partnerships; and if he will make a statement. | | (32515) | 176
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the number of individuals made homeless in the last 12 months following private landlords obtaining (a) an order of possession and (b) a bailiff's order from the courts. | | (32722) | 177
| Clare Short (Birmingham, Ladywood):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he will reply to the letter from the honourable Member for Birmingham, Ladywood, dated 30th September, on behalf of Trevor Errington, Leader of the Chief Engineers and Planning Officers Group support team. | | (33101) | 178
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps his Department is taking to implement the recommendations of Lord Rogers' Urban Taskforce Reports of 1998 and 2005. | | (33119) | 179
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what representations his Office has received on the activities of Newham Council's Park Police. | | (33162) | 180
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) housing, (b) regeneration and (c) social exclusion scheme funding streams that will be in operation in 2006-07. | | (33163) | 181
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what statutory powers community and neighbourhood wardens have to deal with incidents of crime and disorder. | | (33164) | 182
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Valuation Office Agency's staff computer manual or guidance document for using the Automated Valuation Model for council tax valuation purposes. | | (33165) | 183
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether a regulatory impact assessment was produced for the Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill. | | (33166) | 184
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the aggregated receipts to local planning authorities were from planning fees in England for each year from 1996-97 to 2004-05; and what the estimated figures are for 2005-06. | | (33167) | 185
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what changes the Government (a) has made since 1997 and (b) is planning to make to planning regulations relating to the use for residential purposes of land designated for employment, industrial or commercial purposes. | | (33168) | 186
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate the Government has made of the number of (a) job losses and (b) redundancies that will result from the abolition of local fire control rooms. | | (33173) | 187
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list the fire authorities that have introduced charging for non-statutory services in the last two years. | | (33174) | 188
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 11th November, Official Report, column 842W, on London Underground (Fire Regulations), if he will make a statement on the Government's plans to revise legislation dealing with general fire safety on the London Underground. | | (33212) | 189
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (33004) | 190
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Office completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32834) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 191
| Ed Balls (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate she has made of the number of schools in (a) West Yorkshire, (b) Wakefield district and (c) Normanton constituency that will be delivering extended services in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008; and to how many children and parents such provision will be available. | | (32437) | 192
| Ed Balls (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much has been allocated to (a) the local authority and (b) local schools in Wakefield to develop and roll out the extended schools programme in (i) 2005-06, (ii) 2006-07, (iii) 2007-08 and (iv) 2008-09 financial years. | | (32438) | 193
| Ed Balls (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many three and four year olds in (a) Wakefield district and (b) Normanton constituency are receiving (i) 12.5 hours a week, (ii) 15 hours a week and (iii) 20 hours a week of free early-years education. | | (32450) | 194
| Ed Balls (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children living in disadvantaged areas of (a) Wakefield district and (b) Normanton constituency are participating in Sure Start local progammes. | | (32451) | 195
| Ed Balls (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many childcare places have been created in Normanton in each year since 1997. | | (32452) | 196
N | Mr Stephen Byers (North Tyneside):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many applications have been made under the popular schools expansion programme; and how many (a) have been (i) approved and (ii) rejected and (b) remain under consideration. | | (32311) | 197
N | Mr Stephen Byers (North Tyneside):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the total budget is for the popular schools expansion programme; and how much has been spent to date. | | (32312) | 198
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) GCSE and (b) A level entries there were in modern languages from each specialist language school in each of the last 10 years, including years before the school acquired specialist status. | | (33056) | 199
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) GCSE and (b) A level entries there were in science subjects from each specialist science school in each of the last 10 years, including years before the school acquired specialist status. | | (33057) | 200
| Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the financial surplus or deficit for each (a) primary and (b) secondary school in each education authority in England was in each year since 1997. | | (32657) | 201
N | Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many students in year 7 and above attend each middle and secondary schools in Newcastle upon Tyne, including independent schools in each year since 2000-01; and how many of these were in sixth forms at each school. | | (32316) | 202
N | Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what percentage of students achieved five or more A* to C grade GCSEs at Westgate College, Newcastle in (a) the three years before Newcastle City Council announced that it was to be closed and replaced by a city academy and (b) 2005. | | (32317) | 203
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether a future (a) foundation school and (b) trust school whose land and buildings are under a local education partnership arrangement will have the right (i) to negotiate and (ii) to terminate such an arrangement. | | (32413) | 204
N | Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether assets, buildings and developments that are conventionally financed rather than by private finance initiative under the Building Schools for the Future programme will be subject to the facilities management and maintenance arrangements agreed by local education partnerships. | | (32414) | 205
N | Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, who the owner of (a) assets created by and (b) land associated with a local education partnership under the Building Schools for the Future programme will be (i) during and (ii) after the term of the private finance initiative. | | (32428) | 206
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many of her Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32601) | 207
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) parents and (b) pupils have been prosecuted for attacks on teaching staff in each of the last 10 years; and if she will make a statement. | | (32664) | 208
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what (a) land and (b) property her Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if she will make a statement. | | (33261) | 209
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many local education authorities are working with the Basic Skills Agency as part of a primary Quality Mark partnership. | | (32910) | 210
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools that were assessed for the Basic Skills Agency's Quality Mark failed to gain one. | | (32911) | 211
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what proportion of (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools are (i) accredited as Investors in People and (ii) have been awarded a Charter Mark. | | (32912) | 212
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the leadership training involved in the (a) Teach First and (b) Fast Track Teaching schemes. | | (33141) | 213
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how the leadership skills of participants in the (a) Teach First and (b) Fast Track Teaching scheme are assessed. | | (33142) | 214
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what proportion of candidates attending (a) non-maintained schools, (b) grammar schools, (c) comprehensive schools and (d) further education colleges received (i) A and (ii) B grades at A-level in (A) chemistry, (B) physics, (C) mathematics, (D) French and (E) German in 2005. | | (33144) | 215
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many individuals are employed by local education authorities; and how many of these are (a) on schools' payrolls and (b) not on schools' payrolls. | | (33145) | 216
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the voluntary and private organisations which have received (a) up to £5,000 and (b) over £5,000 in direct grants from her Department in the 2005-06 financial year; and if she will make a statement. | | (33146) | 217
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the programmes aggregated as Other Miscellaneous programmes in each section of Table 12.2 of her Department's 2005 departmental report. | | (33147) | 218
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 16th November, Official Report, column 1280W, on the Basic Skills Agency, how many and what proportion of 11-year-olds achieved level 4 or above in (a) reading, (b) writing and (c) mathematics at (i) schools that had gained the Quality Mark from the Basic Skills Agency and (ii) other schools in the last year for which figures are available. | | (33205) | 219
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 16th November, Official Report, column 1280W, on the Basic Skills Agency, what steps she is taking to promote the Basic Skills Agency Quality Mark in schools. | | (33206) | 220
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd November, Official Report, column 1959W, on schools, how many and what proportion of foundation schools currently have a foundation. | | (33209) | 221
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the subjects in which specialist schools may select by aptitude. | | (33210) | 222
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of specialist schools she estimates will adopt trust status under the proposals in the White Paper, Higher Standards, Better Schools for All. | | (33228) | 223
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps her Department is taking to encourage schools to select pupils by aptitude. | | (33229) | 224
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what proportion of specialist schools select a portion of their pupils by aptitude in a subject. | | (33230) | 225
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools are specialist schools; and how many she estimates will become specialist by the beginning of the academic year 2006-07. | | (33231) | 226
| Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what representations she has received about the funding of three year old children for 33 weeks of pre-school education; and if she will make a statement. | | (32544) | 227
| John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children were placed on child protection registers in each year since 2002, broken down by category of registration; and how many were taken into care in each case. | | (33151) | 228
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how the role of the Northamptonshire local education authority will change as a result of the proposals in the recent schools White Paper. | | (31918) | 229
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many young people in Gravesham have been granted an education maintenance allowance. | | (32631) | 230
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many temporary classrooms are in use for lessons in schools in Gravesham. | | (32634) | 231
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps the Department takes to manage the numbers of teacher trainees in different subjects to ensure adequacy of supply. | | (32622) | 232
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment the Department has made of the ratio of supply and demand for teachers of modern langauges. | | (32623) | 233
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many students have graduated in (a) chemistry, (b) physics and (c) mathematics or further mathematics in each year since 1990. | | (32624) | 234
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils gained an A-Level in (a) chemistry, (b) physics and (c) mathematics or further mathematics in each year since 1990. | | (32625) | 235
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the impact of trends in the numbers of physics and chemistry graduates on (a) science and technology industries and (b) the teaching profession. | | (32626) | 236
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teachers of physics at (a) A-level, (b) AS-level and (c) GCSE level had a degree in physics in the latest period for which figures are available, broken down by Key Stage. | | (32627) | 237
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment the Department has made of the effects of falling school rolls in (a) England and (b) Cheltenham constituency; and if she will make a statement. | | (32782) | 238
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33216) | 239
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans she has to introduce Ofsted inspections for the Learning and Skills Council. | | (33037) | 240
| Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the effect of published university league tables on the recruitment by universities of (a) home and EU students and (b) international students. | | (32423) | 241
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of the new funding that will be provided for higher education in September 2006 she expects will be spent on staff salaries. | | (32759) | 242
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps are being taken by the Department to encourage graduates to work in higher education. | | (32760) | 243
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools for children with learning difficulties have received a (a) grade 1, (b) grade 2, (c) grade 3, (d) grade 4 and (e) grade 5 rating by Ofsted inspectors in their most recent inspection. | | (32763) | 244
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what her most recent estimate is of how much money is spent per child each year in (a) state schools, (b) private schools and (c) special schools. | | (32764) | 245
| Martin Linton (Battersea):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many settlement figures were issued to borrowers by the Student Loans Company Ltd in 2003-04 (a) on the basis of payslips sent in by the borrower showing evidence of payments and (b) on the basis of other information. | | (32555) | 246
| Martin Linton (Battersea):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost to public funds was on the latest date for which figures are available per (a) loan and (b) borrower of calculating settlement figures for borrowers wishing to pay off their loan with the Student Loans Company Ltd in one payment. | | (32556) | 247
| Martin Linton (Battersea):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what advice she has given the Student Loans Company Ltd about helping borrowers to pay off their loans with the company in a lump sum; and if she will make a statement. | | (32557) | 248
| Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when she will answer questions (a) 26324, (b) 26325 and (c) 26326 tabled by the honourable Member for Stratford-on-Avon on 3rd November. | | (33010) | 249
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what representations she has received from schools on the consultation period for the proposed change in admissions procedures; and if she will make a statement. | | (31873) | 250
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when she expects to introduce pay restructuring into schools; and if she will make a statement. | | (31874) | 251
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of staff morale following the announcement of the proposal to restructure pay in schools; and if she will make a statement. | | (31875) | 252
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when she expects to introduce the new inspection framework; what representations have been made to her by schools on this framework; and if she will make a statement. | | (31876) | 253
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether she plans to reform the Graduate Teachers Programme; and if she will make a statement. | | (31877) | 254
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what research projects commissioned by her Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32993) | 255
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what action she is taking to ensure maintenance of standards in (a) GCSE and (b) A level examinations. | | (33112) | 256
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions she has had with (a) examination boards and (b) awarding bodies in respect of (i) examinations, (ii) marking and (iii) grading for 2006; and if she will make a statement. | | (33113) | 257
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments her Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32825) | 258
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of pupils aged under 11 years attended independent schools in England in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area. | | (32678) | 259
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many independent schools taking pupils under the age of 11 years have opened in England in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area. | | (32679) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 260
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1st November, Official Report, column 889W, on private Members' bills, when the information ceased to be collected; and if she will make a statement. | | (32535) | 261
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) remit and (b) responsibilities are of the proposed Marine Management Organisation; and which bodies are presently responsible for discharging each such responsibility. | | (31878) | 262
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will produce an annual report on greenhouse gas emissions and present it to Parliament. | | (33176) | 263
