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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 16 October 2006
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 16 October 2006
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 16 October of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 16 October of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 16 October see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 1
| Adam Afriyie (Windsor):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many claims for child benefit were made in each year since 2001 in each local authority area. | | (94220) | 2
| Adam Afriyie (Windsor):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent on the Improving Migration Population Statistics programme each year since the 2001 census, broken down by main budget heading. | | (94222) | 3
| Adam Afriyie (Windsor):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was spent on the Office for National Statistics' Task Group to investigate migration using central data sources, broken down by main budget heading. | | (94223) | 4
| John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, who the recipient is of the planned loans to Burma from the European Investment Bank; what the loans are for; and whether the UK Government is able to block such loans being made. | | (93950) | 5
| John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much in UK contributions was paid into the European Investment Bank in each of the last five years. | | (93951) | 6
N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much VAT revenue was collected on merchandise sold by non-profit-making organisations on behalf of charities in each of the last five years for which records are available. | | (93492) | 7
N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will seek to allow VAT (a) exemptions and (b) reductions on merchandise sold by non-profit-making organisations on behalf of charities. | | (93493) | 8
N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any special VAT exemptions have been allowed to any non-profit-making organisations not registered as charities in the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (93494) | 9
N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax investigations have been carried out by HM Revenue and Customs in each year since 1997; and how many of those were VAT-related investigations. | | (93687) | 10
N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was received in VAT receipts in each financial year between 1997-98 and 2005-06; and what the estimated loss of revenue from VAT fraud was in each of those years. | | (93689) | 11
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much VAT revenue has been collected on projects funded by the Government's Community Club Development Programme in each of the last three years. | | (94440) | 12
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the debt owed by Iraq in March 2003 (a) overall and (b) to the United Kingdom has been (i) repaid and (ii) cancelled. | | (94834) | 13
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the scale of remittances to and from the United Kingdom for the last three financial years. | | (94835) | 14
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what tax revenue was received from UK oil refiners in the last year for which figures are available. | | (94135) | 15
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cases involving overpayment of tax credits have arisen in each parliamentary constituency in Northern Ireland; and how many have been resolved. | | (93990) | 16
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tourists came to the UK from (a) the USA, (b) Canada, (c) India, (d) Pakistan, (e) China and (f) the United Arab Emirates in each of the last five years. | | (94038) | 17
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tourists came to the UK from each European country in each of the last five years. | | (94039) | 18
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether casual suppliers of services to a funeral director are responsible for their own tax liabilities. | | (94707) | 19
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there is an employee-employer relationship between funeral directors and (a) organists, (b) vergers and (c) choirmasters retained by a church to provide services at a funeral. | | (94708) | 20
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what responsibility a funeral director has in respect of the employment status of (a) organists, (b) pall bearers and (c) other suppliers of services for funerals. | | (94709) | 21
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide binding opinions on the recent tax enquiries that have been made to his Department by Chiltern Funerals Ltd. | | (94710) | 22
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what arrangements his Department has in place for offering him advice on Islam and matters relating to Muslims; and who his advisers are on Islam and Muslim affairs. | | (94333) | 23
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of mosques in the UK in (a) 1997 and (b) 2001; and what the most recent estimate is. | | (94360) | 24
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of the recently announced operational bonus for service personnel on tax credits. | | (94706) | 25
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Government's policy is on the future availability of Alternatively Secured Pensions; and if he will make a statement. | | (93713) | 26
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there is a requirement to be a member of the Plymouth Brethren for the purposes of taking out an Alternatively Secured Pension. | | (93715) | 27
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had discussions with the Financial Services Authority on issuing guidance to regulated firms on the sale of Alternatively Secured Pensions. | | (93716) | 28
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether future changes to the tax treatment of Alternatively Secured Pensions will apply to existing contracts. | | (93717) | 29
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the rules on Alternatively Secured Pensions discriminate against any individuals on the grounds of their religious faith. | | (93718) | 30
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Treasury has a gym. | | (94463) | 31
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many visitors are recorded as having visited HM Treasury's Red Box website since its launch; what the total cost to date of running this website has been; what guidance his Department has issued to schools on the use of this website; and how much was spent by his Department on publicity material for the website. | | (94464) | 32
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times his Department's building at Number 1 Horseguards Parade has flown (a) the Union Jack and (b) the Investors in People flag in the past 12 months. | | (94465) | 33
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total value was of contracts his Department has held with Immarsat in each year since 2001. | | (94466) | 34
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he uses email in the course of his official duties. | | (94471) | 35
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25th July 2006 to the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet, Official Report, column 1361W, on HM Revenue and Customs, how many conference bookings have been (a) booked and (b) cancelled by HM Revenue and Customs, and its predecessors, through (i) Sabre-Holdings, (ii) its subsidiaries and (iii) Travelocity-Business, formerly known as First Option Events, in each of the last three years. | | (94504) | 36
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the water supply to his Department is metered. | | (94523) | 37
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations his Department has received from Minerva on the building of Park Place in Croydon; and what role his Department has played in this development. | | (94524) | 38
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings hosted by (a) the Smith Institute and (b) its subsidiary SI Events Ltd which he has attended in the last 12 months. | | (94525) | 39
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what contracts his Department holds with (a) Capital One Financial Services Group and (b) International Clothing Designs. | | (94526) | 40
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations (a) he and (b) his Department has received from (i) International Clothing Designs and (ii) Capital One Financial Services Group in the last 12 months. | | (94527) | 41
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what away days were undertaken by his Department's employees in the last 12 months; and what the (a) location, (b) date, (c) activity, (d) purpose and (e) cost was of each. | | (94528) | 42
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria were used to appoint the Chairman of the Social Investment Taskforce. | | (94530) | 43
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many directors in his Department do not report to a managing director. | | (94531) | 44
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total value has been of (a) his Department's contracts held with and (b) payments and grants made by his Department to Bridges Community Ventures since May 2002. | | (94533) | 45
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings in his Department have been attended by the Chair of the Labour Party in the last 12 months. | | (94535) | 46
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library his Department's Director of Policy and Planning's (a) job description and (b) work objectives. | | (94536) | 47
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what issues his Department has conducted opinion polling in the last 12 months; and what the cost of each poll was. | | (94538) | 48
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 10th July 2006, Official Report, column 1643W, on Official Visit (Nigeria), if he will place in the Library a copy of the written approval. | | (94660) | 49
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether members of his Council of Economic Advisers have specific remits. | | (94716) | 50
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of his Department's civil servants work full time to support members of his Council of Economic advisers; and what the pay bands are of each civil servant. | | (94747) | 51
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's electricity consumption was in kilowatts in each year since 1997. | | (94780) | 52
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 14th July 2006, Official Report, column 2110W, on pensioner deaths, if he will ask the National Statistician to make available data based on the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs definition of rurality. | | (94461) | 53
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many babies and children died from necrotising enterocolitis in each year between 2000 and 2006. | | (94277) | 54
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, why the Paymaster General gave instructions to the Chairman of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that all draft parliamentary answers to the hon. Member for Yeovil were to be cleared first by the Chairman of HMRC; when this instruction was given; whether it is still in effect; and if he will make a statement. | | (93503) | 55
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, why tax credit verification rule 12 was suspended for 18 months from April 2003; who (a) made and (b) approved this decision; and if he will make a statement. | | (93504) | 56
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will answer Questions (a) 76207, (b) 76476, (c) 76478, (d) 76482 and (e) 76485 tabled on 8th June, Question 78392 tabled on 13th June, Question 81148 tabled on 26th June and Questions (i) 83329, (ii) 83330, (iii) 83382, (iv) 83793, (v) 83795, (vi) 83796 and (vii) 83812, tabled on 4th July, on tax credits, from the hon. Member for Yeovil. | | (94097) | 57
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Department's correspondence dated 4th October 2004, reference 2006/05 100642, why HM Revenue and Customs has not given a substantive response to the letter of 15th May 2006 from the hon. Member for Yeovil; and if he will make a statement. | | (94640) | 58
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has adopted a Welsh language policy. | | (94163) | 59
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will reply to Question 91084, on National Insurance Contributions, tabled by the hon. Member for the Vale of York on 6th September. | | (94090) | 60
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the occasions on which the assets of (a) individual terrorists or (b) terrorist organisations have been frozen as a result of decisions (i) by him and (ii) by the EU in cases where all proceedings are complete. | | (94200) | 61
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has published the comprehensive progress report on countering money laundering and terrorist finance. | | (94219) | 62
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much corporation tax was paid by the (a) Football Association, (b) English Cricket Board, (c) Rugby Football Union, (d) Rugby Football League and (e) Lawn Tennis Association in each of the last five years. | | (94231) | 63
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what factors were taken into account when deciding that the costs of selling a property should not be deducted from the value of the estate when calculating inheritance tax; and if he will make a statement. | | (94232) | 64
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level of long-term youth unemployment was in each (a) constituency and (b) county in each of the last 30 years, grouped by region. | | (93498) | 65
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many lone parents entered employment in each (a) county, (b) constituency and (c) region of the UK in each of the last 30 years, grouped by region; and what percentage of the workforce each figure represents. | | (93500) | 66
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many long-term unemployed there were in each (a) constituency and (b) county in each of the last 30 years, grouped by region. | | (93501) | 67
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, why the minutes for the Financial Inclusion Taskforce meeting on 11th July have not been made available; and when he expects them to be made available. | | (94380) | 68
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions were held at the most recent Group of Seven Finance Ministers meeting on measures to limit Iran's access to international financial systems. | | (93705) | 69
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3rd May 2006, Official Report, column 1725W, on the Valuation Office Agency, whether the Agency has Data Strategy documents in addition to its Forward Plan and Annual Report and Accounts. | | (94661) | 70
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25th July 2006, Official Report, column 1397W, on the Valuation Office Agency, what factors he took into account when deciding that placing the documents in the Library was not appropriate. | | (94662) | 71
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether household expenditure on residential extensions to existing homes counts towards the savings ratio. | | (94672) | 72
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to set more stringent efficiency targets for local authorities. | | (94676) | 73
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he pays council tax on the flat above 10 Downing Street. | | (94677) | 74
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings (a) he and (b) his departmental ministers have had with representatives of Westfield in the last 24 months. | | (94678) | 75
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what purposes the Inland Revenue has provided funding to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in the last 24 months. | | (94679) | 76
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance the Financial Services Authority has provided to mortgage lenders on prudent limits for using automated valuations when making lending decisions on domestic property. | | (94680) | 77
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the implementation of the Capital Requirements Directive and its requirements for mortgage lenders. | | (94681) | 78
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what advice the Financial Services Authority has provided on the use of automated valuation models for mortgage lending. | | (94682) | 79
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the findings of the Valuation Office Agency's latest staff attitude survey. | | (94683) | 80
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what remuneration Sir Michael Lyons received for chairing the review of the location of public sector departments. | | (94684) | 81
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to permit local authorities to use tax incentive financing for (a) regeneration and (b) infrastructure projects; and if he will make a statement. | | (94685) | 82
| Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 16th February 2006, Official Report, column 2421W, on terrorist activities (financing), on which date the structure, focus and membership of the review to safeguard the charitable sector from terrorist finance was established; which other Government departments were consulted; what the membership of the review team is; what the terms of reference of the review are; which organisations, excluding Government departments (a) have been consulted and (b) have provided evidence to the review; when the review will be completed; when the report will be made available to Parliament; what consultation will be carried out on the report's recommendations; and whether the recommendations will be made public before the Financial Action Task Force evaluates UK money laundering and terrorist finance measures. | | (94273) | 83
| Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has investigated how John Ware of BBC Panorama had sight of the draft report from the Treasury's Asset Freezing Working Group; whether this report has been completed; and when it will be published. | | (94274) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 84
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what arrangements her Department has in place for offering her advice on Islam and matters relating to Muslims; and who her advisers are on Islam and Muslim affairs. | | (94337) | 85
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether (a) Ministers and (b) others in her Department have met representatives of Tablighi Jammaat during the last three years; and if she will make a statement. | | (94347) | 86
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) mosques and (b) Muslim schools were investigated by the Charity Commission in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (94354) | 87
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the total cost was of producing the Cabinet Office's Sharing the Leadership Challenge video. | | (94468) | 88
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 25th July 2006, Official Report, column 1637W, on official residences, whether the agency and specialist sub-contractors providing maintenance to the Deputy Prime Minister's official residence includes cleaners. | | (94697) | 89
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 29th March 2006, to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar, Official Report, column 1031W, on council tax (official residences), whether the Cabinet Secretary has activated revised guidance to Ministers on their liability following the decision of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to occupy the flat above 10 Downing Street. | | (94712) | 90
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 4th September 2006, Official Report, column 1720W, on the Deputy Prime Minister, how many civil servants from the Cabinet Office Parliamentary Branch provide support to the Deputy Prime Minister's Office; how many civil servants from the Infrastructure Division provide support to the Deputy Prime Minister and her Office; and how many civil servants from the Cabinet Office Communication Group are supporting the Deputy Prime Minister's website development. | | (94713) | 91
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 25th July 2006, Official Report, column 1637W, on official residences, whether the Total Facilities Management service provided by Ecovert FM for the maintenance of Admiralty House includes (a) linen and laundry, (b) porters, (c) internal plants and (d) catering services. | | (94714) | 92
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which Ministers are occupying a flat in Admiralty House; and which Ministers have vacated a flat in Admiralty Arch since May 2006. | | (94858) | 93
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much was spent on refurbishing the flat above 10 Downing Street in the last 12 months. | | (94859) | 94
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for which Government (a) department and (b) building the Cabinet Office is recruiting a house manager through the trawl with Cabinet Office reference REC/06/98. | | (94861) | 95
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which (a) Government departments and (b) departmental divisions occupy (i) the Ripley Building and (ii) Admiralty House; and which (A) Ministers and (B) civil servants are responsible for each. | | (94864) | 96
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many copies of `Reaching Out' she sent to (a) the Library and (b) the Vote Office (i) on the day of publication and (ii) subsequently. | | (93941) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 97
| Adam Afriyie (Windsor):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether a race equality impact assessment was undertaken on the decision to use current methodology for population projections in the local government funding system. | | (94221) | 98
N | Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she will provide a substantive reply to Question 90813, tabled by the hon. Member for North East Bedfordshire on 4th September for named day answer on 11th September. | | (93711) | 99
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many additional households were attributable to migration in (a) 2003 and (b) 2004; what estimate the Government had previously made of additional households attributable to migration in these years for the purpose of household projections; and what plans she has to adjust future household projections to 2026 to take account of the actual level of migration in 2003 and 2004. | | (94217) | 100
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many projected additional households are attributable to each of the principal factors generating additional households in each year from 2003 to 2026. | | (94218) | 101
N | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the consultancy reports that have been commissioned by her Department relating to the review of waste management arrangements in London. | | (93490) | 102
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent representations she has received on the Olympic Levy in London. | | (94433) | 103
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to continue the procedure of supplementing local government grants by an annual formula grant amending report on the basis of changes in population. | | (93819) | 104
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what arrangements her Department has in place for offering her advice on Islam and matters relating to Muslims; and who her advisers are on Islam and Muslim affairs. | | (94340) | 105
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether (a) Ministers and (b) others in her Department have met representatives of Tablighi Jammaat during the last three years; and if she will make a statement. | | (94344) | 106
| Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if her Department will give local planning authorities in the Thames Gateway additional incentives to put design frameworks in place through the planning delivery grant. | | (93956) | 107
| Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether public sector funding bodies with responsibility for delivering new housing in the Thames Gateway plan to make their contribution conditional on defined high standards of design. | | (93957) | 108
| Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Building Regulations ensure (a) a satisfactory standard in the case of modern construction materials and techniques and (b) that the value of innovative products and techniques is recognised. | | (93958) | 109
| Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether English Partnerships in collaboration with regional development agencies plan to produce a brownfield land reclamation strategy specifically for the Thames Gateway. | | (94062) | 110
| Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what weight is given to design quality in the built environment in delivering regeneration objectives in the Thames Gateway; and what definition she uses of an acceptable level of design. | | (94111) | 111
| Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which of the local planning authorities in the Thames Gateway have up-to-date urban capacity assessments. | | (94112) | 112
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether teachers working in the independent sector are eligible to obtain key worker housing. | | (94250) | 113
| Mr David Jones (Clwyd West):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department gives to local planning authorities on the extent to which the European Landscape Convention should be taken into account when considering applications for the development of (a) onshore and (b) offshore wind farms. | | (94629) | 114
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will provide an opportunity for hon. Members to assess the effectiveness of the Home Information Pack trial in Huddersfield before home information packs become compulsory in England and Wales; what opportunities will be provided for representations to be made between the conclusion of the trial period and the commencement of the packs becoming mandatory; and if she will make a statement. | | (93775) | 115
N | Mr Jim McGovern (Dundee West):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding the Government has provided to (a) local authorities and (b) other organisations for the provision of youth centres in England and Wales in each year since 1997. | | (93758) | 116
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will ask local authorities and other beach owners who encourage the public to use their beaches to carry out a risk assessment to be published alongside tourist information and publicity. | | (94063) | 117
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many business qualified for the Small Business Rate Relief Scheme in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05 and (c) 2005-06. | | (94091) | 118
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4th September 2006, Official Report, column 1664W, on housing, in which local authority areas transactions have been completed under the Social Homebuy scheme; and how many transactions have been completed in each area. | | (94555) | 119
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the provisional budget is for the Government Connect Programme; and which Government agencies will participate. | | (94556) | 120
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many full-time equivalent staff work in her Department's International Planning division. | | (94557) | 121
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the publication by her Department of the Proposed Amendment to the Town and County Planning (Regional Planning) England Regulations 2004, what proportion of relevant local authorities within a region must be affiliated to the regional chamber in order for it to be recognised as a regional planning board. | | (94558) | 122
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the publication of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Resource Accounts 2005-06 (HC 1465), what each of the individual gifts given by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2005-06 were; and who received each gift. | | (94559) | 123
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which of the proposals from the Preventing Extremism Together Working Group (a) have been completed and (b) are in progress. | | (94560) | 124
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations she has received from the Adjudication Panel for England on clarification of the Councillors' Code of Conduct. | | (94561) | 125
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how her proposed city development corporations will interact with (a) local authorities, (b) regional chambers and (c) regional development agencies. | | (94562) | 126
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding she has allocated to promote city development corporations. | | (94563) | 127
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when Professor John Hills is due to report on his review of social housing. | | (94564) | 128
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many firms (a) were eligible for and (b) claimed small business rate relief in England in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (94565) | 129
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the planning application to construct the Millennium Dome in the late 1990s was called in by the Secretary of State; and what reasons were given to justify any call-in. | | (94566) | 130
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the estimated cost is of the 2006 National Fraud Initiative exercise to (a) her Department and (b) local authorities. | | (94567) | 131
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what changes have been made to (a) planning guidance, (b) circulars and (c) regulations relating to development of (i) current and (ii) former school playing fields since May 1997. | | (94568) | 132
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of each edition of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's International Planning Newsletter. | | (94569) | 133
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the difference is between the Full National Land Use Database (NLUD-Baseline) and the Generalised Land Use Database in terms of what (a) data is held and (b) range of the data held. | | (94570) | 134
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her estimate is of the number of (a) housing associations, (b) local authorities with council-run social housing and (c) local authorities with social housing run through arm's length management organisations in England. | | (94571) | 135
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4th September 2006, Official Report, column 1664W, on housing, which (a) housing associations and (b) local authorities participate in the Social Home Buy Scheme. | | (94572) | 136
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10th July 2006, Official Report, column 1543W, on council tax, how many dwellings have value significant code data for the (a) GG code and (b) OS code. | | (94603) | 137
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25th July 2006, Official Report, column 1610W on Planning Policy Guidance Note 3 (PPG3), whether the 1992 edition of PPG3 applied to Wales before the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales. | | (94604) | 138
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Hertfordshire North East, 27th March 2006, Official Report, column 832W, on official residences, what the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's expenditure from its entertainment budget was in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (94605) | 139
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24th July 2006, Official Report, column 802W, on consultancies, when the requested document will be placed in the Library. | | (94606) | 140
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member of Brentwood and Ongar, 10th July 2006, Official Report, on EU Directive 2002/91/EC, when a copy of the report will be placed in the Library. | | (94607) | 141
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham, of 4th September 2006, Official Report, column 1680W, on the Valuation Office Agency, what the logarithmic variable formula is. | | (94608) | 142
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham, of 4th September 2006, Official Report, column 1680W, on the Valuation Office Agency, what property attributes are used within the Multiple Regression Models. | | (94609) | 143
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to issue (a) a planning circular and (b) guidance in relation to Special Protection Areas. | | (94611) | 144
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what changes were made to the definition of previously-developed land in (a) 2000 and (b) 2001. | | (94612) | 145
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the National Land Use Database typology of `Land or buildings currently in use where it is known there is potential for redevelopment (but the sites do not have any plan allocation or planning permission)' includes (a) gardens and (b) open spaces surrounding existing residential properties. | | (94613) | 146
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) budget and (b) purpose is of the Government Connect `GC Accounts' programme. | | (94614) | 147
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what role her Department plays in the EU's Interreg programmes; and if she will make a statement. | | (94616) | 148
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has provided to local authorities on the use of microchips in wheelie bins. | | (94617) | 149
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of local authorities which have introduced technology which is able fully to interact with the National Land Information Service. | | (94619) | 150
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what (a) targets were set and (b) (i) traffic lights and (ii) benchmarks were applied to local authorities by the Implementing Electronic Government programmes in relation to the implementation of the National Land Information Service. | | (94620) | 151
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department spent on performance-related bonuses to civil servants in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (94622) | 152
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4th September 2006, Official Report, column 1646W, on ballpoint pens, what use is being made of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister-branded pens; how much was spent between 2002 and the abolition of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister on ODPM branded products and promotional gifts; and what types of goods were purchased. | | (94625) | 153
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many businessess were on the Ratings List in each Government Office Region in England in each year since 1996-97. | | (94627) | 154
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many stakeholder discussion meetings which members of the public and social tenants could attend her Department organised on the Decent Homes to Sustainable Communities paper. | | (94631) | 155
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average business rates bill was for firms (a) claiming and (b) not claiming small business rate relief in England in the most recent 12 months for which figures are available. | | (94632) | 156
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the estimated revenue was from business rates from small firms in England in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (94633) | 157
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the budget is of the Commission for Integration and Cohesion. | | (94634) | 158
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what public sector bodies are part of the Valuation Tribunal Service's electronic data transfer initiatives; and what data are transferred as part of the initiative. | | (94637) | 159
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department has spent on the EU Interreg programme. | | (94642) | 160
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will list the planning applications from consideration of which the Deputy Prime Minister ruled himself out on probity grounds due to a potential conflict of interest with family members when he was the Secretary of State responsible for planning. | | (94643) | 161
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the average cost of requiring energy performance certificates to be produced when a property is rented (a) in the private rented sector, (b) by registered social landlords and (c) by local authorities. | | (94644) | 162
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance the Government and Standards Board of England has provided to local authority councillors on avoiding (a) bias and (b) the appearance of bias in addition to the Local Government Code of Conduct for councillors. | | (94645) | 163
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the likely effect of the (a) recent and (b) forthcoming European Union expansion on the extent of migration of traveller communities into the United Kingdom. | | (94646) | 164
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what publications have been produced by her Department's Policy Action Team PAT18; and whether the action team remains in operation. | | (94647) | 165
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what new staff posts have been created in her Department and its predecessor in the last 12 months. | | (94648) | 166
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what properties her Department and its predecessors have (a) owned, (b) rented and (c) occupied at 42-48 Wigmore Street, London; how long each property was occupied; what the cost to public funds was in each case; and from whom the leased properties were rented. | | (94649) | 167
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether employees of (a) regional chambers and (b) regional development agencies are eligible to join the Local Government Pension Scheme. | | (94650) | 168
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the council tax liability is of Territorial Army or Reserve Forces members serving abroad if their domestic residence is empty as a result of their tour of duty. | | (94651) | 169
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many right-to-buy sales there were in England in each year since 1980, broken down by Government Office of the Region since 1996. | | (94652) | 170
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department has spent on external speechwriters in each year since 2002, broken down by the company used. | | (94653) | 171
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to reform the governance of the Local Government Pension Scheme following the recent letter from the Audit Commission recommending changes. | | (94654) | 172
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what annual remuneration Sir Michael Lyons receives in respect of his roles as (a) Audit Commission Chair and (b) Chair of the review of local government. | | (94655) | 173
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the requirements are for a local authority to move from a directly-elected mayor to a non-mayoral executive structure. | | (94656) | 174
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Deputy Prime Minister was (a) consulted on and (b) involved in the production of the Casinos: National Policy Statement document published in December 2004. | | (94657) | 175
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the (a) presentation, (b) speech and (c) handout given by the Valuation Office Agency's Paul Sanderson at the International Property Tax Institute Conference in Kuala Lumpur on 23rd August. | | (94658) | 176
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many housing associations are participating in the Social Homebuy scheme. | | (94659) | 177
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department spent on taxis in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (94692) | 178
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10th May 2006 to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar, Official Report, column 370W, on business rates, how many (a) hotels, (b) hostels and (c) bed and breakfast establishments were on the 2005 Rating List for each local authority area in Wales. | | (94711) | 179
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance the Government has published on the procedures to be followed in order to move from a directly-elected mayor to a cabinet system. | | (94719) | 180
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the final version of Planning Policy Statement 3 will be published. | | (94721) | 181
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answers to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 6th March 2006, Official Report, column 1105W and 16th March 2006, Official Report, column 2417W, and the Answer of 17th July 2006, Official Report, column 158W, on Planning Gain Supplement, when the summary of responses will be published. | | (94748) | 182
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4th September 2006, Official Report, column 1656W, on Home Condition Reports/Information Packs, if she will place in the Library copies of the written advice provided by the Information Commissioner. | | (94749) | 183
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4th September, Official Report, column 1646W, on ballpoint pens, on what dates the pens were ordered. | | (94750) | 184
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18th July 2006, Official Report, column 367W, on the Valuation Office Agency, for how many households in England the Valuation Office Agency holds ACORN data. | | (94751) | 185
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18th July 2006, Official Report, column 367W, on the Valuation Office Agency, what the cost was to public funds of purchasing the ACORN data from CACI Information Solutions; and for what purposes it was purchased. | | (94752) | 186
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which body (a) audits and (b) inspects IDeA Knowledge. | | (94754) | 187
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether disused quarries are classified as (a) greenfield and (b) brownfield land; and whether she plans to review this designation. | | (94755) | 188
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of housing association tenants in England have (a) the right to buy and (b) preserved right to buy. | | (94756) | 189
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) council tenant households and (b) housing association tenants there were in England in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (94757) | 190
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many social tenants are eligible for the Social Homebuy scheme. | | (94758) | 191
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the council tax revaluation in England is classified as a mission critical programme by the Valuation Office Agency. | | (94760) | 192
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has provided to local authorities on moving from weekly to fortnightly collection of domestic rubbish. | | (94772) | 193
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25th July 2006, Official Report, column 1652W, on departmental staff, how many staff will be moved to 26 Whitehall to backfill the vacated office space; and what the estimated cost is of the changes. | | (94779) | 194
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the Register of Home Condition Reports will be fully operational. | | (94805) | 195
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Multiple Regression Analysis used by the Valuation Office Agency for council tax valuations has Neighbourhood Adjustment factors. | | (94806) | 196
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, why the Valuation Office Agency decided not to create a banding engine for the English council tax revaluation. | | (94807) | 197
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many domestic properties in England do not have (a) three, (b) four, (c) six and (d) eight dwellinghouse codes. | | (94808) | 198
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many completed sales through (a) shared ownership and (b) key worker schemes were funded by the Housing Corporation in each year since 1997-98. | | (94809) | 199
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the recent letter sent to local authority chief executives from the Valuation Office Agency on providing property information for council tax and business rates valuations. | | (94810) | 200
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many completed sales through the Starter Home Initiative there have been in each year since its inception. | | (94811) | 201
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how long homes built under the Key Worker Living Initiative have to remain empty before alternative uses can be found. | | (94812) | 202
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties on the Ratings List qualified for empty business rates relief in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (94813) | 203
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will delay the implementation date for home information packs. | | (94814) | 204
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether (a) discretionary and (b) mandatory houses of multiple occupation licensing applies to (i) hotels, (ii) bed and breakfast establishments and (iii) hostels. | | (94815) | 205
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will (a) introduce a date by which all local authorities should be fully National Land Information Service-enabled and (b) ensure such a requirement follows the New Burdens principle. | | (94816) | 206
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether Valuation Office Agency officers are awarded (a) non-pecuniary and (b) pecuniary benefits for (i) finding rateable values which had not previously been identified and (ii) dealing with appeals successfully. | | (94817) | 207
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the public purse was of the Deputy Prime Minister's 2005 Sustainable Communities Summit. | | (94818) | 208
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the research report commissioned by her Department `Perceptions of Privacy and Density in Housing'. | | (94819) | 209
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the research report commissioned by her Department `Valuing the Benefits of Undeveloped Land'. | | (94820) | 210
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what financial contribution her Department has made to the Department for Transport-sponsored research project Sustainability of Land Use and Transport in Outer Neighbourhoods. | | (94821) | 211
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Deputy Prime Minister's Award for Sustainable Communities has been abolished. | | (94822) | 212
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to fund compensation for those who have trained to be home inspectors; and if she will make a statement. | | (94823) | 213
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many home inspectors are in training. | | (94824) | 214
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her estimate is of the cost of a home information pack for an average leasehold (a) flat and (b) house. | | (94825) | 215
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) hotels, (b) bed and breakfasts and (c) hostels are on Valuation Office Agency's ratings list in each local authority in Wales in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (94826) | 216
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, who her Department funded to attend the conference on the internet and democracy in Budapest in July; and what criteria were used to select those delegates. | | (94827) | 217
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the procedures are within her Department for authorising (a) foreign visits by departmental staff on official business and (b) away day meetings by departmental staff outside government offices. | | (94828) | 218
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what factors were taken into account when deciding which members of the public should be allowed to attend the Lyons Inquiry into Local Government's public engagement meetings in July and August. | | (94842) | 219
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued on whether a decision by local authority to hold a local referendum under the Local Government Act 2003 should be taken by (a) a full council and (b) an executive. | | (94843) | 220
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether county councils in two-tier local government areas may hold a local referendum; and which tier of local government should pay for the costs of a local referendum in a two-tier area. | | (94844) | 221
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department has spent on external media trainers in each year since 2002, broken down by supplier. | | (94845) | 222
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what foreign visits were undertaken by her departmental staff on official business in the last 12 months. | | (94846) | 223
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister spent on taxi fares in 2005-06. | | (94847) | 224
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what research her Department has undertaken in relation to developing (a) a national property database and (b) a national spatial data infrastructure. | | (94848) | 225
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment the Government has made of whether the Valuation Office Agency council tax database holds sensitive personal data as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998. | | (94851) | 226
