Order Book Part 1

House of Commons

Session 2005 - 06
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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 2 February 2006

Notes:
* Indicates a Question for Oral Answer.
+ Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled.
[N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered.
[R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared.

Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Thursday 2 February 2006
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 2 February 2006

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Thursday 2 February of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

For other Written Questions for answer on Thursday 2 February of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Thursday 2 February see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

1
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints have been made about the last national Census; how many of those complants have been upheld; and what action has been taken to address them.

(48883)

2
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what personal debt advice services are funded by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(48737)

3
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Government's most recent estimate is of the cost to the Exchequer of combat operations in Iraq in each month since the start of the conflict; and if he will make a statement.

(48739)

4
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when each payment (a) into and (b) out of the special reserve was made in each year since 2000; what each payment was for; and if he will make a statement.

(48740)

5
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government has made of the merits of introducing a sunset clause for the new spirit labelling scheme.

(48595)

6
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the spirit fraud seizures and detections during the last 12 months which involved revenue evasions in excess of £1 million.

(48596)

7
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what share of the UK spirit market will be exempt from the spirit label stamp scheme because it falls below the 30 per cent. alcohol by volume threshold.

(48633)

8
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many entities outside the UK have registered for spirit label stamps; what estimate he has made of the number of stamps which HM Revenue and Customs will distribute to non-UK entities; what steps the Government is taking to ensure the credentials of those applying for stamps abroad; and whether HM Revenue and Customs will police the application and use of stamps overseas.

(48634)

9
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the scope for worldwide (a) theft and (b) counterfeiting of UK duty stamps once the spirit label stamp scheme is introduced.

(48635)

10
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the reasons for the level of spirit fraud (a) seizure, (b) detection and (c) prosecution rates.

(48636)

11
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how his Department calculates spirit fraud VAT losses within total revenue loss estimates; and whether it is assumed that all illicit bottles pay no VAT as well as no excise duty.

(48637)

12
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what evidence the Government has collected to support its estimates of the scale of spirit fraud.

(48638)

13
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his most recent estimate is of the value of revenue losses caused by spirit fraud; and what the statistical lower bound estimate is for spirit fraud.

(48639)

14
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the Office of National Statistics' review of spirits fraud published on 21st July 2005; and whether he has accepted its conclusions in respect of previous Government estimates of revenue evasion.

(48640)

15
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of introducing a spirit label stamp scheme on illegal spirit sales.

(48641)

16
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the estimated total costs are of implementing the Government's proposed spirit label stamp scheme; and for what reasons these costs have not been set out in the Regulatory Impact Assessment.

(48642)

17
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the reduction in spirit fraud which will result from Government plans to introduce a label stamp scheme.

(48643)

18
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total value has been of compensation payments made as a result of (a) delays and (b) mistakes in calculating tax credit awards.

(48764)

19
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have received compensation payments as a result of (a) delays and (b) mistakes in the calculation of tax credit awards.

(48766)

20
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when details of the new film tax credit to replace the section 48 credit will be announced; and if he will make a statement.

(48482)

21
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what purpose HM Revenue and Customs collects statistics on behalf of Intrastat on the weight of goods imported from other EU member states; and what assessment he has made of the cost to businesses of collating this information.

(48582)

22
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the (a) benefits and (b) costs to (i) businesses and (ii) the Department of having different rules for the eligibility for enhanced capital allowances for energy efficient (A) display light fittings and (B) general light fittings.

(48583)

23
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance HM Revenue and Customs gives to businesses that are required to complete the Instrastat statistical returns.

(48584)

24
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff the Royal Mint employs in (a) London, (b) each region of England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland; how much the Royal Mint paid (i) in rates and (ii) in other accommodation costs in each location in 2004-05; what the total administration costs were in each location in 2004-05; and how much funding the Royal Mint received from the Government for 2005-06.

(48835)

25
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) private sector jobs in (i) manufacturing and (ii) the service sector and (b) public sector jobs there were in Tamworth constituency in each year since 1997.

(48661)

26
Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what he estimates the unfunded public service pension liability to have been at 31st March 2005.

(48345)

27
N Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will establish a fully staffed tax credits office in Belfast.

(47644)

28
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many suicides were committed by people aged 14 to 25 years in each region in the last three years, broken down by sex; and if he will make a statement.

(48376)

29
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit claimants there have been in Uxbridge constituency since the scheme began, broken down by those who were (a) underpaid, (b) overpaid and (c) paid the correct amount.

(48514)

30
N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much VAT fraud has been reported in each region of the UK in descending order in the last year for which figures are available.

(48013)

31
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48487)

32
N Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data sources are used by his Department to estimate the number of cases of breast cancer each year; and what the latest estimate is of the number of such cases.

(47988)

Questions to the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners

33
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what procedures are followed for the drafting of laws in response to judgments of the European Court of Human Rights which affect matters traditionally within the sphere of ecclesiastical law.

(48860)

34
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Commissioners have made of the extent to which the recent use of ministerial orders to amend church legislation has modified the convention that Parliament does not legislate for the Church of England without its consent.

(48861)

Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs

35
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what training has been provided to magistrates in (a) England and Wales and (b) Northern Ireland on the use of anti-social behaviour orders in each of the last two years; and what the cost of the training provided was in each year.

(48724)

36
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many complaints have been made about the conduct of judges in each year since 1997; how many of those complaints have been upheld in each year; and what action was taken to redress each successful complaint.

(48872)

37
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many complaints have been made about judges sitting at Chelmsford Crown Court in each year since 1997; how many of those complaints have been upheld; and what action was taken to redress each successful complaint.

(48873)

38
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the effects of the introduction of predictable costs in road traffic claims where damages are under £10,000.

(48629)

39
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what information her Department collects on the costs of personal injury litigation in other developed countries.

(48630)

40
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, which proposals in the Compensation Bill will apply to in-house legal services provided by trades unions.

(48631)

41
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what assessment she has made of the availability of civil legal aid to people living in Tamworth constituency.

(48660)

42
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28th November 2005, Official Report, column 130W, on small claims (personal injuries), if she will list the organisations she plans to consult as part of the review of personal injuries limits for small claims.

(48462)

43
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what total sum has been received by her Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48474)

44
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many (a) judicial members, (b) tribunal members, (c) lay justice members, (d) professional members and (e) lay members applied for the new Judicial Appointments Commission.

(48796)

45
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, on how many occasions since his appointment, the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs has overruled a recommendation for judicial appointment.

(48854)

46
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many staff from her Department will be transferred to the new Judicial Appointments Commission.

(48855)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

47
N James Brokenshire (Hornchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to (a) promote awareness of the Paralympic Games and (b) maximise the potential opportunities for people with disabilities taking part in sport as a consequence of the Paralympic Games; and if she will make a statement.

(47038)

48
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the ratio was between the administration costs of the UK Film Council and the funds which it provided for film production in the last period for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.

(48481)

49
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she will announce the co-production guidelines for UK-qualifying films.

(48498)

50
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the new co-production guidelines for UK-qualifying films will supersede existing bilateral national treaties; and if she will make a statement.

(48505)

51
Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will place in the Library a copy of the Olympic Tourism Charter announced by the Prime Minister on 15th November 2005; and if she will make a statement.

(48586)

52
Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what was the date of each meeting she has had with the Chairman of VisitBritain in 2005; what was the agenda of each meeting; and if she will make a statement.

(48587)

53
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people from science and technology backgrounds have been seconded into the Civil Service in her Department in each of the last three years.

(48411)

54
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):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 levels of crime and disorder in Tamworth.

(48659)

55
N Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations she has received from professors of Punch and Judy shows on the impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on such shows.

(47822)

56
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public swimming pools there were in each London borough in (a) 1997 and (b) 2005; and if she will list those that have facilities for the disabled.

(48502)

57
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what facilities are being developed to encourage disabled swimmers in London.

(48503)

58
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will list the 50-metre public swimming pools within London which have facilities for the disabled.

(48506)

59
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which (a) village halls and (b) community centres in the Uxbridge constituency have received Lottery funding since 1997.

(48515)

60
Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will promote English folk dance and song; and if she will make a statement.

(48859)

61
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many establishments have applied for extended opening hours under provisions of the Licensing Act 2003 in (a) England, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) Huddersfield.

(48606)

62
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many premises licensed to serve alcohol have been granted 24 hour licences; and in what local authority areas they are located.

(48607)

63
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the change in the levels of (a) anti-social and (b) violent behaviour following the implementation of the Licensing Act 2003.

(48608)

64
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what total sum has been received by her Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48473)

65
N Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on the (a) recent and (b) likely closure of public libraries.

(47795)

66
N Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on how many occasions since 2001 the Sports Minister has been a guest at a horse race meeting in the UK; who hosted the Minister on each occasion; and what hospitality he received.

(47818)

67
Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what regulations apply to fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) in betting shops; and what plans the Government has for (FOBTs).

(48865)

68
Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance she has issued on permitted locations for fixed odds betting terminals under the (a) Gambling Act 2005 and (b) Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Act 2004.

(48866)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

69
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which research programme at the Chemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down is designed to contribute to the understanding of Parkinson's disease.