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the United Kingdom is on track to meet the Government's target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent. from 1990 levels by 2010. | | (33177) | 264
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will introduce legislation creating legally-binding targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. | | (33179) | 265
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the meetings of EU Agriculture Ministers in the last 12 months at which reform of the Common Agricultural Policy was discussed. | | (32513) | 266
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects that the site of the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station will be returned to green field status. | | (32941) | 267
| Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she is making in the arrangements for single farm payments. | | (32913) | 268
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she will reply to the letter from the honourable Member for Coventry South on the Draper Study on overhead power lines. | | (31426) | 269
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of her Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32600) | 270
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many telephone calls were received by Floodline in each of the last 36 months; and if she will make a statement. | | (32617) | 271
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many visits to the Floodline website there were in each of the last 36 months; and if she will make a statement. | | (32618) | 272
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what timetable she expects for ending the US ban on British beef; and if she will make a statement. | | (32620) | 273
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will place in the Library a copy of the guidance issued to (a) farmers, (b) abattoirs and (c) poultry-keepers regarding avian influenza; and if she will make a statement. | | (32621) | 274
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what improvements have been made to flood defences in each borough along the River Thames in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (32628) | 275
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions have taken place under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981; and if she will make a statement. | | (32801) | 276
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) land and (b) property her Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if she will make a statement. | | (33260) | 277
| Mr Michael Foster (Worcester):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the predicted total winter snowfall in Worcester is for (a) 2010, (b) 2020, (c) 2030 and (d) 2050. | | (32983) | 278
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33217) | 279
N | Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many departmental Civil Service jobs have been relocated to Scotland in each year since 2001. | | (32375) | 280
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the position of fuel switching coordinator was created at the Environment Agency; and what actions her Department took to inform energy intensive users of this appointment. | | (32318) | 281
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proposals her Department has considered for derogation from emissions limits under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for energy intensive users in the event of (a) gas shortages and (b) sustained high gas prices this winter. | | (32319) | 282
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many diagnoses made by the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge were found to be incorrect in (a) each of the last three years and (b) this year to date; and what these figures represent as a percentage of overall diagnoses. | | (31857) | 283
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many diagnoses made by the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge were contested in (a) each of the last three years and (b) this year to date; and what these figures represent as a percentage of overall diagnoses. | | (31858) | 284
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons she has prohibited the sale of birds at bird fairs. | | (31859) | 285
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish all the guidance and instruction given to Rural Payments Agency inspectors for the enforcement of the rules on cross-compliance. | | (31860) | 286
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she made of the merits of requiring all sales of birds to be recorded before introducing the ban on sales at bird fairs. | | (31861) | 287
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the dates on which inspectors visited the bird quarantine centre in Fambridge, Essex during (a) each of the last three years and (b) the quarantine period of the mesias which died in quarantine. | | (32875) | 288
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what targets have been set for Rural Payments Agency inspectors checking cross-compliance. | | (32876) | 289
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in what circumstances action taken by a farmer prior to the Mid-Term Review is deemed to be a breach of cross-compliance. | | (32877) | 290
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what complaints her Department has received on the inappropriate and illegal use of walking trails by quad bikers. | | (33194) | 291
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action her Department has taken to enforce laws regarding proper trail and land use by quad bikers. | | (33195) | 292
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance she has issued to local authorities and other relevant bodies on dealing with Japanese knotweed. | | (32146) | 293
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research projects commissioned by her Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32996) | 294
N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with Ofwat on the cost models involved in the adoption of private sewers; which is the preferred model; when the process of adopting private sewers will begin; and if she will make a statement. | | (30865) | 295
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments her Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32837) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 296
| Adam Afriyie (Windsor):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on recent progress in the reform of the European Union's institutions. | | (32419) | 297
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the United Nations Security Council to empower the Secretary-General to mediate in Burma in order to bring about national reconciliation and a transition to democracy. | | (33184) | 298
N | Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance the Government is providing to (a) the Iraqi Interim Government and (b) the International Advisory and Monitoring Board to ensure that public funds in Iraq are administered in a transparent manner. | | (31246) | 299
N | Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the role of the UK is in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in administering (a) the Development Fund for Iraq and (b) funds from other sources; and if he will make a statement. | | (31247) | 300
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on progress of European Union budget discussions. | | (31425) | 301
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of his Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32599) | 302
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what system is in place to log (a) day and (b) overnight visitors to the British embassies in (i) France, (ii) Germany, (iii) Iran, (iv) Italy, (v) Russia, (vi) Saudi Arabia, (vii) North Korea, (viii) Zimbabwe and (ix) the US. | | (32742) | 303
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the people who stayed one or more nights at the British Embassy in Washington in 2004-05. | | (32743) | 304
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much money has been committed to the Afghan drug-control strategy in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (32791) | 305
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the United Kingdom's relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo. | | (32800) | 306
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33255) | 307
N | Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to expedite a visit of Chagos Islanders to the Chagos Islands. | | (32185) | 308
N | Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many military missions over Iraq have been flown by US aircraft based on Diego Garcia since March 2003; and what types of missions have been flown. | | (32332) | 309
N | Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much in legal fees the Government has incurred in the Chagos Islands case in respect of (a) the judicial review decided on 3rd November 2000, (b) the group litigation decided by the Court of Appeal in July 2004 and (c) the judicial review concerning the Orders in Council dated June 2004. | | (32514) | 310
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made under the UK Presidency of the EU to agree a new budget for the EU. | | (32456) | 311
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to ensure the future effectiveness of the Commonwealth. | | (32476) | 312
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of EU policy on Iran and its nuclear activities. | | (32660) | 313
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the honourable Member for Northampton South of 2nd November, Official Report, column 1081W, on Burma, what actions in the United Nations Security Council he expects will promote reform and positive change in Burma. | | (32537) | 314
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to seek the referral of Myanmar to the United Nations Security Council. | | (32772) | 315
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department employs private military companies. | | (32777) | 316
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what measures are in place to protect his Department's employees in Iraq. | | (32783) | 317
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the use of private military companies in Iraq. | | (32785) | 318
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33218) | 319
N | Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many departmental Civil Service jobs have been relocated to Scotland in each year since 2001. | | (32258) | 320
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in which countries the UK has shared representation; and what assessment he has made of the further potential for sharing representation. | | (32478) | 321
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many complaints of bribery have been made against British-based companies since the OECD convention on bribery came into force; how many investigations have been undertaken; and how many prosecutions have been undertaken. | | (32570) | 322
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of progress made in bringing former leaders of the Khmer Rouge to justice in Cambodia; and if he will make a statement. | | (33189) | 323
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of steps being taken to restore multi-party democracy in Nepal; and if he will make a statement. | | (33190) | 324
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the border dispute on the Horn of Africa between Eritrea and Ethiopia; and if he will make a statement. | | (33191) | 325
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the recent UN Security Council threat to implement sanctions against Eritrea and Ethiopia; and if he will make a statement. | | (33192) | 326
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the ban instituted by Eritrea on flights by the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea within its airspace; and if he will make a statement. | | (33193) | 327
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British nationals have been killed abroad in unexplained deaths in the last 12 months. | | (33025) | 328
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations the Government has made to Israel on withdrawal from the Occupied Territories. | | (33031) | 329
N | Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made in the context of the UK Presidency of the European Union to the Libyan Authorities regarding the situation of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor; and if he will make a statement. | | (32371) | 330
N | Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has received a copy of the Internal Auditor's Report on the European Court of Human Rights; and if he will place a copy in the Library. | | (32372) | 331
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library the guest list for the cocktail party held as part of the official visit of HRH the Prince of Wales at the New York Museum of Modern Art. | | (31868) | 332
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library the guest list for the party hosted by the British Ambassador at his residence in Washington DC, held as part of the official visit of HRH the Prince of Wales to the United States of America. | | (31869) | 333
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 31st October, Official Report, column 754W, on Prince of Wales (United States visit), what was the cost of the private jet used to convey HRH the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall between Washington DC and New York during their recent visit to the United States; and whether this sum was included in the £330,000 referred to. | | (31870) | 334
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list official visits abroad by members of the Royal Family in the last 12 months; and what the itinerary was in each case. | | (32733) | 335
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what unofficial visits abroad by the Royal Family over the past 12 months have involved (a) overnight stays at UK Ambassadors' residences and (b) receptions (i) hosted and (ii) attended by his Department's staff; and if he will make a statement. | | (32734) | 336
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what official visits abroad are planned for members of the Royal Family in each of the next six months; and if he will make a statement. | | (32735) | 337
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress is being made towards securing non-European support at the UN small arms review conference in July 2006 for the adoption of an international treaty on the trade in small arms. | | (32640) | 338
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which EU directives he expects will be converted into regulations in accordance with the policy set out in COM (2005) 535. | | (32898) | 339
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he (a) is taking and (b) has taken towards stopping the persecution of Christians in Eritrea. | | (33104) | 340
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received on the persecution of Christians in Eritrea. | | (33105) | 341
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the trade dispute between Venezuela and Mexico. | | (32445) | 342
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the political situation in Ecuador since April. | | (32446) | 343
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on India's compliance with the Nuclear Suppliers Group rules. | | (32447) | 344
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the progress of talks with Iran about that country's nuclear ambitions. | | (32448) | 345
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32995) | 346
N | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Uganda about the recent imprisonment of presidental candidate Dr Kizza Besigye. | | (31863) | 347
N | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what formal procedures are in place within his Department for taking into account for the purposes of UK foreign policy the human rights record of a country. | | (31864) | 348
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the French government regarding reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. | | (33006) | 349
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the governments of (a) China and (b) South Africa regarding their support for President Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe. | | (33016) | 350
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last met the President of Liberia; and what was discussed. | | (32387) | 351
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32836) | 352
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has raised Iranian help to Iraqi insurgents with the government of Iran. | | (32653) | 353
| Sammy Wilson (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action the Government is taking in respect of the persecution of Christians in China. | | (32727) | 354
| Sammy Wilson (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to address human rights concerns in China. | | (32728) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 355
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the letter she sent to the pro-choice meeting chaired by Baroness Gould on 26th October represents Government policy; if she will place a copy of the letter in the Library; and if she will make a statement. | | (32747) | 356
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions she had with (a) Ministerial colleagues and (b) officials in her Department before sending her letter to the pro-choice meeting chaired by Baroness Gould on 26th October; and if she will make a statement. | | (32748) | 357
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assistance her Department has given to general practitioners to reduce obesity among their patients; and if she will make a statement. | | (32749) | 358
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will include points for treating obesity in the general practitioners contract; and if she will make a statement. | | (32750) | 359
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions her Department has with the British Medical Association about treating obesity; and if she will make a statement. | | (32751) | 360
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much her Department spent on reducing obesity in each of the last 30 months; how much the Department plans to spend on reducing obesity in the next 12 months; and if she will make a statement. | | (32752) | 361
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 28th October, Official Report, column 588, on Private Members' Bills, when the information ceased to be collected; and if she will make a statement. | | (32753) | 362
N | Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations she has received regarding the development of Northian and Broad Oak surgeries; and if she will make a statement. | | (32142) | 363
N | Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to increase the funding of the East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust; and if she will make a statement. | | (32143) | 364
N | Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 9th November, Official Report, column 17WS, on National Health Service dentistry, how much Methods Consulting will receive for recruiting 216 dentists from Poland; whether the amount paid has been reduced as a result of the failure to achieve the target of 230; and how many have been offered places in (a) general dental service practices, (b) the salaried primary care dental service and (c) the hospital dental service. | | [R] (31964) | 365
N | Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 9th November, Official Report, column 17WS, on National Health Service dentistry, if she will break down the 859 training places for 2005 by dental schools; and how many of these places have been taken up by overseas students. | | [R] (31965) | 366
N | Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 9th November, Official Report, column 17WS, on National Health Service dentistry, how many new dentists each primary care trust will be receiving. | | [R] (31966) | 367
N | Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 9th November, Official Report, column 17WS, on National Health Service dentistry, if she will break down the dentists recruited from `local international recruitment' by country of origin; and how many (a) are registered with the General Dental Council and (b) have been offered places in (i) general dental service practices, (ii) salaried primary care dental services and (iii) the hospital dental service. | | [R] (31967) | 368
N | Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 9th November, Official Report, column 17WS, on National Health Service dentistry, what schemes were used in the domestic recruitment of 88 new dentists. | | [R] (31968) | 369
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doses of influenza vaccine her Department has (a) ordered, (b) taken delivery of and (c) supplied to general practitioners in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and on what dates. | | (32481) | 370
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how the proposed system of units of dental activity was piloted. | | (32485) | 371
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information (a) is routinely collected as part of the seasonal influenza vaccination programme and (b) was collected as part of this year's special audit; and if she will place in the Library a copy of the data her Department has collected in each of the last three years. | | (32486) | 372
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she will commence the review of community dental services. | | (32487) | 373
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the three-year dental pay deal will be extended beyond April 2006. | | (32488) | 374
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of people in each priority group for influenza vaccination in England in each of the last three years. | | (32490) | 375
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14th July, Official Report, column 1198W, on older people (medication review), if she will publish Part Two of the Taskforce on Medicine Partnership's evaluation of Room for Review; and what the reasons are for the delay in publication of the evaluation. | | (32547) | 376
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23rd November to question 20671, on Taskforce on Medicine reviews, why in the Answer of 14th July, Official Report, column 1198W on Older People (Medicine Review), she stated that the evaluation would be published in the summer of 2005; when the need for ethics approval was (a) identified and (b) obtained; and if she will make a statement. | | (33170) | 377
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the merits of including people with mental health problems within the priority groups for influenza vaccination. | | (33232) | 378
| Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the work being done by McKinseys on the reconfiguration of services across Cheshire and Mersey Strategic Health Authority is expected to cost; and when it is expected to be (a) completed and (b) reported to honourable Members. | | (32819) | 379
| Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the potential effect the mergers of hospitals across Liverpool and Southport and Ormskirk will have on patient choice. | | (32902) | 380
| Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what opportunities will be afforded to honourable Members to influence the reconfiguration plans of Cheshire and Mersey Strategic Health Authority. | | (32914) | 381
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of new graduate physiotherapists who have not found employment as physiotherapists in 2005. | | (33182) | 382
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many overseas nationals are working as physiotherapists within the NHS. | | (33242) | 383
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps she is taking to increase the number of physiotherapists in the NHS. | | (33243) | 384
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many new graduate physiotherapists will qualify in 2005. | | (33244) | 385
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations she has received on the number of posts available in the NHS for newly-qualified physiotherapists. | | (33245) | 386
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of MRSA have been identified in hospitals within Coventry South in each year since March 2003. | | (31424) | 387
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of her Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32598) | 388
N | Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evidence she has collated on whether general practitioners have been vaccinating people for influenza as a priority who are outside the at-risk groups. | | (32461) | 389
N | Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions she has had with the British Medical Association on whether its members have been prescribing influenza vaccinations to the `worried well'. | | (32462) | 390
N | Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her oral statement of 22nd November, Official Report, columns 1371-82, on seasonal influenza vaccine supplies, whether the number of doses of vaccine intended to be supplied was increased from 13.4 million when carers were added to the recommended groups for vaccination; and what action her Department took when informed in October by a manufacturer that it had run out of supplies of vaccine. | | (32518) | 391
N | Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her oral statement of 22nd November, Official Report, columns 1371-82, on seasonal influenza vaccine supplies, when her Department ascertained the new figures on uptake of vaccine amongst risk groups; and what estimate she has made of the number of people who qualify for immunisation who will not be immunised by the end of this immunisation season. | | (32519) | 392
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff were employed in communication roles in each primary care trust on 1st October (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005; and if she will make a statement. | | (32629) | 393
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many assaults were recorded on Ambulance Service staff in each trust while on duty in each of the last 10 years; how many prosecutions resulted; and if she will make a statement. | | (32630) | 394
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff were employed in communications roles in her Department on 1st October (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005; and if she will make a statement. | | (32632) | 395
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) land and (b) property her Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if she will make a statement. | | (33262) | 396
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures her Department has taken to ensure that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Guidance on Contracting for Services in the light of the Human Rights Act 1998 published in March has been brought to the attention of (a) chief executives, (b) directors of social services, (c) NHS trusts and (d) those who contract with independent care homes and domiciliary providers. | | (32585) | 397
| Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines she has given to hospitals about the provision of parking spaces for (a) staff and (b) visitors; and if she will make a statement. | | (32545) | 398
| Mr Mike Hall (Weaver Vale):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each NHS trust spent in 2003-04 on consumable goods (a) purchased and (b) not purchased from NHS Logistics. | | (32878) | 399
| Mr Mike Hall (Weaver Vale):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent by NHS trusts in 2003-04 on consumable goods not purchased from NHS Logistics; and how much of that sum is represented by (a) drugs, (b) medical and surgical equipment-maintenance, (c) x-ray equipment purchase, (d) x-ray film and chemicals-purchase, (e) x-ray equipment-maintenance, (f) laboratory equipment maintenance, (g) contract hotel services (including cleaning), (h) postage, (i) telephones, (j) advertising, (k) travel, (l) subsistence and removal expenses, (m) other transport costs, (n) electricity, (o) gas, (p) other fuels, (q) water and sewerage, (r) external general services contracts, (s) furniture, office and computer equipment, (t) computer hardware, maintenance contracts and data processing contracts, (u) business rates, (v) rent, (w) building and engineering equipment, (x) building and engineering contracts, (y) total purchase of healthcare from non-National Health Service bodies, (z) total external contract staffing and consultancy services and (aa) auditors' remuneration. | | (32879) | 400
| Mr Mike Hall (Weaver Vale):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 28th October, Official Report, column 585W, on NHS Logistics, how many of the products and services were purchased direct from the manufacturers and service providers by NHS trusts. | | (32880) | 401
| Mr Mike Hall (Weaver Vale):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the £3.1 billion business for consumable goods not purchased from NHS Logistics in 2003 she expects the winning bidder for NHS Logistics business to provide direct to NHS trusts; and how the figure of £3.1 billion was calculated. | | (32882) | 402
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the vCJD Trust's budget has been allocated to legal and professional fees since the Trust was established; and how much has been allocated for such fees in the next financial year. | | (32945) | 403
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will take steps to reduce prescription charges for young cystic fibrosis sufferers who want to take up employment. | | (32981) | 404
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures are in place to ensure that rehabilitation services for visually impaired people are made available to those who need them. | | (31919) | 405
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment the Department has made of the strength of the correlation between excess winter deaths and the average outdoor temperature. | | (32642) | 406
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the effects on the NHS of more than 40,000 excess winter deaths in a year taking place. | | (32861) | 407
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33219) | 408
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence single technology appraisal for Velcade will commence; and when guidance will be published. | | (33034) | 409
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the statutory timeframe for primary care trusts to implement National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance issued under the single technology appraisal will be less than three months. | | (33035) | 410
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will ensure that NHS trusts give priority to the funding of licensed cancer drugs for the next financial year. | | (33036) | 411
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the budget was for the Worcestershire NHS Mental Health Trust in each year since 1997. | | (32460) | 412
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospitals were failing to meet Government targets in (a) England and (b) the boroughs of the Tees Valley sub-region in the latest month for which figures are available. | | (32766) | 413
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps she is taking to help hospitals failing to meet the Government's targets for (a) cancer, (b) MRSA infections and (c) waiting times. | | (32767) | 414
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons mental health patients are not included in the at risk categories of those eligible to receive vaccinations for influenza. | | (32905) | 415
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make it her policy that plans by NHS trusts to close critical care beds should be subject to public consultation. | | (32810) | 416
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the uptake rate for free influenza vaccine has been in each at-risk group in 2005-06; and what the rate was in each year since 1997-98. | | (33196) | 417
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost is of the Food Standard Agency's television campaign on salt; and if she will make a statement. | | (33197) | 418
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doses of influenza vaccine were (a) ordered for and (b) administered as part of the routine seasonal influenza immunisation programme excluding the Department's contingency stock, in each year since 1997-98; what the size of the contingency stock of seasonal influenza vaccine was in each year; and what the size of each at-risk group eligible for free influenza vaccines has been in each year. | | (33198) | 419
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in what month her Department recommends that general practitioner practices place their order for winter influenza vaccine for seasonal influenza; and when her Department informed general practitioners that the seasonal influenza vaccination programme would be extended to cover (a) people with chronic liver disease and (b) people who are the main carer for an elderly or disabled person whose welfare would be at risk if the carer falls ill. | | (33265) | 420
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many informal carers are registered with social services departments, broken down by local authority area. | | (33266) | 421
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, after how many months a patient's registration lapses in the case of a patient who is registered with (a) a dentist operating under the general dental service contract and (b) a dentist operating under a personal dental service contract, for the purposes of collecting dental registration statistics. | | (33267) | 422
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of cases of age-related macular degeneration caused by smoking in each year since 1997-98. | | (33268) | 423
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether she plans to extend the routine seasonal influenza immunisation programme to all aged 50 years and over. | | (33269) | 424
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her Oral Statement of 22nd November, Official Report, columns 1371-2, on seasonal influenza vaccine supplies, what form the review of the seasonal influenza vaccination programme will take; who will undertake the review; what the timescale for the review will be; and what options for changing the seasonal influenza vaccination programme are being considered. | | (33275) | 425
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) projects and (b) services run by the NSPCC have received funding from her Department in each of the last three years; how much funding was received in each case and for what duration. | | (33106) | 426
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS (a) consultant psychiatric posts and (b) mental health acute beds were available in each of the last five years in (i) West Sussex, (ii) East Sussex and (iii) Brighton and Hove Unitary Authority. | | (33107) | 427
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the (a) Adur, Arun and Worthing Primary Care Trust area, (b) West Sussex and (c) England have been fitted with a digital hearing aid through the NHS; and what estimate she has made of the numbers remaining in each area to be switched over from analogue aids. | | (33108) | 428
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which (a) maternity, (b) children's and (c) young people's organisations the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Services has met since her appointment. | | (33109) | 429
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many non-British passport holders are detained in the United Kingdom under the Mental Health Act 1983. | | (33110) | 430
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will list the incentives available to general practitioners to (a) identify and (b) treat obesity in children. | | (33111) | 431
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which outside companies provide catering services to NHS hospitals. | | (33132) | 432
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the steamplicity catering pilot at the Charing Cross Hospital. | | (33133) | 433
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of patients leaving NHS hospitals after stays of a week or more who are suffering from malnutrition. | | (33134) | 434
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost is to NHS hospitals per meal provided by (a) in-house and (b) external caterers. | | (33135) | 435
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of children likely to suffer from obesity over the next 10 years. | | (33137) | 436
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research she has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effect of obesity on the number of patients who receive treatment for each of the conditions which feature as a clinical domain in the Quality and Outcomes Framework. | | (33138) | 437
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research she has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the efficacy of identifying and managing obesity in children in a primary care setting. | | (33175) | 438
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will publish the result of the inquiry commissioned by the Basildon and Thurrock Hospital Trust under the HC90-9 procedure, into the conduct of Dr Ann David; and if she will make a statement. | | (32005) | 439