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her estimate is of the cost of a home information pack (a) excluding the Home Condition Report and (b) including VAT. | | (94852) | 227
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding the Empty Homes Agency received from (a) central Government and (b) the Housing Corporation in 2005-06. | | (94854) | 228
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate she has made of the (a) take-up and (b) occupation rates of accommodation built under the Government's key worker living programme, broken down by Government Office region. | | (94856) | 229
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which works of art are on loan from the Government Art Collection to her Department. | | (94857) | 230
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many home information packs have been produced on a voluntary basis. | | (94860) | 231
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what changes Planning Policy Statement 3 is introducing in relation to development on (a) previously residential and (b) garden land. | | (94867) | 232
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many Public Requests Ordering Disposal have been received by the Government in each year since 1997; and how many such orders were made in each year. | | (94868) | 233
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, where the number of the Government Home Inspector advice line is publicised; and whether this number is solely for advice on home information packs. | | (94869) | 234
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much equity (a) her Department and (b) housing associations hold in shared equity affordable housing schemes introduced since 1997; and if she will make a statement. | | (94761) | 235
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance is issued to local planning authorities on the processing of microgeneration applications; and if she will make a statement. | | (93877) | 236
| Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to introduce compensation for those people who have incurred costs on training as home inspectors. | | (94291) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs 237
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Ministerial colleagues in the Home Office on the treatment of people trafficked into the UK for the purposes of sexual exploitation. | | (94364) | 238
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, whether her Department has collected statistics on the number of freedom of information requests turned down by (a) Departments and (b) non-departmental public bodies on the grounds that the request was considered to be vexatious. | | (94224) | 239
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to the report on the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Statistics on Implementation in Central Government, Second Quarter 2006, April - June, what assessment has been made of the reasons for the changes in the number of freedom of information requests made to departments. | | (94225) | 240
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what the cost of the subsidy for court dress for judges was in each of the last three years; how much of that subsidy was for wigs; what the allowance for court dress given to each rank of judge is; whether the allowances are taxable; and if she will make a statement. | | (94261) | 241
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what arrangements her Department has in place for offering her advice on Islam and matters relating to Muslims; and who her advisers are on Islam and Muslim affairs. | | (94338) | 242
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many Justices of the Peace sit in England and Wales; and how many there were in 1998. | | (94154) | 243
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many District Judges (Criminal) there are; and how many there were in 1997. | | (94155) | 244
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many magistrates' courts there are; and how many there were in 1997. | | (94156) | 245
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, whether her Department has adopted a Welsh language policy. | | (94161) | 246
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many representations she has received from practising (a) solicitors and (b) barristers about the proposals in the Carter Review report. | | (94168) | 247
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many firms of solicitors in England and Wales undertake Legal Services Commission funded criminal law work; and how many undertook such work in 1997. | | (94169) | 248
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many firms of solicitors in England and Wales undertake Legal Services Commission funded work in family law; and how many undertook such work in 1997. | | (94170) | 249
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how much her Department spent on consultancy fees in each year between 2001-02 and 2004-05. | | (94325) | 250
| Ian Lucas (Wrexham):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how much has been paid in relation to family law cases by the Legal Services Commission in the last five years in respect of (a) solicitors' profit costs, (b) barristers' fees and (c) experts' fees. | | (94141) | 251
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what redress is available for those who have experienced (a) delays and (b) poor service in the processing of exhumation licence applications. | | (93991) | 252
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many applications for exhumation licences by the Prison Service there were in respect of bodies buried in prison grounds in the last period for which figures are available. | | (93992) | 253
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what provisions exist for protecting burial places, including preventing building on the grave area, falling outside the jurisdiction of the Church of England; and who is responsible for monitoring such measures. | | (93993) | 254
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what guidance is provided to (a) central government and its agencies, (b) local government and (c) other public bodies regarding legal and other obligations regarding (i) maintaining records and reporting regarding bodies buried in grounds controlled by them, (ii) building on grounds containing bodies and (iii) exhuming bodies; how such guidance is disseminated; and when that guidance was last reviewed. | | (93994) | 255
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many exhumation licences were issued pursuant to section 25 of the Burial Act 1857 in each of the last 30 years. | | (93995) | 256
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what records are kept of exhumation licences applied for and issued; and how such records can be inspected. | | (93996) | 257
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many the applicants for exhumation licences there were in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; what the reason for the exhumation being sought was in each case; and what conditions were of each such licence issued. | | (93997) | 258
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many applications for exhumation licences under the Burial Act 1857 were refused in the last period for which figures are available; and for what reasons in each case. | | (93998) | 259
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many (a) refusals and (b) delays in issuing exhumation licences were challenged in each of the last 10 years for which information is available, separately identifying those cases in which such challenge was made by letter of claim intimating proceedings. | | (93999) | 260
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what policies and procedures were followed on receipt of an application for an exhumation licence in (a) 2006, (b) 1996, (c) 1986 and (d) 1976; and when such policies and procedures were last reviewed. | | (94000) | 261
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what role Ministers have in the granting of exhumation licences. | | (94064) | 262
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, whether the recipient of an exhumation licence is named in the licence. | | (94065) | 263
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what average length of time was taken from the making of the application for an exhumation licence to the granting of an application over the last five years; and what the (a) longest and (b) shortest length of time was which an exhumation licence has taken to be issued. | | (94066) | 264
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what staff complement was allocated to processing exhumation licences in each of the last 10 years. | | (94067) | 265
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what education and training is given to officials on (a) religious and cultural issues relating to death and the disposal of the dead, (b) human rights obligations to respect family life and (c) the manifestation of religious beliefs to assist them to ensure that the exhumation licence process is sensitively handled. | | (94068) | 266
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what complaints procedures and policies exist in respect of the handling of exhumation licence applications; and how many complaints were received in relation to exhumation licences in each of the last 10 years. | | (94069) | 267
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what recent consideration she has given to permitting parallel juries to be established as an aid to research into jury behaviour. | | (94184) | 268
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what the timetable is for implementing of electronic conveyancing. | | (94615) | 269
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what estimate the Land Registry has made of the number of (a) leasehold and (b) commonhold domestic properties sold each year in England and Wales. | | (94618) | 270
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what powers the Information Commission has to inspect the files, e-mails or records of a public authority when considering (a) Freedom of Information Act 2000 and (b) Data Protection Act 1998 appeals. | | (94621) | 271
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what estimate the Land Registry has made of the number of (a) leasehold and (b) commonhold domestic properties in (i) England, (ii) Wales and (iii) each Government Office Region in England. | | (94623) | 272
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, when she expects the Boundary Commission for England to submit its final report on Parliamentary boundary changes in England to her Department. | | (94639) | 273
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, for what reason the statute law database is subject to Crown copyright protection. | | (94641) | 274
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, which of the provisions introduced in the Electoral Administration Act 2006 will not be implemented before May 2007. | | (94689) | 275
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, whether dates of birth will be used to verify remote electronic voting following the implementation of the Electoral Administration Act 2006. | | (94690) | 276
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if she will make a statement on the progress of the Boundary Commission's review of English Parliamentary boundaries. | | (94691) | 277
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what (a) guidance and (b) resources are being provided to local authorities to assist with the implementation of electronic conveyancing. | | (94718) | 278
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9th October to question ref 91956, on legal aid, what the value is of (a) legal aid certificates revoked and (b) cases closed in circumstances which require the client to repay costs to the Legal Services Commission; and what proportion of each has been repaid. | | (93557) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 279
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what financial support her Department has given to live theatre outside London in the last three financial years; and what funding has been allocated for future years. | | (94833) | 280
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support her Department is giving to visitor attractions in the UK. | | (93137) | 281
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the progress of leisure and tourism facilities in complying with the Disability Discrimination Acts. | | (93138) | 282
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support her Department is giving to co-ordination between regional tourism initiatives and those of Visit Britain. | | (93139) | 283
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support the Government is providing for leisure and catering initiatives in the tourism industry. | | (93140) | 284
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what Government initiatives are in place to improve standards in UK tourism accommodation. | | (93141) | 285
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assistance her Department is giving to the programme making and special events industry in its negotiations to harmonise the use of the radio spectrum throughout Europe; and if she will make a statement. | | (94766) | 286
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what arrangements her Department has in place for offering her advice on Islam and matters relating to Muslims; and who her advisers are on Islam and Muslim affairs. | | (94336) | 287
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) Ministers and (b) others in her Department have met representatives of Tablighi Jammaat during the last three years; and if she will make a statement. | | (94343) | 288
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with which Muslim organisations she has had discussions in relation to accommodating the religious requirements of Muslims from abroad during the 2012 Olympics; and if she will make a statement. | | (94351) | 289
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with (a) the Mayor of London and (b) the London Development Agency on accommodating the religious requirements of Muslims from abroad during the 2012 Olympics; and if she will make a statement. | | (94352) | 290
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to accommodate the religious requirements of Muslims from abroad during the 2012 Olympics; and if she will make a statement. | | (94353) | 291
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people applied for the post of Chair of Sport England; who was on the interview panel; how many people were interviewed; how many candidates were subsequently recommended to her; and whether she accepted the recommendation. | | (94233) | 292
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress has been made with the KPMG review of the costs for the 2012 Olympics; when she expects to announce their final conclusions; and if she will make a statement. | | (94234) | 293
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the Government regeneration budget is for the 2012 Olympics broken down by programme. | | (94235) | 294
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance she has produced on whether an (a) premises licence and (b) temporary events notice is required when a private organisation or individual holding a private not for profit event uses commercial caterers who supply alcohol. | | (94635) | 295
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Government has to introduce compulsory registration of hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation in England. | | (94769) | 296
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding the Empty Homes Agency has received from the National Lottery since 1997; and for what purpose the funding was provided. | | (94770) | 297
| Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people were interviewed for the job of Chief Executive of OFCOM. | | (94191) | 298
N | Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 3rd July 2006, Official Report, columns 727-8W, on sports facilities, how much of the £40 million available for the Community Club Development programme has been allocated; and what the relevant deadlines are for applications for funds until 2008. | | (93709) | 299
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress has been made on her Department's sustainable development strategy. | | (94139) | 300
| Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to encourage greater diversity of ownership of local and regional media, with particular reference to newspapers. | | (94292) | 301
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the KPMG report on the funding review of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics is expected to be published. | | (94294) | 302
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who the funder of last resort is of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics should it go over budget. | | (94295) | 303
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will place in the Library a copy of the London 2012 Legacy Guidelines. | | (94296) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 304
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment the Government has made of the humanitarian impact of the use of cluster munitions by UK forces in recent conflicts to ensure compliance with international humanitarian law. | | (94448) | 305
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish information on cluster munitions stocks held by the UK. | | (94449) | 306
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's definition is of an acceptable failure rate for cluster munitions. | | (94450) | 307
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the failure rate is for RBL 755 cluster bombs used by British forces. | | (94451) | 308
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish details of cluster munitions testing and evaluation which demonstrate the failure rate of specific munitions in different environments. | | (94452) | 309
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how his Department makes collateral damage predictions in deployment of weaponry. | | (94453) | 310
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many troops of the 14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare) are serving in Afghanistan; and how many casualties have been sustained by the regiment in that country. | | (93558) | 311
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff from the Defence Vetting Agency have been contracted to the Office for Nuclear Security since 2005; and for how long each has been contracted. | | (94230) | 312
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 9th March 2006, on the Royal Irish Regiment (Home Service), Official Report, columns 961-3, how many full-time members of the Royal Irish Regiment Home Service Battalions have indicated their intention to transfer to general service under the terms of the package; and whether the special payment for transfer also applies to transfer to the Royal Air Force. | | (93985) | 313
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many previous occasions, and to whom, the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross has been awarded. | | (93986) | 314
N | Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which items of military equipment have been forwarded to Afghanistan in the last six months intended for use in (a) defence of British troops and (b) offensive operations; and what the cost was of each item. | | (93878) | 315
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's Strategic Plan for 2005-06. | | (94513) | 316
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's Corporate Plan for 2005-06. | | (94514) | 317
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of the new operational bonus in (a) 2006-07 and (b) the following three financial years. | | (94521) | 318
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the cost of the new operational bonus from 2007-08 will be met from (a) existing departmental budgets and (b) additional funds. | | (94522) | 319
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) production and (b) logistics costs of the 2006 Forward as One army recruitment commercials were; and where and when they were filmed. | | (94829) | 320
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place a copy of the conclusions and recommendations of the Future Rotacraft Coherency Study in the Library. | | (94830) | 321
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many tests have been carried out on primates in military research in each of the last five years; and what the scientific basis is of the tests. | | (94698) | 322
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of (a) illegally armed groups and (b) the Taliban have been captured by the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in each of the last five years. | | (94699) | 323
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many individuals detained by International Security Assistance Force forces have been handed over to the (a) Afghanistan authorities and (b) US forces. | | (94700) | 324
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with the Afghan government on a comprehensive policy for the treatment of individuals detained during fighting in Afghanistan. | | (94701) | 325
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilians have been (a) killed and (b) injured by the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in each of the last six months. | | (94702) | 326
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what provisions are in place for compensation for Afghan civilians (a) killed, (b) wounded and (c) otherwise harmed during International Security Assistance Force operations. | | (94703) | 327
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress has been made in discussion with the United States on the joint strike fighter programme. | | (94704) | 328
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps have been taken by International Security Assistance Force troops to engage with local Jirgas and Shuras in Afghanistan. | | (94705) | 329
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many prosecutions for offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 have been taken against his Department's personnel since 1976; how many prosecutions were successful in each of the last 10 years; and what percentage this represents of total prosecutions of his Department for such offences in this period. | | (94236) | 330
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the recommendations of the coroner were following the inquest into the death of Marine David Ward on HMS Albion; and what his response was to each recommendation. | | (94636) | 331
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what impact the operational bonus announced on 11th October will have on the payment of the X factor to members of the armed forces in (a) the 2006-07 financial year and (b) future financial years. | | (94387) | 332
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the financial payment would be to a soldier serving 600 days in a two-year period under (a) existing longer separated service allowance rates and (b) new longer separation allowance rates. | | (94388) | 333
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the financial impact on an individual soldier will be of scrapping (a) the Longer Service Separation Allowance (AT) and (b) (AT+) bonuses. | | (94434) | 334
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the Territorial Army Reserve there are; and how many are serving in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan. | | (94164) | 335
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military personnel are in hospital following injuries sustained while serving in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan; and how many in each category were in hospital in April. | | (94177) | 336
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the review of defence airfields to conclude; and when he expects to publish those conclusions. | | (94456) | 337
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of those who applied to join the Army in 2005 were subsequently refused entry on medical grounds. | | (94300) | 338
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of those who have passed the Army's Regular Commissioning Board interview since 2003 have (a) entered Sandhurst Military Academy and (b) completed their training at the Academy. | | (94301) | 339
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arms sales were made from British-based companies to the state of Israel in 2005. | | (94304) | 340
N | Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what study has been made of the operational effectiveness of (a) male and (b) female pilots. | | (93562) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 341
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many (a) officials and (b) others working for him have key-worker status; and what percentage this represents in each category. | | (93820) | 342