(48585)

70
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Gulf War veterans diagnosed with multiple sclerosis have since developed symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

(48862)

71
Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value is of public procurement contracts awarded to QinetiQ since December 2002.

(48761)

72
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what mental health services are available to troops serving in Iraq.

(48767)

73
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements (a) are in place and (b) will be made in future for the embedding of journalists with United Kingdom armed forces in Afghanistan.

(48771)

74
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) legal régime and (b) rules of engagement govern the activities of United Kingdom armed forces in Afghanistan as part of (i) the International Security Assistance Force and (ii) Operation Enduring Freedom; and whether these will change in respect of the forthcoming Allied Rapid Reaction Corps deployment.

(48772)

75
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) surface ships, (b) submarines and (c) auxiliary vessels are (i) available to and (ii) deployable by the Royal Navy; and what the equivalent numbers were in 1997.

(48773)

76
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the (a) deployments and (b) the length of time between each deployment for each infantry battalion in the past five years.

(48775)

77
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many qualified pilots for the Apache AH Mk1 helicopter there were (a) on the last date for which figures are available and (b) in 1997.

(48776)

78
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Army aviation helicopters had full nuclear, biological and chemical protection (a) on the last date for which figures are available and (b) in 1997.

(48777)

79
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his Department's service accommodation properties were (a) Grade 1 standard, (b) Grade 2 standard, (c) Grade 3 standard and (d) Grade 4 standard in (i) Cyprus and (ii) Gibraltar (A) on the last date for which figures are available and (B) in 1997.

(48778)

80
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) required and (b) current strength levels of (i) trained anaesthetists, (ii) trained general surgeons, (iii) burns specialists and (iv) general medical practitioners in the Defence Medical Service was (A) on the last date for which figures are available and (B) in 1997.

(48779)

81
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of (a) soldiers in the Army and (b) soldiers serving in Iraq have been diagnosed with a mental health condition.

(48780)

82
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the distribution in each region and country of the UK of (a) regular service personnel, (b) direct civilian employees of his Department and (c) civilian personnel in the UK defence agencies and trading funds was at the latest date for which figures are available.

(48658)

83
N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, by what means the chain of command in the UK armed forces protects service personnel on active service from prosecution arising from mistakes made in the course of combat; and whether such measures are affected by the existence or otherwise of a formal declaration of hostilities.

(48007)

84
N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, to what extent and in what respects the applicability of the law on armed forces conflict is affected by whether the United Kingdom is combating (a) another country and (b) stateless insurgents and terrorists.

(48008)

85
N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Oral Answer to the hon. Member for Woodspring, 23rd January 2006, Official Report, column 1154, on what date he first asked his officials to explore the options for replacing the nuclear deterrent with a successor system; and when he expects to be presented with their findings.

(48009)

86
N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the cases since 1997 in which all proceedings are complete where (a) military and (b) civil prosecutions have been brought against UK service personnel in respect of actions carried out on active service; what the (i) verdict and (ii) sentence imposed was in each case; and how many cases against UK personnel involving prosecution for actions carried out on active service are underway.

(48010)

87
N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the degree of liability for prosecution in respect of actions carried out by UK service personnel on active service when hostilities involving the United Kingdom (a) have and (b) have not been formally declared.

(48011)

88
N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many residents of (a) each county and (b) each constituency in North Wales have received a Veteran's Badge.

(47998)

89
N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much unexploded ordnance discovered was (a) exploded and (b) defused in each of the last 20 years.

(48243)

90
John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will consider inviting the National Audit Office to oversee the bid evaluation process for the Defence Training Review Transformation Programme.

(48726)

91
N Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the (a) public and (b) other bodies which are negotiating to acquire an interest in the Daedalus site at Lee-on-the-Solent; what the nature of that interest is in each case; and if he will ensure that local authorities and other interested bodies have opportunities for consultation before any commitment to transfer land is finalised.

(47994)

92
N Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, under which North Atlantic Council Resolution United Kingdom forces have been deployed to Afghanistan since 2003.

(47996)

Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister

93
N James Brokenshire (Hornchurch):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether Rainham in the London Borough of Havering has been identified as one of the (a) primary and (b) back-up (i) landfill and (ii) bulk debris examination sites referred to in the London Resilience Strategic Emergency Plan.

(47037)

94
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what proportion of local authority housing stock in (a) England, (b) London and (c) each London borough has been sold under the right to buy scheme in each year since 1980.

(48706)

95
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans he has to reinstate the living spaces grant.

(48699)

96
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much funding local authority housing in (a) England and (b) Tamworth constituency received in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available, broken down by source.

(48656)

97
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many council houses in (a) England and (b) Tamworth constituency (i) have been brought up to the Decent Homes standard and (ii) remain to be brought up to that standard.

(48657)

98
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he plans to publish a detailed implementation plan for the introduction of home information packs.

(48386)

99
Mr Angus MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many staff work in his Department's Sustainable Communities Group; how many are based in (a) London and (b) each region; and what the total salary costs were of the group in each area in the last year for which figures are available.

(48888)

100
Mr Angus MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the administration costs associated with his Department's Sustainable Communities Group in the last year for which figures are available.

(48897)

101
Anne Milton (Guildford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many planning decisions made by (a) Guildford and (b) Waverley borough councils were (i) referred to and (ii) overturned by the Planning Inspectorate in each of the past five years.

(48710)

102
Anne Milton (Guildford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what percentage of local authority decisions were overturned by the Planning Inspectorate in each of the past five years.

(48711)

103
N Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make it his policy to suspend all new developments around (a) oil depots and (b) refineries until the inquiry into the Buncefield oil depot fire by the Health and Safety Executive has reported; and if he will make a statement.

(47589)

104
N Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will take steps to stop the reduction in (a) full-time and (b) retained (i) fire stations and (ii) firefighters in Hertfordshire until the inquiry into the Buncefield oil depot fire by the Health and Safety Executive has reported; and if he will make a statement.

(47590)

105
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48472)

106
N Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what factors relating specifically to fire control led the Government to decide that the South East regional government area is the most appropriate area to be controlled from a single fire control centre.

(47995)

107
Mr Mike Weir (Angus):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many staff work in his Department's Regional Development Group; how many are based in (a) London and (b) each region and what the total salary costs were of the group in each area in the last year for which figures are available.

(48834)

108
Mr Mike Weir (Angus):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the administration costs of his Department's Regional Development Group in the last year for which figures are available.

(48893)

109
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many staff work in his Department's (a) Ministerial Group, (b) Legal Directorate and (c) Tackling Disadvantage Group; how many in each category are based in (i) London and (ii) each region; and what the total salary costs were of each group in each area in the last year for which figures are available.

(48852)

110
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the administration costs associated with his Department's (a) Ministerial Group, (b) Legal Directorate and (c) Tackling Disadvantage Group in the last year for which figures are available.

(48853)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills

111
Ed Balls (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many staff in (a) day nurseries and (b) schools in (i) Wakefield District and (ii) Normanton constituency are qualified to (A) Level 2, (B) Level 3 and (C) Level 4 standards.

(48388)

112
Ed Balls (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many employers in (a) the Wakefield District and (b) Normanton constituency are providing post-16 education; what the national average is for the number of such employers in a (i) district and (ii) constituency area; and what steps are being taken to encourage more employers to offer such education in each area.

(48389)

113
Ed Balls (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of the population in (a) West Yorkshire, (b) Wakefield District and (c) Normanton constituency aged between 16 and 65 years have no qualifications.

(48390)

114
Ed Balls (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many year 11 leavers in (a) West Yorkshire, (b) Wakefield District and (c) Normanton constituency have stayed on in learning each year since 2001.

(48391)

115
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps she plans to take to increase the uptake of educational opportunities and skills learning in the prison estate; and if she will make a statement.

(48430)

116
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if her Department will issue best practice guidelines to schools to ensure that every child receives a high standard of sex and relationship education.

(48692)

117
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many childcare places were available in each of the last 10 years in (a) England, (b) London and (c) each London borough.

(48702)

118
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what analysis her Department has conducted of national media coverage of education issues in the past 12 months.

(48569)

119
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what services the media evaluation firm Metrica has provided to her Department in the past two years; and at what cost.

(48570)

120
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) same sex couples and (b) civil partners applied to adopt children between 30th December 2005 and the most recent date for which figures are available.

(48756)

121
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what contingency plans her Department has prepared for schools in case of a reported outbreak of avian influenza within the UK.

(48679)

122
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many people from science and technology backgrounds have been seconded into the Civil Service in her Department in each of the last three years.

(48409)

123
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what support and services are available in (a) Staffordshire and (b) Tamworth constituency for new parents whose children have been diagnosed at birth as suffering from learning difficulties; and whether she plans to increase this assistance.

(48653)

124
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many 16 to 19-year-old parents have returned to higher education in Tamworth constituency in each year since 1997.

(48654)

125
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much public funding was spent on (a) repairing and (b) rebuilding schools in Tamworth constituency in each year since 1992.

