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Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what legislative provisions introduced by his Department's predecessors since 1997 have been repealed. [149563]

Mr. Thomas: The information is as follows:

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Act	Provisions repealed
Competition Act 1998	Section 4
	Section 5
	Section 7
	Sections 12 to 16
	Section 17
	Section 20 to 24
	Section 32(2)
	Section 33(2)
	Section 41
	Section 48
	Section 53
	Section 55
	Section 56
	Sections 66 to 70
	Section 73(7)
	Schedule 1 paras 3 and 6
	Schedule 2
	Schedule 3 para 2
	Schedules 4 to 6
	Schedule 7 para 2(1 )(a), (3)(a) and (4), 4, 6(5),7(4) and 10
	Schedule 8 paras 1, 4 and Part II
	Schedule 9 paras 2 to 4, 6 to 7,
	Schedule 10 Part I, para 2 and Parts IV and V
	Schedule 11
Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998	Section 13
	Section 14(1)
	Section 17(4)
	Schedule 1 , para 19, 21, 23 and 26
Fossil Fuel Levy Act 1998	Whole Act
National Minimum Wage Act 1998	Section 8
	Section 23
	Schedule 2
	Amendments relating to the remuneration etc of Agricultural Workers
	Part 1 :The Agricultural Wages Act
	Para 4: sub-para (1)
	Para 5, Para 6, para 7: sub-para (2)
	Part 2: The Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act Para 15
Petroleum Act 1998	Schedule 4: paras 8, 10, 11, 13, 34, 40
	Schedule 5: the repeals of the Employment (Continental Shelf) Act 1978, of section 287(5) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1 992, and of section 201(5) of the Employment Rights Act 1996
Wireless Telegraphy Act 1 998	Whole Act
Employment Relations Act 1999	Section 10(6)
	Section 17
	Section 18(5)
	Section 28(1) and (2)
	Section 33(1) and (3)(a)
	Section 37(2)
	Section 40
	Schedule 4, paras 4, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15(a), 17 to 30 31 (a) 37, 40, 41
	Schedule 6, paras 2, 3, 5(2), 7(3), (4), 9, 10(2), 11(2), 14, 15(2), 16(2)
	Schedule 8 paras 2, 4, 6, and 7
Electronic Communications Act 2000	Sections 1 to 6
	Section 11
	Section 12
Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000	Section 10(2)
	Schedule, para 1
Postal Services Act 2000	Section 20
	Schedule 7 sub-paras 3(2)(h) and 3(2)(1)
Utilities Act 2000	Section 20(7)
	Section 75
	Schedule 8: the repeals of or in the Gas Act 1986 (sections 5(1), (2), 7A(12), 8A(1), 36(1), (2)(a), (c), (d) Schedule 2A, Schedule 2B, paras 7(2), 8(2)(b), 8(4) to (6), 8(8) and 9(5) the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and the Gas Act 1995, section 3(2), Schedule 1 and Schedule 3.
Regulatory Reform Act 2001	Whole Act except section 13(l)(b) and (2), the definition of "the 1994 Act" in section 14 and section 15(1) and (2).
Employment Act 2002	Section 5
	Section 6(2)(a)
	Section 18
	Section 41
	Schedule 6
	Para 1 (a), (b), 9, 10 Schedule 7
	Paras 3, 26(3), 33(3), 48(2), 49(3), 52
Enterprise Act 2002	Section 39(2),
	Section 40(l),(2),(8)(b)
	Section 51(2)
	Section 52(1),(2)
	Section 53(2)(c)
	Section 69
	Section 121(2)(b),(4)(c)(i), (10)
	Section 168(3)(a),(4)(a) and (i),(5)(d)
	Section 191
	Section 194(5)
Office of Communications Act 2002	Section 2
	Sections 4 to 6
	Paras 1(4), 8(5), 17(8) and (9) and 20 of the Schedule
Communications Act 2003(1)	Sections 152 to 163
	Sections 165 to 184
	Sections 393 (l)(b) and 393(5)(a), (b) and (1), 394(2)(c)
	Section 404 (4)(b) and (c)
	Section 404 (5)
	Section 407
	Section 410(l)(b)
	Schedule 1, paras 1 and 2 Schedule 5
	Schedule 6
	Schedule 7
	Schedule 8, paras 13 to 36
	Schedule 17, paras 6 to 18, 23, 24, 26, 32 to 38, 46, 64 to 69, 72 (2), 145 to 151, paras 175(2) and 175(3)
	Schedule 18, paras 6, 20,21, 23(l)(c)(i), 23(2), 55, and 63
	Schedule 19, Notes 1 and 3
Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004	Sections 1 to 13,
	Sections 19 and 20
	Section 37(4)
	Section 39(4)
	Section 40(8)
	Section 40(9)
	Section 54(1), (4) and (9)
	Schedule 1
	Schedule 2 (Parts 1 and 2 and paras 22 to 24 and 26 of Part 3)
	Schedule 6 (paras 1 to 9)
	Schedule 7 (para 5(1)
Energy Act 2004	Section 89 (other than for the purposes of defining "relevant place" where that term is used in section 93 of the Energy Act 2004)
	Sections 90 to 92
	Section 139
	Section 140(1)
	Section 180
	Schedule 23, Part 1, the repeals in the Pipe-lines Act 1962, the Gas Act 1986, section 4(1 )(b) of the Electricity Act 1989 and the Petroleum Act 1998
(1) Many of the sections repealed in the Communications Act have been reinserted into the new consolidated Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006.

Departments: Marketing

Lembit Öpik: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform whether he has received any complaints about the new name of his Department being interpreted by some computers as a database error; and if he will make a statement. [151780]

Mr. Thomas: I have received no such complaints.

Lembit Öpik: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform whether he is considering any change to the name of the Department to prevent interpretation of the name as a database error by some computers; and if he will make a statement. [151781]

Mr. Thomas: I am not considering any change of name for my Department.

Departments: Official Visits

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much was spent on overnight accommodation by civil servants within his Department's areas of responsibilities in the last 12 months. [149060]

Mr. Thomas: £969,303 was spent on overnight accommodation for civil servants within this Department's areas of responsibilities in the last 12
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months (July 2006 to June 2007). This includes both UK and overseas overnight accommodation.

These data are obtained from the Department's hotel booking agent and its travel agent. The figures will not include any accommodation bookings made outside of these arrangements as this information is not centrally captured.

Departments: Older Workers

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many people aged (a) over 55 years of age and (b) over 60 years of age have been recruited by his Department in each of the last three years; and what percentage in each case this is of the number of new recruits in each year. [145699]

Mr. Thomas: The following table provides the requested recruitment information. The data refer to external recruits to the Department and do not include transfers from other Government Departments.

	New recruits over 55 years of age		New recruits over 60 years of age
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
2004	9	6	2	1
2005	11	8	1	0.7
2006	9	7	1	0.8

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