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what arrangements his Office has in place for offering him advice on Islam and matters relating to Muslims; and who his advisers are on Islam and Muslim affairs. | | (94332) | 343
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether (a) he and (b) others in his Office have met representatives of Tablighi Jammaat during the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (94348) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 344
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what research he has (a) undertaken and (b) evaluated to establish the reason for the fall in A-level mathematics entry between 2001 and 2002; and what conclusions were reached. | | (94472) | 345
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what funding his Department provides to university research councils; and what guidelines his Department has issued to university research councils on the use of their funds. | | (93949) | 346
N | Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will place in the Library a copy of the deed of arrangement for Newcastle City Academy; and whether the Adjudicator has approved the next stages for the closure of Westgate College. | | (93939) | 347
| Jim Dobbin (Heywood & Middleton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what mechanisms are in place for the inspection of (a) curriculum, (b) hours of teaching, (c) examination entry, (d) attendance at lessons and (e) supervision in relation to children with behavioural problems placed in small homes, with particular reference to Greencorns in Rochdale. | | (94459) | 348
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when he expects to appoint a new Director General for Higher Education. | | (93757) | 349
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost per bidder is of the three day consultancy offered to bidders for sponsorship of the new school to be built on the Heartlands development in Haringey; how much the Government has provided to Haringey Council for that process; and if he will make a statement. | | (94136) | 350
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost was of (a) hiring the Decorum Centre in Wood Green and (b) providing refreshments for the Department's public meeting on 3rd October on sponsorship of the new school to be built on the Heartlands development in Haringey. | | (94137) | 351
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when the charitable company ContinYou is expected to make its database of supplementary schools available for inspection; what definition ContinYou uses to decide whether an organisation is a supplementary school; which supplementary schools in London have been involved with ContinYou's quality assessment pilot scheme; and whether his Department plans to expand the quality assessment as a way of encouraging supplementary schools to take part in statutory projects. | | (94379) | 352
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what stage the negotiations for the award of City Academy status for Heartsease High School, Norwich have reached; and how (a) parents, (b) members of the public and (c) other interested parties are being consulted on academy status for the school. | | (93953) | 353
N | Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) biology, (b) physics and (c) chemistry teachers which will need to be recruited to fulfil the pledge of allowing pupils to choose to study individual sciences at GCSE level. | | (93970) | 354
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when announcements on arrangements for (a) community libraries and (b) family learning will be made in relation to applications from Buckinghamshire. | | (93712) | 355
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what his policy is on the use of (a) the niqab, (b) the chador and (c) the burka by teachers; and if he will make a statement. | | (94329) | 356
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what arrangements his Department has in place for offering him advice on Islam and matters relating to Muslims; and who his advisers are on Islam and Muslim affairs. | | (94341) | 357
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether (a) Ministers and (b) others in his Department have met representatives of Tablighi Jammaat during the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (94345) | 358
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions he has had with Universities UK in relation to monitoring the activities of speakers and prospective speakers on campuses. | | (94355) | 359
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many state-funded Muslim schools there were in England in each of the last five years. | | (94356) | 360
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many private Muslim schools were inspected in each of the last five years. | | (94357) | 361
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many private Muslim schools there were in England in each of the last five years. | | (94358) | 362
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much money was received from his Department by maintained Muslim faith schools in England in each of the past five years. | | (94436) | 363
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether his Department has issued any guidance on the use of the Government's Red Box website. | | (94470) | 364
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, on what issues his Department has conducted opinion polling in the last 12 months; and what the cost of each poll was. | | (94537) | 365
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on private and independent nursery providers of the new code of practice on the funding of free nursery places for three and four year olds. | | (93496) | 366
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what his most recent estimate is of the level of persistent unauthorised absence in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) rural and (ii) non-rural areas in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (94505) | 367
| Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what progress has been made with the Higher Education Funding Council for England review of teaching (a) funding and (b) support for institutions with a large number of part-time students. | | (94201) | 368
N | Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate he has made of the cost of fitting sprinklers in all new school buildings in England. | | (94297) | 369
N | Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost was of (a) repairing and (b) rebuilding school buildings damaged by fire in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (94298) | 370
| Ian Lucas (Wrexham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many students from (a) Wrexham and (b) Wales started courses in (i) further education colleges and (ii) universities in England in the last five years for which figures are available. | | (93955) | 371
N | Mr Jim McGovern (Dundee West):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on (a) crime, (b) educational achievement and (c) anti-social behaviour of the provision of youth centres. | | (93781) | 372
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many applications his Department has received under Schedule 22 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to sell school playing fields; and how many such applications have been (a) accepted and (b) refused. | | (94665) | 373
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether the new Information Index will have the technological capacity to store photographs. | | (94666) | 374
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils studied for an A-Level in (a) physics, (b) biology, (c) chemistry and (d) mathematics in the East Riding of Yorkshire in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (94720) | 375
| Stephen Williams (Bristol West):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much his Department has spent on advertising for the Aim Higher campaign in each year since its inception. | | (94454) | 376
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many more (a) biology, (b) physics and (c) chemistry teachers he estimates will need to be recruited to fulfil the pledge of allowing pupils the choice to study individual sciences at GCSE. | | (94138) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 377
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Government's policy is on the export of young calves for slaughter abroad. | | (94264) | 378
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to which countries young calves are exported from the UK for slaughter abroad; what his most recent estimate is of how many calves were exported to each; and what the normal journey times are to each country. | | (94265) | 379
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage British farmers to rear calves to produce high quality British veal. | | (94266) | 380
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of the attitudes of the public to the export of young calves for slaughter abroad. | | (94267) | 381
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will assess the scale of (a) rule breaking and (b) welfare infringements concerning the care of animals exported for slaughter abroad. | | (94268) | 382
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the Government monitors the welfare of animals exported for slaughter abroad. | | (94269) | 383
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of annual turnover is the maximum fine that OFWAT may impose on a water utility company. | | (93977) | 384
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the speed at which water companies have implemented their investment plans efficiently after price limits were set in 2004; and if he will make a statement. | | (93978) | 385
N | Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many responses there were on the subject of waste management from (a) London boroughs, London waste disposal authorities and other borough groupings, (b) community and voluntary sector organisations, (c) regions, regional assemblies and the Environment Agency, (d) waste management companies, (e) trade unions and (f) others to the Government's consultation entitled, The Government's proposals for additional powers and responsibilities for the Mayor and Assembly, broken down by those who favoured (i) a changed governance structure but did not specify which option, (ii) option 1, (iii) option 2, (iv) option 3, (v) option 4 and (vi) his Department's preferred option announced in July. | | (93567) | 386
| Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, When he expects the issue of import licences for New Zealand butter to be resumed; and what representations he has made about this. | | (94245) | 387
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what threshold has been set for acceptable levels of cross-contamination from genetically modified crops. | | (94050) | 388
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislation to tackle imbalance between public and private funding in relation to dealing with exotic animal diseases. | | (94051) | 389
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will assess the merits of a levy on the exotic animal industry to generate funds to help tackle the threat of exotic animal diseases. | | (94052) | 390
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the reason was for the reduction in the allocation of funding to the National Fallen Stock Company; and what plans he has to retain and enhance membership of the company. | | (94125) | 391
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what evidential basis the randomised badger culling trials were stopped; and if he will make a statement. | | (94126) | 392
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Government's (a) policy, (b) practice and (c) procedures are on the collection of corpses of wildlife killed by road traffic. | | (94127) | 393
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many gangmasters are licensed in Lancashire to provide employees for supermarkets. | | (94037) | 394
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where and when the bilateral Working Group on Climate Change with Brazil will start work. | | (93560) | 395
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what changes have taken place to the fox population of England in each of the past five years. | | (94133) | 396
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to assist those in the South West who are on low incomes with payment of their water bills. | | (94263) | 397
| Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the financial savings targetted by the establishment of Natural England have been realised; what the estimate is of the total savings to be realised from its establishment; and what the original estimate was. | | (94518) | 398
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will discuss with his Cabinet colleagues means of enabling the provision of departmental data broken down according to his Department's definition of rurality; and if he will make a statement. | | (94460) | 399
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the proportionality of the fines levied on those convicted of environmental offences to the offences committed; and if he will make a statement. | | (94507) | 400
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by what (a) percentage and (b) total amount his Department has required that the (i) Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales, (ii) Agricultural Wages Committee (England), (iii) British Potato Council, (iv) British Waterways, (v) British Wool Marketing Board, (vi) Broads Authority, (vii) Central Science Laboratory, (viii) Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, (ix) Consumer Council for Water, (x) Countryside Agency, (xi) Covent Garden Market Authority, (xii) Natural England, (xiii) Environment Agency, (xiv) Food for Britain, (xv) Gangmasters Licensing Authority, (xvi) Government Decontamination Service, (xvii) Home-Grown Cereals Authority, (xviii) Horticultural Development Council, (xix) Marine Fisheries Agency, (xx) Meat and Livestock Commission, (xxi) Milk Development Council, (xxii) National Forest Company, (xxiii) Pesticides Safety Directorate, (xxiv) Regional Flood Defence Committees, (xxv) Review of Funding Mechanisms for Flood and Coastal Defence, (xxvi) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, (xxvii) Rural Payments Agency, (xxviii) Sea Fish Industry Authority, (xxix) State Veterinary Service, (xxx) Sustainable Development Commission, (xxxi) UK Biodiversity Group, (xxxii) Veterinary Laboratories Agency and (xxxiii) Veterinary Medicines Directorate reduce its budget for 2006-07 from the level planned at the beginning of the financial year; and if he will make a statement. | | (94753) | 401
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions raw sewage has been found on or near the English coastline since 2001; in how many cases a prosecution was brought in respect thereof; and if he will make a statement. | | (93246) | 402
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost of establishing a national water grid to enable water to be piped across the UK to tackle different rainfall levels; and if he will make a statement. | | (93777) | 403
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to prevent French fishing vessels causing damage to the property of British fisherman off the coast near Bridlington and Flamborough Head. | | (93967) | 404
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to change the legal size limit for catching lobsters and crabs in UK waters; what consultations are taking place; with whom; and if he will make a statement. | | (93968) | 405
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has adopted a Welsh language policy. | | (94162) | 406
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on consultancy fees in each year between 2001-02 and 2004-05. | | (94324) | 407
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations he has received on the application of the eight day rule as regards auction marts; and if he will assess the merits of revising or lifting the eight day rule. | | (94458) | 408
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) names and (b) addresses are of each licensed gangmaster in North East Cambridgeshire; and which firms of gangmasters in North East Cambridgeshire have applied for a licence. | | (94768) | 409
| Gwyn Prosser (Dover):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many consignments of calves were exported from Dover on 11th October 2006; how many calves were included in each consignment; what the final destination of each consignment was; how long elapsed between the arrival of each consignment at Dover docks and the departure of the ship with the calves on board; why the departure of the ship was delayed; what proportion of the calves were still on a milk diet; whether the calves were provided with food and liquid while waiting at Dover docks to be loaded on to the ship; for what reason the calves were not taken to be unloaded and given food, liquid and rest; whether any calf was destroyed at Dover docks; whether the calves were unloaded and given food, liquid and 24 hours' rest after their arrival on the continent; and what arrangements he plans to put in place to prevent further lengthy delays at Dover docks. | | (94593) | 410
N | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which non-poultry rare breeds would be excluded from a cull if an outbreak of avian inluenza occurs; and whether all bird species on the Red Data List will be excluded from such a cull. | | (94193) | 411
N | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with which organisations his Department's Global Wildlife Division shares information from its database; on what basis the information is shared; and whether information is shared routinely with any organisations. | | (94361) | 412
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what provision exists for a general right of way in coastal areas; and if he will make a statement. | | (94146) | 413
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the annual rate of increase has been in fees charged by the Environment Agency for mooring boats on the waters for which they are responsible in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what increases are proposed; what discussions he has had with the Agency regarding the reasons for these increases; and if he will make a statement. | | (94149) | 414
N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of London's waste is managed within the capital. | | (93719) | 415
N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of London's waste authorities did not meet their statutory household waste recycling targets in 2005-06; and what measures within the Government's Policy Statement The Greater London Authority: The Goverment's final proposals for additional powers and responsibilities for the Mayor and the Assembly are designed to improve the level of performance. | | (93720) | 416
N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which of the package of measures for waste management set out in the Government's Policy Statement The Greater London Authority: The Goverment's final proposals for additional powers and responsibilities for the Mayor and the Assembly are intended (a) to increase London's recycling and recovering capacity for its municipal waste and (b) to ensure the most effective use of London's blue ribbon network to transport waste within London. | | (93721) | 417
| Mr John Spellar (Warley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the effect of the cuts in the budget of British Waterways will be on canals in Sandwell. | | (94573) | 418
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to provide incentives for local authorities to promote home composting. | | (94771) | 419
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding the Government has allocated to local authorities under (a) the Waste Performance and Efficiency Grant, (b) the Waste Minimisation and Recycling Fund, (c) the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme and (d) Waste private finance initiative credits to support the use of radio frequency identification chips to assist with domestic waste collection. | | (94773) | 420
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the possible effect on the levels of fly-tipping of increases in landfill tax. | | (94774) | 421
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate the Environment Agency has made of the levels of fly-tipping in each year since 2001. | | (94775) | 422
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate the Government has made of the amount of (a) vermin and (b) litter in each year since 2001. | | (94776) | 423
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) funding streams, (b) special grants and (c) specific grants the Government has given to local authorities in England to promote (i) recycling, (ii) waste collection and (iii) waste disposal activities in each year since 1997-98. | | (94777) | 424
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the presentation given by the Environment Agency to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she visited the Buncefield site on 18th July. | | (94778) | 425
N | Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to reorganise refuse disposal in Greater Manchester; and if he will make a statement. | | (94196) | 426
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will increase the penalties for misrepresenting (a) organic and (b) free range products. | | (94443) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 427
| John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps have been taken by the government of Sudan to disarm and disband the Popular Defence Forces operating in Darfur. | | (94389) | 428
| John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the President of Nigeria on tackling killings in Darfur. | | (94390) | 429
| John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the recent report by the UN on attacks on villages in South Darfur by the Janjaweed militia. | | (94391) | 430
| John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights about the situation in Darfur. | | (94392) | 431
| John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the role of the National Redemption Front in Darfur. | | (94393) | 432
| John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent estimate she has made of (a) the death toll, (b) the number of casualties and (c) the number of people who have been raped in Darfur since the conflict began. | | (94394) | 433
| John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans she has for UK support for the African Union force in Darfur. | | (94395) | 434
| John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the reports that rebel groups operating in Darfur have begun to attack the civilian population. | | (94396) | 435
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations her officials have made to the Israeli government about the continued use of administrative detention by Israeli forces in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. | | (93979) | 436
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the extent to which non-governmental organisations have suffered threats, harassment and violence in Sri Lanka. | | (93980) | 437
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the human rights situation in Sri Lanka; and if she will make a statement. | | (93981) | 438
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the report of the Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission implicating Sri Lankan government forces in the deaths of aid workers in Muttur. | | (93982) | 439
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission since the expulsion of monitors from EU member states by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. | | (93983) | 440
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the (a) human rights situation, (b) security situation and (c) likelihood of a peaceful presidential election later in 2006 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | | (93984) | 441
| Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance her Department is providing to the family of Tom Hurndall in persuading the Israeli authorities to negotiate over the outstanding claim. | | (94804) | 442
| Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when she last raised the case of the killing of Tom Hurndall with the Israeli authorities; and if she will make a statement. | | (94853) | 443
| Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when (a) Ministers and (b) officials from her Department last met the family of Tom Hurndall; and what actions she has taken in the last four months in response to the family's requests. | | (94855) | 444
| Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on the transfer of certain areas of co-operation in judicial matters from Title VI (Treaty of the European Union) to Title IV (Treaty of the European Community) through the use of the Passerelle Clause (Article 42). | | (94178) | 445
