Order Book Part 1

House of Commons

Session 2006 - 07
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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 7 December 2006

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

Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Thursday 7 December 2006
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 7 December 2006

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Thursday 7 December of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

For other Written Questions for answer on Thursday 7 December of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Thursday 7 December see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

1
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the expected response time is for customer calls to the Derby Debt Management Team of the Tax Credit Office on the telephone number 01332 724 403; what mechanisms are in place to prevent penalties arising due to customers not being able to make contact within set deadlines due to a lack of telephone line capacity; and if he will make a statement.

(105433)

2
Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which 50 (a) local authority areas and (b) parliamentary constituencies had the highest annual change in population numbers in each of the last five years; and what the percentage change was in each case.

(108015)

3
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was spent by HM Revenue and Customs on the survey Welsh do it online for Christmas; and why the survey was commissioned.

(105441)

4
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was spent by HM Revenue and Customs on the survey Scots go online for Christmas.

(105442)

5
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total cost was of the recent survey UK's web users invest time online, commissioned by HM Revenue and Customs was; and what purpose it served.

(105463)

6
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105486)

7
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the (a) total and (b) average uniform business rate being paid by businesses employing fewer than (i) 10, (ii) 50, (iii) 250, (iv) 1,000 and (v) 5,000 people; and if he will make a statement.

(105490)

8
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years for which records are available.

(105491)

9
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what purpose the survey South West Web Users Invest Time Online was commissioned; and what its total cost was.

(105493)

10
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what purposes HM Revenue and Customs commissioned the survey Scots go online for Christmas (HMRC release 01/12/06).

(105539)

11
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the latest estimate is of total consumer debt in the UK.

(105278)

12
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time taken was for processing an application from a business for the issuing of a VAT registration number in (a) the last year for which figures are available and (b) 1997.

(108095)

13
Jon Cruddas (Dagenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ensure that financial capability sessions and advice are offered in (a) Sure Start children's centres and (b) as part of the Supporting People Strategy.

(105499)

14
Jon Cruddas (Dagenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to extend the Saving Gateway scheme.

(105500)

15
Jon Cruddas (Dagenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the take-up has been of the Child Trust Fund, broken down by (a) social class and (b) region.

(105501)

16
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the mortality rate was of (a) men and (b) women in Stroud district in each year since 1991.

(105504)

17
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) diagnosis and (b) mortality rate was for (i) chronic lung disease, (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cancer in Stroud district in each year since 1991.

(105505)

18
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the main causes of death were for (a) men and (b) women in the Stroud district in each of the last 15 years.

(105506)

19
N Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many single parents there were in London, broken down by constituency in each quarter from 2000-01 to 2006-07; and if he will make a statement.

(104978)

20
N Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families in London were in receipt of working families tax credit in each of the last five years, broken down by constituency.

(104979)

21
N Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on how many occasions, and between what dates, HM Revenue and Customs has run out of tax credit claim packs.

(107843)

22
N Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what HM Revenue and Customs's estimate is of the number of system faults showing incorrect amounts in overpayments.

(107844)

23
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many older people in the UK are living below the agreed EU definition of poverty; and what the figures are for other EU member states.

(105425)

24
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(107998)

25
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27th November 2006, Official Report, columns 452-3W, on Iraq, how much each Government department provided for reconstruction in Iraq in each month since March 2003.

(105502)

26
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27th November 2006, Official Report, columns 452-3W, on Iraq, from which (a) sources and (b) departments the Global Conflict Prevention Pool is funded.

(105503)

27
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the population in each region are employed in the public sector; and what the proportion was in 1997.

(108090)

28
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department approved the decision by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to commission a report by KPMG into the cost of the 2012 Olympics.

(105561)

29
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what foreign visits have been undertaken by Office of Government Commerce staff on official business in the last 12 months; what the total cost was of each visit; and how much of that sum was accounted for by (a) travel expenses, (b) expenses claimed and (c) accommodation in each case.

(105571)

30
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many trips by Eurostar have been undertaken by staff in his Department in the last 12 months; and at what total cost.

(105589)

31
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the Bank of England of maintaining the Bank of England yacht was in the most recent year for which figures are available; and on how many occasions in the last 24 months employees of his Department have used it.

(105590)

32
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the names are of the guests who have stayed overnight at Number 11 Downing Street in the last 12 months.

(105591)

33
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many directors in his Department have a member of staff of pay band E or higher to support their duties.

(105592)

34
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23rd November 2006, Official Report, column 206W, on departmental staff, how many of the total Civil Service staff for each period given were frontline professionals as defined in the Gershon Report.

(105595)

35
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4th December 2006, Official Report, column 210W, on the Olympics, how many staff in his Department's Public Services and Growth Directorate spend more than 70 per cent. of their time on work related to the 2012 Olympics; and what the pay band is of each such staff member.

(105598)

36
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4th December 2006, Official Report, column 210W, on the Olympics, how many staff in his Department have work objectives that make reference to the Olympics; and what the pay band is of each such staff member.

(105599)

37
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4th December 2006, Official Report, column 209W, on Special Advisers, on what date the donations for the (a) tickets and (b) DVDs were made to the respective charities.

(105679)

38
N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to tackle the economic effects of unemployment in the manufacturing sector; and if he will make a statement.

(105020)

39
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many excess winter deaths there were in Tamworth constituency in each of the last 10 years.

(105736)

40
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to make his Department carbon neutral.

(105747)

41
Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many bank-related services complaints were received by the Financial Ombudsman Service about (a) mortgage products, (b) current accounts, (c) credit cards, (d) loans other than mortgages, (e) other banking services and (f) savings and deposit accounts in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(105601)

42
Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints about bank-related services were resolved by the Financial Ombudsman Service in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(105602)

43
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the reliability of the HM Revenue and Customs computer records on National Insurance contributions; and if he will make a statement.

(105458)

44
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of problems with computer records on National Insurance contributions at HM Revenue and Customs; when he expects the problems to be resolved; and if he will make a statement.

(105459)

45
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were given incorrect information on the level of their National Insurance contributions by HM Revenue and Customs in 2006; how many people HM Revenue and Customs has informed of such an error; and if he will make a statement.

(105460)

46
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the effects of the level of unemployment on productivity; and if he will make a statement.

(107886)

47
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his most recent estimate is of the average per capita public expenditure on each income decile group.

(105731)

48
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average effective marginal rate of taxation was for each income decile in each year since 1979.

(105732)

49
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average tax burden was on each income decile in each year since 1979.

(105733)

50
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether Revenue and Customs (HMRC) contact centres undertake work on behalf of private companies; whether HMRC receives financial incentives for the volume of calls processed (a) from his Department and (b) private companies; and if he will make a statement.

(107987)

Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

51
Hugh Bayley (City of York):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many civil service and government agency jobs were (a) created in and (b) relocated to York (i) in total and (ii) in the Central Science Laboratory at Sand Hutton in each year since 1992.

(105708)

52
Hugh Bayley (City of York):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the annual percentage change in (a) cash and (b) real terms was in Government expenditure on the central Civil Service, excluding agencies, in each year since 1997-98.

(105723)

53
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-190W, on the retirement age, what her Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(107988)

54
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether guidance is issued to departments on answering parliamentary questions on bilateral meetings held between ministers from different departments.

(105712)

55
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to her Answer of 29th November 2006, Official Report, column 767W, whether her Department grades or classifies written Parliamentary questions according to their political sensitivity.

(107975)

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

56
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin):To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will make representations to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills to ensure that the history and heritage of England's cathedrals is taught in schools.

(105530)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

57
Hugh Bayley (City of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) average household income and (b) average private sector rent for self-contained accommodation was in each higher tier local authority area over the latest three year period for which figures are available; and what the ratio of those two factors is for each local authority, listed in descending order.

(105667)

58
Hugh Bayley (City of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many full-time equivalent staff (a) in total, (b) on pro-rata salaries of less than £20,000 and (c) on pro-rata salaries of £20,000 or more were employed by City of York Council (i) in April 2003 and (ii) at the same date in each subsequent year.

(105668)

59
Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many summonses were issued by each local authority in England for non-payment of council tax in 2004-05; what percentage change there was in each figure since 1999-2000; and what percentage the number of summonses in 2004-05 represented of all council tax payers in each case.

(107999)

60
Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of households on housing waiting lists in (a) each English region and (b) each London local authority were from black and ethnic minority communities in 2005.

(108037)

61
Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of (a) homeless applicants and (b) households accepted as homeless in (i) each English region and (ii) each London local authority were from black and minority ethnic communities in 2005.

(108038)

62
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department has spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105443)

63
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of her Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if she will make a statement.

(105472)

64
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what her Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108014)

65
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many responses there were to the Park Home Commission Rate consultation; and when she expects to publish the Government's response.

(105420)

66
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many requests for internal reviews of Freedom of Information requests within her Department are outstanding.

(105675)

67
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her Department's target time is for the conducting of internal reviews of Freedom of Information requests; and what the average time taken to conduct such reviews has been to date.

(105676)

68
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many requests for internal reviews of Freedom of Information requests her Department received in each year since the Act was introduced; and how many such requests it has received in 2006.

(105677)

69
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health on future healthcare provision in the Stansted-Cambridge-Peterborough growth corridor; and if she will make a statement.

(105535)

70
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much Tamworth Borough Council received from central government in real terms in each of the past six years.

(105737)

71
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average response time of the fire brigade in Tamworth constituency was in the last period for which figures are available.