(48655)

126
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions she has had with representatives from the North East region regarding the education White Paper Higher Standards, Better Schools for All.

(48392)

127
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps her Department has taken to help educational establishments in the UK and India establish lasting partnerships since the 2002 New Delhi Declaration.

(48393)

128
Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate she has made of the capital cost of establishing a full offer children's centre.

(48377)

129
Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what staff (a) vetting procedures and (b) mandatory criminal investigation checks are in place to safeguard children who attend (i) afterschool clubs held off school premises, (ii) drop-in crêches and nurseries and (iii) holiday clubs.

(48379)

130
Mr Paul Murphy (Torfaen):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many representations she has received from Wales about the cross-border implications of the White Paper on Schools, Higher Standards, Better Schools for All: More Choice for Parents and Pupils.

(48446)

131
N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what proportion of schools were in special measures in each of the past 15 years.

(48244)

132
Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will include teaching of English folk dance and song within the national curriculum; and if she will make a statement.

(48857)

133
Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will take steps to ensure that the citizenship curriculum includes the teaching of (a) the words of the National Anthem and (b) knowledge of the flags and patron saints of the nations of the United Kingdom; and if she will make a statement.

(48858)

134
N Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which local education authorities have (a) moved from two tier to three tier, (b) moved from three tier to two tier, (c) reviewed their three tier structure and decided to keep it (i) entirely and (ii) in part, (d) reviewed their two tier structure and decided to keep it (i) entirely and (ii) in part and (e) operate a mixed two tier and three tier structure.

(48241)

135
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment her Department has made of the contribution of international students to the UK economy.

(48599)

136
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of how many international students engaged in part-time employment during their time in the United Kingdom.

(48600)

137
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many international students were studying in the United Kingdom in each of the last 10 years.

(48601)

138
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps her Department is taking to encourage international students to attend UK universities.

(48602)

139
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many international students were granted visa extensions to (a) work and (b) continue studies in the last year.

(48603)

140
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of those who received a caution for having indecent pictures of children were placed on List 99 in the last year for which figures are available.

(48436)

141
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what total sum has been received by her Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48471)

142
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the Playing for Success initiative in Hartlepool.

(48868)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

143
Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of carbon emissions generated by water desalination plants; and if she will make a statement.

(48454)

144
Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the research budget of her Department was in each year since its inception.

(48455)

145
N Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to use native woodland creation to tackle (a) habitat fragmentation, (b) flooding and (c) climate change.

(47168)

146
N Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much woodland has been created in each year since 1995; and how much of this is broadleaved.

(47171)

147
N Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to increase woodland cover in England.

(47172)

148
N Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the protection of the marine environment.

(47174)

149
N Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of single farm payments she expects to have been paid by the end of February.

(47993)

150
Mr Eric Forth (Bromley & Chislehurst):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the carbon dioxide emission levels were for (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the EU, (c) the USA, (d) Russia, (e) China, (f) India, (g) Japan, (h) Brazil, (i) Indonesia and (j) the world in the last year for which figures are available; and what her projections are for (i) 2020 and (ii) 2030.

(48344)

151
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people from science and technology backgrounds have been seconded into the Civil Service in her Department in each of the last three years.

(48408)

152
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) fixed penalty notices have been issued and (b) successful prosecutions have been brought in Tamworth constituency under each section of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 that has been brought into force to date.

(48652)

153
N Laura Moffatt (Crawley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure safe and sufficient water supplies in the South East.

(47594)

154
N Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what environmental studies have been undertaken by her Department in Hemel Hempstead to assess the consequences of the Buncefield oil depot fire and subsequent explosion.

(47823)

155
N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will estimate the annual emission of methane gas emitted by (a) cattle, (b) sheep and (c) pigs; and if she will make a statement.

(48242)

156
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the likely impact on wildlife research of the National Environment Research Council's plans for the future organisation of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

(47293)

157
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what total sum has been received by her Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48470)

158
N Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons her Department has refused Mrs Kremers of New Park Farm, Ogwell, Devon the option of paying for a second TB test for an animal that tested positive to the initial tuberculin skin test; and by what means Mrs Kremers can appeal against this decision.

(47587)

159
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what contingency plans are in place in case of drought in summer 2006.

(48624)

160
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many gallons below their capacity level are the (a) reservoirs and (b) other areas of water supply that supply Leicester; and what these figures are as a proportion of their capacity level.

(48625)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

161
N Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he will respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam dated 15th March 2005, on behalf of Mary Stevenage, regarding human rights abuses in Cuba.

(47990)

162
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had since 2001 with the ex-Prisoners of War Association regarding compensation for British soldiers captured by Germany during World War Two who were subjected to forced labour.

(48738)

163
Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the operation of the Small Grants Scheme in Madagascar.

(48572)

164
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the effect of the election victory of Hamas on the UK's relations with the Palestinian Authority.

(48701)

165
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the proportion of Afghan warlords opposed to the Taliban who are involved with the production and trading of narcotics.

(48768)

166
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the proportion of Afghan warlords who have (a) supported and (b) opposed the Taliban.

(48769)

167
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the role of warlords in the political order in Afghanistan.

(48770)

168
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether (a) at and (b) at General Affairs Council meetings since the meeting of the General Affairs Council of the EU on 21st and 22nd November 2005 he (i) proposed a commitment of and (ii) was asked to contribute (A) arms and (B) material to the EU mission in Congo.

(48774)

169
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff are associated with the delivery of the (a) policy and service delivery function and (b) corporate function of his Department; and what the total salary costs were for each function in the last year for which figures are available.

(48895)

170
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people from science and technology backgrounds have been seconded into the Civil Service in his Department in each of the last three years.

(48410)

171
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the political sitaution in the Ivory Coast.

(48743)

172
N Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it is the Government's policy to receive intelligence information from governments who (a) have not (i) signed and (ii) ratifed the UN Convention against Torture, (b) have signed the Convention but maintain reservations, (c) have not signed the Optional Protocol on monitoring and (d) employ definitions of torture in practice narrower than the terms of the UN Convention.

(48240)

173
N Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it is the Government's policy to permit US flights to land and refuel in the UK without being required to (a) submit and (b) verify a list of passengers.

(48292)

174
N Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it is the Government's policy to make an assessment of the risk that intelligence received by the security services from other countries was obtained by torture.

(48293)

175
N Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the governments of (a) Poland and (b) Romania on the practice of extraordinary rendition; and if he will make a statement.

(48294)

176
N Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he supports the proposal to establish a European Union agency to monitor the observance of human rights in Europe; and if he will make a statement.

(48295)

177
N Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the duties are of the EU Gendarmerie Force.

(47913)

178
N Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the estimate annual cost is of the EU Gendarmerie Force launched at Vicenza on 19th January.

(47914)

179
Clare Short (Birmingham, Ladywood):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he will reply to the letter dated 10th August 2005 from the hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood, concerning the export of handcuffs.

(48884)

180
N Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Libya; and if he will make a statement.

(47991)

181
N Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent evidence he has received that the Libyan security services are practising torture on prisoners.

(47992)

182
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the extent to which (a) UK and (b) EU banks have ceased business with Iran; and if he will make a statement.

(48592)

183
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications of the outcome of the recent Palestinian legislative elections for the European Commission and European Investment Bank's package to support economic regeneration in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

(48593)

184
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the implementation of Agreement on Movement and Access between the government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority following the recent Palestinian legislative elections.

(48594)

185
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Government White Paper, Prospects for the European Union in 2006, what assessment he has made of the steps necessary to be taken at this stage by the UN Security Council in order to reinforce the authority of International Atomic Energy Agency resolutions regarding Iran; and if he will make a statement.

(48708)

186
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights spending on the promotion of human rights and the rule of law in Iran.

(48749)

187
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps are being taken to strengthen the Non-Proliferation Treaty in accordance with the December 2003 European Union Strategy against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and if he will make a statement.

(48750)

188
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his meeting of 30th January 2006 with the Foreign Ministers of China, France, Germany, Russia, the US and the High Representative of the EU, how long he expects the extensive period of confidence-building required of Iran to be; what assurances are being sought from Iran; and if he will make a statement.

(48751)

189
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what fora are available to the EU to express its concerns about human rights in Iran to the Iranian government; and if he will make a statement.

(48752)

190
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, under what conditions negotiations on the EU-Iran Trade and Co-operation and Political Dialogue Agreements would resume; and if he will make a statement.

(48754)

191
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of which groups (a) advocating and (b) engaging in terrorist acts are receiving financial support from Iran.

(48755)

192
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on Iran's approach to the Middle East Peace Process.

(48763)

193
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department plans to review the BBC World Service's allocation of grant-in-aid.

(47294)

194
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Kazakhstan following international monitors' criticism of the presidential elections held in December 2005.

(47295)

195
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the government of Kazakhstan on bringing its laws and practices on due process and freedom of expression into line with international standards.

(47296)

196
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48469)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

197
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding her Department has provided for research into Parkinson's disease in each of the last eight years.

(48863)

198
Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment she has made of the possible health implications arising from the use of monomolecular layers of platinum, with particular reference to catalytic converters.