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what her assessment is of the effectiveness of international training and recruitment programmes for Afghan (a) police and (b) soldiers. | | (93952) | 446
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations she has received about the jamming of BBC radio services in Russia. | | (94548) | 447
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the expropriations of farm land in South Africa. | | (94550) | 448
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the expropriations of farm land in Zimbabwe. | | (94551) | 449
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent progress has been made with Afghanistan's Justice for all strategy, with particular reference to (a) the building of gaols, (b) an impartial judiciary and (c) securing convictions. | | (94552) | 450
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the likely effect of further sanctions against North Korea on levels of poverty. | | (94553) | 451
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate she has made of the amount of food aid likely to be supplied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by the Republic of Korea in the next three years. | | (94554) | 452
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the aims and objectives are of the Climate Change and Energy Group; and if she will make a statement on the Group's progress against its targets. | | (94290) | 453
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will make a statement on attacks on civilians in internally displaced people's camps in Darfur. | | (93495) | 454
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions she has had with (a) the Ethiopian government and (b) the leader of the Somalian Union of Islamic Courts to try to avert conflict. | | (93726) | 455
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps she proposes to take in response to events in South Darfur; and if she will make a statement. | | (94049) | 456
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions she has had with (a) the UN, (b) the government of Lebanon, (c) the government of Israel and (d) Hezbollah on the subject of unexploded ordnance in Lebanon as a result of the recent conflict, with particular reference to cluster munitions which failed to explode; and what monitoring has been undertaken of the situation. | | (94407) | 457
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will make a statement on the progress of the East Sudan peace talks; and what support the UK Government is providing to those talks. | | (94408) | 458
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions she has had with the UN on whether a Chapter VIII intervention into Darfur would be possible. | | (94717) | 459
| Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps she plans to take to prevent further conflict in Darfur after the expiration of the African Union's extended peacekeeping mandate. | | (94767) | 460
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what arrangements her Department has in place for offering her advice on Islam and matters relating to Muslims; and who her advisers are on Islam and Muslim affairs. | | (94334) | 461
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what percentage of the (a) Wolesi Jirga and (b) Meshrano Jirga in Afghanistan is female. | | (94445) | 462
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) financial assistance and (b) advice is given by the Government to the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Afghanistan. | | (94446) | 463
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps officials in her Department have taken to promote the representation of women on community development councils in Afghanistan. | | (94447) | 464
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when HM High Commission, Islamabad will reply to the representations made to them by UK Visas about the case of Mr K. H. (reference GV100/095780/SU; post reference ISB/1157487) about which the hon. Member for Aylesbury wrote to UK Visas on 26th July; and if she will make a statement. | | (93879) | 465
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when she last met representatives of the Sri Lankan government to discuss the human rights of the Tamil people. | | (94165) | 466
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of (a) the (i) political and (ii) human rights situation in Sri Lanka and (b) the Sri Lankan government's treatment of the Tamil people. | | (94166) | 467
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the (a) Iranian and (b) Iraqi authorities about the living conditions of Iranian refugees living inside the Iraqi border; and if she will make a statement. | | (94148) | 468
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in what capacity she expects UK forces to serve as part of a United Nations peace keeping operation in Lebanon. | | (94302) | 469
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the regional implications of the Union of Islamic Courts gaining control of Mogadishu and Kismayo, Somalia. | | (94305) | 470
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the level of co-operation between the Sudanese government and the Janjaweed militia. | | (94306) | 471
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the airport customs procedures are for air passengers travelling (a) from Gibraltar into the Schengen travel area and (b) from the Schengen travel area into Gibraltar. | | (94307) | 472
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what status the tripartite agreement has given to (a) British aircraft travelling to Gibraltar when in Spanish airspace and (b) aircraft taking off from Gibraltar travelling to the UK through Spanish airspace. | | (94308) | 473
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, why Gibraltarian citizens will be required to obtain immigration and customs clearance from Spanish officials before boarding aircraft in Gibraltar. | | (94309) | 474
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, why Spanish citizens flying from the airport in Gibraltar will not be subject to Gibraltarian customs procedures. | | (94310) | 475
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what restrictions there are on vessels travelling (a) from Spanish ports to Gibraltarian ports and (b) from Gibraltarian ports to Spanish ports. | | (94311) | 476
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the customs procedures are for vessels travelling (a) from Gilbraltarian ports to Spanish ports and (b) from Spanish ports to Gibraltarian ports. | | (94312) | 477
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what effect the tripartite agreement has had on claims by the Spanish government over sovereign British territorial waters surrounding Gibraltar. | | (94313) | 478
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the customs procedures are for Gibraltarian citizens who cross the frontier border from Spain to Gibraltar. | | (94316) | 479
| Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire North):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the latest estimate is of opiate seizures in Afghanistan since the start of UK operations there. | | (94512) | 480
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on an independent Somaliland; and if she will make a statement. | | (94044) | 481
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether she has received representations from the US authorities on measures to limit Iran's access to international financial systems; and whether UK assistance has been requested in this regard. | | (93704) | 482
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of al-Qaeda operatives in custody within Iran; what recent discussions her representatives have had with the Iranian authorities regarding such people; and if she will make a statement. | | (93706) | 483
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of Iranian compliance with the requirements of UN Security Council Resolution 1373. | | (93707) | 484
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much has been spent on projects for the promotion of democracy and freedom of information in the Islamic Republic of Iran in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (93708) | 485
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will make a statement on the proposed extension of the Temporary International Mechanism to deliver aid to the Palestinians; and when it is expected to take effect. | | (94255) | 486
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the written Ministerial statement of 10th October 2006, Official Report, columns 14-16WS, on the Middle East Peace Process/Lebanon, what actions are planned (a) to develop a new programme to build viable institutions for a future Palestinian state and (b) to develop capacity in the Palestinian Territories. | | (94367) | 487
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the written Ministerial statement of 10th October 2006, Official Report, columns 14-16WS, on the Middle East Peace Process/Lebanon, if she will make a statement on the proposed UK role in improving Palestinian security. | | (94368) | 488
| Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what measures are being taken by (a) the UK and (b) the rest of the EU to help the Lebanese armed forces to achieve the capacity to effectively defend Lebanese sovereignty; and if she will make a statement. | | (94575) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 489
| Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North & Stoke Newington):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when her Department will announce a date for the introduction of the public smoking ban in England. | | (94441) | 490
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps her Department has taken to implement the volatile substance abusers framework since June 2005. | | (94210) | 491
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make it her policy to add bitrex to cigarette lighter fuel to discourage volatile substance abuse. | | (94211) | 492
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will reissue the Health Promotion Agency leaflets giving information for retailers on the dangers of volatile substance abuse. | | (94212) | 493
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government has renewed the contract with St George's, University of London, to produce the annual report Trends in Death Associated with Abuse of Volatile Substances for the year 2005; when the contract for developing Network VSA will be let; and how it will be monitored. | | (94213) | 494
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on developments in the NHS Plus evidence based guidelines project, with particular reference to latex allergies in the workplace. | | (94517) | 495
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made towards reducing health inequalities within (a) England and (b) London. | | (93975) | 496
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made towards reaching the target of reducing inequalities in health outcomes as measured by (a) infant mortality and (b) life expectancy at birth by 10 per cent. by 2010 in (i) the London Strategic Health Authority area, (ii) the London Borough of Newham and (iii) England. | | (93976) | 497
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will fully fund the provision of Erbitox and Avastan to sufferers of bowel cancer; and if she will make a statement. | | (93142) | 498
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many organ transplant operations were carried out on private patients in NHS hospitals in the last three years. | | (94047) | 499
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many organ transplant operations were carried out in non-NHS hospitals in the last three years; and how many were carried out in NHS hospitals. | | (94048) | 500
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that people on low incomes have access to free dental health care. | | (94054) | 501
| Mr Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether under GP practice-based commissioning, GPs will be able to retain savings made against their budgets to be put towards patient services. | | (94001) | 502
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time employees are employed at the National Blood Service Centre at Barrack Road, Newcastle upon Tyne; and what plans she has for the centre. | | (94832) | 503
| John Cummings (Easington):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations she has received on her decision to refer maternity and paediatric services in Teesside to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel; from whom such representations were received; and if she will make a statement. | | (94202) | 504
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the role of social enterprise models in the provision of mental health care and services; and what discussions the Department has had with the King's Fund on social enterprise. | | (94108) | 505
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will place a moratorium on closure of independent birth units until the conclusion of the National Perinatal Epidemiological Unit's study into midwifery services and the role of such units. | | (94124) | 506
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations she has received about the estimated number of patients who would benefit from Rosiglitazone. | | (94046) | 507
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) heart attacks, (b) strokes and (c) other adverse side effects that may have been caused in England from using (i) Vioxx and (ii) other Cox-2 inhibitors. | | (94132) | 508
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will request that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence simultaneously appraises Avastin and Lucentis for the treatment of macular degeneration. | | (94594) | 509
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the percentage employment rate was of newly qualified (a) nurses, (b) physiotherapists and (c) doctors in the latest period for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement. | | (94595) | 510
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of general practitioners have signed up to practice based commissioning in each primary care trust. | | (94596) | 511
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what her latest estimate is of the cost of redundancy payments associated with the recent reorganisations of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities. | | (94597) | 512
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the multi professional education levy budget was in each strategic health authority in each of the last three years. | | (94598) | 513
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when (a) she and (b) Ministers in her Department next plan to meet the Royal College of Midwives. | | (94599) | 514
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the impact of recent changes to the training budgets managed by strategic health authorities. | | (94600) | 515
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to link the Quality and Outcomes Framework and implementation of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance. | | (94601) | 516
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the basis was for the recent statement by the Chief Executive of the NHS that pregnant women are best served by large consultant-led services; and if she will make a statement. | | (94626) | 517
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will take steps to ensure that funding for health services in Cornwall better reflects the rurality factor. | | (94275) | 518
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the waiting time target is for a routine bone scan; and what the average waiting time was for a routine bone scan in each year since 2001. | | (94444) | 519
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what her policy is on the use of (a) the niqab, (b) the chador and (c) the burka by NHS staff; and if she will make a statement. | | (94327) | 520
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health authorities are piloting gowns or veils modelled on (a) the hijab, (b) the niqab, (c) the shalwar kameez, (d) the jilbab, (e) the chador and (f) the burka; and if she will make a statement. | | (94328) | 521
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people waited for more than four hours to be seen in the accident and emergency (A&E) Department at (a) St Richard's Hospital, Chichester, (b) Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, (c) Worthing Hospital, (d) Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth and (e) Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton in each of the last three years; and whether each of those hospitals met the Government target for A&E waiting times in each of those years. | | (94789) | 522
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) forecast and (b) outturn figures were for admissions to the accident and emergency departments of (i) the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, (ii) the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, (iii) the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, (iv) St Richard's Hospital, Chichester and (v) Worthing Hospital in each of the last five years. | | (94837) | 523
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many births there were at (a) the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, (b) St Richard's Hospital, Chichester and (c) Worthing Hospital in each of the last five years. | | (94838) | 524
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding her Department allocated per head of population in each primary care trust in (a) the area covered by the South East Coast Strategic Health Authority and (b) England in each year since 2003-04. | | (94839) | 525
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will place in the Library a copy of the heat map discussed in her meeting of 3rd July with the Labour Party Chairman and Minister Without Portfolio at the Cabinet Office. | | (94840) | 526
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent meetings she has had to discuss the future of hospitals in West Sussex; when they were held; and who attended each. | | (94841) | 527
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) other healthcare professionals were working at (i) the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, (ii) St Richard's Hospital, Chichester and (iii) Worthing Hospital in each of the last five years. | | (94862) | 528
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment her Department has made of the future demographic pressures on the health service in West Sussex. | | (94863) | 529
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations she has received on the reconfiguration of health services in West Sussex. | | (94866) | 530
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total value is of contracts her Department has held with General Healthcare Group Limited in each of the last five years. | | (94467) | 531
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total value was of contracts that her Department has held with (a) ER consultants and (b) Praesta in each of the last three years; and which Ministers have made use of their services. | | (94534) | 532
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether her Department has produced maps which show the impact of recent health reconfigurations by constituency. | | (94715) | 533
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much her Department has spent on work undertaken by McKinsey and Company in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07. | | (92798) | 534
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which individuals and organisations have been consulted as part of the review by McKinsey and Company of the health economy of Kent, Surrey and Sussex on behalf of the South East Coast Strategic Health Authority. | | (92826) | 535
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what projects were undertaken by McKinsey and Company for her Department in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07, broken down by subject. | | (92827) | 536
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what process was used to appoint external consultants to assess potential savings in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex health economy. | | (92828) | 537
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms her Department has put in place to ensure that external consultants follow high standards of transparency and consultation when undertaking work for the NHS. | | (92829) | 538
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what projects McKinsey and Company management consultants have undertaken for the Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority and successor bodies in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07. | | (92830) | 539
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has for improving NHS audiology services; and if she will make a statement. | | (94099) | 540
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the likely outturn expenditure against plans of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust for 2006-07. | | (94100) | 541
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the most common reason for (a) out-patient and (b) in-patient admissions to Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport was in each of the last three years. | | (94101) | 542
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of in-patient admissions to Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport in each of the last three years were recorded as alcohol-related. | | (94102) | 543
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what preparations her Department has made for the 2006-07 influenza season. | | (94103) | 544
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of how many and what proportion of NHS buildings comply with the Disability Discrimination Act 2005; and if she will make a statement. | | (94104) | 545
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dental surgeries there are in the Stockport Primary Care Trust area; and how many of these are not accepting new NHS patients. | | (94105) | 546
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to improve services in secure mental health units. | | (94106) | 547
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions she has had with other Government departments on improving services at secure mental health units. | | (94107) | 548
| Mr David Jones (Clwyd West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance is given by her Department to hospital trusts on recording cases of MRSA infection. | | (94192) | 549
N | Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps she is taking to ensure that opticians' practices carry a range of spectacles affordable with an NHS voucher of maximum value. | | (94293) | 550
N | Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) community nursing posts and (b) health visitor posts in each health authority are frozen. | | (94299) | 551
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research she has examined on the causes of necrotising entrocolitis in the NHS. | | (94249) | 552
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of children and babies with necrotising enterocolitis there were in each year between 2000 and 2006. | | (94286) | 553
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dental practices undertake National Health Service treatment in England for (a) adults and (b) children; and how many undertook such work in each category in 1998. | | (94167) | 554
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists have ceased to work for the National Health Service since the new contract came into force; and if she will make a statement. | | (94176) | 555
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will list the reconfiguration of health service proposals which have been referred to her by local authority overview and scrutiny panels. | | (94185) | 556
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which cases referred to her by local authority overview and scrutiny panels she has referred to the independent reconfiguration panels. | | (94186) | 557
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which reconfiguration of health service proposals referred to her by local authority overview and scrutiny panels she has (a) upheld and (b) rejected. | | (94187) | 558
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many childcare places are (a) provided on NHS premises and (b) subsidised by the NHS. | | (94188) | 559
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what improvements she (a) has made and (b) plans to make to healthcare for looked after children. | | (94189) | 560
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions she had with Tony Maden before she produced the Review of Homicides by Patients with Severe Mental Illness. | | (94693) | 561
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what method she used to decide who would produce the Review of Homicides by Patients with Severe Mental Illness; what factors she took into account when deciding to commission Tony Maden; and if she will make a statement. | | (94694) | 562