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will require a re-examination of the standard and conduct of work performed by Dr Ann David during her employment in the West Midlands prior to her employment in Essex; and if she will make a statement. | | (32006) | 440
| Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she will answer questions (a) 26323, (b) 26321 and (c) 26322 tabled by the honourable Member for Stratford-on-Avon on 3rd November. | | (33013) | 441
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by what date she expects sufferers of obstructive sleep apnoea to be diagnosed within one month of referral by their general practitioner in accordance with the National Service Framework for Long-term Conditions Quality Requirement 2. | | (32526) | 442
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many obstructive sleep apnoea patients have access to continuous positive airway pressure treatment within one month of diagnosis in accordance with the National Service Framework for Long-term Conditions Quality Requirement 7 for people with long-term conditions. | | (32527) | 443
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of suspected obstructive sleep apnoea sufferers wait for longer than one month to see a specialist after referral by their general practitioner; and how many of these have to travel for more than two hours to reach a specialist sleep centre for diagnosis and treatment. | | (32528) | 444
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of NHS trusts commission specialist services for diagnosing and treating sleep disorders including obstructive sleep apnoea. | | (32529) | 445
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the average waiting time for treatment for diagnosed sufferers of obstructive sleep apnoea in the last year for which figures are available. | | (32530) | 446
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what statistics her Department collects on the (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea. | | (32531) | 447
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of adults with (a) diagnosed and (b) undiagnosed (i) obstructive sleep apnoea and (ii) other sleep disorder sufferers. | | (32532) | 448
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research her Department has undertaken into the medical status of individuals involved in sleep-related accidents. | | (32574) | 449
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many new dentists have been recruited in the area covered by the Rochdale Primary Care Trust in each year since 1997. | | (32769) | 450
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what additional resources she is making available in the Rochdale Primary Care Trust area to increase NHS dental registration. | | (32771) | 451
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on in vitro fertilisation treatment in each primary care trust in England in the last year for which figures are available. | | (32373) | 452
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions there were between her Department and the Thames Valley Strategic Health Authority on the subject of putting primary care trust commissioning in Oxfordshire out to tender prior to its announcement. | | (32147) | 453
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the cost of a BCG inoculation per person. | | (32489) | 454
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research projects commissioned by her Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32987) | 455
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations have been performed by the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust on behalf of other NHS trusts in each year since 1997. | | (32948) | 456
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the end of year financial deficit or surplus for the Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust was in each year since 1997. | | (32949) | 457
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many agency staff were employed by the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust in each of the last three years, broken down by type of job; and what the cost was in each year. | | (32950) | 458
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) average and (b) longest wait for urgent breast cancer referrals at the Hull Royal Infirmary was in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (32952) | 459
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outpatients have been waiting more than 13 weeks for an appointment at the Hull Royal Infirmary following GP referral. | | (32953) | 460
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints were made against the Hull Royal Infirmary in each year since 1997; and how many related to (a) clinical negligence, (b) waiting times, (c) tidiness/repair of hospital facilities, (d) staff and (e) other matters. | | (32954) | 461
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many acts of (a) verbal and (b) physical abuse have been recorded against staff at the Hull Royal Infirmary since 1997. | | (32955) | 462
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have (a) contracted and (b) died from hospital acquired infections at the Hull Royal Infirmary in each year since figures have been available. | | (32956) | 463
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will list the financial management targets missed by the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospital Trust in the latest star rating appraisal. | | (32957) | 464
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have received treatment in private sector hospitals on referrals from the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust in each of the last five years. | | (32958) | 465
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds were available in the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust in the last period for which figures are available; and what the occupancy rate was in that period. | | (32959) | 466
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures Hull Royal Infirmary has in place to prevent the spread of MRSA; and whether these meet national best practice. | | (32960) | 467
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many private patients have been treated at Hull Royal Infirmary in each year since 1997. | | (32961) | 468
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, at what operational capacity the MRI scanners at Hull Royal Infirmary operated in the last period for which figures are available. | | (32962) | 469
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has made in integrating services for stroke patients with community health providers and social services. | | (32963) | 470
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have been admitted to Hull Royal Infirmary stroke unit in each year since 1997. | | (32964) | 471
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds there were in the stroke unit at the Hull Royal Infirmary in each year since 1997. | | (32965) | 472
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what services the Hull Royal Infirmary offers for lung cancer patients. | | (32966) | 473
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of Hull Royal Infirmary post-heart treatment rehabilitation services; and how many patients have (a) attended rehabilitation appointments, (b) stopped smoking and (c) made appropriate dietary and exercise changes since the services commenced. | | (32967) | 474
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were admitted to the Hull Royal Infirmary with coronary heart disease in each year since 1997. | | (32968) | 475
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether patients have access to specialist heart failure nurses at the Hull Royal Infirmary. | | (32969) | 476
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the target patient transport times are at the Hull Royal Infirmary in relation to children's intensive care; and whether the target was met in the last period for which figures are available. | | (32970) | 477
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether there is a children's nurse consultant on site at the Hull Royal Infirmary 24 hours a day, seven days a week. | | (32971) | 478
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of eligible heart attack victims received blood clot removing drugs within 20 minutes of arriving at the Hull Royal Infirmary in the last period for which figures are available; and what the average percentage for hospitals in England was in the same period. | | (32972) | 479
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent nurses there were in critical care at the Hull Royal Infirmary in each year since 1997. | | (32973) | 480
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether there is a trauma team on site at the Hull Royal Infirmary 24 hours a day. | | (32974) | 481
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) capital value of and (b) total expected repayment to the private finance initiative contractor is for phase 5 of the Castle Hill Hospital. | | (32975) | 482
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the admission level in the Accident and Emergency Department at Hull Royal Infirmary was in each year since 1997. | | (32976) | 483
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds were operational at Hull Royal Infirmary in each year since 1997. | | (32977) | 484
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations were carried out by other trusts on behalf of the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust in each year since 1997, broken down by hospital. | | (32978) | 485
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) current projects, (b) equipment and (c) facilities at the Hull Royal Infirmary have been paid for by, or receive funding from, charitable organisations. | | (32984) | 486
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cancelled operations there were at the Hull Royal Infirmary in each year since 1997. | | (33005) | 487
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency's performance in assessing applications for new marketing authorisations. | | (33048) | 488
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments her Department had completed in the period (a) April 2004 to March 2005 and (b) April 2005 to November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32840) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 489
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget is for (a) the National Firearms Register and (b) the National Identity Card project for each year from 2002-03; and how many staff from his Department are working on each. | | (33241) | 490
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received about tagging people who have been convicted under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. | | (32517) | 491
| Mr Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what arrangements will be made for personal interviews for passport applications in the areas of (a) Berwick-upon-Tweed, (b) Alnwick and (c) Rothbury. | | (32520) | 492
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on the Cyclamen programme; what resources have been transferred from HM Revenue and Customs in connection with this programme; and for what purpose. | | (32417) | 493
N | Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether one of the proposed passport centres will be located in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne. | | (32424) | 494
| John Cummings (Easington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many drivers received a positive breath test in the Easington constituency in each of the last five years. | | (33274) | 495
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of his Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32597) | 496
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Independent Police Complaints Commission has taken to ensure that future information requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 are responded to within the required 20 days; and if he will make a statement. | | (32548) | 497
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints have been (a) made and (b) upheld against the Independent Police Complaints Commission since its inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (32549) | 498
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff were employed at the Independent Police Complaints Commission on (a) 1st May and (b) 1st November; and if he will make a statement. | | (32550) | 499
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the number of non-recorded complaints against the police in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (32552) | 500
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of non-reported crimes in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (32553) | 501
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) management, (b) administrative and support staff and (c) investigative and casework staff at the Independent Police Complaints Commission are (i) temporary, (ii) casual and (iii) agency; what percentage of the total number of staff each category represents; and if he will make a statement. | | (32561) | 502
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, why the (a) salary, (b) pension and (c) other costs relating to the former Joint Deputy Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission were not included in the Commission's Annual Report and Accounts 2004-05; and if he will make a statement. | | (32580) | 503
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what were the (a) salary, (b) pension and (c) other costs relating to the former Joint Deputy Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement. | | (32582) | 504
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many permanent full-time equivalent staff (a) joined and (b) left the Independent Police Complaints Commission in each month since its inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (32583) | 505
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces have diving units; how many divers each force has; when (a) diving suits and (b) equipment was last replaced in each unit; and if he will make a statement. | | (32675) | 506
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list prisons he has visited since he took up his post; and if he will make a statement. | | (32677) | 507
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has he made of the Criminal Justice System Exchange live connections scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (32786) | 508
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visits to the website www.thinkuknow.co.uk there were in each month since its inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (32787) | 509
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offenders have been subject to a drug treatment and testing order in each month since their inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (32788) | 510
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people leaving prison entered employment, education or training through the Custody to Work initiative in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (32789) | 511
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timescale is for Operation Crackdown; and if he will make a statement. | | (32792) | 512
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fixed penalty notices have been issued for (a) selling alcohol to under-18s, (b) under-18s drinking alcohol, (c) attempting to buy alcohol when under age and (d) selling alcohol to a person who is drunk; and if he will make a statement. | | (32793) | 513
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the electronic monitoring contract; and if he will make a statement. | | (32794) | 514
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have (a) been detained and (b) charged since 11th September 2001 under the Prevention of Terrorism Acts; and if he will make a statement. | | (32795) | 515
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of public correspondence to his Department was answered within 20 working days in the period (a) January to March, (b) April to June and (c) July to September; and if he will make a statement. | | (32796) | 516
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on the publication of a revised Race Equality Scheme for the Home Office Group; and if he will make a statement. | | (32797) | 517
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list telephone numbers available for use by members of the general public to contact his Department; what the purpose is of each; and if he will make a statement. | | (32798) | 518
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list parliamentary constituencies in which his Department (a) owns and (b) rents (i) land and (ii) property; what the land or property is in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (32799) | 519
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Home Office Annual Report, what percentage of the £84 million of criminal assets recovered in 2004-05 has been assigned to (a) front-line capacity and (b) local community objectives; and if he will make a statement. | | (32802) | 520
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he last met the (a) Chair and (b) Director Designate of the Serious Organised Crime Agency; if he will place the minutes of the meeting in the Library; and if he will make a statement. | | (32803) | 521
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of the Devon and Cornwall Police inquiry into Surrey police's investigation into the deaths at the Deepcut Barracks; and if he will make a statement. | | (32804) | 522
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the work of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority; and if he will make a statement. | | (32805) | 523
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) Secretary of State for Wales, (b) Secretary of State for Scotland, (c) Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, (d) First Secretary of the National Assembly for Wales Government, (e) First Minister of the Scottish Executive and (f) Mayor of London on youth crime; and if he will make a statement. | | (32806) | 524
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how frequently the National Criminal Justice Board meets; who sets the agenda; if he will place in the Library copies of the Minutes of its meetings; and if he will make a statement. | | (32807) | 525
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding is to be allocated to Victim Support in each of the next three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (32808) | 526
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action plan resulted from the Together We Can conference in December 2004; what plans there are to hold future conferences; and if he will make a statement. | | (33185) | 527