(48456)

199
Tony Baldry (Banbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her Oral Statement of 30th January 2006, Official Report, columns 21-38, on health and social care services, whether Bicester will be the location of one of the new generation of community hospitals with intermediate beds.

(48886)

200
Tony Baldry (Banbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her Oral Statement of 30th January 2006, Official Report, columns 21-38, on health and social care services, how many new community hospitals she expects will be built as part of the new generation of community hospitals; how many of these she expects will have intermediate beds; and what new money will be provided for the (a) construction and (b) running of new community hospitals.

(48887)

201
N Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the national bowel cancer screening programme will be rolled out from April.

(47617)

202
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much her Department has allocated to fund research on HIV preventative technologies in each year since 1997; how this research has been co-ordinated; and if she will make a statement.

(48475)

203
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines she has (a) given to primary care staff on equitable and high quality treatment for patients living with HIV and (b) provided to GPs on best practice on HIV testing, referrals and information.

(48476)

204
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress her Department has made in ensuring every (a) sexual health clinic and (b) accident and emergency unit is able to offer post-exposure prophylaxis to patients; and if she will make a statement.

(48477)

205
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many pregnant women have been prescribed with anti-retroviral drugs since 1997 in each health authority in England; and if she will make a statement.

(48478)

206
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps her Department is taking to increase access to HIV (a) testing and (b) treatment amongst African communities living in England; and if she will make a statement.

(48479)

207
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps her Department is taking to increase awareness of HIV among (a) heterosexual and (b) homosexual males.

(48480)

208
Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dentists there are in Tendring; and how many there were in each of the past five years.

(48867)

209
N David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice her Department has given to local authorities on the purchase and use of washable keyboards, mice and keyboard readers; and what encouragement her Department has offered them to purchase such items.

(47689)

210
N Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what sanctions are available to her against a primary care trust and its board members should poor administration be found by the financial and management specialist team.

(47652)

211
N Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people made up the financial and management specialist team that visited Suffolk Coastal Primary Care Trust to examine the state of the primary care trust; and how many days the team spent investigating onsite.

(47653)

212
N Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the financial and management specialist team sent to Suffolk Coastal Primary Care Trust is due to report its findings to her Department; and when those findings will be made public.

(47654)

213
N Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which patient representative bodies the financial and management specialist team met during its visit to Suffolk Coastal Primary Care Trust.

(47655)

214
N Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will require the NHS Appointments Commission to change its policy of reappointing chairmen and non-executive members of primary care trust boards where those appointees have presided over trusts that are failing or under investigation.

(47656)

215
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the impact that the merger of Gloucestershire Ambulance Service NHS Trust with Avon and Wiltshire ambulance trusts will have on emergency coverage in Forest of Dean constituency.

(48785)

216
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on Gloucestershire Ambulance Service NHS Trust's Co-Responder scheme.

(48786)

217
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many fees have been paid to pharmacists for each price category of (a) amlodipine, (b) simvastatin and (c) lisinopril (i) in each month of the last three financial years and (ii) to date in 2005-06; what the value was of each fee; and what the total payment was for each month for each price category of each drug.

(48781)

218
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when (a) amlodipine, (b) simvastatin and (c) lisinopril went out of patent.

(48782)

219
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the generic rates payable for (a) amlodipine, (b) simvastatin and (c) lisinopril since each drug went out of patent.

(48783)

220
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps she plans to take to ensure that when drugs are out of patent fees are paid at a generic rate rather than a branded rate; and if she will make a statement.

(48784)

221
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what effect the ongoing reappraisal by her Department of the NHS Private Finance Initiative programme has had on her Department's support for the proposals for the Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust as laid down in its outline business case.

(48416)

222
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many agency nurses were employed by the NHS in (a) Peterborough, (b) the Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk Strategic Health Authority area and (c) England in each of the past five years; and at what cost.

(48667)

223
N Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were registered with an NHS dentist in Essex in each of the last five years; and how many new registrations there were in each year.

(48347)

224
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS-funded operations have been commissioned from the private healthcare sector for patients in (a) Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth Primary Care Trust and (b) Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority in each of the last five years, broken down by specialty.

(48644)

225
N Mr David Jones (Clwyd West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether meat that is reared abroad but processed in the UK may be labelled British.

(47608)

226
N Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 20th January 2006, Official Report, column 1675W, on NHS trusts (mergers), what savings were anticipated in the risk analysis submitted for each planned merger of acute trusts in the last five years; and what steps were taken to monitor whether the predicted outcomes were achieved.

(47851)

227
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the ICAS contract for the West Midlands will be announced; and if she will write to the Citizens Advice Bureau informing them of this date.

(48735)

228
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has for a breastfeeding awareness week in England in 2006.

(48384)

229
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has for the post of breastfeeding co-ordinator in England after February.

(48385)

230
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will take steps to reduce the cost of using bedside telephones in hospitals.

(48394)

231
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will reduce call charges to patients for the use of hospital bedside telephones by providing for the NHS to pay for some or all of the service.

(48395)

232
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her oral Statement of 30th January 2006, Official Report, column 21, on health and social care services, which programmes have been financed by the two per cent. of the healthcare budget devoted to health prevention; and what the total cost of each programme is.

(48458)

233
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total expenditure has been on (a) centrally financed initiatives and services and (b) special allocations for prevention in each financial year since 1997-98; and what the allocation for each is expected to be in 2005-06.

(48459)

234
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11th July 2005, Official Report, column 744W, on primary care trusts, what evidence she has received of primary care trusts underspending against their enhanced services expenditure floor in the 2005-06 financial year; and whether underspends by primary care trusts in 2005-06 will be reinvested in 2006-07.

(48632)

235
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on management consultancy services in the NHS in each year since 1997.

(48836)

236
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many crimes have been committed at (a) NHS hospitals and (b) other NHS sites in each year since 1997, broken down by type of crime.

(48837)

237
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she expects to publish the national framework for continuing care.

(48838)

238
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the progress of the National Programme for Information Technology; and what progress the software supplier has made in supplying systems for use in the Programme.

(48839)

239
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of the relevant staff group has not yet agreed a contract of employment under (a) the new consultants' contract, (b) the new General Medical Services contract and (c) Agenda for Change.

(48840)

240
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what salary she expects to be paid to her Department's new director of (a) commissioning, (b) provider development, (c) social care and (d) policy and strategy.

(48841)

241
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations have been undertaken in primary care settings in each year since 1997.

(48842)

242
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outpatients appointments were made in each year since 1997, broken down by (a) general practitioner referrals and (b) other referrals.

(48843)

243
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors have been suspended for six months or more in each quarter since April 2001; and what estimate she has made of the cost to the NHS of suspensions of doctors in the last full year for which figures are available.

(48844)

244
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what definition she uses of the term indirectly bookable service; how it differs from an integrated patient administration systems solution; and how many referrals were made through the Choose and Book system in (a) December 2005 and (b) January 2006 through (i) integrated patient administration systems and (ii) the indirectly bookable service.

(48845)

245
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the letter from her Department's Director of Access of 26th January 2006, on Choose and Book, which NHS trusts are unable to implement an integrated patient administration systems solution; for what reasons these Trusts are unable to do so; and if she will make a statement.

(48846)

246
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons her Department's aims of achieving 90 per cent. of general practitioner referrals through Choose and Book by the end of December 2006 have been postponed to March 2007.

(48847)

247
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases over six months old are awaiting determination by the Healthcare Commission; what percentage this represents of the total number of cases received by the Healthcare Commission; whether the Healthcare Commission has a target timescale for resolving cases; and if she will make a statement.

(48848)

248
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will extend the remit of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to enable it to judge cost-effectiveness with reference to both NHS and social care budgets.

(48849)

249
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the total cost to an average sized NHS trust of preparing an application for NHS foundation trust status.

(48850)

250
Anne Main (St Albans):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many accident and emergency departments are (a) scheduled and (b) proposed for closure; and if she will make a statement.

(48349)

251
Anne Main (St Albans):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of mental health care provision in Hertfordshire; and if she will make a statement.

(48350)

252
Anne Main (St Albans):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance and advice her Department provides for carers of elderly people in their own homes; where carers can obtain such guidance; and if she will place copies in the Library.

(48351)

253
Anne Main (St Albans):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the progress of the chlamydia 2007 objective; and if she will make a statement.

(48352)

254
Anne Main (St Albans):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the level of mental stimulation provided for elderly people who are cared for (a) by relatives and (b) in residential accommodation; and if she will make a statement.

(48353)

255
Anne Main (St Albans):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will take steps to ensure that elderly people (a) in their own homes and (b) in residential accommodation have free access to companionship and social interaction.

(48354)

256
Anne Main (St Albans):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will take steps to introduce a minimum standard for food and nutrition for all nursing and residential homes for the elderly.

(48355)

257
Anne Main (St Albans):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will take steps to ensure that elderly patients in (a) hospitals and (b) nursing and residential homes are afforded privacy for personal care.

(48356)

258
Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will list the Government-funded feeding studies designed to ascertain the safety of GM products intended for animal or human consumption which have been undertaken since 1999; what the cost to public funds has been of such studies; and what action to safeguard public health she plans to take as a result of such studies.