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she commissioned the Review of Homicides by Patients with Severe Mental Illness. | | (94695) | 563
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consultations were held to discuss the criteria which Tony Maden used to carry out her assessment of mental health patients for the Review of Homicides by Patients with Severe Mental Illness; and who decided the criteria for (a) the assessment and (b) the case selection. | | (94696) | 564
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whom she consulted before commissioning the Review of Homicides by Patients with Severe Mental Illness. | | (94759) | 565
| Richard Ottaway (Croydon South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the annual cost has been of providing security for Cane Hill, Coulsdon in each of the last four years. | | (94070) | 566
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make it her policy to consult patient groups, NHS unions and the wider public before awarding contracts to independent treatment centres. | | (94271) | 567
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the running cost of the Independent Review Panel has been in each year since it was established. | | (94272) | 568
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance she gives to general practitioners on the advice they offer to patients who are in an at risk category on the issue of consanguinity. | | (94280) | 569
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make it her policy to give reasons when she rejects a recommendation from an Overview and Scrutiny Committee for a proposed NHS re-configuration to be referred to the Independent Review Panel. | | (94281) | 570
N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she last met the Chair of the Independent Review Panel; and if she will make a statement. | | (94282) | 571
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much primary care trusts are required to pay back annually following receipt of money from the Community Hospital Fund; and if she will make a statement. | | (94151) | 572
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications have been received from primary care trusts for money from the Community Hospitals Fund; and if she will make a statement. | | (94152) | 573
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the criteria are for applications for funding to the Community Hospitals Fund; and if she will make a statement. | | (94153) | 574
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the advice is from (a) the Department of Health and (b) the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to primary care trusts on the use of (i) Macugen and (ii) Lucentis for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration. | | (93969) | 575
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the relationship is between the National Care Standards Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspections; and if she will make a statement. | | (94425) | 576
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the publication of the consultation paper on Smoke-Free Premises and Vehicles, whether local authorities will be compensated under the New Burdens Principle for increased litter removal costs. | | (94667) | 577
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will assess the merits of extending eligibility to payments from the Skipton Fund to relatives or dependents of those infected by NHS contaminated blood products who died before 29th August 2003; and if she will make a statement. | | (94442) | 578
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent (a) health visitors and (b) district nurses were employed in (i) England and (ii) the area covered in 2005 by each strategic health authority in (A) 1997, (B) 2001 and (C) 2005; and what average number of hours was worked annually by a full-time (1) district nurse and (2) health visitor in each case. | | (93505) | 579
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the extent of malnutrition (a) on admission to hospital and (b) in hospital. | | (93942) | 580
| Angela Watkinson (Upminster):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guarantees Pfizer and Unichem have given the Department concerning the availability of Pfizer products to the NHS from early 2007. | | (94519) | 581
| Angela Watkinson (Upminster):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment the Department has made of the impact on the NHS of the decision by Pfizer to sell its products through a single distribution channel from early 2007. | | (94520) | 582
N | Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will place in the Library the heat maps that have been prepared by her Department to analyse the impact of hospital closures. | | (94216) | 583
| Stephen Williams (Bristol West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists with NHS contracts have been registered in (a) Bristol and (b) Bristol West in each year since 2003. | | (94455) | 584
| Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to increase access to services for people suffering from Myalgic encephalopathy in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) the North East region. | | (94086) | 585
| Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the breast cancer (a) survival rate and (b) death rate was for women in each constituency in the North East region in each of the last 10 years. | | (94087) | 586
| Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women registered with a Hartlepool GP gave birth at (a) the University Hospital of Hartlepool, (b) the University Hospital of North Tees, (c) the James Cook University Hospital, (d) Darlington Memorial Hospital, (e) Bishop Auckland Hospital, (f) City Hospitals Sunderland, (g) another hospital and (h) at home in each of the last five years. | | (94088) | 587
| Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were admitted to the University Hospital of Hartlepool Accident and Emergency Department in each of the last five years. | | (94089) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 588
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been enforced against volatile substance abusers since their introduction. | | (94203) | 589
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been under the Cigarette Lighter Refill (Safety) Regulations 1999 in each of the last three years. | | (94204) | 590
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes were reported as caused by volatile substance abusers in the last period for which figures are available. | | (94205) | 591
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what analysis has been made of the Blueprint Programme on volatile substance abusers. | | (94206) | 592
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of young offenders when assessed on arrival at a young offender institution have admitted using volatile substances in the last period for which figures are available. | | (94214) | 593
| Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many eligible applicants for British citizenship attended a citizenship ceremony in each of the last six months for which figures are available. | | (94246) | 594
| Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the maximum time has been between the granting of an application for British citizenship and attendance at a British citizenship ceremony. | | (94247) | 595
| Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reason is for the length of time taken for Mr A S Chaumoo of Christchurch to receive an invitation to a citizenship ceremony. | | (94248) | 596
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department expects to meet the three per cent. increase recommended for Police Force pay. | | (94831) | 597
| Mr David Curry (Skipton & Ripon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places are available in medium secure psychiatric units in each county of England and Wales; and what each figure represents per 100,000 population. | | (93959) | 598
| Mr David Curry (Skipton & Ripon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the target figure is for provision of medium-secure psychiatric units per county in England and Wales. | | (93960) | 599
| Mr David Curry (Skipton & Ripon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is a construction and security standard for medium-secure pyschiatric units. | | (93961) | 600
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners absconded from (a) category A, (b) category B, (c) category C and (d) category D prisons in each of the last five years. | | (94283) | 601
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners housed in category D facilities have been charged with assaulting (a) fellow inmates and (b) prison workers in the last five years. | | (94284) | 602
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners were transferred from category (a) A and (b) B prisons to category D prisons in each of the last five years. | | (94289) | 603
| Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what value of phone cards each prisoner receives free of charge annually. | | (94199) | 604
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many tourists in England and Wales were (a) killed, (b) mugged and (c) raped in each of the last five years. | | (94040) | 605
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Immigration and Nationality Directorate will reply to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green of 26th June 2006, regarding a constituent, Mr Ousseynou Wade, (Home Office reference W1060359). | | (94134) | 606
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners have been convicted for drugs offences in each of the past five years; and what percentage of the prison population these figures represent. | | (94130) | 607
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Afghanistan have moved to the UK in each of the last five years; and how many have returned to Afghanistan in the same period. | | (94131) | 608
N | Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many written parliamentary questions tabled to his Department before (a) 25th July and (b) 2nd October remained unanswered on 9th October. | | (93559) | 609
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether British overseas citizens from the Malyasian states of (a) Penang and (b) Malacca have ever been granted some form of leave to remain in the UK on claiming their rights to live in the UK; and whether there has been a change of policy in the last three years in each case. | | (94762) | 610
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appeals have been granted by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal against refusals to grant leave to remain to British overseas citizens from the Malaysian states of Penang and Malacca in each of the last five years. | | (94763) | 611
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place in the Library copies of the (a) policies, (b) guidance, (c) circulars and (d) instructions on (i) the security categorisation and (ii) the allocation to open or closed prisons of foreign nationals (1) subject to immigration control and (2) liable to be deported issued since 1st March. | | (94764) | 612
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place in the Library copies of the (a) policies, (b) guidance, (c) circulars and (d) instructions on the release from prison of foreign nationals (i) on completion of their custodial sentence, (ii) on licence during the course of their custodial sentence and (iii) on release on temporary licence issued since 1st March. | | (94765) | 613
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on the wearing of (a) the niqab, (b) the chador and (c) the burka by members of the public during interviews with (i) police officers, (ii) probation officers, (iii) prison officers and (iv) immigration officers; and if he will make a statement. | | (94330) | 614
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what arrangements his Department has in place for offering him advice on Islam and matters relating to Muslims; and who his advisers are on Islam and Muslim affairs. | | (94335) | 615
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) Ministers and (b) others in his Department have met representatives of Tablighi Jammaat during the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (94342) | 616
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what restrictions there are on publications received by prisoners. | | (94349) | 617
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of people in the UK who (a) speak English as a second language and (b) do not speak English. | | (94350) | 618
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who the participants have been in the roadshow on Islam established after the 7th July bombings; what costs have been incurred by the roadshow; how many visits it has carried out; and what locations it has visited. | | (94359) | 619
| Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK citizens aged (a) 18 and (b) 19 years hold a UK passport. | | (94278) | 620
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners have absconded from Ford Prison in each month since 1st January; what category of offences had been committed by each of these prisoners; what the term of the prison sentence was in each case; on what date each absconded; and whether the prisoner remains at large in each case. | | (94781) | 621
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Category C prisoners have been transferred to Ford Prison in each month since 1st January; and how many of these have subsequently absconded. | | (94782) | 622
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions his Department has had with (a) the Prison Service and (b) the National Offender Management Service about building a Category C prison at Ford. | | (94783) | 623
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the security arrangements at Ford Prison; and if he will make a statement. | | (94784) | 624
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of removing and transferring foreign national prisoners from Ford Prison on 26th May. | | (94785) | 625
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners removed from Ford Prison on 26th May (a) have been transferred back to Ford Prison and (b) are due to be returned to Ford Prison. | | (94786) | 626
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) foreign national prisoners and (b) non-foreign national prisoners are held at Ford Prison; and how many in each category were held there in each of the last five years. | | (94787) | 627
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proposals he has received on the building of a Category C prison at Ford in West Sussex. | | (94788) | 628
| Mr Douglas Hogg (Sleaford & North Hykeham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what instructions have been given to immigration officers at ports of entry who wish to verify the identity of a person wearing a veil or other garment which has the effect of concealing the face of the person wearing it. | | (94142) | 629
| Mr Douglas Hogg (Sleaford & North Hykeham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what directions have been given to ensure that officials concerned with cases before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (a) make full disclosure of all relevant information and documents and (b) provide accurate statements of fact; and if he will make a statement on the implications of the MK case. | | (94794) | 630
| Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions in 2005 Essex Police attended incidents at the Colchester Garrison; and how many such occassions there have been in 2006. | | (94190) | 631
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the incidence was of further offences whilst on release on temporary licence under the prison service order providing for primary carer home leave by (a) women prisoners at Drake Hall under the Drake Hall Governor's interpretation allowing prisoners to spend up to five days in every 28-day period at home with their children and (b) women prisoners from prisons other than HMP Drake Hall in the five years prior to 2006. | | (94258) | 632
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the incidence of further offences by women prisoners whilst on release on temporary licence for childcare resettlement leave has been following the introduction of Prison Service Order 6300 in January. | | (94259) | 633
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the incidence of further offences whilst on release on temporary licence for reasons other than childcare resettlement leave by (a) female prisoners and (b) male prisoners has been since January. | | (94260) | 634
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisons do not have the use of the Watson Intelligence Database to ascertain the extent of institutional corruption; and if he will make a statement. | | (93965) | 635
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the Prison Service London Area use the Great Westminster Clock as the logo on their letterheads rather than HM Prison Service logo; who authorised such use; and if he will make a statement. | | (93966) | 636
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the future of chaplaincy services in prisons. | | (94075) | 637
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations HM Prison Service has commissioned Mr Ron Tasker to carry out since the termination of his employment with the service; and if he will make a statement. | | (94076) | 638
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consultation was conducted with different religious groups on the proposed closure of the Church of England chapel at HM Prison Wandsworth; what factors were taken into account when deciding to close the chapel; and if he= will make a statement. | | (94077) | 639
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the process is for the appointment of co-ordinating chaplains across the prison estate; how many prisons have a co-ordinating chaplain in post; when he expects all prison establishments to have a co-ordinating chaplain; what the (a) name and (b) religious affiliation and denomination is of each co-ordinating chaplain; and if he will make a statement. | | (94078) | 640
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of inmates at each prison establishment who are (a) (i) practising and (ii) non-practising (A) Church of England, (B) Roman Catholic, (C) non-conformist Christian, (D) Hindu, (E) Muslim, (F) Sikh and (b) non-affiliated; when this information was last assessed; how often this information is collected; what mechanisms exist to ensure that there is suitable provision for religious expression for each faith and denomination; and if he= will make a statement. | | (94079) | 641
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of (a) governor grade staff, (b) governing governors, (c) Prison Service Area Managers and (d) Prison Service Management Board are (i) (A) practising and (B) non-practising (1) Church of England, (2) Roman Catholic, (3) non-conformist Christian (4) Hindu, (5) Muslim, (6) Sikh and (ii) non-affiliated; and if he will make a statement. | | (94080) | 642
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department has issued to prison governors on the permission of expression of religious faith; and if he will make a statement. | | (94179) | 643
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had on the closure of (a) Church of England and (b) Roman Catholic chapels across the prison estate; if he will list those (i) considered and (ii) determined for (A) closure and (B) amalgamation at each establishment; and if he will make a statement. | | (94180) | 644
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the sites of consecrated ground within the prison estate; what the denomination is of each; and if he will make a statement. | | (94181) | 645
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of inmates were returned from Category D establishments to closed condition in each region as a consequence of drug issues in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (94182) | 646
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent by (a) HM Prison Service and (b) his Department on investigations conducted by Mr Ron Tasker in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (94362) | 647
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost was of the recent opinion poll undertaken by Market Research UK and commissioned by Humberside Police; how many other forces have commissioned similar opinion polls; and how much has been spent by the police in England and Wales on such polling in the last 12 months. | | (94365) | 648
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the work and future of the present Chaplain General to the Prison Service. | | (94549) | 649
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has adopted a Welsh language policy. | | (94160) | 650
| Ian Lucas (Wrexham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police community support officers were employed by each police authority in Wales in each of the last four years for which figures are available. | | (93954) | 651
| Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the findings are of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate pilot schemes at Dover port and Croydon including social work intake teams in the asylum screening process; and if he will make a statement. | | (94602) | 652
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for (a) ex-gratia payments of compensation from public funds for miscarriages of justice there have been since 1976 and (b) payments under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 there have been since its inception; how many such cases were decided by the assessors in each year; what the date was of each assessment; how much compensation was awarded in each case; how each award was made up; how much in legal costs was awarded in each case, broken down by type of cost; what the reasons were for the award of costs in each case; what the administrative costs, including fees and other benefits payable to the assessor, were in respect of each case; and what length of time was taken in each case (i) from receipt of the application to the assessment of eligibility, (ii) from acceptance of eligibility to assessment of compensation and (iii) from assessment of compensation to the payment of compensation. | | (94397) | 653
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) re-appointments and (b) competitions for the appointment of an independent assessor to assess ex-gratia payments from public funds under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 of compensation for miscarriages of justice there have been since 1976. | | (94398) | 654
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what costs have been incurred by the Government and paid by or on behalf of the Independent Assessor of claims for compensation for miscarriage of justice in respect of legal advice and litigation arising from assessments since 1976; and what the (a) date and (b) amount was of each such payment. | | (94399) | 655
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reviews have been undertaken into the schemes relating to ex gratia payments from public funds or under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 of compensation for miscarriages of justice since 1997; when each such review was undertaken; and who undertook each one. | | (94400) | 656
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consultation has taken place on compensation and other redress for victims of miscarriages of justice, their relatives and campaigners since 1997. | | (94401) | 657
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what communications and discussions have taken place between the Government and the current Independent Assessor regarding changes in the scheme. | | (94402) | 658
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the applicants for appointment as Independent Assessor of claims for compensation for miscarriages of justice were assessed; by whom they were assessed; how the competitions for appointment as Independent Assessor were advertised; how many applicants applied in respect of each competition; what procedure exists for unsuccessful applicants to raise concerns about the handling of the selection process; and what further competitions are proposed. | | (94403) | 659
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the Independent Assessor relating to his planned changes in the scheme for compensation for victims of miscarriages of justice. | | (94404) | 660
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who has held the appointment of Independent Assessor to assess ex gratia payments from public funds or under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 of compensation for miscarriages of justice since 1976; for what period each person held that appointment; on what terms and conditions of engagement each Independent Assessor has been appointed; and what remuneration was payable to each in each year of their appointment. | | (94405) | 661