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made towards the establishment of the new centre for child protection on the internet affiliated to the Serious Organised Crime Agency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33238) | 528
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of honourable Members' correspondence to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate was answered within 20 working days for the periods (a) January to March, (b) April to June and (c) July to September; and if he will make a statement. | | (33239) | 529
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which areas are covered by the Drug Interventions Programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (33240) | 530
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what offences custodial sentences were imposed on women in the last 12 months for which information is available. | | (32314) | 531
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women are in prison; and how many and what proportion of women in prison have children under (a) five and (b) 11 years of age for the most recent available date. | | (32315) | 532
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will postpone the reorganisation of police forces in Wales until the outcome in England has been assessed. | | (33178) | 533
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the proposed reorganisation of police forces in Wales is expected to cost; and who will pay for the costs of reorganisation. | | (33180) | 534
N | Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he will take to ensure that newly formed police authorities for amalgamated police forces are democratically accountable. | | (32852) | 535
N | Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the definition is of proactive capability as used in the O'Connor Report published by HM Inspector of Constabulary in the context of policing protective services. | | (32853) | 536
| Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what secondary legislation will need to be passed in order to facilitate the proposed amalgamation of police forces. | | (32858) | 537
| Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the proposals for the amalgamation of police forces entail changes to the (a) number and (b) boundaries of basic command units. | | (32863) | 538
| Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces in England and Wales have a dedicated major investigation team. | | (32864) | 539
| John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will bring forward proposals to amend section 34 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 to permit the courts to draw adverse inferences from the failure to mention facts in post-charge interviews for terror-related offences. | | (32904) | 540
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total level of violent crime recorded by the police in North Kent was in each of the last two years for which figures are available. | | (32633) | 541
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time police officers there were in North Kent in each of the last eight years. | | (32650) | 542
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on the routine arming of police officers; and if he will make a statement. | | (32652) | 543
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Schedule 1 offenders who have attended a sex offenders treatment programme have subsequently reoffended; and what the rate of recidivism involving a similar offence of Schedule 1 offenders who have not undergone a sex offenders treatment programme has been in each of the last two years. | | (32779) | 544
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Schedule 1 offenders in the community have received or are receiving treatment under sex offender treatment programmes. | | (32780) | 545
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his most recent estimate is of the number of Schedule 1 offenders who are at liberty. | | (32781) | 546
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) average length and (b) variance has been in 2005 of (i) the time between release from prison of Schedule 1 offenders and their embarkation on a sex offenders treatment programme and (ii) the duration of such a sex offender's treatment programme. | | (32784) | 547
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33220) | 548
N | Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many departmental Civil Service jobs have been relocated to Scotland in each year since 2001. | | (32377) | 549
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the mobile speed camera LTI 2020; and if he will make a statement. | | (33008) | 550
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the levels of cannabis arriving in the UK from Afghanistan in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (33188) | 551
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent in 2004-05 on programmes to ensure that prisoners are released with employment or training arranged. | | (32637) | 552
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to allow the Independent Police Complaints Commission to conduct full investigations on fatalities caused by police vehicles. | | (32761) | 553
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of fatalities caused by police cars. | | (32762) | 554
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding has been made available to support victims of domestic violence and their children in each year since 1997 in (a) England and (b) the Tees Valley. | | (32765) | 555
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the evidential basis is for his Department's view that there is a lack of cooperation between (a) Merseyside and Cheshire police forces and (b) the North Wales Police Force and the four police forces in Wales. | | (32907) | 556
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Operation Tarian mounted by the South Wales, Gwent and Avon and Somerset police forces. | | (32908) | 557
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the evidential basis is for his Department's view that there is a lack of co-operation between Dyfed Powys Constabulary and the West Mercia Police; and if he will make a statement. | | (32909) | 558
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list minors killed in the last 12 months by (a) parents and (b) carers in all cases where proceedings are complete; and what their relationship was to their murderer in each case. | | (33114) | 559
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have been killed by a non-resident parent in each of the last five years during (a) authorised contact and (b) unauthorised contact. | | (33115) | 560
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people working with children have completed Criminal Records Bureau checks. | | (33116) | 561
| Ian Lucas (Wrexham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list police authorities in England and Wales which the North Wales Police paid for using their officers in the last three years for which figures are available; and how much North Wales Police paid to each authority in each year. | | (32982) | 562
| Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Hall Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many penalty notices have been issued by each police force area in England in relation to the illegal use of fireworks during the last 12 months. | | (32848) | 563
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports have been reported (a) stolen and (b) lost (i) in each of the last three years and (ii) to date in 2005. | | (32308) | 564
| Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will answer questions (a) 26311, (b) 26309 and (c) 26310 tabled by the honourable Member for Stratford-on-Avon on 3rd November. | | (33014) | 565
| Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assistance is available to failed asylum seekers' families being returned to (a) Angola, (b) the Congo, (c) Sudan and (d) other unstable countries. | | (32420) | 566
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 12th September, Official Report, column 2567W, on improper use of the internet, what recent assessment his Department has made of (a) the costs and (b) the timescale for development of the IMPACT programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (32854) | 567
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 12th September, Official Report, column 2845W, on improper use of the internet, when he expects all associated contractual activities to be completed for the business case; and what these contractual activities are. | | (32855) | 568
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 5th October, Official Report, column 2845W, on improper use of the internet, when he expects the full business case for the IMPACT programme to be completed; for what reasons the full business case was not delivered in line with the Home Office progress report on the Bichard Recommendations of 22nd December 2004. | | (32860) | 569
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures his Department is taking to monitor the prevalence of recreational use of drugs, with particular reference to methamphetamine; and if he will make a statement. | | (32866) | 570
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions individuals have been taken into protective police custody in each of the last five years. | | (32867) | 571
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals were stopped under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 during (a) the Defence Systems and Equipment International trade fair 2005, (b) the Labour Party conference 2005, (c) the Conservative Party conference 2005 and (d) the Liberal Democrat Party conference 2005. | | (32868) | 572
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made towards implementing conditional cautioning under Part 3 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; and if he will make a statement. | | (32883) | 573
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners received special family visits in each of the last three years. | | (32884) | 574
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made towards the introduction of targets for prisons in the area of family ties; and if he will make a statement. | | (32885) | 575
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the costs per minute to prisoners are of calls from prison to (a) local, (b) national, (c) international and (d) mobile lines. | | (32886) | 576
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether prisoners on the basic level of the incentives and earned privileges scheme are entitled to a one-hour visit every two weeks. | | (32887) | 577
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners do not have access to a one-hour visit every two weeks. | | (32888) | 578
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the re-offending rates of those released from local authority secure units. | | (32889) | 579
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) 12, (b) 13, (c) 14, (d) 15 and (e) 16 year olds have been held in custody under sentence in each of the last five years. | | (32890) | 580
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases the parole board has processed in each month to date in 2005; and what the backlog of cases is. | | (32891) | 581
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners are being held beyond their automatic release date. | | (32892) | 582
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the extent to which the level of formula grant will need to be adjusted as a result of the proposed police officer pension funding changes from April 2006; and what representations he has received from police authorities on this issue. | | (32893) | 583
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the (a) police and (b) intelligence agencies are able (i) to intercept and (ii) to collect traffic data on voice calls made over the internet. | | (32894) | 584
N | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the SAS soldiers responsible for the deaths of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar in 1988 could face charges as a result of (a) the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights on 4th May 2001 and (b) the historic investigations by the Royal Military Police and Police Service of Northern Ireland. | | (32651) | 585
| Clare Short (Birmingham, Ladywood):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter of 20th September from the Right honourable Member for Birmingham, Ladywood, on F.Scott, his Department's reference 51155584, acknowledgement reference B22357/5. | | (32464) | 586
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an individual prosecuted in the magistrates' court for intentionally delaying or obstructing a Valuation Office Agency representative conducting a council tax valuation inspection would receive a criminal record if convicted. | | (33118) | 587
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many violent offences were committed in connection with licensed premises in each year since 2002-03, broken down by (a) crime and disorder reduction partnership area and (b) basic command unit area. | | (33121) | 588
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations his Department has received on the activities of Newham Council's Park Police. | | (33122) | 589
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current maximum fine levied by the magistrates' court is for intentionally delaying or obstructing a Valuation Office Agency representative, who is conducting a council tax valuation inspection. | | (33152) | 590
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate the Government has made of the number of people fined in England and Wales since 1997 for intentionally delaying or obstructing a Valuation Office Agency representative who is conducting a council tax valuation inspection. | | (33153) | 591
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list police forces which are carrying out pilots on (a) wireless technology to combat crime and (b) hand-held computing devices. | | (32546) | 592
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32997) | 593
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when Ms L.W., of Chillington in Totnes constituency, will receive the confirmation of security clearance to commence duties as an higher executive officer with the Home Office; and for what reasons there has been the delay since (a) she was offered the position on 23rd August and (b) human resources department confirmed her clearance to the honourable Member for Totnes in October. | | (32149) | 594
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for breaching the law banning hunting with dogs since it was introduced. | | (32986) | 595
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been returned to Zimbabwe in the last six months. | | (33015) | 596
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to publish the Concept Viability report on the Identity Cards Project when he receives it. | | (33032) | 597
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed asylum seekers were removed from the UK between 1st July and 30th September; and how many were removed in the equivalent period in 2004. | | (32814) | 598
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which nationality accounted for the highest number of applications for asylum in the last year for which figures are available. | | (32815) | 599
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people arrived in the UK and claimed asylum in each quarter since 1st January; and how many of the initial decisions on the applications were (a) refused asylum, (b) granted asylum, (c) granted humanitarian protection and (d) granted discretionary leave to remain. | | (32816) | 600
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of illegal immigrants living in the UK. | | (32817) | 601
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers (a) whose claims are being processed and (b) who are appealing against a refusal for asylum are resident in the UK. | | (32818) | 602
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32821) | 603
| Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what percentage of people appearing before each magistrates' court were remanded to custody in each year from 2002 to 2005. | | (33096) | 604
| Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women were received into segregation in each prison in (a) 2004 and (b) 2005 to date. | | (33097) | 605
| Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children were put into bed and breakfast accommodation on release from custody in (a) 2004 and (b) 2005 to date. | | (33098) | 606
| Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women were held in segregation for more than one week in each prison in (a) 2004 and (b) 2005 to date. | | (33099) | 607
| Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the women who have taken their own lives in prisons since 1975 in cases where all proceedings are complete. | | (33100) | 608
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many inter-detention estate transfers of immigration detainees were made in (a) 1997-98, (b) 2001-02, (c) 2002-03, (d) 2003-04 and (e) 2004-05; how many have been made in 2005 to date; and if he will make a statement. | | (32900) | 609
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average escorting contract price was for inter-detention estate transfers of immigration detainees in the last period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (32901) | 610
| Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the average cost of an appeal by an individual who pleaded guilty to murder and received a life sentence and then appealed against the sentence. | | (32471) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 611
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will take steps to replace the plastic window in all stationery with environmentally friendly corn paper. | | (32673) | 612
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what percentage of the light bulbs used on the House's estate are energy-efficient lightbulbs. | | (32674) | 613
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Parliamentary Communications Directorate; and whether the Parliamentary Communications Directorate follows communications and customer service best practice. | | (32458) | 614
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment he has made of the average energy consumption of the House of Commons between midnight and 6.30 a.m.; how much of that figure is accounted for by (a) lights, (b) computers, (c) heating, (d) televisions and annunciators and (e) photocopiers; if he will estimate the energy consumed for each category in terms of (i) watts and (ii) metric tonnes of carbon emitted; and what the cost was of each category. | | (32467) | 615