(48681)

259
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the cost to the NHS of (a) an autologous blood tranfusion and (b) an ordinary blood tranfusion.

(48378)

260
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many units of blood were obtained by the blood transfusion service in the last three years.

(48382)

261
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations have been performed in which an autologous blood transfusion was carried out in each region in each of the last three years.

(48383)

262
Mr Andrew Pelling (Croydon Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to extend the role of optometrists in primary eye care.

(48690)

263
Mr Andrew Pelling (Croydon Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make it her policy for NHS patients to have the right to see the optometrist of their choice under the NHS.

(48691)

264
N Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will reassess her decision to close the (a) intensive treatment unit, (b) cardiac unit, (c) stroke unit and (d) acute accident and emergency services at the Hemel Hempstead Hospital in the light of the Buncefield oil depot fire and subsequent explosion in Hemel Hempstead; and if she will make a statement.

(47620)

265
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many MRSA cases have occurred in (a) Uxbridge constituency and (b) each London borough in each year since 1997.

(48516)

266
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have (a) requested and (b) received an appointment to see a GP within 48 hours in (i) Uxbridge constituency and (ii) Greater London, broken down by London borough, in each year since 1997.

(48517)

267
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what total sum has been received by her Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48468)

268
Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she expects to publish the findings of the Foster Review of non-medical professional regulation; and if she will make a statement.

(48628)

269
N Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether meat that is reared abroad but processed in the UK may be labelled British.

(47600)

270
N Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she expects to answer the Question from the hon. Member for Northavon tabled on 31st October for Answer on 2nd November, reference 24525, on child protection.

(47985)

271
N Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the long-term trend in rates of breast cancer over the last 30 years.

(47986)

272
N Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what targets she has to reduce rates of breast cancer over the next (a) five and (b) 10 years.

(47987)

273
N Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment her Department has made of the possible effects of the (a) use of oral contraception and (b) alcohol consumption on the risks of breast cancer.

(47989)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

274
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints have been made about (a) Essex and (b) Southend probation services in each year since 1997; and how many of those complaints have been upheld in each year.

(48870)

275
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action was taken in each year since 1997 to address each complaint about (a) Essex and (b) Southend probation service.

(48871)

276
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been convicted under Section 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 in each year since 1997; what their average sentence was in each year; and how many in each year were given a home detention curfew.

(48875)

277
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been convicted of an offence under Section 18 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 in each year since 1997; what their average sentence was; and how many in each year were given a home detention curfew.

(48876)

278
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people convicted under Section 18 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 appealed against their sentences in each year since 1997; how many of them had their sentence reduced; and by what amount in each case.

(48877)

279
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people convicted under Section 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 appealed against their sentence in each year since 1997; how many of them had their sentence reduced; and by what amount in each case.

(48878)

280
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those convicted under Section 18 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 since 1997 have re-offended within a year.

(48879)

281
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those convicted under Section 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 since 1997 have re-offended within a year.

(48880)

282
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations he has received about including Raoul Wallenberg in Holocaust Memorial Day.

(48881)

283
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which prisons offer anger management courses; and how many offer psychiatric support.

(48882)

284
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners have been (a) tested and (b) found positive for alcohol at each prison for each month since April 2005; and if he will make a statement.

(48417)

285
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the impact of mandatory drug testing on the supply of controlled drugs into the prison estate at each prison establishment; and if he will make a statement.

(48418)

286
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to ensure the Supply Reduction Good Practice Guide is applied in every prison establishment; and if he will make a statement.

(48419)

287
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many inmates at each prison were subject to (a) closed visits and (b) visit bans in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(48420)

288
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) passive and (b) active dogs are deployed at each prison; and if he will make a statement.

(48421)

289
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mobile telephones have been recovered at each prison in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available; how many of these telephones were recovered (a) as a result of mobile telephone detectors and (b) after analysis of recovered handsets; and if he will make a statement.

(48422)

290
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance (a) Ministers, (b) departmental officials and (c) the Prison Service have issued over the last 12 months regarding the role of the police in investigating the supply of contraband within the prison estate; on what date the guidance was issued; and if he will make a statement.

(48423)

291
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the role of the police in investigating the finding of drugs within the prison estate on (a) inmates, (b) prison governors, (c) prison officers, (d) other prison staff and (e) visitors.

(48424)

292
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many serving staff in the Prison Service are in receipt of a Long Service Award; and if he will make a statement.

(48425)

293
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prison governors have faced investigation into drugs-related offences at each establishment in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(48431)

294
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations for alleged misconduct have been conducted into (a) prison governors and (b) prison officers at each establishment in each of the last five years; what proportion of these investigations led to (i) no action being taken, (ii) revised guidance, (iii) informal disciplinary action and (iv) formal disciplinary action; and if he will make a statement.

(48432)

295
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prison officers at each prison establishment have been investigated for drugs-related offences in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(48499)

296
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the relative efficiency of the Prison Service and the private sector in delivering penal services; and if he will make a statement.

(48507)

297
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with (a) the National Offender Management Service, (b) the Prison Service and (c) private sector operators regarding the role of the private sector in the delivery of penal services; and if he will make a statement.

(48508)

298
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of the performance testing exercise at HMP Wandsworth was; what assessment he has made of its impact; how he intends to monitor performance against the defined outputs of the exercise; what assessment he has made of the value for money of the exercise; and if he will make a statement.

(48509)

299
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken to reduce the supply of (a) controlled drugs and (b) mobile telephones into HMP Wandsworth; what assessment he has made of their effectiveness; and if he will make a statement.

(48510)

300
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations there have been into alleged misconduct of prison governors at HMP Wandsworth in the last five years; what the (a) length and (b) outcome was of each investigation; and if he will make a statement.

(48511)

301
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) prison governors, (b) prison officers and (c) other prison staff have been found with (i) controlled drugs and (ii) other contraband at each prison establishment in each of the last five years; how many cases in each category were referred to the police for investigation; and if he will make a statement.

(48512)

302
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the number of prisoners in (a) England and (b) London who (i) enter and (ii) successfully complete education training and employment upon release.

(48703)

303
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners in (a) England and (b) London who had completed education training and employment upon release (i) gained employment for over 12 months, (ii) experienced long-term unemployment and (iii) returned to prison in the last five years.

(48704)

304
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners in (a) England and (b) each prison in London entered education training and employment in each year since 1996-97.

(48705)

305
Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individual work permits were issued in (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005; how many of these were (i) long-term permits of a year or more duration and (ii) short-term permits; how many of the short-term permits were in respect of the sector-based schemes; and how many (A) long-term and (B) short-term permits were issued to people who were already residing in the UK.

(48758)

306
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the latest Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics, how many dependants there are in respect of (a) the 9,390 main applicants awaiting an initial examination and (b) the 11,895 main applicants awaiting a decision under the family indefinite leave to remain exercise of 24th October 2003.

(48463)

307
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the latest Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics, if he will break down by nationality the 16,870 applicants granted indefinite leave to remain (ILR) under the Government's family ILR exercise of 24th October 2003.

(48464)

308
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the latest Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics, how many of the 4,430 applicants found to be ineligible under the family indefinite leave to remain exercise of 24th October 2003 have subsequently (a) had an asylum application granted, (b) had an asylum claim refused, (c) otherwise been granted leave to remain in the UK and (d) been removed from the UK.

(48465)

309
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the applicants under the Government's family indefinite leave to remain exercise of 24th October 2003 have been identified as being the subject of a possible third country removal; and how many of them have subsequently been removed to a third country.

(48466)

310
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the latest Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics, what the main reasons were for refusal of the 7,405 refused applicants under the Government's family indefinite leave to remain exercise of 24th October 2003; and how many of these applicants subsequently (a) had an asylum application granted, (b) had an asylum application refused, (c) were otherwise granted leave to remain and (d) were removed from the UK.

(48467)

311
Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there are circumstances under which residents of the UK may be transferred to another country for questioning in relation to terrorist offences committed in the UK.

(48620)

312
N Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce the incidence of attacks on animals by use of airguns.

(47848)

313
N Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers resigned from police forces in England and Wales in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(47789)

314
N Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers there have been in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(47790)

315
N Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20th December 2005, Official Report, column 2890W, on DNA profiles, how many of the 139,463 people were perceived to be (a) of ethnic minority origin and (b) white.

(47860)

316
Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of hours of time out of cell was on (a) weekdays and (b) weekends in each prison establishment in each of the last five years.

(48689)

317
Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions his Department had with (a) outside bodies and experts and (b) the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs before classifying (i) benzodiazepenes, (ii) khat, (iii) ecstasy and (iv) magic mushrooms.

(48709)

318
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether legislation will be needed to allow regional offender managers to commission and contract for probation services under the National Offender Management Service arrangements.

(48447)

319
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) active and (b) inactive operational vacancies there were for each probation area in England and Wales at the end of each of the past five financial years.

(48448)

320
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) probation officer and (b) probation service officers were in post in each probation area at the end of each of the past five financial years.