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the performance by the Independent Assessor of claims for compensation for miscarriages of justice of his functions has been assessed or monitored; and by whom. | | (94406) | 662
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what policies and procedures his Department has regarding the expression of official sympathy, regret and apology in serious miscarriage of justice cases. | | (94409) | 663
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which cases in which there has been a miscarriage of justice a meeting with the Government has been (a) sought and (b) granted by the Government since 1997; when and where such meetings have taken place; and who has represented the Government at such meetings. | | (94410) | 664
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are taken to examine why serious miscarriage of justice cases which occurred were not rectified earlier in cases where his Department and the police had the opportunity to do so. | | (94411) | 665
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are taken to learn any necessary lessons from miscarriage of justice cases, with particular reference to cases in which the miscarriage of justice has arisen from impropriety and criminal conduct of the police. | | (94412) | 666
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are taken to ensure that communications relating to miscarriage of justice cases that involve the Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Attorney-General's Office are passed onto them for their observations and proposals. | | (94413) | 667
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what education and training (a) has been given to and (b) is planned for (i) the current Director and (ii) other staff of the Office for Criminal Justice Reform regarding the nature of the work of that Office, with particular reference to (A) miscarriage of justice cases and (B) meeting the need of those who are relatives of victims who have died as a result of criminal conduct. | | (94414) | 668
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) financial and (b) other assistance is given to (i) a person who is released from prison following the quashing of his conviction after a miscarriage of justice and (ii) the (A) family and (B) legal personal representative of a person whose conviction has been quashed who has died. | | (94415) | 669
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what policies and procedures exist to ensure that a person whose conviction is quashed is promptly released by the prison authorities. | | (94416) | 670
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) shortest and (b) longest time has been for releasing a person from prison following the quashing of the conviction causing him to be detained within the prison; and what the average length of time taken to complete such release, excluding the shortest and longest cases from the calculation, has been. | | (94417) | 671
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) complaint and (b) redress procedures exist to deal with concerns relating to resolving issues arising from miscarriage of justice cases. | | (94418) | 672
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what policies and procedures exist for resolving disputes involving (a) his Department and (b) other organisations for which he is accountable to Parliament by way of (i) mediation, (ii) neutral evaluation and (iii) other forms of alternative dispute resolution. | | (94419) | 673
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expertise and experience is available within his Department regarding (a) the administration of estates, (b) assessing compensation for personal injuries and miscarriages of justice and (c) alternative dispute resolution. | | (94420) | 674
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what policies and procedures are applicable to his Department's legal advisers (a) to ensure that work which is outside their expertise and experience is not undertaken by them and (b) for monitoring and assessing the performance of their work. | | (94421) | 675
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) head count and (b) full-time equivalent officials are responsible for work relating to those who have suffered a miscarriage of justice, their relatives and campaigners, broken down by grade. | | (94422) | 676
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) size, (b) structure and (c) remit is of the miscarriages of justice team of the Office for Criminal Justice Reform; and how each has changed since its re-branding. | | (94423) | 677
| Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support and assistance is given by the Government to (a) those who have suffered a miscarriage of justice as a result of being the victim of criminal conduct and (b) those who have suffered a miscarriage of justice without there being any allegation of criminal conduct causing the miscarriage of justice. | | (94424) | 678
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect of the ban on hand-held firearms on the number of illegal shooting incidents; and if he will make a statement. | | (94147) | 679
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when Sudbury Open Prison in Derbyshire was awarded high performance status; and what this award entails. | | (94429) | 680
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how Sudbury Open Prison celebrated the granting of high performance status; and how the prison spent the associated award. | | (94430) | 681
| Mr John Spellar (Warley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign prisoners were deported in (a) July, (b) August and (c) September 2006. | | (94128) | 682
| Mr John Spellar (Warley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent by police forces in England and Wales on translation services in 2005-06. | | (94624) | 683
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to tackle human trafficking in London. | | (94668) | 684
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a (a) district council and (b) county council scrutiny committee will consider a Community Call for Action in a two-tier local government area. | | (94669) | 685
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date he expects the Community Call for Action to be implemented. | | (94670) | 686
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether basic command units will be coterminous with (a) unitary councils and (b) two-tier local government areas. | | (94671) | 687
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which local authorities are in each basic command unit area. | | (94674) | 688
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate the Government has made of the extent of human trafficking in the UK. | | (94675) | 689
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letters from the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight dated 15th June, 24th July and 19th September 2006 to the Director General of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate concerning Mrs Taylor, a constituent of the hon. Member. | | (93940) | 690
N | Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the occasions in each of the last six months when prisoners in closed conditions were moved as a group to open prisons on overcrowding drafts; how many prisoners were so moved; which prisons they were moved to and from in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (94215) | 691
N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those most seriously injured as a result of the terrorist attack on 7th July 2005 are still waiting for a full settlement from the Criminal Inquiries Compensation Authority. | | (94194) | 692
N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the maximum sum is which has been awarded by the Criminal Inquiries Compensation Authority to those most seriously injured on 7th July 2005; and whether any higher sum is expected to be awarded. | | (94195) | 693
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans there are for Standford Hill Prison to take Category C prisoners. | | (93688) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 694
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what plans the House Administration has to begin refurbishment work to the parliamentary estate; and whether Forestry Stewardship Council wood is planned to be used in such refurbishment. | | (94386) | 695
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, if he will place in the Library the results of the most recent health and safety audit of the Roof Terrace. | | (94576) | 696
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, if he will designate the Roof Terrace a drink-free area. | | (94577) | 697
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many recorded accidents there have been which resulted in (a) minor injury and (b) serious injury on the Roof Terrace of the House in each of the last five years; and what the primary cause of each accident was. | | (94638) | 698
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, with what regularity air filters in those parts of the main building with air conditioning are (a) inspected and cleaned and (b) replaced. | | (94469) | 699
| Mr John Spellar (Warley):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many employees of the House earned more than £59,000 in the last 12 months. | | (94574) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 700
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance his Department is providing to non-governmental organisations operating in Sri Lanka. | | (93971) | 701
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department is providing support for civilians displaced by the recent fighting in Sri Lanka. | | (93972) | 702
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance his Department is giving to security sector reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | | (93973) | 703
| Lyn Brown (West Ham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent representations he has made to other national governments to provide additional aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo. | | (93974) | 704
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much multilateral aid the UK has given to Somaliland in each of the last five years; through which organisations it has been distributed; and if he will make a statement. | | (94041) | 705
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many of his Department's personnel are based in Somaliland; and if he will make a statement. | | (94042) | 706
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much bilateral development assistance has been provided by the UK to Somaliland in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (94043) | 707
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the role is of the Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department (CHASE OT) within his Department; in which countries it has been operational in the last three years; how many staff are based in CHASE OT; and if he will make a statement. | | (94428) | 708
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the role is of the Post Conflict Reconstruction Unit; how much funding the unit has received in each of the last three financial years; what funding is planned for the unit in each of the next three financial years; in which countries it has been operational since its inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (94473) | 709
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what work has been done to meet the UK's aim of strengthening the role of the Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership in supporting the Middle East peace process. | | (94251) | 710
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the outcome was of the 2006 Review of the European Investment Bank's Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership operations in the Palestinian Territories. | | (94252) | 711
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much has been spent in the Palestinian Territories under the electricity network upgrading initiative to improve the quality and reliability of the electricity supply across the Palestinian Territories announced during the UK Presidency of the EU in 2005. | | (94253) | 712
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on progress made since the announcement of increased European support for economic regeneration in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in November 2005 during the UK Presidency of the EU. | | (94254) | 713
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what role the UK has played in capacity building in the Occupied Territories since January; and what further action is planned. | | (94256) | 714
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much has been allocated to each of the uses to which the £30 million provided by the UK to the Palestinians in 2006 has been put. | | (94257) | Questions to the Leader of the House 715
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Leader of the House, what proportion of named day questions tabled during the summer recess were answered (a) on the date due and (b) within a week of that date. | | (94074) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 716
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of the £7.5 million per annum spent on the Racial Equality Strategy for Northern Ireland relates to (a) on-going work and (b) new initiatives each year; and whether further resources have been allocated to the strategy by other Government departments for (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08. | | (93987) | 717
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he plans to introduce legislation to implement the EU legislative requirement that motorists carry a high visibility vest in motor vehicles. | | (93988) | 718
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to introduce concessionary fares on public transport for carers of disabled people in Northern Ireland. | | (93989) | 719
| Albert Owen (Ynys Môn):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what percentage of households in Northern Ireland is without mains gas. | | (94314) | 720
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans there are for Action Cancer's Big Bus to visit East Belfast and Strangford; and if he will make a statement. | | (94056) | 721
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the introduction of bus lanes on Belfast's main arterial roads in reducing the number of cars on the roads; and if he will make a statement. | | (94057) | 722
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many complaints the public have made to the Police Service of Northern Ireland about the illegal sale of fireworks to young children, broken down by district command units; and if he will make a statement. | | (94058) | 723
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many charges of illegal sale of fireworks to children in Northern Ireland have been successful, broken down by district command unit in the last three years. | | (94059) | 724
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many licence holders there are in Northern Ireland for the sale of fireworks. | | (94060) | 725
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people have been injured in Northern Ireland as a result of careless or poor handling of fireworks in each district command unit area in each of the last five years. | | (94061) | 726
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the take up is of (a) breast and (b) cervical cancer screening in rural areas by women in their (i) 50's and (ii) 70's; and if he will make a statement. | | (94113) | 727
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many men have taken up screening for (a) testicular and (b) prostate cancer in the last three years in each health board in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement. | | (94114) | 728
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many unfilled vacancies there are for special pyschiatric nurses in each health board area in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement. | | (94115) | 729
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many staff have been seriously injured in psychiatric units in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years. | | (94116) | 730
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) children and (b) young adults from Northern Ireland were given a place at St Georges for treatment for (i) anorexia and (ii) other mental health conditions in each of the last five years. | | (94117) | 731
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many pregnant foreign nationals have presented at hospitals in Northern Ireland without suitable medical records in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (94118) | 732
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many women from targeting social need areas in (a) inner east Belfast and (b) Strangford are not using the offer of screening for (i) breast and (ii) cervical cancers; and what plans there are to increase the numbers using these services. | | (94119) | 733
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people have been charged for possession of cannabis in Northern Ireland in the last two years. | | (94120) | 734
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which drug was sold illegally in Northern Ireland in the greatest quantities in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (94121) | 735
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people have been charged for illegal trafficking of females for prostitution from EU countries to Northern Ireland since records of such crimes have been collected. | | (94122) | 736
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many unfilled posts there are for (a) psychiatrists and (b) pyschologists in each health board in Northern Ireland. | | (94123) | 737
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to introduce (a) home information packs, (b) home condition reports and (c) energy performance certificates in Northern Ireland. | | (94664) | Questions to the Minister without Portfolio 738
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Minister without Portfolio, what arrangements her Office has in place for offering her advice on Islam and matters relating to Muslims; and who her advisers are on Islam and Muslim affairs. | | (94339) | 739
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Minister without Portfolio, whether (a) she and (b) others in her Office have met representatives of Tablighi Jammaat during the last three years; and if she will make a statement. | | (94346) | Questions to the Prime Minister 740
| Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North & Stoke Newington):To ask the Prime Minister, if he will include a Bill on climate change in the Queen's Speech. | | (94539) | 741
| Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes):To ask the Prime Minister, how many times he has visited members of the British armed forces who have been wounded either in Afghanistan or Iraq in hospital since 2001; what the dates were of these visits; and which hospitals he visited. | | (94797) | 742
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Prime Minister, who has been made a life peer within two years of previously having been an hon. Member since 1st May 1997, broken down by party. | | (93786) | 743
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions took place in his recent meetings with the Prime Minister of India on caste- and descent-based discrimination in India and other countries. | | (94798) | 744
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Prime Minister, what (a) matters were discussed and (b) decisions were taken at the UK-India summit on 10th October. | | (94055) | 745
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Prime Minister, what arrangements his Office has in place for offering him advice on Islam and matters relating to Muslims; and who his advisers are on Islam and Muslim affairs. | | (94331) | 746
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Prime Minister, what the (a) purpose and (b) remit is of his four policy review committees announced by his official spokesman on 20th September 2006; and if he will make a statement on the progress with the work of the committees. | | (94529) | 747
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Prime Minister, what the guidelines are on (a) Ministers and (b) relatives of Ministers using official ministerial residences for commercial purposes. | | (94865) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 748
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many people are employed in the Scotland Office. | | (94174) | 749
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether the Ministerial office in Dover House is (a) occupied and (b) used by his Department. | | (94673) | Questions to the Solicitor General 750
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Solicitor General, how much the prosecution in the case of R v Lindis Percy at Harrogate Magistrates Court on 18th, 19th and 21st September is estimated to have cost in public funds. | | (94610) | 751
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Solicitor General, in what proportion of successfully prosecuted cases in Northamptonshire compensation for victims was (a) requested and (b) secured in the last period for which figures are available. | | (93497) | Questions to the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 752
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how much has been allocated for the Electoral Commission's Conference on the Regulation of Political Party Financing. | | (94790) | 753
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, who has been invited to attend the Electoral Commission's Conference on the Regulation of Political Party Financing. | | (94791) | 754
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the total expenditure was of the Electoral Commission in each year of its operation; and what its budget is for (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. | | (94792) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 755
N | Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent representations he has received on the operation of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. | | (93403) | 756
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what proportion of UK electricity-generating capacity can use more than one fuel type. | | (94287) | 757
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what proportion of UK gas demand is met by interruptable contracts. | | (94288) | 758
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether he has asked the Director of Civil Nuclear Security to investigate the adequacy of the transport security statement attached to the consignment of irradiated nuclear fuel involved in the incident in which a fake bomb was placed on a train carrying spent nuclear fuel in a siding in North West London. | | (94226) | 759
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what criteria he plans to use to calculate the full share of costs incurred to manage radioactive waste arising from prospective new build reactors in order to recover these costs from the operators. | | (94227) | 760
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many staff from the UK Atomic Energy Authority have been seconded to the Office for Civil Nuclear Security to assist in vetting; what contractual arrangements cover the secondments; and over what time period the secondments have been agreed. | | (94228) | 761
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many freedom of information requests have been made to his Department in respect of Sellafield since January 2005; how many have received a substantive reply providing the information requested; how many have been refused; and on what grounds each refusal was made. | | (94229) | 762
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what funding his Department (a) provides and (b) has allocated for future years for the Marine Energy Accelerator Renewable Energy Project. | | (94630) | 763
N | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what progress has been made in appointing a new director for the National Institute for Medical Research; and what process is being followed. | | (93489) | 764
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what support his Department provides for small business start-ups. | | (94432) | 765
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total value has been of (a) contracts held with and (b) payments and grants made to Bridges Community Ventures since May 2002. | | (94532) | 766
| Mr David Jones (Clwyd West):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether his Department considers the European Landscape Convention when considering applications for consent to the development of (a) onshore and (b) offshore wind farms. | | (94628) | 767
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether his Department has adopted a Welsh language policy. | | (94159) | 768
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many (a) miners' hearing loss, (b) vibration white finger and (c) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease claims have been made in Bassetlaw constituency in each of the last seven years, broken down by solicitor. | | (93714) | 769
N | Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans he has to ensure that the right to request flexible work to be introduced in April 2007 is available to the widest possible range of carers. | | (93401) | 770
| Albert Owen (Ynys Môn):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many households in each constituency in Wales are not connected to the gas network. | | (94270) | 771
| Albert Owen (Ynys Môn):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what percentage of households in Wales is without mains gas. | | (94315) | 772
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the current difficulties facing Airbus and the implications for the aerospace industry in the North West. | | (94183) | 773
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many Bankruptcy Restriction Orders (BROs) have been made under the personal insolvency provisions introduced by the Enterprise Act in April 2004; and what proportion of total bankruptcy cases BROs represented in the same period. | | (94092) | 774
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many public service agreement targets relating to better regulation of his Department are in operation. | | (94093) | 775
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total cost was to each regional development agency of designing, printing and distributing a corporate plan in each year since 1999. | | (94094) | 776
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many businesses in each region received financial assistance from the regional development agencies in each year since 1999. | | (94095) | 777
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether additional (a) financial and (b) human resources have been provided to the Insolvency Service for the administration of the Bankruptcy Restriction Order regime since the introduction of the Enterprise Act 2002. | | (94096) | 778
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the expenditure per head of population of each regional development agency was in each year since 1999. | | (94197) | 779
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what new employment rights have been provided by legislation introduced since 1997. | | (93502) | 780
| Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the output of coal fired stations in the UK was in 2005. | | (94508) | 781
| Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many coal fired power stations in the UK conform to the requirements of the Waste Incineration Directive concerning the burning of non-fossil fuel. | | (94509) | 782
| Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what proportion of the fuel burnt in coal fired power stations in the UK was (a) energy crops, (b) refuse derived fuel and (c) wood in the last period for which figures are available. | | (94510) | 783
| Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what proportion of fuel burned in coal fired power stations in the UK is derived from non-fossil sources; and what the proportion is in each such power station. | | (94511) | 784
| Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation is required to permit private companies to construct nuclear power plants. | | (94793) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 785
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what opportunity for journey time reductions for Sussex Coastal Services he assesses that the Brighton Mainline Utilisation Strategy may afford. | | (93787) | 786
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many traffic surveys assessing the Cophall roundabout on the A27 at Polegate were undertaken (a) before and (b) after the service station development at the Cophall roundabout was built. | | (94369) | 787
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidelines are in place to ensure the correct positioning of electronic under-road sensors in new road schemes. | | (94370) | 788
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions control computer malfunctions have occurred at the Cophall roundabout on the A27 at Polegate; and on how many of these occasions severe congestion ensued. | | (94371) | 789
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what factors underpinned the decision of the Highways Agency to switch off the traffic lights at the Cophall roundabout on the A27 at Polegate in May 2006; and if he will make a statement. | | (94372) | 790
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he estimates that the traffic lights at the Cophall roundabout on the A27 at Polegate will be switched back on. | | (94373) | 791
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timetable he has established for clarification of the road markings at the Cophall roundabout on the A27 at Polegate. | | (94374) | 792
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent since the opening of the Cophall roundabout on the A27 at Polegate on dealing with consequential problems related to the roundabout. | | (94375) | 793
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans the Government has to build new trunk roads in Northamptonshire in the next 10 years. | | (94363) | 794
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the Department's estimate is of the percentage error rate in the annual tests of (a) cars, (b) light goods vehicles, (c) motorcycles, (d) heavy goods vehicles and (e) passenger carrying vehicles. | | (94540) | 795
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many front line technical staff employed in the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency are involved in the statutory testing of vehicles; how the number is expected to change within the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (94541) | 796
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency has to implement the results of its market research on the preferred wishes of heavy goods vehicles and passenger carrying vehicles operators on the location and provision of facilities and services in conducting the annual testing of vehicles. | | (94542) | 797
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) Senior Civil Service and (b) pay level 10 posts there were within the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency on 1st January 2005; how many in each category there were on 31st August 2006; and what the total pay bill including bonuses was for each group of staff in 2005-06. | | (94543) | 798
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost was of creating the new Vehicle and Operator Services Agency Directors' suite on the second floor of Berkeley House in Bristol, broken down into (a) building works, (b) redecoration and furnishing, (c) IT infrastructure and (d) other costs. | | (94544) | 799
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the terms of reference are of the Deloittes study into the possible outsourcing of work being carried out by the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency; what the initial conclusions of the study are; and if he will make a statement. | | (94545) | 800
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) senior civil servants and (b) other staff from the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency attended the launch celebrations of the MOT Computerisation project held on the SS Great Britain in Bristol. | | (94546) | 801
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) venue, (b) meal, (c) entertainment, (d) travel and subsistence and (e) other costs were of the launch celebrations of the MOT Computerisation project held on the SS Great Britain in Bristol; and from where the costs were provided. | | (94547) | 802
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what elements made up the output units used by the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency in assessing its performance in conducting the statutory testing of vehicles (a) in 2005-06 and (b) when first introduced; what the weighting of each element was in each case; what changes have been made to the (i) elements and (ii) weighting of the elements; and when each such change was made. | | (94722) | 803
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many roadside checks the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency conducted (a) with and (b) without support from local police forces in each of the last six years. | | (94799) | 804
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many foreign-registered vehicles have been inspected in the South East International Transport Project during the 2006-07 financial year; how many prohibitions were issued as a result, broken down by type of offence; and how many prosecutions have resulted from those inspections during the current financial year. | | (94800) | 805
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many foreign nationals were prosecuted following Vehicle and Operator Services Agency inspections in each year since 2001, broken down by type of offence; and how many offenders were (a) drivers and (b) operators. | | (94801) | 806
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to change the level and degree of technical examination in the Single Vehicle Approval Test; and if he will make a statement. | | (94802) | 807
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received on the protection of passengers and staff from violence on buses. | | (94431) | 808
| Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people aged (a) 18 and (b) 19 years hold a UK (i) provisional and (ii) full driving licence. | | (94279) | 809
N | Stewart Hosie (Dundee East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to introduce (a) permits, (b) compulsory insurance and (c) a minimum age for jet ski users. | | (93491) | 810
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when (a) the subsidence on the A630 between Sheffield and the M1 motorway will be rectified and (b) the road will be resurfaced. | | (92917) | 811
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many safety camera partnerships hold pre-driver education programmes; what the cost is of these programmes in each case; and what the names of the partnerships are. | | (92918) | 812
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, under what legal authority and for what reason safety camera partnerships hold pre-driver education programmes; what legal remit they have to undertake such work; and from which part of his Department funding for the programmes came. | | (92919) | 813
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason a pipe and cables are being laid alongside the north bound carriageway of the M18 motorway between junctions 3 and 4; and why such excavation has not taken place at a sufficient distance from the motorway to allow later carriageway widening without future disruption. | | (92988) | 814
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) assessment he has made of the effectiveness and (b) estimate he has made of the cost of introducing pavements utilising titanium dioxide to reduce pollution in cities; if he will encourage local authorities to utilise pollution-cutting technology as an alternative to existing measures; and if he will make a statement. | | (93710) | 815
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what responses he has received from the police to the Setting Local Speed Limits circular published in August 2006; and if he will make a statement. | | (93963) | 816
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost was of administering the speed camera network in each Safety Camera Partnership area in the last year for which figures are available. | | (93964) | 817
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make changes to the composition of the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Transport Board to include a representative from the East Riding of Yorkshire. | | (94366) | 818
N | Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what length of roads has been built in each year since 1979. | | (94276) | 819
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of pensioners in Gloucestershire who use the Dial-a-Ride service; and if he will make a statement. | | (93565) | 820
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to allow Dial-a-Ride services to qualify for concessionary fares remuneration; and if he will make a statement. | | (93566) | 821
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether car drivers are entitled to display a blue badge only when a person with disabilities is in the car; and if he will make a statement. | | (94150) | 822
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the change in estimated costs for lines 2 and 3 has been of the Nottingham NET tram system since his Department accepted the final submission. | | (94198) | 823
| Mr John Spellar (Warley):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the operation of the active traffic management and hard shoulder running on the M42. | | (94129) | 824
N | Mr John Spellar (Warley):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Answer of 13th September 2006, Official Report, columns 2265-6W, on terrorism, when procedures to deal with a terrorist attack were last exercised at (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick, (c) Stansted and (d) London City airport. | | (94140) | 825
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on his proposals to elect directly the six metropolitan passenger transport authorities. | | (94663) | 826
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what financial contribution his Department has made to the Sustainability of Land Use and Transport in Outer Neighbourhoods research project. | | (94686) | 827
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the research report commissioned by his Department entitled Sustainability of Land Use and Transport in Outer Neighbourhoods. | | (94687) | 828
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the research report commissioned by his Department entitled Representing the Housing Market in Land Use/Transport Models - phase 1. | | (94688) | 829
N | Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency of registering and licensing off-road bikes. | | (93962) | 830
N | Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications of the new national Boatmasters' Licence on the operation of the Watermans' Acts in Portsmouth Harbour. | | (93563) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 831
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much the Wales Office spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2003-04 and (b) 2004-05. | | (94157) | 832
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether the Wales Office has adopted a Welsh language policy. | | (94158) | 833
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with the First Minister about the sub-post offices in Wales. | | (94171) | 834
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with representatives of sub-post offices in Wales in the last 12 months. | | (94172) | 835
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people are employed in the Wales Office; and how many were employed in 1997-98. | | (94173) | 836
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he last met the First Secretary of the National Assembly of Wales to discuss the strengthening of the Conwy Valley railway line to enable it to carry heavy freight; and if he will make a statement. | | (94175) | 837
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much single farm payment has been paid in Wales up to the end of June; and if he will make a statement. | | (94457) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 838
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each (a) Government office region and (b) county receive the carer's credit for the state second pension; and what each figure is as a ratio of the population in each region and county. | | (94836) | 839
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on the wearing of (a) the niqab, (b) the chador and (c) the burka by claimants during personal interviews with staff employed by his Department in relation to payments made by his Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (94326) | 840
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the estimated cost to the Exchequer would be of deemed buy back if the rights to it were exercised by all those identified in the Ombudsman's report `Trusting in the Pensions Promise'. | | (94081) | 841
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the impact on the value of pension funds of the post A-Day (a) changes in the way shares are valued after a company has declared a dividend and (b) requirement for shares to be valued by the quarter up method. | | (94082) | 842
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the total cost to pension funds administration of upgrading IT equipment to accommodate (a) the post A-Day requirement for shares to be valued by the quarter up method and (b) the changes to the treatment of ex-dividend shares. | | (94083) | 843
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether an estimate has been made of the net cost of compensating those identified in the Ombudsman's report Trusting in the Pensions Promise taking into the account the resulting reduction in (a) pension credit, (b) council tax benefit and (c) housing benefit payable to those compensated. | | (94084) | 844
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library the data underlying the graph on p.46 of the Response to the Report by the Parliamentary Ombudsman Trusting in the Pensions Promise showing cash and net present value costs over time for compensating those who have suffered diminutions in their pensions. | | (94085) | 845
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the cost of compensation to those identified in the Ombudsman's report Trusting in the Pensions Promise who have suffered diminutions in their pensions if Pension Protection Fund compensation rules were applied. | | (94506) | 846
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Support Agency cases remain to be processed. | | (94073) | 847
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were in receipt of carer's allowance in each of the last three years. | | (94381) | 848
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of carer's allowance work part-time. | | (94382) | 849
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of carer's allowance and working part-time are receiving the minimum wage. | | (94383) | 850
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people he estimates will no longer be entitled to carer's allowance following the most recent increase in the minimum wage. | | (94384) | 851
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimates he has made of the number of people who are entitled to carer's allowance but are not claiming the benefit. | | (94385) | 852
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have passed through Pathways to Work programmes in each year since their inception, broken down by (a) area and (b) whether the participants had a physical or mental disability; and what proportion obtained work in each case. | | (94262) | 853
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether those volunteering while on benefits are entitled to claim lunch expenses without affecting their benefit entitlement; and if he will make a statement. | | (94426) | 854
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has held with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the warm front team; and whether the Department passes information to the warm front team on individuals benefit entitlements. | | (94427) | 855
N | Mr Jim McGovern (Dundee West):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to index the winter fuel allowance to fuel prices. | | (93774) | 856
N | Mr Jim McGovern (Dundee West):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of a pensioner's average energy bill was met by the winter fuel allowance in (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005; and what the estimated percentage is for 2006. | | (93776) | 857
N | Mr Jim McGovern (Dundee West):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of companies with invalid or insufficient employers' liability insurance. | | (93779) | 858
| Anne Main (St Albans):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims against claimants of income support who have been overpaid were stayed awaiting the decision B v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2005] EWCA Civ 929 by the Court of Appeal; how many of those have since been pursued; how many have been written off; and if he will make a statement. | | (94462) | 859
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to increase the financial support available to carers. | | (94045) | 860
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to remove the gainfully employed rule preventing carers from earning more than £84 per week whilst claiming carer's allowance of £46.95 per week. | | (94053) | 861
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what entitlement people receiving state pensions have to carers' allowance; and if he will make a statement. | | (93564) | 862
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what systems his Department has in place to measure the performance of Vertex in dealing with manual cases at the Child Support Agency; and if he will make a statement. | | (93722) | 863
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the length of the term is of the Child Support Agency contract awarded to Vertex; and if he will make a statement. | | (93723) | 864
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases Vertex has taken over from the Child Support Agency; and if he will make a statement. | | (93724) | 865
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which Minister made the decision to award the Child Support Agency contract to Vertex; and if he will make a statement. | | (93725) | 866
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria were used for the tendering process for the contract for the management of the manual cases of the Child Support Agency; and if he will make a statement. | | (93727) | 867
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many companies participated in the tender process for the management of manual cases of the Child Support Agency; and if he will make a statement. | | (93728) | 868
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what basis the decision was made to award the contract for the management of the manual cases of the Child Support Agency to Vertex; and if he will make a statement. | | (93729) | 869
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the commercial value to Vertex is of the contract for the management of manual Child Support Agency cases; and if he will make a statement. | | (93730) | 870
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training the staff of Vertex have received in handling clerical Child Support Agency cases; and if he will make a statement. | | (93731) | 871
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mechanisms have been put in place to safeguard data protection by Vertex in their handling of Child Support Agency cases; and if he will make a statement. | | (93732) | 872
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of households in Great Britain has claimed some form of state benefit in the last 12 months. | | (94285) | 873
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was paid in income support in each year since 1996. | | (94303) | 874
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on the performance of the In Work Credit programme. | | (93499) | 875
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress has been made in the last three months in testing the recommendations in the Henshaw report for redesign of the Child Support Agency. | | (93876) | 876
N | Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the timetable is for the transfer of payments through the Child Support Agency to the new rules for the calculation of payments. | | (93561) | 877
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much is allocated to (a) establishing and (b) running the Financial Assistance Scheme; and how much is allocated to the scheme for disbursing as assistance. | | (93703) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs 878
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many arrest warrants have been issued in Northern Ireland in each year since 2000; and how many people have subsequently been arrested on foot of such warrants. | | [Transferred] (94435) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 879
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will seek to legislate to reduce the size of the can in which butane cigarette lighter fuel can be sold. | | [Transferred] (94209) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 880
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the total level of subsidies given by the Government to farmers in Wales was in each of the last 10 years; and what each figure represents per farmer. | | [Transferred] (93948) |
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