(105738)

72
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to make her Department carbon neutral.

(105744)

73
Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will end the practice of allowing repeat planning applications for the same site.

(105720)

74
N Chris McCafferty (Calder Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assets are held by each regional local government pension scheme; and how many members there are in each regional local government pension scheme.

(105291)

75
N Chris McCafferty (Calder Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local government pension schemes implemented contribution holidays for employers in each year since 1979.

(105292)

76
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authority wards have received funding from urban regeneration programmes since 1979; under which programmes each received funding; and how much each received.

(105724)

77
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her estimate is of the level of home ownership in (a) each local authority area and (b) each region in each year since 1979.

(105728)

78
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her estimate is of (a) the number of people who have participated in and (b) the level of public expenditure on Government initiatives to increase home ownership in each year since 1997, broken down by (i) local authority area and (ii) region.

(105729)

79
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her estimate is of the number of people in each region who will participate in Government initiatives to increase home ownership in future years.

(105730)

80
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the cost of payments to Registered Social Landlords Board members in each of the last five years.

(107919)

81
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what bonuses were paid to the (a) chief executives and (b) directors of the 10 largest registered social landlords in each of the last five years.

(107944)

82
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effect of reductions in Supporting People budgets on (a) smaller registered social landlords and (b) domestic violence refuges.

(107946)

83
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many registered social landlords are achieving Government targets.

(107948)

84
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many registered social landlord houses were sold to people or organisations other than tenants in each of the last five years.

(108036)

85
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to encourage the use of the English language in England in order to improve community cohesion.

(105531)

86
Dr John Pugh (Southport):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the extent to which the allocation of responsibility for electrical ducting and cabling between individual meterboards and substations in large blocks of flats is correctly understood by flat tenants, leaseholders and owners.

(105536)

87
Mr Andrew Slaughter (Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her latest estimate is of the number of new (a) private sector and (b) affordable homes needed in England to meet housing demand.

(107977)

88
Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether there will be a public inquiry on the proposed Heysham M6 link road.

(105424)

89
Anne Snelgrove (South Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what decision she has reached on the proposal to revoke or modify the proposed route of Croft Road/May Lane link road under section 100 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

(105669)

90
Anne Snelgrove (South Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many days were lost to (a) long-term and (b) short-term sick leave in each local authority in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement.

(105670)

91
Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will commission research on the impact of overhead power lines on development in the Thames Gateway in line with the recommendations of the Thames Gateway evidence review published by her Department in November.

(105533)

92
Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which projects in Kent Thameside have received funding from her Department since the launch of the Sustainable Communities Plan in February 2003.

(108000)

93
N Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of projected additional housing demand she attributes to (a) larger families, (b) longer life expectancy and (c) migration.

(105279)

Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs

94
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how much her Department has spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105447)

95
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of her Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if she will make a statement.

(105476)

96
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what her Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108011)

97
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if she will make a statement on the proposed EU development of legislation amending Regulation (EC) 1348/2000 on the service of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters; and what its legal base is.

(108069)

98
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, which projects have operated in the UK under the EU funding stream Judicial Cooperation Between National Judges since 1997; and if she will make a statement.

(108097)

99
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what measures her Department has taken since the incident in July 2006 to prevent further security breaches of computer databases.

(105721)

100
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what factors will be considered when evaluating value for money in assessing applications for (a) election pilots and (b) e-voting pilots for the May 2007 local elections.

(107974)

101
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, whether her Department expects to publish details of her consultation on the small claims court process by the end of December 2006; and what the consultation period will be.

(105423)

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

102
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105449)

103
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of her Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if she will make a statement.

(105478)

104
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the number of households in (a) Orkney and Shetland, (b) the Highlands and Islands and (c) Scotland which will not be able to access digital terrestrial television after digital switchover.

(105494)

105
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the number of households that will qualify for assistance in switching over to digital television in each parliamentary constituency in Scotland; what steps she is taking to ensure that those households which qualify for assistance will receive it; and if she will make a statement.

(105495)

106
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her estimate is of the number of households which will qualify for assistance in switching over to digital television in each Parliamentary constituency in the South-West.

(105509)

107
N Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people were convicted of not having a valid television licence in each London constituency in each of the last five years.

(104977)

108
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the criteria will be for determining the (a) definition of a terrorism incident and (b) eligibility for funds in relation to the new charitable fund to help the British victims of terrorism.

(105421)

109
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the budget of the new charitable fund to help the British victims of terrorism will be available to British victims of terrorism overseas; and if she will make a statement.

(105422)

110
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she expects the details of the charitable fund to help the British victims of terrorism to be finalised; and when the fund will begin operation.

(105426)

111
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much Government funding will be available for the new charitable fund to help British victims of terrorism; and if she will make a statement.

(105546)

112
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what her Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108008)

113
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the expected cost to the public purse is of state support to people on benefits for digital switchover.

(107905)

114
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the expected cost is to the public purse of supporting the transfer to digital television; and if she will make a statement.

(107950)

115
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she expects a final budget to be agreed for the 2012 Olympics.

(105560)

116
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the number of staff in her Department who will spend the majority of their time working on the 2012 Olympics in each year until 2012, broken down by pay band.

(105563)

117
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of (a) the number of staff who do not fall into the Department's pay band structure which her Department will employ to work predominantly on the 2012 Olympics in each year until 2012 and (b) the total amount that her Department will pay in salaries to these staff.

(105564)

118
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what threshold her Department has agreed above which it must seek Treasury approval for expenditure related to the 2012 Olympics.

(105565)

119
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will list the occasions on which her Department has sought Treasury approval for expenditure related to the 2012 Olympics.

(105566)

120
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has included the costs of employing staff in her Department to work on the 2012 Olympics within her latest estimate for the cost of the Games.

(105567)

121
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department holds responsibility for the final decision on the level of contingency to be included in the revised Olympic budget once it is agreed.

(105568)

122
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which Government Department or agency will hold and administer the programme contingency fund to be included in the revised Olympic budget.

(105569)

123
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 30th November 2006, Official Report, column 809W, on the London Olympics, how much her Department (a) spent in 2005-06 and (b) expects to spend in 2006-07 on the salaries of the eight individuals working on the 2012 Olympics who do not fall into the Department's pay band structure.

(105594)

124
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 4th December 2006, Official Report, column 99W, on the 2012 Olympics, whether the projects undertaken by KPMG identified any new costs not included in London's original Olympic bid.

(108002)

125
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 4th December 2006, Official Report, column 99W, on 2012 Olympics, what estimates KPMG gave as part of their advice for the costs of (a) the Olympic Stadium, (b) other sports facilities, (c) the Olympic village, (d) press and media facilities, (e) Games workforce, (f) information systems, (g) telecommunications and other technologies, (h) internet, (i) ceremonies and culture, (j) medical services, (k) catering, (l) transport, (m) security, (n) the Paralympic Games, (o) advertising and promotion, (p) administration, (q) pre-Olympic events and co-ordination, (r) other miscellaneous costs and (s) contingency.

(108021)

126
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 4th December 2006, Official Report, column 99W, on 2012 Olympics, on what date her Department first discussed the cost findings of the work commissioned from KPMG with (a) officials and (b) Ministers at the Treasury.

(108022)

127
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to make her Department carbon neutral.

(105743)

128
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what research she has conducted into the provenance of the Sevso Roman treasure.

(107877)

129
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has held with the custodian of the Sevso Roman treasure; and if she will make a statement.

(107878)

130
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has conducted research into the legal ownership of the Sevso Roman treasure.

(107879)

131
N Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the value is of bets that have been placed on sports events excluding horseracing and greyhound racing in each of the last three years; and what proportion of the overall gambling market this represents.

(104597)

132
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what contaminants the Olympic Delivery Authority has identified on the Olympic site.

(105224)

133
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she first became aware that the inclusion of VAT would affect the Olympic budget.

(105225)

134
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what advice she received from KPMG about VAT and the Olympic budget; and when she received it.

(105226)

135
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what advice she received from Jack Lemley, outgoing Chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority, about chemical contamination of the Olympic site; and what action she took on the basis of this advice.

(105227)

136
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she expects to answer questions (a) 104517, (b) 104518 and (c) 10452, on VAT and the Olympics, tabled by the hon. Member for Faversham and Mid Kent on 23rd November.

(105261)

137
Dr Tony Wright (Cannock Chase):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the reason is for the time taken to announce details of the charitable fund to help British citizens affected by terrorism abroad that was announced in the March 2006 Budget.

(105605)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

138
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average age is of the Nimrod fleet of aircraft.

(105610)

139
N Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the target establishment number is, under the new structure for the Territorial Army, for each (a) category and (b) sub-category referred to in the Answer of 24th July 2006, Official Report, column 782W.

(104303)

140
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105451)

141
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105480)

142
Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of (a) the projected total cost of maintaining the UK's nuclear weapons capability and (b) the costs of (i) procurement, (ii) the atomic weapons establishment and (iii) running costs from 2007 to 2055.

(105409)

143
Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any part of RNAD Coulport has been subject to radioactive contamination to a level that would preclude its use by civil industry.

(105548)

144
Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the functions carried out by the Faslane naval base.

(105549)

145
Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the functions carried out by RNAD Coulport.

(105550)

146
Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many hours of work were required to complete the recent revalidation assisted maintenance periods at Faslane naval base on (a) HMS Vigilant, (b) HMS Vengeance and (c) HMS Sceptre.