(48449)

321
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff were employed in information technology by the National Probation Service in England and Wales at the end of the past five financial years.

(48450)

322
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of staff were employed in an operational capacity within the National Probation Service in England and Wales at the end of each of the past five financial years.

(48451)

323
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners were released on licence during each of the last eight financial years.

(48789)

324
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners on licence were recalled to prison following a breach of that licence in each of the last eight years.

(48790)

325
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many persons breached a prison licence due to (a) a further offence, (b) inappropriate behaviour and (c) breaching supervision conditions in each of the last eight years.

(48791)

326
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of prisoners was in each category on 31st March in each of the last five years.

(48792)

327
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners were reclassified by category in each of the last five years.

(48793)

328
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners in open conditions were returned to closed conditions during each of the last five years.

(48794)

329
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people breached home detention curfew conditions and were subsequently returned to custody in each of the last five years.

(48795)

330
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what methodology his Department uses to measure the effectiveness of anti-social behaviour orders.

(48577)

331
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recipients of an anti-social behaviour order have been reconvicted of a criminal offence within two years.

(48578)

332
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been issued.

(48579)

333
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were jailed for a breach of their anti-social behaviour order in each year since 1999.

(48580)

334
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been breached in each year since 1999.

(48581)

335
Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been imposed in (a) England and (b) Wales in each year since their introduction.

(48720)

336
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what spending on the Prison Service is (a) identifiable and (b) non-identifiable for the purposes of the public expenditure statistical analysis.

(48788)

337
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from science and technology backgrounds have been seconded into the Civil Service in his Department in each of the last three years.

(48407)

338
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the recidivism rate was among prisoners in the Cambridgeshire Probation Service area within two years of release in each year since 1997.

(48666)

339
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he next plans to review the work of the National Asylum Support Service.

(48669)

340
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications of the political instability in the Ivory Coast for his policy of repatriation of Ivorian asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement.

(48742)

341
N Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reported incidents of (a) gun crime and (b) violent crime there were in Essex in each of the last five years; and what percentage in each category resulted in a successful prosecution in each year.

(48346)

342
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were convicted of cruelty towards animals in (a) Tamworth constituency and (b) the West Midlands in each year since 1997.

(48646)

343
N Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the change in the number of civilian posts which would result if a merger of Cheshire and Merseyside police forces was carried out.

(47791)

344
N Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research he has commissioned on the (a) cost and (b) effectivenes of federations of police forces; and if he will make a statement.

(47792)

345
N Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the capital costs of a merger of the Cheshire and Merseyside police forces.

(47794)

346
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which prisons in (a) England and (b) the North East hold more prisoners than their normal certified level; and by how much each is over its limit.

(48662)

347
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what were the most common forms of crime committed against young people of school age in (a) Uxbridge, (b) the London Borough of Hillingdon, (c) Greater London and (d) England in the last five years for which figures are available.

(48513)

348
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions have taken place for underage drinking in Uxbridge in each year since 1990.

(48519)

349
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police community support officers have been introduced in (a) Uxbridge and (b) the London Borough of Hillingdon; and what assessment he has made of their impact on crime and anti-social behaviour.

(48520)

350
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what crime detection rate for offences of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robberies, (d) burglaries and (e) theft of a vehicle was recorded in (i) Greater London and (ii) Uxbridge constituency in each year since 1995.

(48521)

351
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who had been placed in custody have re-offended in (a) Uxbridge constituency, (b) the London Borough of Hillingdon, (c) Greater London and (d) England in each year since 1997.

(48522)

352
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many young people of school age (a) found guilty of a crime and (b) placed in custody had a previous history of being in care in (i) Uxbridge constituency, (ii) the London Borough of Hillingdon, (iii) Greater London and (iv) England in each year since 1997.

(48523)

353
N Mr Alan Reid (Argyll and Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Passport Service's proposed Oban office will first open for interviews; and for how many hours each week it will open for interviews.

(47793)

354
N Mr Alan Reid (Argyll and Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the commitment given by the noble Lord Bassam of Brighton in the House of Lords on 23rd January 2006, Official Report, column 979, that the Government envisage that a person will have to travel no more than one hour to get to an enrolment centre, how the Government plans (a) to implement and (b) to monitor this commitment; and if he will make a statement.

(47858)

355
N Mr Alan Reid (Argyll and Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the commitment given by the noble Lord Bassam of Brighton in the House of Lords on 23rd January 2006, Official Report, column 979, that the Government envisage that a person will have to travel no more than one hour to get to an enrolment centre, what the boundaries are of the area which the Passport Service's proposed Oban office will service for this purpose.

(47859)

356
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms were seized in (a) Romford and (b) Havering in each of the last seven years.

(48548)

357
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many repeat youth offenders there were in (a) Romford and (b) Havering in each of the last five years.

(48549)

358
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect of the introduction of the National Offender Management Service on jobs in (a) Romford and (b) Havering.

(48550)

359
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many violent crimes were committed (a) in Romford, (b) in Havering and (c) by illegal immigrants in (i) Romford and (ii) Havering in each of the last five years.

(48551)

360
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the Government's respect agenda will affect Romford; and whether the implementation of that agenda will include increasing funding for law enforcement in Romford.

(48552)

361
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the implementation of the Government's respect agenda will affect the number of police working in Romford.

(48553)

362
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in (a) Romford and (b) Havering were arrested for offences relating to prostitution in each of the last five years.

(48554)

363
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many brothels in (a) Romford and (b) Havering have been closed in the last five years.

(48555)

364
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking in (a) Romford and (b) Havering to combat illegal immigration; and if he will make a statement.

(48556)

365
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to tackle race-related crime; and if he will make a statement.

(48557)

366
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested in (a) Romford, (b) Havering and (c) Greater London under anti-terrorism legislation in the last five years.

(48558)

367
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what methods are used to ensure diversity in the police force.

(48559)

368
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many alcohol-related arrests have been made in (a) Romford, (b) Havering and (c) London since 24-hour licensing began; and how many such arrests were made in the same period in 2004.

(48560)

369
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests of minors were made in Wales in each of the last five years.

(48561)

370
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders were made in Wales in each of the last five years.

(48562)

371
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms have been seized by police in Wales in each of the last seven years.

(48565)

372
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests linked with terrorism have been made in Wales in each of the last five years.

(48566)

373
Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to ensure that those seeking UK citizenship are required (a) to know the words of the National Anthem and (b) to have knowledge of the flags and patron saints of the nations of the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.

(48856)

374
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many work permits were granted through the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme in each of the last 10 years.

(48604)

375
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many teachers working in the United Kingdom have been issued (a) visas and (b) work permits to work in the UK.

(48605)

376
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate of the cost of the police restructuring proposals has been carried out by his Department; and when they will be published.

(48617)

377
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date his Department started evaluating the costs of the police restructuring proposals.

(48619)

378
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48497)

379
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of offenders who have received a caution for having indecent pictures of children have been placed on the Sex Offenders Register.

(48500)

380
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cautions were issued for the offence of having indecent pictures of children in each of the last five years.

(48501)

381
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how many hours in total tagged criminals in (a) Leicester and (b) England and Wales have broken their curfews since 2000.

(48682)

382
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many tagged criminals in (a) Leicester and (b) England and Wales have broken their curfews since 2000; and what proportion this represents of the total number of tagged criminals in each case.

(48683)

383
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many criminals in (a) Leicester and (b) England and Wales have been prosecuted for breaking their curfews since 2000.

(48684)

384
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken to speed up the process for (a) tagging criminals and (b) prosecuting violators of curfews.

(48685)

385
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that those agencies contracted to monitor tagged criminals are properly scrutinised and held to account for their performance.

(48686)

386
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what factors determine the amount of time taken by the Criminal Records Bureau to process (a) an enhanced and (b) a standard check.

(48693)

387
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long on average it took to complete an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check in the last period for which figures are available.

(48694)

388
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of standard Criminal Record Bureau checks were processed within two weeks in 2005.

(48695)

389
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of enhanced Criminal Record Bureau checks were processed within four weeks in 2005.

(48696)

390
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications were made to the Criminal Records Bureau for (a) enhanced and (b) standard checks in the last year for which figures are available.

(48697)

391
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of (a) standard and (b) enhanced Criminal Records Bureau checks were failed during 2005.

(48698)

392
Mr Michael Wills (North Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will give local communities a formal means of (a) requesting and (b) monitoring whether action is taken against anti-social behaviour.

(48357)

393
Mr Michael Wills (North Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will increase the penalty for shopkeepers who sell alcohol to young people who are underage.

(48358)

394
Mr Michael Wills (North Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will increase the penalty for urinating in public.

(48359)

395
N Mr David Winnick (Walsall North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time served was in each year by those convicted of murder and released in the last five years.

(47626)

Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission

396
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what total sum has been received by the House for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48496)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

397
N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the outcomes were of the discussions on increased private sector investment and growth in Kenya held on his recent visit there.

(47040)

398
N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the humanitarian situation in (a) China, (b) Ethiopia and (c) Burma.