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to his Written Statement of 17th November, Official Report, column 76WS, on UK passport fees, if he will break down the elements which contribute to the increase; and how much is accounted for by increased production costs. | | (32856) | 616
| Martin Linton (Battersea):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, if he will place in the Library the risk assessment conducted prior to the erection of permanent security barriers outside the Palace of Westminster; and if he will make a statement on their effect on road safety, with particular reference to cyclists. | | (33024) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 617
| Colin Burgon (Elmet):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what financial support his Department has given to organisations assisting low paid home workers in developing countries in the last two years. | | (32665) | 618
| Colin Burgon (Elmet):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much money the UK Government is providing in 2005-06 to (a) the European Commission, (b) the Inter-America Development Bank and (c) the World Bank for projects in Colombia; and if he will list the projects concerned. | | (32666) | 619
| Colin Burgon (Elmet):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which British non-governmental organisations in Colombia were given financial assistance by the UK Government in the last two years; and how much each received. | | (32667) | 620
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many of his Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32593) | 621
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) financial and (b) other aid his Department has given to Pakistan following the earthquake; and if he will make a statement. | | (32656) | 622
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33248) | 623
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress is being made on international landmine clearance under the Ottawa Convention. | | (31916) | 624
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many consultants his Department employs in Iraq; and how much each was paid in the last year for which figures are available. | | (32662) | 625
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which reconstruction projects have been (a) approved and (b) completed since the end of the Iraq war; and what the cost of each project was. | | (32663) | 626
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the UK is on track to meet the UN target of spending 0.7 per cent. of gross domestic product on international development by 2013. | | (32874) | 627
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33221) | 628
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in northern Uganda; and if he will make a statement. | | (33187) | 629
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much has been allocated for the construction of an airstrip on St Helena. | | (33131) | 630
| Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he will answer questions (a) 26330, (b) 26328 and (c) 26329 tabled by the honourable Member for Stratford-on-Avon on 3rd November. | | (33012) | 631
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much money the Government allocated to assist the victims of the tsunami in south east Asia; and how much of that money has been disbursed, broken down by recipient country. | | (33017) | 632
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much money the UK has granted for non-poverty reduction direct budgetary support in each year since 1999, broken down by country recipient. | | (32443) | 633
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much EU aid money has been granted for direct budgetary support in each year since 1999, broken down by country recipient. | | (32444) | 634
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much money the UK has granted to multi-lateral institutions for direct budgetary support in each year since 1999. | | (32850) | 635
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the outcome of the conference in Islamabad on 19th November to consider further international assistance in relation to the South Asia earthquake. | | (32145) | 636
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (33000) | 637
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government has taken during its G8 and EU presidencies to tackle HIV and AIDS in developing countries. | | (32985) | 638
| Emily Thornberry (Islington South & Finsbury):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 9th November, Official Report, column 475W, on water and sanitation (funding), how many additional child diarrhoeal deaths he expects to occur if progress towards the Millennium Development Goal target for sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa continues at the rate of progress between 1990 and 2002. | | [R] (32616) | 639
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32823) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 640
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the Equality Commission's advice to employers and employees in Northern Ireland is regarding the wearing of poppies in the workplace during the period immediately before Remembrance Day. | | (32251) | 641
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many prisoners released early under the provisions of the Belfast Agreement have subsequently been convicted of serious offences in Northern Ireland. | | (32252) | 642
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what provision exists in Northern Ireland for the prosecution of drivers from the Irish Republic who have been identified as (a) driving (i) illegally and (ii) without tax and insurance and (b) parking illegally. | | (32253) | 643
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what funding has been provided for additional specialist nurses to sufferers of (a) ulcerative colitis and (b) Crohn's disease in Northern Ireland. | | (32254) | 644
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, on how many vehicles in pay and display car parks under the control of the Department for Regional Development in Northern Ireland an additional charge was made as a result of (a) non-payment and (b) under-payment of the appropriate parking charge in 2004. | | (32521) | 645
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the total cost to the public purse of care and maintenance for the (a) Ebrington and (b) Fort George military bases in Londonderry has been since the army handed over both sites to ILEX. | | (32522) | 646
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many applications for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 have been received by each of the Northern Ireland Government departments in 2005. | | (32523) | 647
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many children were suffering from obesity in Northern Ireland in (a) 1994 and (b) 2004. | | (32524) | 648
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing a passing loop in the Ballykelly area for trains between Coleraine and Londonderry. | | (32562) | 649
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he expects to announce the new build programme for the remaining primary schools in the Coleraine area which require new school buildings. | | (32563) | 650
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many complaints from rail passengers there have been about (a) timings and (b) refreshments on the service between Coleraine and Londonderry in 2005. | | (32564) | 651
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the total cost has been of vandalism to the new trains acquired by Northern Ireland Railways since their introduction. | | (32565) | 652
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the change in numbers was of (a) registered nursing homes and (b) nursing home places in Northern Ireland between 1994 and 2004. | | (32566) | 653
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many of his Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32594) | 654
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what (a) discussions and (b) written communications there have been with the European Commission in respect of Council Directive 2000/78/EC concerning provision for 50/50 recruitment to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. | | (32684) | 655
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whom he has consulted in respect of the derogation from Council Directive 2000/78/EC to provide for 50/50 recruitment to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. | | (32685) | 656
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will publish the conclusions of the Review of Minimum Terms and Life Sentence Cases. | | (32686) | 657
| Mark Durkan (Foyle):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the Government has commissioned an economic assessment of the impact on the North West of Northern Ireland of (a) closing Magilligan Prison and (b) the potential alternatives for the site. | | (32832) | 658
| Mark Durkan (Foyle):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the timetable is for the re-launch and implementation of the shared future strategy for improving community relations in Northern Ireland; and what resources have been allocated to this strategy in 2006-07. | | (32899) | 659
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33251) | 660
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many dedicated qualified conservation area officers are employed by the Northern Ireland Planning Service; and how many of those are (a) members of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and (b) not members but eligible for membership. | | (32688) | 661
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much money was spent by his Department on external consultants' fees relating to conservation areas in each year since 2002. | | (32689) | 662
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which planning districts in Northern Ireland have a dedicated qualified conservation area officer responsible for the management of conservation areas and other designated areas. | | (32690) | 663
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the impact of the level of funding to the Department for Regional Development Roads Service on the completion of Northern Ireland's Regional Transport Strategy. | | (33234) | 664
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the distribution of the review of abortion service guidelines has been amongst healthcare professionals in Northern Ireland. | | (33235) | 665
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues on the extension of the draft Mental Health Bill to Northern Ireland; and if he will list the parts of that Bill which he expects to extend to Northern Ireland. | | (33236) | 666
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with the Police Service of Northern Ireland about the potential impact the Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill will have on continued investigations into unsolved murder cases in Northern Ireland. | | (32809) | 667
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33222) | 668
N | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 21st November, if he has provided Mr MacEntee with all the information he has requested. | | (32256) | 669
N | Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list by name each group consulted by the Police Service of Northern Ireland before the installation of CCTV cameras in (a) East Belfast, (b) North Belfast and (c) South Belfast; and how many times each group was consulted in each case. | | (31934) | 670
N | Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which groups have been consulted regarding possible CCTV cameras in West Belfast; and on what dates meetings have taken place. | | (31935) | 671
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many staff in his Department are registered as being disabled, broken down by grade; and what the equivalent figures were for each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (33064) | 672
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many nursing vacancies there are in each health board area; and how many nurses are employed in each of the hospitals in Northern Ireland. | | (33065) | 673
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many ambulances are available to each hospital in Northern Ireland; and how many were available in (a) 1990, (b) 1995, (c) 2000 and (d) 2005. | | (33066) | 674
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people have given blood in each region of Northern Ireland in each year since 2000; and how many units of blood were given in each region in each year. | | (33067) | 675
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many cyclists have been (a) charged and (b) convicted in Northern Ireland of neglect of traffic regulations in each of the last five years. | | (33068) | 676
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many police vehicles in each district command unit were (a) purchased and (b) hired in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (33069) | 677
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the average cost was of insulation measures fitted to date in each parliamentary constituency as part of the Warm Homes Scheme in Northern Ireland. | | (33070) | 678
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) paid-for and (b) free prescriptions were issued in each health board area in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years. | | (33071) | 679
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many staff in his Department have (a) received official warnings and (b) faced disciplinary procedures in each year since 1995. | | (33072) | 680
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many children were placed for adoption in Northern Ireland in each year since 1990, broken down by age. | | (33073) | 681
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many prescriptions of hormonal emergency contraception were prescribed in each of the last 10 years in each region of Northern Ireland. | | (33074) | 682
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many hip replacement operations were performed in each of the last five years, broken down by health board. | | (33075) | 683
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many homes had heating systems fitted as part of the Warm Homes Scheme in each year since 2001 in Northern Ireland, broken down by Parliamentary constituency. | | (33076) | 684
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many homes are waiting for (a) a heating system and (b) insulation measures to be fitted in each Parliamentary constituency in Northern Ireland as part of the Warm Homes Scheme. | | (33077) | 685
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many homes in Northern Ireland had insulation measures fitted as part of the Warm Homes Scheme in each year since 2001, broken down by Parliamentary constituency. | | (33078) | 686
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the average cost per heating system fitted to date has been in each Parliamentary constituency as part of the Warm Homes Scheme in Northern Ireland. | | (33079) | 687
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many incidents of the theft of disabled persons' blue badges have been reported in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years. | | (33080) | 688
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much medicine was (a) imported and (b) exported by Northern Ireland in each of the last three years for which figures are available. | | (33081) | 689
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what criteria are used to assess illiteracy in adults in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement. | | (33082) | 690
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the schools in Northern Ireland that have school crossing patrols; and how many school crossing patrol staff each has. | | (33083) | 691
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) males and (b) females aged (i) 16 to 24, (ii) 25 to 30, (iii) 30 to 39 and (iv) 40 years and over were on income support in each district in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (33084) | 692
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment has been made by his Department of the medical effects of smoking by pregnant women on the health of an unborn child. | | (33085) | 693
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many persons were (a) charged with and (b) convicted of (i) murder and (ii) manslaughter in Northern Ireland in each year since 1995. | | (33086) | 694
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many women aged (a) 14 to 16 years, (b) 17 to 21 years, (c) 22 to 24 years, (d) 25 to 30 years, (e) 31 to 35 years and (f) 36 to 40 years have died from pregnancy-related diseases in Northern Ireland in each year since 1980. | | (33087) | 695
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many family planning clinics there were in Northern Ireland in each year since 1990; and how many women were seen by them in each year, broken down by health board. | | (33088) | 696
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses there were per head of population in (i) Northern Ireland and (ii) each health board in each year since 1995. | | (33089) | 697
| Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many employees aged over 70 years are working in the National Health Service in Northern Ireland. | | (33090) | 698
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment the Valuation and Lands Agency has made of whether a police presence will be required in some circumstances for inspectors wishing to inspect a property for valuation purposes as part of the rates revaluation in Northern Ireland. | | (33154) | 699
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the Government expects that pensioners participating in a deferred rates payment system would have a charge placed on their home; and how such a charge would be prioritised on the death of the pensioner relative to their other liabilities. | | (33155) | 700
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the Government expects that pensioners participating in a deferred rates payment system would pay interest on the deferred payment. | | (33156) | 701
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will publish the preliminary analysis that the Government has drafted on how a deferred payment scheme for pensioners would operate in relation to the draft Rates (Capital Values, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005. | | (33157) | 702
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department has made a written submission to the Lyons Inquiry on local government finance. | | (33158) | 703
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32999) | 704