(105551)

147
Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the total working hours of all civilian personnel employed at (a) Faslane naval base and (b) RNAD Coulport is spent on work (i) exclusively related to Trident, (ii) unrelated to Trident and (iii) partly related to Trident.

(105552)

148
Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the main skill groups are of civilian personnel employed at (a) Faslane naval base and (b) RNAD Coulport; and how many are employed in each of these skill groups.

(105553)

149
Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) civilian and (b) service personnel are employed at (i) Faslane naval base and (ii) RNAD Coulport.

(105554)

150
Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to ensure that there is an in-house bid for any defence training contract which is outsourced.

(105429)

151
Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what medical services are available to those taking part in the special forces basic parachute training course; and what changes to such services have been made in the last 12 months.

(105607)

152
Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions his Department has had on providing (a) individual radios and (b) radio frequencies for military parachutists.

(105608)

153
Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to introduce (a) automatic activation devices and (b) audio altimeters for military trainee parachutists.

(105609)

154
N Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps the Government has taken to reduce the UK's nuclear stockpile since the withdrawal of the WE.177 freefall bomb in 1998.

(104980)

155
N Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will assess the suitability of the Trident weapons system as a deterrent during the rest of its serviceable lifetime; and whom and what Trident is intended to deter.

(104981)

156
N Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to review its contribution to nuclear arms reduction under Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

(104982)

157
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will reconsider the scale of issue of (a) thermal imaging sights, (b) thermal imaging equipment and (c) any subsequent equipment procured; and if he will make a statement.

(105413)

158
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the decision was taken to reduce the life of Vanguard submarines to 25 years from the 30 years prescribed in the 1998 Strategic Defence Review; and if he will make a statement.

(105415)

159
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of (a) producing, (b) publishing and (c) distributing the annual report of (i) the Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency, (ii) the British Forces Post Office, (iii) the Defence Analytical Services Agency, (iv) the Defence Bills Agency, (v) the Defence Communications Agency, (vi) Defence Estates, (vii) the Defence Medical Education and Training Agency, (viii) the Defence Procurement Agency, (ix) the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency, (x) the Defence Transport and Movement Agency, (xi) the Defence Vetting Agency, (xii) the Disposal Services Agency, (xiii) the Duke of York's Military School, (xiv) the Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency, (xv) the Pay and Personnel Agency, (xvi) the Service Children's Education Agency, (xvii) the RAF Training Group Defence Agency, (xviii) the Veterans Agency and (xix) the Army Training and Recruitment Agency was in the last period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(105440)

160
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of (a) producing, (b) publishing and (c) distributing the annual report of each trading fund of the (i) Army Base Repair Organisation, (ii) Defence Aviation Repair Agency, (iii) Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (iv) Meterological Office and (v) UK Hydrographic Office was in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(105453)

161
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of the cost of administration of the (a) agencies and (b) trading funds within his responsibility.

(105454)

162
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what incidents of British service personnel coming under attack on the Shatt al-Arab waterway took place before the 12th November bombing; and if he will make a statement.

(105510)

163
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-190W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108018)

164
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what total number of personnel has been deployed to (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq since October 2001, broken down by (i) roulement and (ii) service.

(105671)

165
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average working hours were for civilian personnel in his Department in each year since 2001.

(105672)

166
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average working hours were for personnel in the Royal Air Force in each year since 2001.

(105673)

167
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average working hours were for personnel in the Army in each year since 2001.

(105674)

168
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of relinking war pensions with earnings.

(105713)

169
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK military personnel have been classified as (a) missing in action and (b) missing presumed dead in (i) Iraq and (ii) Afghanistan since the start of military operations in those countries; and whether these figures are included in casualty reporting.

(105714)

170
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the standard operating procedure is for casualty reporting for the armed forces.

(105715)

171
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, why data on casualties have not been centrally compiled for operations in (a) Sierra Leone and (b) the Balkans since May 1997.

(105716)

172
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department takes to make publicly available information on the number of British (a) casualties and (b) fatalities incurred in (i) Iraq and (ii) Afghanistan since the commencement of operations.

(105717)

173
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps have been taken to improve UK military casualty reporting since the commencement of operations in Afghanistan.

(105718)

174
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 27th November 2006, Official Report, column 356W, on the Bevin Boys, which ministerial colleagues he is consulting; and when he expects to make an announcement.

(107955)

175
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 27th November 2006, Official Report, columns 354-5W, on armed forces' leave, if he will ask the Defence Analytical Services Agency to distinguish in its survey estimates between leave which personnel were not able to take and that which they chose not to take.

(107958)

176
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his assessment is of the level of communications between NHS trusts and clinicians on war pensioners' entitlement to priority NHS treatment.

(107959)

177
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the statement of 21st November 2006, Official Report, column 28WS, on the Reserves Mental Health Programme, what discussions he has had with the Department of Health on ensuring that general practitioners are made aware of the mental health treatment made available to reservists.

(107960)

178
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK civilian personnel have been (a) wounded and (b) killed in (i) Iraq and (ii) Afghanistan since the commencement of operations.

(107962)

179
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the exercise to collate and reconcile data on casualties which occurred in Afghanistan before 1st January to be completed.

(108033)

180
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many breakdowns there were in the military Landrover fleet in each year since 1997; and what the average age of the fleet was in each year.

(108083)

181
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many qualified minibus drivers there were in HM Forces in each year since 2001.

(108084)

182
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the requirement is for the number of minibus drivers in HM Forces; and how many there are.

(108085)

183
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect of the activities of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency on his Department.

(108096)

184
N Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel in the (a) Navy, (b) Army and (c) Air Force exceeded guidelines for separated service in each year since 2001; and what assessment he has made of trends in those numbers over that period.

(105000)

185
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to make his Department carbon neutral.

(105750)

186
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what meetings (a) he, (b) Ministers and (c) officials from his Department have held with representatives of the defence industry since 1st August; when each meeting took place; what the subjects were of each meeting; and who attended each.

(105457)

187
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of military resources available to British troops in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.

(107885)

188
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding his Department has provided to the Priory Group for (a) psychological and (b) psychiatric treatments in each of the last five years.

(105154)

189
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether steps are being taken to utilise used cooking and fuel oils from military bases for recycling as an ingredient in biofuels.

(105155)

190
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements are in place for (a) the (i) safe and (ii) environmentally sustainable disposal of cooking and fuel oils and (b) the reuse of cooking and fuel oils from military bases.

(105156)

191
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding has been provided from the public purse to the Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society (Combat Stress) in each of the last five years.

(105157)

192
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the new community mental health service for veterans to be launched.

(105158)

193
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by the Service Children's Education Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; what the personnel costs of the agency are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107897)

194
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for financial year 2005-06 the Defence Aviation Repair Agency spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent in each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107898)

195
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by the Naval Manning Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; what the personnel costs of the agency are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107899)

196
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for 2005-06 the UK Hydrographic Office spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if hewill make a statement.

(107920)

197
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by the (a) Medical Supplies Agency, (b) the British Forces Post Office, (c) the Defence Communications Services Agency, (d) the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency, (e) the Disposals Services Agency, (f) the Pay and Personnel Agency and (g) the Defence Transport and Movements Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; what the personnel costs of each agency are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107921)

198
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for 2005-06 the Defence Analytical Services Agency spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107922)

199
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for the financial year 2005-06 the MoD Police spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107923)

200
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by the MoD Police; how many are employed in Scotland; what the personnel costs of the agency are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107924)

201
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by (a) the Defence Dental Agency, (b) the Defence Estates, (c) the Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency, (d) the Defence Analytical Services Agency and (e) the Defence Bills Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; what the personnel costs of the agencies are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107925)

202
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for financial year 2005-06 the Defence Estates spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107926)

203
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for 2005-06 the Defence Medical Education and Training Agency spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107927)

204
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by the Defence Housing Executive; how many are employed in Scotland; what the personnel costs of the agency are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107928)

205
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by (a) the Defence Procurement Agency, (b) the Naval Recruiting and Training Agency, (c) the Defence Geographic and Imagery and Intelligence Agency, (d) the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre and (e) the Warship Support Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; what the personnel costs of each agency are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107929)

206
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for 2005-06 the Defence Bills Agency spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107930)

207
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by (a) the RAF Personnel Manning Agency and (b) the RAF Training Group Defence Agency; how many are employed by each agency in Scotland; what the personnel costs of the agencies are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107931)

208
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for 2005-06 the Meteorological Office spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107932)

209
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by the Army Personnel Centre; how many are employed in Scotland; what the personnel costs of the agency are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107933)

210
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by the (a) Army Training and Recruiting Agency and (b) Duke of York's Royal Military School; how many are employed in Scotland; what the personnel costs of each establishment are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107934)

211
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for 2005-06 the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107935)

212
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by the Queen Victoria School; how many are employed in Scotland; what the personnel costs of the agency are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107936)

213
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for 2005-06 the British Forces Post Office spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107937)

214
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by (a) the Defence Medical Education and Training Agency, (b) the Defence Vetting Agency and (c) the Veterans Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; what the personnel costs of each agency are expected to be in 2006-07; and what they were in 2005-06.

(107938)

215
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for 2005-06 the Disposal Services Agency spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107939)

216
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for financial year 2005-06 the Veterans Agency spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107940)

217
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for 2005-06 the Warship Support Agency spent in Scotland in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the total personnel budget; how much was spent for each category in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(107941)

218
Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate how many (a) direct and (b) indirect civilian jobs in (i) Scotland and (ii) the rest of the UK rely upon the Trident programme.