(47041)

399
Chris McCafferty (Calder Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what actions the Government has taken to help countries achieve the global prevention goal to reduce HIV prevalence amongst young men and women aged 15 to 24 years, by 2005.

(48787)

400
Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding he has allocated in 2005-06 to treat women in Ethiopia with open fistulas; and if he will make a statement.

(48869)

401
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48495)

Questions to the Leader of the House

402
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Leader of the House, what total sum has been received by his Office for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48494)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

403
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the Pathways to Work pilot programmes in Northern Ireland; and when the pilots are expected to finish.

(48460)

404
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what criteria were used to decide where the Pathways to Work pilot programmes would be sited in Northern Ireland.

(48461)

405
N Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with the Police Service of Northern Ireland in relation to the investigation into the disappearance of Martin Kelly from Holywood in County Down.

(47827)

406
Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department has spent on bottled water in each of the last five years.

(48722)

407
N Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether, under the new consultant referral arrangements, a general practitioner may refer a patient to the relevant consultants' waiting list before his existing referrals have been dealt with.

(47641)

408
N Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he will publish the Planning Policy Statement on housing in rural areas; and if he will make a statement.

(47642)

409
N Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to alleviate the financial difficulties of pensioners in Northern Ireland who have private pensions on which they pay a significant proportion of tax.

(47591)

410
N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) police and military and (b) civilian (i) deaths, (ii) serious injuries related to the troubles have occurred in each (A) ward and (B) constituency in Northern Ireland since 1976, listed in descending order.

(47997)

411
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48493)

412
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many pupils have been expelled or suspended from schools in Northern Ireland for incidents relating to drugs in each of the last 10 years.

(48885)

Questions to the Prime Minister

413
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Prime Minister, what total sum has been received by his Office for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48492)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

414
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with the Scottish Executive regarding the provision of energy for people in the winter months.

(48567)

415
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with the Scottish Executive regarding identity cards.

(48568)

416
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48491)

Questions to the Solicitor General

417
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Solicitor General, how many complaints have been made about the Crown Prosecution Service since 1997; how many of those complaints have been upheld in each year; and what action was taken to redress each successful complaint.

(48874)

418
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Solicitor General, how many and what percentage of prosecutions in Cambridgeshire were aborted in 2004-05.

(48664)

419
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions for breaches of anti-social behaviour orders the Crown Prosecution Service has brought in (a) Uxbridge and (b) the London Borough of Hillingdon.

(48518)

420
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Solicitor General, what total sum has been received by the Law Officers' Departments for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48490)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

421
Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his Answer of 26th January 2006, Official Report, column 2355W, on THORP, whether Ministerial approval is required in the event that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and the British Nuclear Group agree the plant should restart.

(48765)

422
John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which British companies (a) took part in the October 2005 aerospace trade mission to Japan and (b) will be taking part in the February 2006 aerospace trade mission to Singapore.

(48434)

423
John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he expects to publish the Export Credits Guarantee Department's revised anti-corruption guidelines.

(48435)

424
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what personal debt advice services are funded by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(48736)

425
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he is taking to increase the UK's gas storage capacity.

(48613)

426
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what was the total volume of oil and petroleum imports into the UK during the last year for which figures are available; and what were the countries of origin of the imports.

(48614)

427
Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what export credit arrangements have been put in place to provide cover for military equipment exported to Saudi Arabia under the Memorandum of Understanding document signed in December 2005; and if he will make a statement.

(48688)

428
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many people from science and technology backgrounds have been seconded into the Civil Service in his Department in each of the last three years.

(48412)

429
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his Department's 2005 autumn performance report, what steps he proposes to take to meet the target for business investment in research and development of 1.7 per cent. of gross domestic product by 2014.

(48413)

430
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what percentage of first class letters posted in the Peterborough City Council Unitary Authority area met Royal Mail's online delivery target in the last year for which figures are available.

(48668)

431
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures are being taken by his Department to prosecute companies who charge people for a service they did not want on their mobile telephone.

(48380)

432
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the 2002 New Delhi Declaration, what assessment his Department has made of the operation of the (a) Joint Economic and Trade Committee and (b) Indo-British Economic and Financial Dialogue.

(48396)

433
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how co-operation between India and the United Kingdom in the fields of (a) civilian nuclear activities, (b) civilian space programmes and (c) high technology trade has changed since the 2002 New Delhi Declaration.

(48397)

434
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which companies have been found not to be paying their employees the national minimum wage in each year since 2001; and what penalties were imposed.

(48398)

435
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what action the Government has taken in response to the conclusions and recommendations of the Cabinet Office Performance and Innovation Unit report, Counter Revolution: Modernising the Post Office Network, published in 2000.

(48672)

436
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the Government funding arrangements provided in respect of the Post Office network since 1997.

(48673)

437
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he was first informed by the Department for Work and Pensions that its contract with Post Office Ltd for the provision of the Post Office Card Account would cease in 2010.

(48674)

438
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions he has had with banks and building societies who signed the agreement with the Government on the provision of universal banking services on the future of those services.

(48675)

439
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the Government's financial contribution has been to the Post Office Card Account system.

(48676)

440
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the likely impact on the post office network of abolishing the Post Office Card Account after 2010.

(48678)

441
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions he has had with banks which do not have agreements with Post Office Ltd on offering access to their current account customers through the Post Office branch network.

(48719)

442
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment the Government has made of the contribution of the Post Office card account to meeting its objectives on financial inclusion.

(48727)

443
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the banks and building societies which signed the agreement with the Government on the provision of universal banking services.

(48762)

444
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate he has made of the number of employees in Wales who have been affected by the minimum wage since 2003.

(48563)

445
Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate he has made of the number of employees in Scotland whose wage has been affected by the minimum wage since 2003.

(48564)

446
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48489)

447
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many rural post offices in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and (c) Beverley and Holderness have closed in the last 12 months.

(48483)

448
Mr Mike Weir (Angus):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many staff are employed by (a) the Human Resources and Change Management Directorate, (b) Legal and Enforcement Unit, (c) Information and Workplace Directorate and (d) the Legal Group in (i) England and (ii) London; and what the (A) salary bill and (B) accommodation costs of each were in 2004-05.

(48833)

449
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many staff work in the (a) Employment Tribunals Service, (b) Insolvency Service and (c) Companies House in (i) England and (ii) London.

(48851)

450
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many staff work in (a) the Women and Equality Group, (b) the Women's National Commission, (c) the Export Control and Non-Proliferation Directorate, (d) UK Trade and Investment, (e) the Consumer and Competition Policy Directorate, (f) Corporate Law and Governance and (g) the energy (i) industries and technology, (ii) markets, (iii) strategy and (iv) resources and development units; and what the total salary costs in each case were in the last year for which figures are available.

(48896)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

451
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward proposals to make it a criminal offence for the driver of a motor vehicle deliberately to stop at a green traffic light and to refuse to move the vehicle; and if he will make a statement.

(48723)

452
N Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps have been taken to prevent ships at sea spilling oil since the Sea Empress oil spill; and what further steps he plans to take.

(47173)

453
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will assess the ruling of the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament in favour of a Petition from the Independent Light Dues Forum, with particular reference to the Petitions Committee's request that the European Commission and the Internal Market Committee of the European Parliament begin a preliminary investigation into the compatibility of the British-Irish subsidy of navigational aids with the Treaty establishing the European Community.

(48387)

454
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) reviewed that benchmarks the costs of rail services provision in the UK against other developed countries.

(48504)

455
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Written Statement of 26th January 2006, Official Report, columns 66-67WS, on the Transport Innovation Fund, if he will list the schemes which are expected to make a major contribution to national productivity for which existing sources of funding are insufficient.

(48721)

456
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has conducted research into the likely consequences of the European Parliament and the European Commission finding that the Irish subsidy regime on navigational aids is incompatible with the Single Market.

(48725)

457
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to ensure that the developers of Shellhaven port make a financial contribution to the development of rail freight infrastructure in the Greater London area and beyond.

(48734)

458
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department has provided for transport projects in Tamworth since 1997.

(48645)

459
Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when a decision will be made on the Rotherwas Access Road in Hereford.

(48433)

460
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects to make an assessment of the effects of the Traffic Management Act 2004 on traffic congestion on motorways following an accident; if he will publish each assessment; and if he will make a statement.

(48864)

461
N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many incidents of crime and disorder were reported at each railway station in England between 1997 and 2005; and how much was spent on anti-crime measures for each station over the same period.

(47999)

462
N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on cycling safety in each of the last 20 years.

(48012)

463
N Anne Snelgrove (South Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which local authorities have introduced reduced bus fare schemes for people under 16 years since 1997.

(47039)

464
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48488)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

465
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48486)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

466
N Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when an accessible version of the green paper, A New Deal for Welfare: Empowering People to Work, will be published; and whether there will be an extension to the consultation deadline for those requiring the accessible version of the paper.

(46950)

467
Tony Baldry (Banbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer to Question 44232, of 30th January 2006, in how many of the 5,673 cases in the last five years where the Independent Case Examiner found failure by the Child Support Agency and recommended that the Agency should pay compensation the Child Support Agency paid compensation; and in how many of those cases the amount of compensation was in excess of £1,000.