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the enumeration districts which were in the top five per cent. measured by (a) reduction in population and (b) change of population in the last (i) 10, (ii) 20 and (iii) 30 years for which information is available. | | (32483) | 705
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32828) | Questions to the Prime Minister 706
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Prime Minister, how many of his Offices's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32595) | 707
N | Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Prime Minister, what criteria he used to decide on the appointment of members of the Commission for Africa; and what assessment he has made of whether the Commissioners still meet these criteria. | | (32184) | 708
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Prime Minister, how much the Office and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33201) | 709
N | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Prime Minister, what information he received on action that the United States Administration proposed to take against the Al-Jazeera television channel. | | (32183) | 710
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 21st November, Official Report, column 1662W, on terrorism legislation, what font size was assumed in making the calculation. | | (32584) | 711
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Prime Minister, how many persons elevated to the peerage in each year since 1997 were resident at the time of their elevation in (a) each region of England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland. | | (32503) | 712
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Prime Minister, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Office completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32833) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 713
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many of his Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32596) | 714
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33257) | 715
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33223) | 716
N | Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many departmental Civil Service jobs have been relocated to Scotland in each year since 2001. | | (32259) | 717
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32998) | 718
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32838) | Questions to the Solicitor General 719
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Solicitor General, how much the Law Officers Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33199) | 720
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask the Solicitor General, how many people have been proceeded against by the Serious Fraud Office in the 2005-06 financial year; and how many were acquitted by (a) jury and (b) order of the judge. | | (32465) | 721
| Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon):To ask the Solicitor General, how many cases Warwickshire Crown Prosecution Service has (a) considered for prosecution and (b) prosecuted in each of the last five years; and how many convictions were obtained in each of those years. | | (32511) | 722
N | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby):To ask the Solicitor General, on how many occasions the Attorney General has taken a decision on whether to prosecute cases relating to personnel serving in Iraq. | | (32426) | 723
| Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby):To ask the Solicitor General, if the Attorney General will make a statement on his (a) responsibility for and (b) role in general superintendence of the Army Prosecution Authority. | | (32427) | 724
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Solicitor General, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (33002) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 725
| Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps his Department is taking to provide continuity of grant support to (a) schools and (b) other community renewable energy projects pending the launch of the new Low Carbon Buildings Programme in financial year 2006-07. | | (32846) | 726
| Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the average grant awarded for school renewable energy projects was under his Department's Clearskies programme. | | (32847) | 727
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will take steps to protect consumers from the telecommunications fraud known as rogue dialling; and if he will make a statement. | | (33007) | 728
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make representations to British Telecom on not holding consumers responsible for telephone charges due to rogue dialing; if he will introduce legislation to protect consumers from the effects of rogue dialing; and if he will ask the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information to re-open an investigation of the role of premium media communication and other companies in rogue dialing. | | (33181) | 729
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what percentage of first class mail has been delivered the next day in each of the Northern Ireland Royal Mail area offices in Northern Ireland in 2005. | | (32525) | 730
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the terms of reference are of the recently announced energy review. | | (32940) | 731
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many applications for the building of new power stations he is considering; and how many of these are for power stations in Wales. | | (32937) | 732
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what proportion of the coal used for electricity generation in the United Kingdom was imported in each of the last three years. | | (32938) | 733
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total value of UK trade with (a) India, (b) China, (c) the EU, (d) the USA and (e) Russia and the former Eastern bloc countries was in each year since 1995. | | (33233) | 734
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many of his Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32589) | 735
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations were received by the Office of Fair Trading on retail price initiatives in the dairy industry prior to its inquiry into that subject; from whom; what the scope is of its inquiry; and when it is expected to be completed. | | (32980) | 736
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33252) | 737
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps the UK has taken to facilitate the active participation of women's organisations in international trade decision-making structures; and if he will make a statement. | | (33091) | 738
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will support measures to allow developing countries to set their level of tariff reductions in accordance with their development needs at the World Trade Organisation Hong Kong ministerial meeting. | | (33092) | 739
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps his Department is taking to implement the UK's commitments to ensure that developing countries are not obliged to open up their markets through international trade agreements. | | (33093) | 740
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he will take to ensure full account is taken of the interests of developing countries during the World Trade Organisation negotiations in Hong Kong in December. | | (33094) | 741
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what his targets are for the Doha development round at the Hong Kong Ministerial meeting in December; what assessment he has made of the implications of failing to reach an agreement in Hong Kong; and if he will make a statement. | | (33095) | 742
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what changes he is seeking to make to the EU's negotiating position in advance of the World Trade Organisation's Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong; and if he will make a statement on the United Kingdom's objectives for this conference. | | (32691) | 743
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much electricity in megawatts was lost to heat from the national grid in each year since 2000. | | (32643) | 744
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the estimated cost of repairs to overhead power cables was in each month since January 2000. | | (32644) | 745
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate he has made of the cost of boosting the storage capacity of gas in the UK from 11 days to 60 days. | | (32645) | 746
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps his Department is taking to reflect the needs and interests of developing countries at current World Trade negotiations on agriculture. | | (32773) | 747
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will publish the data that were used as a basis for UK support for the non-agricultural market access negotiations at the World Trade Organisation. | | (32774) | 748
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps his Department will take to deliver fair and free trade at the forthcoming World Trade Organisation Ministerial in December. | | (32865) | 749
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33224) | 750
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he is taking on local loop unbundling to ensure that the UK continues to improve its broadband provision. | | (32533) | 751
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he will publish the 2005 International Benchmarking Study on the business use of information and communication technology. | | (32534) | 752
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what emergency powers he has to control the export of gas through the interconnector in the event of severe gas shortages this winter. | | (32320) | 753
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what research his Department has conducted, prior to the beginning of November, on the economic impact of commercial gas users reducing demand in the event of gas shortages this winter. | | (32321) | 754
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what research his Department had conducted, prior to the beginning of November, into the ability of commercial gas users to reduce demand in the event of gas shortages this winter. | | (32370) | 755
| Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he will reply to the letter from the honourable Member for North Essex of 28th October concerning the Government's energy policy. | | (32425) | 756
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what progress has been made in achieving an increase in electricity production from renewable energy sources in line with EU Directive 2001/77/EC; and if he will make a statement. | | (32745) | 757
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what progress has been made in meeting the requirements of Article 6 of EU Directive 2001/77/EC; and if he will make a statement. | | (32746) | 758
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what (a) safety and (b) financial tests will be used to determine whether the building of further nuclear power stations will be approved. | | (32441) | 759
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment the Department has made of the potential for nuclear power to increase its share of the national grid's electricity supply over the next 50 years. | | (32442) | 760
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures are being taken to reduce the importing of illegally logged wood. | | (32754) | 761
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether he plans to introduce legislation to prevent the importing into the United Kingdom of wood illegally logged elsewhere. | | (32755) | 762
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what research his Department has undertaken on the scale of the shortage of low skilled workers in big cities in the UK. | | (32849) | 763
N | Mr Jim McGovern (Dundee West):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many respondents to the February 2005 consultation document Work and Families: Choice and Flexibility gave a response to question 22; and what proportion of those responses were supportive of the case for extending the right to request flexible working to parents of older children. | | (32718) | 764
N | Mr Jim McGovern (Dundee West):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many respondents to the February 2005 consultation document Work and Families: Choice and Flexibility gave a response to question 20; and what proportion of those responses were supportive of the case for extending the right to request flexible working to carers of adults. | | (32719) | 765
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many requests were made by (a) National Union of Miners and (b) National Union of Miners (Yorkshire Area) for a separate claims-handling agreement for miners' compensation between 1997 and 2000. | | (32313) | 766
| Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he will answer questions (a) 26315, (b) 26316 and (c) 26317 tabled by the honourable Member for Stratford-on-Avon on 3rd November. | | (33009) | 767
| David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether there are plans to remove responsibility for management of postcodes from the Royal Mail. | | (32820) | 768
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he expects the EU to repeal the directives requiring member states to keep minimum oil stocks, as stated in COM (2005) 535. | | (32896) | 769
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the Answer of 17th October, Official Report, column 798W, on telecommunications, when the Chief Executive of Ofcom will respond. | | (32571) | 770
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (33001) | 771
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department had completed in (a) April 2004 to March 2005 and (b) April 2005 to November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32830) | 772
N | Mr Mike Weir (Angus):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what year-on-year projections he has made for the reductions of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration estimated to result from present and proposed measures. | | (32162) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 773
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many requests for information have been received other than from the police and local authorities under Regulation 27 of the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 (S1 2002/2742) citing reasonable cause in each month since the regulations came into force; how many were (a) acceded to and (b) refused in each month; if he will list the private companies who secured information in this way; and what the total financial receipts obtained by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency from this process have been. | | (31879) | 774
N | Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding has been made available for public consultation on the proposed A21 upgrade by the Highways Agency. | | (32144) | 775
N | Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to announce funding for the Bexhill to Hastings link road in East Sussex. | | (32148) | 776
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) original and (b) expected completion dates of the rail regional planning assessments are. | | (32439) | 777
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of providing a yellow bus scheme (a) in England and (b) for each region. | | (32449) | 778
| Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the consumer of gaining an unlimited access motorcycle licence under the proposed Third European Directive on Driver Licences; and if he will make a statement. | | (32504) | 779
| Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of the Third European Directive on Driver Licences on motorcycle manufacturers in the UK; and if he will make a statement. | | (32509) | 780
| Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely impact on casualty numbers of the second motorcycle riding test proposed in the Third European Directive on Driving Licences. | | (32510) | 781
N | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, why the ministerial commitment to resurface noisy concrete surfaces in relation to the A417/419 Swindon to Gloucester road has been dropped; whether this was a uniform decision for all the roads listed in the original decision; and whether the Government will consider (a) new claims for blight from noise and (b) further remedial measures in relation to the A417/419. | | (32507) | 782
N | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the A417/419 Swindon to Gloucester road will be resurfaced in the normal maintenance schedule; and whether the design, build, finance, operate provider will be responsible for the costs. | | (32508) | 783
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of his Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32590) | 784
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of the costs of the Crossrail project he expects to be met by (a) the Government and (b) the private sector. | | (32380) | 785
N | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the local authorities which he has required to give legally binding unconditional financial undertakings as a condition of approval for light rail in their area. | | (31871) | 786
N | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the efficiency and stability of Merseytravel. | | (31872) | 787
| Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he will reply substantively to the questions tabled by the honourable Member for Liverpool, Riverside for answer on 8th November, reference (a) 26246 and (b) 26249. | | (32422) | 788
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list airports that (a) pay for and (b) do not contribute towards their security and policing costs; and if he will make a statement. | | (32676) | 789
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33249) | 790
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, between which dates the M2 motorway has been free of roadworks since 1985. | | (32382) | 791
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, upon which sections of the M2 roadworks are in progress within the seven mile coned off section between junction 6 and Brenley Corner. | | (32383) | 792
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects work on the M2 motorway between junction 6 and Brenley Corner to be complete. | | (32384) | 793
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the mean number of days was that road gritting took place in each county in England in 2004-05. | | (32468) | 794
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the costs of road gritting were in 2004-05, broken down by local authority. | | (32469) | 795