(107942)

219
Ann Winterton (Congleton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel make up the difference between total strength and trained strength of the Army; and of what rank those personnel are.

(107889)

220
Ann Winterton (Congleton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the trained strength is of the Army.

(107890)

221
Ann Winterton (Congleton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many recruits there had been to the Army in each year to 1st April (a) 2003, (b) 2004, (c) 2005 and (d) 2006.

(107891)

222
Ann Winterton (Congleton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what definition is used by his Department of trained strength in the context of Army personnel.

(107892)

Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister

223
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-190W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the Senior Civil Service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108023)

224
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 2nd November 2006, Official Report, column 652W, what the cost was of setting up the website giving information about his official duties.

(105722)

225
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what measures have been put in place to reduce the environmental impact of the running of his Department.

(107981)

226
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many unique visits to his website have been recorded since it was put online.

(107982)

227
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many staff in his Office are on (a) temporary and (b) permanent contracts of employment.

(107983)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills

228
Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will rank English local education authorities by (a) average performance at Key Stage 3 and (b) the percentage of pupils gaining five grades A*-C at GCSE.

(108039)

229
Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which (a) secondary and (b) primary schools had the (i) highest and (ii) lowest percentage of pupils receiving free school meals in each local education authority area; what the percentage figure was in each case; and what the type of school was in each case.

(108040)

230
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much his Department has spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105444)

231
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105475)

232
Jon Cruddas (Dagenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many students (a) applied for and (b) were successful in obtaining places on degree courses at English universities in (i) law, (ii) medicine, (iii) engineering, (iv) accountancy and (v) veterinary studies in the most recent year for which figures are available, broken down by social class; and what the percentage change in (A) applicants and (B) successful places has been since 1999, broken down by social class.

(105497)

233
Jon Cruddas (Dagenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the ability of Sure Start children's centres to engage with black and minority ethnic parents.

(105498)

234
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many students from Stroud constituency (a) were allocated university courses and (b) received student loans to attend university courses in each year since 1996-97.

(105507)

235
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of (a) 18 year olds and (b) 19 year olds from Stroud constituency attended university courses in each year since 1996-97.

(105508)

236
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108013)

237
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what legal obligations there are on universities to provide freedom of speech and freedom of association on university campuses to Christian Unions.

(108061)

238
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will break down by substance involved the number of exclusions listed under Drug and Alcohol Related for London in the Answer of 18th April 2006 to the hon. Member for Romford, Official Report, columns 176-8W, on school discipline.

(108087)

239
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what correspondence his Department has with the Home Office to determine whether students from countries of weapons of mass destruction proliferation concern could use their studies in the UK for unfriendly purposes; how many projects of the students referred to in the Answer of 13th March 2006, Official Report, column 1870W, on foreign postgraduate students, are being supported from UK public funds; and if he will ask the relevant funding body to place in the Library the synopses sent to it as part of the awards process.

(108088)

240
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will re-examine all child protection cases in which Dr David Southall was involved.

(105410)

241
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate he has made of how much has been spent on (a) schools capital investment and (b) the Building Schools for the Future programme in the 2006-07 financial year.

(105562)

242
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2006, Official Report, column 209W, how much of the £5.5 billion his Department allocated for schools capital investment in 2005-06 was (a) allocated to and (b) spent under the Building Schools for the Future programme.

(105596)

243
N Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what consultation has been undertaken with stakeholders to the Secondary School Admissions Guidelines for September 2008 on (a) siblings and (b) staff members' children; and if he will make a statement.

(105285)

244
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether he plans to make his Department carbon neutral.

(105753)

245
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what progress he has made on fostering dialogue at an (a) regional and (b) national level between the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Learning and Skills Council, with particular reference to their duties (i) to fund and (ii) to plan higher education provision in further education colleges; what programmes are in place to support this policy; how much has been allocated to them; and if he will make a statement.

(105512)

246
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what measures he has taken to correlate the proposed regional structure of the Learning and Skills Council with the regional structure of the Higher Education Funding Council for England; what consultation has taken place on this matter; at what cost; and if he will make a statement.

(105513)

247
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's budget was spent on the employment of management consultants in the last financial year.

(105514)

248
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what his on policy is on the recruitment of management consultants.

(105515)

249
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, on how many occasions (a) he and (b) other Departmental Ministers have met management consultants in the last 12 months.

(105516)

250
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much has been spent on consultants over the last 12 months in relation to (a) the restructuring of the Learning and Skills Council, (b) the Foster report, (c) departmental restructuring and (d) introduction of vocational diplomas.

(105517)

251
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many people enrolled on a foundation degree course in each year since its inception; and what the drop-out rate was in each year since its inception.

(105518)

252
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what mechanisms are in place to allocate funding to higher education provision in further education colleges, with particular reference to established set variables in the funding stream; and if he will make a statement.

(105519)

253
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's budget was spent on the provision of higher education in further education colleges in each of the last five years.

(105520)

254
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's annual budget was spent on the provision of foundation degrees in each year since the introduction of that qualification.

(105521)

255
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost is to the public purse of the completion of a foundation degree, broken down by subject.

(105522)

256
Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the proportion is of those who have received a foundation degree since its inception who have gone on to enrol on an honours degree course, broken down by (a) year and (b) type of honours institution; and what proportion of such enrolment was into a (i) pre-1992 and (ii) post-1992 university.

(105523)

257
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children were (a) in foster care and (b) placed for adoption in each of the last 10 years.

(105624)

258
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many adoption placements broke down in each of the last 10 years.

(105625)

259
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children were (a) placed for foster care and (b) placed for adoption with extended family members in each of the last five years.

(105626)

260
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much his Department spent on purchasing space in the Guardian newspaper in each of the last five years.

(105627)

261
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what supplements on children's issues have been published in the Guardian newspaper at the request of his Department in each of the last five years; and at what cost to the public purse.

(105628)

262
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children's social workers were employed by local authorities in each of the last 10 years, expressed as (a) headcount and (b) whole-time equivalents.

(105657)

263
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many looked after children there are in West Sussex.

(105658)

264
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of looked after children in (a) West Sussex, (b) Brighton and Hove Unitary and (c) East Sussex went on to university in the last year for which figures are available.

(105659)

265
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much was paid by schools in England for the disposal of recyclables in the last year for which figures are available.

(105660)

266
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils there are in schools that are in special measures; and what his estimate is of the average funding per pupil in those schools.

(105725)

267
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the socio-economic characteristics are of each school which is in special measures.

(105726)

268
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the name is of each school which was in special measures in each of the last 10 years; and in which local authority ward each is based.

(105727)

269
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what encouragement is being given to primary schools to introduce children to the cultivation of vegetables.

(108028)

270
Sarah Teather (Brent East):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much sponsorship money has been paid to each academy run by the United Learning Trust; and on what date each payment was made.

(105431)

271
Sarah Teather (Brent East):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much public money his Department has paid to the United Learning Trust.

(105432)

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

272
N Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations he has received from Nirex on the transfer of responsibility for disposal of radioactive waste to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority since 25th October; and if he will place copies of those representations in the Library.

(105025)

273
N Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department plans to provide for the Year of Food and Farming Education initiative.

(105026)

274
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105436)

275
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105484)

276
N Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has set a timetable for (a) the development of a Government response to the Affordable Rural Housing Commission Report and (b) a plan to implement those recommendations with which the Government agrees.

(105286)

277
N Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many complaints have been received by the Rural Payments Agency in 2006.

(105287)

278
N Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many follow up calls have been made by the Rural Payments Agency since 5th June 2006; and how many which were outstanding at that date are still due to be made.

(105288)

279
N Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) shortest and (b) longest processing times were for processing applications for a payment to farmers and agricultural businesses in each year since 2001.

(105289)

280
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108017)

281
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many buildings have been constructed on floodplains since May 1997.

(107949)

282
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what regulations regulate disposing of waste television sites in landfill sites.

(107951)

283
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27th November 2006, Official Report, columns 306-7W, on the Rural Payments Agency, what total amount of interest the Department has paid following late payments under the Single Payment Scheme.

(108027)

284
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27th November 2006, Official Report, column 306W, on the Rural Payments Agency, how many of the Single Payment Scheme cases which are difficult to resolve are due to (a) partnership disputes, (b) liquidation and (c) divorce; and what assessment has been made of the merits of providing for additional compensation in these cases.

(108030)

285
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's policy is on pursuing late payments owed to it from members of the public.

(108060)

286
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the use of thermal depolymerization as a mechanism for (a) generating fuel and (b) disposing of waste; and if he will make a statement.

(108080)

287
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to make his Department carbon neutral.

(105746)

288
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he will reply to the letter of 1st November 2006 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr L.F. Sebastien.

(107993)

289
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what basis he has set the charges to farmers to comply with the Integration Pollution Prevention and Control Directive; and if he will make a statement.

(105665)

290
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Ministerial colleagues in (a) Denmark, (b) France and (c) other EU countries on how they set their charges under the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive.