(48894)

468
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what changes in the role of general practitioners he expects in relation to personal capability assessments for benefits.

(48591)

469
N Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he will reply to (a) Question 38218, on security of data, tabled on 13th December 2005 and (b) Question 30081, on over-paid benefits, tabled on 15th November 2005, by the honourable Member for Daventry.

(47622)

470
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidelines his Department has produced to assist employers in developing good practice concerning the employment of people with HIV.

(48588)

471
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will extend existing Disability Discrimination Acts to protect groups and individuals from discrimination on the basis of perceived disability in addition to actual disability.

(48589)

472
John Cummings (Easington):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women in receipt of incapacity benefit owing to mental health conditions are aged (i) 20 to 29, (ii) 30 to 40, (iii) 41 to 49, (iv) 50 to 60 and (v) 61 to 65 years.

(48414)

473
John Cummings (Easington):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in receipt of incapacity benefit in Easington constituency are aged (a) under 20, (b) 20 to 24, (c) 25 to 29, (d) 30 to 34, (e) 35 to 39, (f) 40 to 44, (g) 45 to 49, (h) 50 to 54, (i) 55 to 59 and (j) 60 to 64 years.

(48415)

474
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the oral Answer to the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds of 9th January 2006, Official Report, column 7, whether it is the case that no-one who is (a) a teacher, (b) a National Health Service employee and (c) in the Civil Service, and remains so until the age of 60 years, will be required to defer their retirement beyond the age of 60 years.

(48360)

475
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Support Agency cases in (a) Cambridgeshire and (b) Peterborough were in arrears in each year between 1997 and 2005.

(48663)

476
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent in (a) cash and (b) real terms on each type of benefit paid to asylum seekers in (i) the Peterborough City Council area and (ii) the Eastern Region in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

(48670)

477
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on Health and Safety Executive guidelines to (a) operators and (b) users of sunbed tanning equipment.

(48741)

478
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints the Health and Safety Executive received about (a) staffed and (b) non-staffed sunbed tanning salons in 2004-05; and what the nature of the complaints was.

(48744)

479
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with the Health and Safety Executive on the operation of unstaffed coin-operated sunbed retail outlets.

(48745)

480
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many accidents involving sunbeds have been reported to the Health and Safety Executive in each year since 1995.

(48746)

481
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidelines the Health and Safety Executive has issued to operators of unstaffed coin-operated sunbed tanning salons.

(48747)

482
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many inspections the Health and Safety Executive has made of (a) staffed and (b) unstaffed sunbed tanning retail outlets in each year since 1995; and what the average interval between inspections has been over the period.

(48748)

483
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what inspections of sunbed tanning retail outlets the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) undertakes; and what period of notice is given by the HSE for such an inspection.

(48753)

484
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance has been issued by the Health and Safety Executive to unstaffed coin-operated sunbed tanning salons on appropriate levels of customer (a) security and (b) privacy.

(48757)

485
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Health and Safety Executive has taken enforcement action against companies operating sunbed tanning salons since 1995; and if he will make a statement.

(48759)

486
N Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken (a) to process a claim for attendance allowance and (b) to begin payments once a claim has been approved was in each of the last five years.

(48348)

487
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of incapacity benefit in Tamworth had their benefit reduced in each of the last five years, broken down by reason; and if he will make a statement.

(48647)

488
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people living in Tamworth constituency claimed incapacity benefit in each year since 1997; and what proportion of the working age population in the constituency this represents in each year.

(48648)

489
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many outstanding Child Support Agency applications from people in (a) Tamworth and (b) Staffordshire were received more than (i) six months and (ii) 12 months ago; and what percentage of the total number of such applications each figure represents.

(48649)

490
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to extend (a) the New Deal for disabled people and (b) Workstep to help people back into work in Tamworth; and if he will make a statement.

(48650)

491
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many formal complaints his Department has received regarding the Child Support Agency from people in Tamworth constituency in each year since it was created.

(48651)

492
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the timescale for removing asbestos from buildings; what assessment he has made of where in the country is worst affected by asbestos; what penalties are in place for those who disregard the new asbestos regulations; and where the safe disposal of asbestos will take place.

(48680)

493
Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received (a) an adult dependant addition and (b) an age addition for incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance in each year since 1995; and what percentage of the overall number of (i) claimants and (ii) beneficiaries that represents in each year.

(48426)

494
Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average amount of the (a) adult dependant addition and (b) age addition paid to beneficiaries of incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance was in each year since 1995.

(48427)

495
Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average payment of incapacity benefit was in each year since 1995.

(48428)

496
Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received (a) income support on the grounds of incapacity, (b) income support disability premium, (c) income support enhanced disability premium and (d) income support severe disability premium in each year since 1995.

(48429)

497
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card account holders there were (a) at the end of March (i) 2004 and (ii) 2005 and (b) at the latest date for which figures are available.

(48671)

498
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of benefits paid out via the Post Office Card Account was in 2005-06; and what the estimate is for 2006-07.

(48677)

499
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the Government was of setting up the Post Office card account system; and what the annual expenditure on maintaining it has been.

(48728)

500
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the change in the levels of fraudulent transactions involving benefits and pensions in each year since the removal of order books.

(48729)

501
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the service contracts in place between his Department and Post Office Ltd.

(48730)

502
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the options available to benefit recipients and pensioners who wish to continue to have their money paid over the counter in cash at a post office branch when the contract to provide the Post Office Card Account ends in 2010.

(48731)

503
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the timetable is for migrating Post Office Card Account customers to other forms of bank accounts.

(48732)

504
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he last met Ministers from the (a) Treasury and (b) Department of Trade and Industry to discuss (i) financial inclusion and (ii) the future of the Post Office Card Account.

(48733)

505
N Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there have been changes to the guidance from the Health and Safety Executive to local authority planning departments since the Buncefield oil depot fire; and if he will make a statement.

(47588)

506
N Mr Terry Rooney (Bradford North):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many lone parents moved from income support to incapacity benefit when their youngest child reached age 16 in the last five years.

(48296)

507
N Mr Terry Rooney (Bradford North):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to publish evaluations of the impact on numbers of lone parents entering employment of (a) the work search premium, (b) discovery weeks, (c) in work credit, (d) extended schools childcare pilots, (e) the in work emergency fund and (f) employment zones.

(48297)

508
N Mr Terry Rooney (Bradford North):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the forecast cost is of introducing work-focused interviews every three months for lone parents whose youngest child is 14 and who have been on benefit for more than a year.

(48298)

509
N Mr Terry Rooney (Bradford North):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impact the introduction of work focused interviews has had on the numbers of lone parents entering employment.

(48299)

510
N Mr Terry Rooney (Bradford North):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many lone parents whose youngest child is aged between 11 and 16 years are caring for a child who is sick or disabled.

(48300)

511
N Mr Terry Rooney (Bradford North):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal advisers will be needed for work focused interviews (a) every three months for lone parents on benefit more than a year whose youngest child is 14 years and (b) every six months to all lone parents on benefit for more than a year.

(48301)

512
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

(48485)

513
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of New Deal leavers in Beverley and Holderness have gained sustained unsubsidised employment.

(48484)

514
Emily Thornberry (Islington South & Finsbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he had with the London Borough of Islington on making use of discretionary housing payment funding available in 2004-05.

(48590)

Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister

515
Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will introduce regulations to require a Declaration of Safety Certificate after the installation of an oil fired heating system.

[Transferred] (48760)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

516
Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what time period elapsed between the publication of each Report by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and the publication of the official response by the Government; and what the timescale is for publishing outstanding responses.

[Transferred] (48457)

517
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to eradicate fuel poverty.

[Transferred] (48700)

518
N David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will implement the recommendation contained in paragraph 200 in the Farm Animal Welfare Council's report Welfare of farmed animals at slaughter or killing, published in 2003.

[Question Unstarred] (47603)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

519
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made since the 2002 New Delhi Declaration in strengthening ties between the UK and India.

[Transferred] (48399)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

520
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of rate support grant Lancashire County Council has allocated to its meals on wheels service in 2005-06.

[Transferred] (48687)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

521
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) prisoners and (b) other detainees have been diagnosed with HIV since 1997; and what guidance his Department has issued to prison medical officers on delivering high standard healthcare to patients.

[Transferred] (48707)

522
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offenders in Cambridgeshire were on home detention curfews (HDCs) in 2004-05 ; and what proportion of these offenders failed to complete the HDC period successfully.

[Transferred] (48665)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

523
Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what methods he used to calculate the estimated financial consequences for business of the Operating and Financial Review prior to his decision not to proceed with it; and what discussions he had with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs before taking this decision.

[Transferred] (48452)

524
Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he made of the economic effects of requiring large companies to report on environmental issues under the Operating and Financial Review prior to his decision not to proceed with the scheme, with particular reference to resource efficiency.

[Transferred] (48453)

525
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many complaints Ofcom has received regarding nuisance text messages sent by companies in the last 12 months.

[Transferred] (48381)

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