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the costs of maintenance on the rail network have been in each winter since 1999-2000, broken down by region. | | (32646) | 796
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of road traffic accidents on (a) gritted and (b) ungritted roads in each year since 2000, broken down by local authority area. | | (32647) | 797
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of roads were gritted (a) within 24 hours of the onset of wintry conditions and (b) in winter 2004-05, broken down by local authority area. | | (32648) | 798
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33225) | 799
N | Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many departmental Civil Service jobs have been relocated to Scotland in each year since 2001. | | (32257) | 800
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many complaints about Arriva Buses have been received by the Traffic Commissioners in (a) England, (b) the North East Government Office and (c) the boroughs of the Tees Valley sub-region in each of the last 10 years. | | (32671) | 801
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many complaints against Arriva Buses made to the Traffic Commissioners have resulted in that company being forced to amend operating practices in (a) England, (b) the North East Government Office area and (c) the boroughs of the Tees Valley sub-region in each of the last 10 years. | | (32672) | 802
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much bus service operators grant has been claimed by Arriva Buses in (a) England, (b) the North East Government Office Region and (c) the boroughs of the Tees Valley sub-region since 1995. | | (32811) | 803
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much revenue was obtained by Arriva Buses from local authorities and passenger transport executives in each year in respect of concessionary fares in (a) England, (b) the North East Government Office Region and (c) the boroughs of the Tees Valley sub-region since 1995. | | (32812) | 804
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much revenue was obtained by Arriva Buses for running subsidised services on behalf of local authorities and passenger transport executives in (a) England, (b) the North East Government Office area and (c) the boroughs of the Tees Valley sub-region in each year since 1995. | | (32813) | 805
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his projections are for traffic growth in West Sussex over each of the next 10 years. | | (33058) | 806
N | John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many rail passengers used (a) Birmingham New Street, (b) London Victoria and (c) Liverpool Lime Street station in 2004. | | [R] (32560) | 807
| David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of safety provisions in legislation covering the use of buses transporting children to school with particular reference to safety of buses (a) with more than 16 seats and (b) carrying older pupils. | | (32906) | 808
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what additional powers will be granted to the European railway industry as a result of the review of Regulation 881/2004 and directives (a) 2004/49/EC, (b) 2001/14/EC and (c) 95/18/EC. | | (32895) | 809
N | Mr Alan Reid (Argyll and Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on Ministerial responsibility for maintaining and improving the railway infrastructure in Scotland. | | (32654) | 810
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the consultation with stakeholders on the Review of Northern Rail Services will commence. | | (32572) | 811
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has undertaken into the medical status of individuals involved in sleep-related traffic accidents. | | (32573) | 812
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance his Department provides to (a) licensing category Group 1 drivers and (b) licensing category Group 2 drivers to increase drivers' awareness of obstructive sleep apnoea (i) at the time of initial applications for a driving licence and (ii) on renewal of a licence. | | (32575) | 813
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many doctors have approached the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency on behalf of patients with diagnosed symptomatic sleep disorders in the last five years. | | (32576) | 814
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many drivers have informed the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency of diagnosed symptomatic sleep disorders in the last five years. | | (32577) | 815
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of road accidents caused by excessive sleepiness due to (a) obstructive sleep apnoea and (b) other sleep disorders in each of the last three years. | | (32578) | 816
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of adults with (a) diagnosed and (b) undiagnosed obstructive sleep disorder who hold a driving licence. | | (32579) | 817
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Review of Northern Rail Services has been completed. | | (32586) | 818
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans there are to open the unused Thameslink Station underneath St Pancras. | | (32740) | 819
| Anne Snelgrove (South Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to include services which cater for disabled people unable to use public transport in the provisions for free travel from April 2006. | | (33211) | 820
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance and best practice manuals his Department has produced for local authorities' highway departments on (a) speed cameras and (b) traffic-calming measures. | | (33171) | 821
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32990) | 822
| Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish regulatory changes to the air navigation order. | | (32536) | 823
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32839) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 824
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many of his Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32592) | 825
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33256) | 826
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make a statement on the discussions he has had with his colleagues in Cabinet and with the Welsh Assembly Government regarding the promotion of the 2012 Olympics in Wales. | | (31917) | 827
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33203) | 828
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many appeals there were in Wales against council tax banding following the 2005 council tax revaluation; and how many appeals have so far been (a) wholly and (b) partly (i) refused and (ii) granted. | | (33117) | 829
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32988) | 830
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32827) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 831
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the change in the annual maintenance payments of the Child Support Agency which would result from full compliance of all assessed claims in Scotland. | | (31631) | 832
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the compliance rate was for Child Support Agency claims made by claimants resident in Scotland for each quarter since 2000-01. | | (31632) | 833
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the backlog of Child Support Agency claims made by claimants resident in Scotland was under (a) the old system and (b) the new system for each month since January 2004. | | (31633) | 834
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) annual running costs of the Child Support Agency in Scotland and (b) annual savings in benefits in Scotland as a consequence of Child Support Agency maintenance payments for each year since 1996. | | (31634) | 835
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken is to process new Child Support Agency maintenance claims made by claimants resident in Scotland. | | (31635) | 836
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will bring forward further measures to restore pensions lost through scheme wind-ups prior to 5th April. | | (32516) | 837
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has held with trades unions about industrial relations issues concerning the HSE. | | (32440) | 838
N | James Brokenshire (Hornchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints his Department has received in the last month concerning non-payment of winter fuel allowance claims at post offices owing to receipt of insufficient cash. | | (32385) | 839
| Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11th November, Official Report, column 798W, on the Office for Disability Issues, what criteria his Department uses to decide whether a consultation will be (a) an informal exercise and (b) a formal consultation; in which circumstances each are used; for what reasons his Department decided the consultation on the establishment of the Office for Disability Issues would be an informal exercise; and how his Department communicates to relevant individuals and organisations the status of a consultation. | | (32551) | 840
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of his Department's employees who are within one year of the official retirement age are on extended sick leave. | | (32588) | 841
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) land and (b) property his Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (33250) | 842
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what advisers to the Prime Minister have been seconded to work for the Department during the past year; and if he will make a statement. | | (31856) | 843
N | Justine Greening (Putney):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on involuntary and voluntary staff exit schemes in (a) the Department and (b) each agency of the Department in each year since 1997-98; and if he will make a statement. | | (32429) | 844
N | Justine Greening (Putney):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his latest estimate is of the cost to be included in the departmental expenditure limits for involuntary and voluntary staff exit schemes in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (32430) | 845
N | Justine Greening (Putney):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average number of staff employed at the Department was in each year from 1997-98 to 2005-06, including equivalent figures for the period before the Department was reorganised into its current form, broken down by (a) full-time equivalents and (b) overtime and temporary staff; and if he will make a statement. | | (32431) | 846
N | Justine Greening (Putney):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Department spent on activities relating to the recruitment of head count to the Department in each year from 1997; what the latest estimates are for (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (32432) | 847
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of whether corporate pension liabilities are overstated under FRS17. | | (32457) | 848
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department and its agencies have spent on (a) the design and production of new logos and (b) employing external (i) public relations and (ii) graphic design agencies in each year since 2000, broken down by project. | | (33204) | 849
N | Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many departmental Civil Service jobs have been relocated to Scotland in each year since 2001. | | (32261) | 850
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to encourage employers to employ older workers. | | (32757) | 851
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to introduce legislation which requires (a) employers to contribute to their employees' pensions and (b) individuals to save for their retirement. | | (32758) | 852
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) average and (b) maximum wait was for customers to be called back by Jobcentre Plus contact centres when trying to make a benefit application in each (i) week and (ii) month since 1st May; and if he will make a statement. | | (32505) | 853
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time for processing a jobseeker's allowance application was in each (a) week and (b) month since 1st May; how many applications have taken more than 20 days to process; and if he will make a statement. | | (32506) | 854
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls to Jobcentreplus contact centres (a) were answered, (b) received an engaged tone and (c) were disconnected in each month from January; and if he will make a statement. | | (32512) | 855
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost was of administering the winter fuel payment in 2004-05. | | (32726) | 856
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21st November, Official Report, column 1664W, on benefits, which Jobcentre Plus contact centres are operating some clerical processes due to problems with the Customer Management System; how many were operating such processes in each week since 1st June; and if he will make a statement. | | (32939) | 857
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of raising the restriction on the number of hours a week a housing benefit recipient can study to (a) 20 hours and (b) 24 hours. | | (33027) | 858
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will meet representatives of the Foyer Federation to discuss the impact of housing benefit regulations on the ability of young people in housing need to achieve qualifications below degree level. | | (33028) | 859
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the merits of ending the restriction on the number of hours a week a housing benefit recipient can study if they are retaking GCSEs, studying for A-Levels or for an NVQ at level 3 or below. | | (33029) | 860
N | Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of inactive benefits moved back to work in 2004-05. | | (31700) | 861
| Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he will answer questions (a) 26399, (b) 26327 and (c) 26331 tabled by the honourable Member for Stratford-on-Avon on 3rd November. | | (33011) | 862
N | Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what disability benefits and allowances are taken into account when calculating Child Support Agency maintenance payments under the (a) old and (b) new systems. | | (30866) | 863
| Clare Short (Birmingham, Ladywood):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he will reply to the letter from the Right honourable Member for Birmingham, Ladywood, of 22nd September, reference POS (7) 10476/0058, which was acknowledged on 11th October. | | (32463) | 864
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the £200 one-off payment this winter with the winter fuel allowance will be (a) means-tested and (b) paid to pensioners receiving 100 per cent. council tax benefit. | | (33172) | 865
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what research projects commissioned by his Department are being undertaken; and what the publication arrangements are in each case. | | (32991) | 866
| Ian Stewart (Eccles):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost is of the introduction of the new Debt Manager system in his Department. | | (33030) | 867
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what provision is made for the accommodation needs of carers in housing benefit assessments. | | (32554) | 868
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Race Equality Impact Assessments his Department completed between (a) April 2004 and March 2005 and (b) April 2005 and November 2005; and how many assessments in each period resulted in a change of policy. | | (32824) | 869
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much on average pensioners in Wales receive in state pensions and benefits; and if he will make a statement. | | (32567) | 870
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of female pensioners in Wales are entitled to the full basic state pension; and if he will make a statement. | | (32568) | 871
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of pensioners in Wales receive less than £109 in total for state pensions and benefits; and if he will make a statement. | | (32569) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 872
| John Cummings (Easington):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses were found to be employing workers for less than the minimum wage in Easington constituency in each year since the minimum wage was introduced; how many were fined; and how many employees were involved in each case. | | [Transferred] (33276) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs 873
| Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many people who pleaded guilty to murder and received life sentences are appealing against the sentence. | | [Transferred] (32472) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 874
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what advice and guidance her Department has given to local authorities on how premises licensed under the Licensing Act 2003 should be treated if they open for hours which are outside those permitted by virtue of their planning permission when their Licensing Act 2003 premises licence allows for them to open. | | [Transferred] (33169) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 875
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 15th June, Official Report, column 386W, on council tax, what sanctions are available to Valuation Office Agency representatives against householders who refuse to admit valuation inspectors who have given written advance notice of their request to make a council tax valuation inspection. | | [Transferred] (33207) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 876
| Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to combat internet trade in protected wild animals. | | [Transferred] (33026) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 877
| Adam Afriyie (Windsor):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on progress in the current round of international trade negotiations. | | [Transferred] (32418) | 878
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the Government's priorities are for the World Trade Organisation talks in December. | | [Transferred] (32477) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 879
| Anne Snelgrove (South Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve access to public transport for disabled people in Swindon. | | [Transferred] (33227) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 880
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether the Government intended the council tax revaluation in Wales to be revenue neutral. | | [Transferred] (33160) |
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