(105666)

291
Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) volume and (b) value of each meat product imported from (i) Argentina, (ii) Botswana, (iii) Brazil, (iv) China, (v) Democratic Republic of Congo, (vi) Ecuador, (vii) Egypt, (viii) Israel, (ix) Palestinian Autonomous Territories, (x) Russia, (xi) South Africa, (xii) Turkey and (xiii) Vietnam was in each of the last five years; and what the (A) volume and (B) value of such imports has been in 2006-07 in each case.

(105707)

292
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the evidential basis was for determining that the Government's target for GM cross-pollination should be 0.3 per cent; and whether alternative targets were considered.

(105532)

293
Dr John Pugh (Southport):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether changes have been made to his Department's 2006-07 budget for flood prevention.

(105537)

294
N Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what incentives his Department provides to dairy farmers to produce raw organic milk for the UK market.

(107059)

295
Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his latest estimate is of the percentage of single payment scheme funds which were disbursed by 30th June in England; and if he will make a statement.

(107979)

296
Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which of his Department's budget re-allocations in 2006-07 will impact on funding streams which cover the devolved administrations; and if he will make a statement.

(107985)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

297
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of her Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if she will make a statement.

(105485)

298
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much her Department spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years for which records are available.

(105492)

299
Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will make a statement on progress on consideration of the recommendation by the European Commission to suspend eight chapters of the negotiations on the accession of Turkey to the EU.

(105680)

300
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations she has made on the freedom of the press in Venezuela; and whether she has received reports of electoral irregularities during the recent General Election.

(108024)

301
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what contribution her Department is making to the restoration of democracy in Fiji.

(108041)

302
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports she has received from the British High Commission in Nairobi on the use of tear gas by police officers at a recent demonstration in Nairobi; and if she will make representations to the Kenyan government about human rights in that country.

(108042)

303
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports she has received on the recent meeting of the Principal Deputy Special Representative of Sudan, Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, and Salim Ahmed Salim, the Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union.

(108043)

304
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps she plans to take concerning Darfur following the recent African Union Peace and Security Council meeting; and what assessment she has made of the effect on the prospects for long term peace and stability of the extension of the mandate of the current African Union peace mission in Darfur.

(108044)

305
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports she has received of the talks between Ethiopia's Deputy Foreign Minister and Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts; and what assessment she has made of the implications of those talks for (a) human rights, (b) peace, (c) support for the transitional government and (d) conflict resolution in Somalia.

(108045)

306
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support she plans to commit to UN activities in Darfur following the proposals of the recent African Union Peace and Security Council meeting.

(108046)

307
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of (a) reports by UNMIS of clashes between rebel groups and Government forces and allied militias and (b) the activities of the Janjaweed militia and other armed movements in Sudan.

(108047)

308
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports she has received of recent conflict in and around El Fasher in Sudan; what recent representations she has received from the UK Embassy in Khartoum on the recent conflict; and what assessment she has made of the level of involvement of Government forces in attacks on civilians in Sudan.

(108048)

309
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which governments have made representations on the future chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe; and whether the United Kingdom has declared its support for a candidate.

(108049)

310
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of recent protests against President Iajuddin Ahmed in Dhaka.

(108050)

311
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of recent claims by the Awami League of bias by local officials and electoral register tampering in the run-up to Bangladeshi elections.

(108051)

312
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 the general strike in four provincial capitals in Bolivia on (a) human rights in that country and (b) regional stability.

(108052)

313
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations she has received on the position of the Dalits in India; if she will make representations to the Indian government on the upholding of the Indian constitution with regard to treatment of the Dalits; and if she will make a statement.

(108053)

314
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of General Musharraf's four-point solution to achieve peace in Kashmir; what representations she has made to the governments of (a) India and (b) Pakistan on the proposal; what reports she has received from the (i) British High Commission in New Delhi and (ii) British High Commission in Pakistan on the proposal; and what steps she plans to take to help achieve a peaceful resolution in Kashmir.

(108054)

315
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment was made by the Director of the Africa Division in the UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations of the situation on the Sudanese-Chadian border in her briefing to the UN Security Council; and what action she plans to take as a result of her reports.

(108055)

316
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 on regional stability of the emigration of people from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to Uganda; what assessment she has made of the likely impact on the United Nations peacekeeping mission of the conflict between the Congolese army and forces loyal to General Nkunda; and what representations she plans to make to the UN on the situaiton in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(108056)

317
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the statement of the government of Zimbabwe that they have ceased printing money.

(108057)

318
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will make a statement on the political situation in Burma.

(105613)

319
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made on the release of UK citizens detained at Guantanamo Bay; and if she will make a statement.

(105614)

320
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made towards encouraging Israelis to withdraw from the West Bank.

(105616)

321
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the political situation in Sudan.

(105617)

322
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will make a statement on the political situation in Chad.

(105618)

323
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions she has had on establishing a sanctions committee to monitor the implementation of the UN arms embargo against Lebanon as set out in UN Security Council Resolution 1701; and if she will make a statement.

(105416)

324
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what follow-up mechanism will be put in place to ensure the full co-operation of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia following their invitation to join the NATO Partnership for Peace.

(105428)

325
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will make a statement on the security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(105496)

326
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the UK Government's policy is on the proposal to send a UN force to Somalia.

(105545)

327
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when she was first informed of the US detention centre in Poland; and if she will make a statement.

(105419)

328
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-190W, on the retirement age, what her Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the Senior Civil Service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(107911)

329
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the extent is of UK participation in the EU Action Plan on the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention; why action at the EU level is required in this area; and if she will make a statement.

(108062)

330
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the total cost was of the indemnification of Sir Thomas Legg for contingent liability during his Sierra Leone investigations; and what the reason was for providing such indemnification.

(108064)

331
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the (a) budget, (b) agenda and (c) mission statement is of the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection; and if she will make a statement.

(108089)

332
N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps are being taken in Lebanon under UN Resolution 1701 (a) to disarm Hizbullah and (b) to release the Israeli soldiers held hostage.

(105021)

333
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether she plans to make her Department carbon neutral.

(105745)

334
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when she will reply to the letter of 26th October from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Vevima Marcelo.

(107990)

335
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will make a statement on the implementation of the Afghanistan Compact.

(107888)

336
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the UK Government was invited to make a submission to the Iraq Study Group in the United States; what form of submission was requested; and when it was supplied.

(107883)

337
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will publish the first draft of the Weapons of Mass Destruction dossier authored by John Williams, then Director of News in her Department, on 9th September 2002.

(107884)

338
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the cost of the conflict in Kashmir in each year since 2003.

(107908)

339
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what further confidence building measures are planned in respect of Kashmir; and if she will make a statement.

(107912)

340
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the draft report by Baroness Nicholson MEP for the European Parliament on Kashmir.

(108026)

341
N Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance her Department offered to UK citizens in Tonga during the recent civil unrest.

(107098)

342
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports she has received on the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip; what action the Government is taking to promote active engagement by all parties in the peace process; and if she will make a statement.

(104840)

343
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations she has made to the European Union on the Israel-Palestine peace process.

(104841)

344
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations she has made to Israel on the detention of Hamas parliamentarians.

(104842)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

345
N Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, further to her Answer of 30th November 2006, Official Report, column 911W, on breast treatment, whether her Department remains committed to a target for all people with breast problems to be seen by a specialist within two weeks.

(105277)

346
N Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether she intends that local involvement networks (LINks) should have a power to enter NHS premises and inspect the quality of services; and whether assessment and monitoring of NHS services will be one of the functions of LINks.

(105293)

347
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much her Department has spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105452)

348
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of her Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if she will make a statement.

(105482)

349
Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma Advisory Group last met; when it last made a preliminary report; and when its final report is due.

(107875)

350
Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she expects the mesothelioma sub-group to report on the measures required in a mesothelioma treatment and care strategy.

(107876)

351
N Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many drugs have been (a) approved, (b) partially approved and (c) rejected for prescribing on the NHS by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence since its inception.

(105027)

352
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many primary care trusts within the East Strategic Health Authority have a lung cancer multi-disciplinary team (MDT); how frequently each lung cancer MDT meets; how many cases of lung cancer were discussed by each MDT in the last 12 months; and how many of those MDTs are regularly attended by a (a) thoracic surgeon, (b) lung cancer specialist nurse, (c) respiratory physician, (d) clinical oncologist and (e) medical oncologist.

(105555)

353
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what her Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108007)

354
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will list the hospitals which have been sent turnaround teams; and what ward closures (a) are planned and (b) have been implemented in the last 12 months at each.

(108070)

355
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will list the bodies which are being funded to provide hospitals with turnaround plans; and how much each is receiving for this work.

(108071)

356
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the NHS workforce nurses represent; and what proportion they represented in 1997.

(108073)

357
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total average annual cost is of employing a nurse; and what it was in 1997.

(108082)

358
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has received from the local National Health Service in North East Hertfordshire of the number of NHS posts expected to be lost in the next 12 months.

(107972)

359
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will take steps to prevent Dr David Southall from working in NHS hospitals.

(105417)

360
N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the impact on Northamptonshire's NHS of the capitation element of the NHS funding formula.

(105022)

361
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to make her Department carbon neutral.

(105742)

362
N Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff are employed as consultants by (a) her Department and (b) NHS trusts; and what the cost was of employing such consultants in the last year for which figures are available.

(104975)

363
N Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much public funding was allocated for research into motor neurone disease in each year since 1997.

(104976)

364
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the requirements are for reporting (a) MRSA and (b) clostridium difficile infections in (i) NHS hospitals, (ii) private hospitals and (iii) independent sector treatment centres.

(107901)

365
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she will reply to the letter of 25th October 2006 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs E. Mooney.

(107992)

366
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many primary care trusts within the North West Strategic Health Authority area have a lung cancer multi-disciplinary team (MDT); how frequently each MDT meets; how many cases of lung cancer have been discussed by each MDT in the last 12 months; and how many MDTs are attended by a (a) thoracic surgeon, (b) lung cancer specialist nurse, (c) respiratory surgeon, (d) clinical oncologist and (e) medical oncologist.

(107961)

367
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research her Department has carried out into the relative benefits of (a) preventative treatment and (b) treatment once infection has been detected for cystic fibrosis sufferers; what guidance has been issued to hospitals in light of that research; and if she will make a statement.

(105159)

368
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of funding has been allocated to preventative treatment programmes for cystic fibrosis sufferers in (a) West Sussex and (b) the South East of England in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08.

(105160)

369
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many preventative treatment programmes for cystic fibrosis sufferers are in operation in hospitals in (a) West Sussex and (b) the South East of England; and how many of these programmes are able to support the needs of paediatric cystic fibrosis cases.

(105161)

370
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support her Department gives to preventative treatment programmes for cystic fibrosis sufferers; what input her Department has had on the current consultation at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children in Brighton on the future of the preventative treatment programme at that establishment; and if she will make a statement.

(105162)

371
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will (a) place in the Library and (b) make available on her Department's website a copy of Avoidable Deaths: Five Year Report of the National Confidential Enquiry into suicide and homicide by people with mental illness.

(105276)

372
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what basis the statistics for the number of homicides committed by those who are mentally ill in (a) the Violent Crime Overview Homicide and Gun Crime 2004-05 Home Office Statistical Bulletin 02/06 and (b) Avoidable Deaths: Five Year Report of the National Confidential Enquiry into suicide and homicide by people with mental illness were calculated.

(105414)

373
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mothers were treated for post-natal depression in each of the last five years.

(105619)

374
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many intensive care perinatal nurse posts have been held open in the last year.

(105620)

375
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much her Department has spent purchasing space in The Guardian newspaper in each of the last five years.

(105621)

376
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions for Benzodiazepines have been issued in each of the last five years.

(105622)

377
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what occasions she has met the chief executive of the (a) South East Coastal Strategic Health Authority and (b) West Sussex Primary Care Trust and predecessors since May 2005.

(105623)

378
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of mental health patients have received talking therapy in each of the last five years.

(105629)

379
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many acute mental health beds were (a) available in the NHS and (b) contracted to the NHS by the independent sector in each of the last five years.

(105630)

380
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of children born in England with foetal alcohol syndrome in each of the last 10 years.

(105631)

381
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to raise awareness of foetal alcohol syndrome.

(105632)

382
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many responses she received from psychotherapists in relation to the Foster Report.

(105637)

383
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the NHS is taking to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions.

(105638)

384
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by the NHS in each of the last five years.

(105639)

385
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much her Department spent on each project aimed at the prevention of alcohol abuse in each of the last 10 years.

(105640)

386
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions for anti-depressants were made for children in 2005-06; and for how many patients these prescriptions were written.

(105641)

387
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost has been of bonus payments to GPs for child vaccinations in each of the last five years; and how many children have received such vaccinations.

(105642)

388
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children are being treated on adult acute mental wards.

(105643)

389
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have received cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in each of the last five years; how many finished episodes of CBT took place in each of the last five years; how many CBT practitioners are registered; and how many NHS staff are receiving training in CBT.

(105644)

390
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many school nurses and school health assistants were employed by Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust in each of the last five years.

(105645)

391
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the budget was for the school nursing service in the Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust area in each of the last five years.

(105646)

392
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what budget is being proposed for the school nursing service in the Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust area in 2007-08.

(105647)

393
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many public health directors are employed by primary care trusts; and what the total cost was of the employment of such directors in 2005-06.

(105648)

394
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many public health directors were employed by primary care trusts in 2005-06; and what the cost was.

(105649)

395
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the community matron scheme.

(105650)

396
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of children in England (a) diagnosed and (b) undiagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder.

(105651)

397
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS posts have been (a) lost and (b) held open in the West Sussex Primary Care Trust area in each of the last three years.

(105652)

398
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes are being proposed by South East Coastal Strategic Health Authority in hospital training grade doctor budgets.

(105653)

399
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average wait for (a) braces and (b) corrective dental treatment for children is in each primary care trust.

(105654)

400
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individual patients received treatment for mental illness in each of the last 10 years.

(105655)

401
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many episodes of treatment for mentally ill patients were completed in each of the last 10 years.

(105656)

402
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who the author was of Fit for the Future produced by Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority.

(105661)

403
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what terms of reference were given to the authors of Fit for the Future by Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority; how much the document cost to produce; and how many copies were produced and distributed.

(105662)

404
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many adult social workers have been employed by local authorities in each of the last 10 years expressed as (a) headcount and (b) whole time equivalents.

(105663)

405
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what projections she has made of the number of births in (a) Worthing, (b) Adur and (c) West Sussex in each of the next 10 years.

(107880)

406
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what projections she has made of the number of accident and emergency admissions at Worthing Hospital in each of the next five years.

(107881)

407
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what projections she has made of the number of births at Worthing Hospital in each of the next five years.

(107882)

408
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the extent of the misuse of (a) anabolic steroids and (b) pseudophendrine; and what assessment she has made of the impact of the use of each on public health.

(107915)

409
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to educate young people on the misuse of anabolic steroids and pseudophendrine.

(107917)

410
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which projects are funded by primary care trusts to support children who have experienced sexual exploitation.

(108005)

411
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) cases and (b) fatalities there were arising from (i) clostridium difficile and (ii) C difficile type 027 in each month for which records are available; and how many of these were healthcare acquired.

(105434)

412
N Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what account was taken of trusts' obligations in time of major incidents or pandemics when considering the proposed closures of acute services by West Hertfordshire Acute Hospital Trust.

(105219)

413
N Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contingency planning her Department has made for the East of England Ambulance Trust when accident and emergency departments outside Hertfordshire are on medical alert and cannot accept patients.

(105220)

414
N Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the East of England Ambulance Trust gave assurances to the Board of West Hertfordshire Hospital Trust to provide transport for all category A targets for patients after the closure of the accident and emergency department at Hemel Hempstead Hospital; and what effect on patients' travel time is expected after the closure.

(105221)

415
N Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operational paramedics are able to provide advanced paediatric airway management in the area served by West Hertfordshire Hospital Trust; and if she will make a statement.

(105222)

416
N Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many paramedics on each shift on average are trained and available to undertake pre-hospital thrombolysis in the area served by West Hertfordshire Hospital Trust; and if she will make a statement.

(105223)

417
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on delays to breast cancer screening services at the Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal NHS Hospital Trust.

(105529)

418
N John Robertson (Glasgow North West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost was of methadone programmes in each year since 2002.

(107421)

419
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what checks are carried out to ensure that exceptional allocation monies for specialist palliative care services are spent on those services; and if she will make a statement.

(105544)

420
Sir Peter Soulsby (Leicester South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many primary care trusts within the East Midlands Strategic Health Authority have a lung cancer multi-disciplinary team; how many such teams are regularly attended by a (a) thoracic surgeon, (b) lung cancer specialist nurse, (c) respiratory physician, (d) clinical oncologist and (e) medical oncologist; how many cases of lung cancer have been discussed by each team to date this year; and how frequently each team meets.

(105700)

421
N Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent by the NHS on external consultants in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) primary care trust and (b) strategic health authority; and for what reason the expenditure was incurred in each case.

(104700)

422
Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether she plans to introduce hearing and sight tests for children when they first attend secondary school.

(105710)

423
Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency last updated the information on its website on (a) the Yellow Card Scheme and (b) on each individual drug analysis print; and if she will make a statement.

(105711)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

424
John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter of 16th October from the hon. Member for Buckingham on the case of Mr Pshteuin Mohammed and Mrs Ozlen Mohammed.

(105611)

425
N Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list (a) proscribed and (b) non-proscribed Islamist organisations assessed as having links with the Muslim Brotherhood.

(103795)

426
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105448)

427
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105477)

428
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the expected (a) start and (b) completion date is for the (i) NOMIS, (ii) identity cards, (iii) CID, (iv) biometric residence permits, (v) CJS Exchange, (vi) IBIP, (vii) e-borders procurement, (viii) CIDTR, (ix) EDRM, (x) Adelphi, (xi) IND points-based system, (xii) Mycroft, (xiii) NSPIS Case and Custody, (xiv) WITR, (xv) WISP, (xvi) Warnings Index Portfolio, (xvii) identity management and (xviii) ePassports projects; and what the original planned completion date was in each case.

(105489)

429
Mrs Ann Cryer (Keighley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what circumstances he would put out to tender an entire probation service under the National Offender Management Bill.

(107970)

430
Mrs Ann Cryer (Keighley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there will be a requirement for (a) magistrates, (b) local councillors, (c) members of the local police authority and (d) members of the local health authority to be members of probation boards or trusts.

(107971)

431
Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cautions were issued in each division of the West Mercia constabulary area in each of the last five years, broken down by category of offence.

(105678)

432
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108006)

433
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the likely cost to the public purse of changes to television sets in prisons as a result of digital switchover.

(108004)

434
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU development of a code of conduct on ethics and integrity for public officials; and what its legal base is.

(108063)

435
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU development of legislation concerning the European Evidence Warrant; and what its legal base is.

(108065)

436
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU development of legislation concerning the confiscation of criminal assets; and what its legal base is.

(108066)

437
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU development of an obligation on certain categories of officials with regard to the reporting of bribery and the disclosure of assets and business interests; and what its legal base is.

(108067)

438
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU development of legislation relating to European contract law; and what its legal base is.

(108068)

439
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the legislative proposals which are under development at EU level implementing the Hague Programme on Freedom, Security and Justice; and how many proposals implementing that programme have been agreed on.

(108072)

440
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU legislation for a European Citizens' Initiative; and what its legal base is.

(108074)

441
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU legislation for the establishment of common visa offices; and what its legal base is.

(108075)

442
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU legislation for the External Border Agency; what its legal base is; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the Handbook for Border Guards.

(108076)

443
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU legislation for the Schengen Information System II additional acquis; and what its legal base is.

(108077)

444
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU legislation for the development of the European Crime Report; and what its legal base is.

(108078)

445
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU legislation for the development of the Europol Information System; and what its legal base is.

(108079)

446
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposed developments at EU level of the Annual European Day of Civil Justice; and what its legal base is.

(108081)

447
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the UK-based organisations which are listed as proscribed terrorist organisations under international agreements to which the UK is a party.

(108086)

448
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what foreign visits have been undertaken by the Identity and Passport Service staff on official business in the last 12 months; what the total cost was of each visit; and how much of that sum was accounted for by (a) travel expenses, (b) expenses claimed and (c) accommodation in each case.

(105572)

449
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the notices of external employment have been given by special advisers in his Department in the last two years.

(105573)

450
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures he has put in place to prevent the release to third parties of biometric records shared between his Department and other Government Departments or agencies.

(105574)

451
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many useable blank pages there were in each new version of the standard passport introduced since 1997.

(105575)

452
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many jumbo 48-page passports were issued in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

(105576)

453
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials were employed by the Identity and Passport Service and its predecessors in the processing of (a) standard and (b) jumbo passport applications and the issue of those passports in each of the last nine years for which figures are available.

(105577)

454
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of how many additional officials will be required by his Department to process biometric passport applications.

(105578)

455
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his review of the UK's counter-terrorism capacity is expected to report; and whether the report will be published.

(105579)

456
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials in his Department are employed in his Department's review of the UK's counter-terrorism capacity; and how many officials have been seconded to the review from other Departments.

(105580)

457
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) official and (b) Minister is leading his Department's review of the UK's counter-terrorism capacity.

(105581)

458
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the total cost of his Department's review of the UK's counter-terrorism capacity.

(105582)

459
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials from his Department have been appointed to liaise with HM Treasury's review of security and counter-terrorism across Government; and of what grade.

(105583)

460
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent on (a) the identity cards project in the 2006-07 financial year and (b) external consultants working on the identity cards project.

(105584)

461
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the completed cases handled by the Assets Recovery Agency in (a) each complete financial year since it commenced operations and (b) 2006-07.

(105585)

462
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value was of the receipts realised in each case completed by each regional recovery team of the Assets Recovery Agency; and what type of assets were recovered in each case.

(105586)

463
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Section 10 (1) of the Identity Cards Act 2006, how those individuals who fail to register a change of circumstances will be identified and prosecuted.

(105587)

464
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Section 11 (1) of the Identity Cards Act 2006, how those individuals who fail to notify him of a lost, stolen, damaged, tampered with or destroyed ID card will be identified and prosecuted.

(105588)

465
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who will be responsible for identifying individuals who fail to comply with the requirements of sections 7, 10 and 11 of the Identity Cards Act 2006.

(105593)

466
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 29th November 2006, Official Report, column 776W, on identity cards and passports, who the (a) manufacturer and (b) supplier was of each piece of software; and what the cost was of each piece of software.

(105597)

467
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether biometric records held by his Department have been shared with agencies outside the United Kingdom.

(105701)

468
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department continues to issue `jumbo' 48-page passports.

(105702)

469
N Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the Integrated Drug Treatment System funding for drug treatment has been allocated to HMP Peterborough in 2006-07; and if he will make a statement.

(105290)

470
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average response time was for the police in Tamworth constituency in relation to domestic disturbance calls in each of the past two years.

(105739)

471
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to make his Department carbon neutral.

(105748)

472
Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been convicted for converting air weapons to fire live ammunition in each of the last three years.

(105600)

473
Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have (a) been convicted and (b) received upon conviction a minimum five-year sentence for possessing an illegal firearm in each of the last three years.

(105603)

474
Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been convicted for possessing (a) an air weapon and (b) an imitation firearm in public in each of the last three years.

(105604)

475
Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures his Department has taken to tackle crime in Clwyd South since 1997.

(105682)

476
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter of 27th October from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Ms Ndey Yama Mbye.

(107991)

477
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cyclists have been prosecuted for highways offences in each of the last five years.

(105633)

478
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received on introducing measures to place people other than parents prosecuted for (a) abducting and (b) attempting to abduct children on the Sex Offenders Register.

(105634)

479
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has plans to bring forward amendments to the Sex Offenders Act 2003 to place on the Sex Offenders Register strangers who abduct or attempt to abduct children.

(105635)

480
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children were abducted by (a) strangers and (b) family members in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

(105636)

481
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his most recent estimate is of the rate of recidivism amongst (a) child sex offenders, (b) other sex offenders, (c) violent crime offenders and (d) other classes of offender.

(105734)

482
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child sex offenders were convicted in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years.

(107956)

483
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average (a) sentence and (b) time served by convicted child sex offenders in England and Wales was in each of the last 10 years.

(107964)

484
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) notifications, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions there were of cases involving people trafficking in each police authority in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

(107913)

485
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) incidents of and (b) prosecutions for child trafficking there were in each of the last five years.

(107914)

486
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the use of the internet by extremist groups; and if he will make a statement.

(107916)

487
N John Robertson (Glasgow North West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children of school age have been cautioned for drug-related offences in each year since 2002.

(107419)

488
N John Robertson (Glasgow North West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the cost of policing drug related crime in each year since 2002.

(107420)

489
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long it took on average to determine applications for indefinite leave to remain in the UK in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(105547)

490
N Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of head-cam equipment in (a) evidence gathering and (b) reducing the number of complaints against the police.

(104581)

491
N Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many serving officers have been injured as a result of exposure to CS gas in the last three years.

(104582)

492
N Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines his Department has issued on the circumstances in which the exigency of duty rule is deployed by managers to alter shift rosters of police officers.

(104583)

493
N Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints he has received about the exigency of duty rule in overriding existing official shift rosters in the last two years.

(107855)

494
N Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will recommend DC Stephen Oake for a posthumous George Cross.

(107856)

495
Mr Michael Wills (North Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has made progress in deciding whether to sign the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.

(105435)

496
Dr Tony Wright (Cannock Chase):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EU citizens with a criminal record have been refused entry to the UK in the last five years.

(105606)

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

497
Sir Peter Soulsby (Leicester South):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what proportion of light bulbs used on the House of Commons estate were manufactured in the United Kingdom.

(105556)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

498
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105446)

499
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105473)

500
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the comments by the leadership of the UN Mission in the Sudan that humanitarian agencies may have to scale back their operations in North Darfur as a result of the situation in Sudan.

(108058)

501
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department plans to provide assistance to the people moving from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo into Uganda to avoid the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and whether he plans to make representations on the humanitarian situation to (a) the UN and (b) his EU counterparts.

(108092)

502
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of (a) the humanitarian effects and (b) the likely effects on agricultural production of the recent floods in Haiti; and whether the British Government plans to provide assistance.

(108093)

503
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department is planning to provide assistance following recent tropical storms (a) in Ba Ria Vung Tau province and (b) elsewhere in Vietnam.

(108094)

504
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress has been made in the restoration of the electricity supply in Gaza; and if he will make a statement.

(105427)

505
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108012)

506
N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to facilitate the charitable distribution of unused in date medicines to developing countries.

(105019)

507
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether he plans to make his Department carbon neutral.

(105752)

508
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he expects to reply to the letter of 25th October from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Dr Hay, transferred from HM Treasury.

(107994)

509
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much humanitarian aid was allocated to Darfur in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

(107887)

510
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the effect of the resources made available by the Indian government on the number of fatalities arising from the earthquake in Kashmir.

(107906)

511
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the effect of corruption on the disbursement of (a) UK and (b) international funds for earthquake relief in Kashmir; and if he will make a statement.

(107907)

512
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on people living within the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority of the cessation of EU aid to the Palestinian government.

(104839)

Questions to the Leader of the House

513
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Leader of the House, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what the Privy Council's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108025)

514
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Leader of the House, which items in the Queen's Speech programme are (a) in part and (b) wholly consequent on proposals made at European Union level.

(108091)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

515
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years for which records are available.

(105456)

516
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105481)

517
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the rate of average past tenant debt was in each Northern Ireland Housing Executive District Office in each year between March 2000 and March 2005.

(105281)

518
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps are being taken by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to recover past tenant debts.

(105282)

519
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 28th November 2006, Official Report, column 585W, on school transport, what the locations are of the first 10 schools that are involved in the programme of school safety zones during 2006-07; and which the other 20 schools in year 2007-08 will be.

(105283)

520
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many traffic violations resulting in fixed penalties being issued there were in Northern Ireland in (a) November 2005 and (b) November 2006.

(105284)

521
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108009)

522
Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps are being taken by the Environment and Heritage Service to meet targets for Areas of Special Scientific Interest designations in Northern Ireland.

(107989)

523
Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what percentage of pensioners in each Northern Ireland constituency are not registered to vote; and what research has been undertaken by his Department on the effect of access to national insurance numbers on registration levels.

(107996)

524
Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what percentage of those eligible in Northern Ireland to receive HM The Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal have not received their medal in each eligible group.

(108001)

525
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to ensure that his Department becomes carbon neutral.

(105705)

526
N Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what percentage of young people in Northern Ireland were (a) unemployed and not in full-time education and (b) economically inactive and not in full-time education (i) on 31st March in each year since 2001 and (ii) in the most recent month for which figures are available.

(105280)

527
N Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will place in the Library copies of the (a) advice and (b) guidance provided to the Department of Regional Development during the preparation of the draft Planning Policy Statement 14.

(105024)

528
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many child sex offenders were convicted in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years.

(107957)

529
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the average (a) sentence and (b) time served by convicted child sex offenders in Northern Ireland was in each of the last 10 years.

(107963)

530
Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what his latest estimate is of the percentage of single payment scheme funds which were disbursed by 30th June in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.

(107980)

Questions to the Prime Minister

531
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 27th November 2006, Official Report, column 330W, on gifts, what provisions have been made under Chapter 5 of the Ministerial Code authorising retiring ministers to take items of the Donated Asset Reserve with them on their departure since 1997; and if he will list the assets and ministers involved.

(107997)

532
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 27th November 2006, Official Report, column 330W, on gifts, what provisions are made besides Chapter 5 of the Ministerial Code for the (a) storage and (b) use of donated asset reserve wine held by his Office; who decided to retain it; and whether the wine which was held by his Office has been drunk.

(108059)

533
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 30th November 2006, Official Report, column 897W, whether his Office grades or classifies written Parliamentary questions according to their political sensitivity.

(107976)

534
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask the Prime Minister, what meetings (a) he and (b) officials acting on his behalf have had with representatives of the defence industry since 1st August 2006; when each meeting took place; what the subjects of each meeting were; and who attended each.

(105461)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

535
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105488)

536
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-190W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the Senior Civil Service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108020)

537
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what plans he has to ensure that his Department becomes carbon neutral.

(105704)

Questions to the Solicitor General

538
N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):To ask the Solicitor General, what the role is of the Crown Prosecution Service in Northamptonshire in securing compensation for victims in prosecuting offenders.

(105018)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

539
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much his Department has spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105450)

540
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105479)

541
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many people are living in fuel poverty in North East Fife; and if he will make a statement.

(105430)

542
N Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many colliery surface workers have (a) claimed and (b) received a payment for pneumoconiosis under the 1974 Coal Industry Pneumoconiosis Scheme since it was introduced, broken down by (i) area and (ii) date on which the claim was made.

(104588)

543
N Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many coal miners have received compensation under the 1974 Coal Industry Pneumoconiosis Scheme since 2002, broken down by area.

(104590)

544
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what guidelines energy suppliers are required to adhere to on managing small businesses' energy debts.

(105462)

545
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what guidelines or codes of practice are in place to protect small businesses from the disconnection of their gas or electricity supply.

(105471)

546
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his Answer of 27th November 2006, Official Report, column 386W, on retirement age, which (a) aspects, (b) sections and (c) findings of his Department's economic impact assessment he took account of when formulating the policy.

(105411)

547
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-190W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the Senior Civil Service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(107910)

548
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether public money has been given to Unions 21 since 1999.

(105570)

549
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether he plans to make his Department carbon neutral.

(105749)

550
Dr John Pugh (Southport):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what support his Department offers to British industries dealing in recycled materials.

(105538)

551
Sir Peter Soulsby (Leicester South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what support is available to companies manufacturing energy efficient light bulbs in the United Kingdom.

(105557)

552
Sir Peter Soulsby (Leicester South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he is taking to support companies in manufacturing energy efficiency products in the United Kingdom.

(105558)

553
Ian Stewart (Eccles):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many employment agencies have been prosecuted in the last 12 months for breaches of the (a) Employment Agencies Act 1973 and (b) Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003, broken down by offence.

(105559)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

554
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105439)

555
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105483)

556
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of ship to ship oil transfers which take place outside harbour areas in the North Sea.

(107900)

557
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-190W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the Senior Civil Service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108019)

558
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what security measures have been taken at London train and underground stations in response to flash mobbing; and if he will make a statement.

(105418)

559
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what sanctions are available against (a) special advisers, (b) ministers and (c) other civil servants if special advisers make use of official cars or taxis in circumstances which are not permitted.

(107893)

560
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in what circumstances special advisers may use an official car or taxi.

(107973)

561
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions since 1997 his Department has taken action against (a) special advisers, (b) Ministers and (c) other civil servants for permitting special advisers to use official cars or taxis in circumstances that are not within his Department's guidelines; and if he will make a statement.

(107984)

562
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will encourage the installation of light emitting diodes in traffic lights by local authorities.

(105437)

563
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the (a) carbon dioxide emissions, (b) operational costs and (c) maintenance costs of a (i) light-emitting diode traffic light and (ii) normal traffic light.

(105438)

564
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to ensure that his Department becomes carbon neutral.

(105703)

565
Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects railway stations at (a) Crystal Palace, (b) Anerley, (c) West Wickham, (d) Penge East, (e) Birkbeck, (f) Shortland, (g) Penge West, (h) Eden Park, (i) Beckenham Junction, (j) Lower Sydenham, (k) Elmers End, (l) Kent House, (m) Clockhouse and (n) New Beckenham to be made compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 under the Criteria for Access for All funding.

(105719)

566
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the performance of (a) Thameslink and (b) First Capital Connect on the Bedford to Brighton route over the last two years.

(107904)

567
Anne Snelgrove (South Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with oil companies on ways to stop diesel spillage in forecourts.

(105664)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

568
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years for which records are available.

(105455)

569
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105487)

570
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108010)

571
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what plans he has to ensure that his Department becomes carbon neutral.

(105706)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

572
N Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of single under 25 year old claimants in the local housing allowance pathfinder areas subject to the shared room rate restriction face a shortfall between their eligible and contractual rent; and what the average size is of that shortfall.

(104865)

573
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on commissioning public opinion research in each of the last five years.

(105445)

574
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement.

(105474)

575
N Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many coal miners have made a claim for compensation under the Pneumoconiosis Act 1979 since 2002, broken down by area.

(104589)

576
N Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library (a) tables showing the figures on which the charts in section 4.5 of The Gender Impact of Pension Reform are based and (b) similar tables based on the assumption that the individuls concerned opt out of personal accounts.

(105023)

577
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will restore the 1981 value of the Basic State Pension.

(105412)

578
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Blackpool South of 4th December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is for the setting of retirement ages for staff below the senior civil service under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

(108016)

579
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on (a) setting up the Office for Disability Issues and (b) the operation and administration of the office since it was set up.

(104745)

580
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on the administration and operation of Equality 2025 since its inception.

(104746)

581
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Tamworth are claiming incapacity benefit.

(105735)

582
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Tamworth constituency are in receipt of council tax benefit; and how many of those recipients are (a) pensioner and (b) non-pensioner households.

(105740)

583
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioner households in Tamworth constituency are receiving (a) pension credit and (b) pensions saving credit; and what the (i) highest and (ii) average amount awarded is.

(105741)

584
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to make his Department carbon neutral.

(105751)

585
Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures his Department has taken to help disabled people in Clwyd South since 1997.

(105681)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

586
Hugh Bayley (City of York):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were employed, full-time equivalent, in the Civil Service and government agencies in York (a) in total and (b) in the Central Science Laboratory at Sand Hutton in each year since 1992.

[Transferred] (105709)

Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

587
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if she will list the grants paid out under the Futurebuilders scheme; and what the amount was of each.

[Transferred] (105511)

588
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what sources of funding are available to assist social enterprise start-ups.

[Transferred] (107918)

589
Margaret Moran (Luton South):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many contracts were granted to social enterprises by (a) Government Departments and (b) local authorities in each of the last five years; and what the value was of each.

[Transferred] (108035)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

590
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how he plans to assess (a) the view of the public on UK nuclear weapons and (b) whether the public supports his position that maintaining nuclear weapons is in the best interests of the UK's future security.

[Transferred] (105528)

591
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will undertake road shows to enable consultation with the public on the Government's views on nuclear weapons with the public.

[Transferred] (105534)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

592
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress has been made on regeneration in Iraq.

[Transferred] (105612)

593
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which UK companies are working on regeneration in Iraq; and in what part of the country each is working.

[Transferred] (105615)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

594
Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, why the designation of areas of special scientific interest in Northern Ireland has been delayed; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (108003)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

595
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the impact of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive on disposal of pre-digital television sets; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (107952)

596
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the unit cost is of disposal of a current model standard television set.

[Transferred] (107953)

597
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what his most recent estimate is of the number of standard television sets which will become redundant following the national changeover to digital.

[Transferred] (107954)

598
Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will revise the terms of reference of the statutory consultation on the Renewables Obligation Order 2007 to take account of the Forestry Commission's most recent figures on the peak value of softwood availability; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (105543)

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