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 1 February 2007

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 1 February 2007
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 1 February 2007

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Thursday 1 February of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

For other Written Questions for answer on Thursday 1 February of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Thursday 1 February see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

1
Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to promote credit unions.

(118102)

2
Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to increase Government support available to credit unions.

(118103)

3
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people from Stroud constituency filed inheritance tax returns for amounts (a) between £500,000 and £999,999 and (b) greater than £1 million in each of the last three years.

(118241)

4
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people from Stroud constituency filed income tax returns for annual income (a) between £500,000 and £999,999 and (b) greater than £1 million in each of the last three years.

(118242)

5
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many pensioner households were subject to (a) 20, (b) 30, (c) 40, (d) 50 and (e) 60 per cent. and above marginal deduction rates taking account of tax deduction and loss of means-tested benefits in (i) the most recent year for which figures are available and (ii) 1997-98.

(118239)

6
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the income tax threshold for a (a) single and (b) married couple pensioner household (i) was in 1997 and (ii) is in 2006-07.

(118250)

7
Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue would have been raised in the last year for which information is available if (a) rail services fuel, (b) bus services fuel and (c) airline fuel bore the rate of duty and other taxes levied on fuel for passenger cars.

(118105)

8
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which public affairs firms were given contracts by (a) his Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by his Department in each of the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118429)

9
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the charging of VAT on food at motorway service station restaurant outlets.

(118387)

10
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what legislation applies to the (a) charging of VAT on food and (b) provision of information on VAT charging on menus and in-house advertisements by food retail outlets.

(118504)

11
Mr Brooks Newmark (Braintree):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Government's unfunded public sector pension liabilities are if calculated using a discount rate based on index linked gilts; and what discount rate he uses for the calculation.

(118104)

12
Dr Tony Wright (Cannock Chase):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether local councillors in the UK are included in the category of politically exposed persons under the Third EU Money Laundering Directive.

(118231)

Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

13
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which public affairs firms have been given contracts by (a) her Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by her Department in the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118475)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

14
Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the potential loss of greenbelt land in Solihull if the West Midlands Regional Assembly agrees that 570,000 new homes should be built in the region over the next 25 years.

(118455)

15
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to extend the remit of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights to cover all equality matters relating to gender identity in addition to matters affecting those who seek or who have had gender reassignment surgery.

(118325)

16
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will break down the staffing of the Women and Equality Unit by (a) sex and (b) ethnic origin.

(118335)

17
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the budget is of the Women and Equality Unit for 2006-07.

(118336)

18
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what research her Department has conducted into the extent of goods and services discrimination (a) on the grounds of gender identity and (b) against those who seek or who have had gender reassignment surgery.

(118337)

19
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps she has taken to encourage local authorities to make the infrastructural investments agreed under section 106 agreements with developers; and what the total value is of revenues collected under section 106 agreements that have remained unspent over the past five years.

(118457)

20
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information is collected by the Government Offices for the Regions on the uses to which local authorities put revenues collected from developers under section 106 agreements.

(118458)

21
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which public affairs firms have been given contracts by (a) her Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by her Department in the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118452)

22
N Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much from public funds was paid to Catholic housing agencies in each year since 1997.

(117948)

23
N Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households in (a) Warrington and (b) the North West are living in temporary accommodation; and what proportion of those households have been in temporary accommodation for more than 12 months.

(117890)

24
N Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes were built in (a) Warrington and (b) the North West as a result of section 106 agreements in each year since 1997.

(117899)

25
N Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in Warrington were registered as homeless in each year since 1997.

(117900)

26
N Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much public subsidy was given to the building of affordable housing in (a) Warrington and (b) the North West in each year since 1997.

(117901)

27
Mr Sadiq Khan (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was allocated to Wandsworth Council by the Goverment in each of the last 15 years, broken down into (a) ringfenced and (b) non ringfenced funding.

(118187)

28
Mr Oliver Letwin (West Dorset):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will break down by programme the expenditure from the European Regional Development Fund initiative in the (a) South West, (b) West Midlands, (c) Yorkshire and Humberside, (d) South East, (e) North West, (f) North East and (g) London regions in the most recent year for which figures are available.

(118101)

29
Mr Oliver Letwin (West Dorset):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will break down by programme expenditure from the Safer Stronger Communities Fund initiative in the (a) Eastern, (b) East Midlands, (c) London, (d) North East, (e) North West, (f) South East, (g) South West and (h) West Midlands regions in the most recent year for which figures are available.

(118207)

30
Anne Main (St Albans):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the practice of land banking by supermarket chains.

(118461)

31
Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has for bringing forward legislation to deal with the impact of single status and equal pay claims on local government; and if she will make a statement.

(118100)

32
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much each local government re-organisation in England cost in each year since 1980.

(118099)

Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs

33
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the delay in establishing courts in the community in Nottingham; and what steps she is taking to end this delay.

(118093)

34
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what criteria her Department has set for determining whether premises are acceptable to serve as community courts; and what assessment she has made of the availability of suitable premises in Nottingham.

(118094)

35
Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, whether the Legal Services Commission has sent to the Medical Research Council research paid for by legal aid in connection with the MMR/MR vaccines litigation.

(118260)

36
Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what recent representations she has received on (a) postal and (b) proxy voting in London.

(118258)

37
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, which public affairs firms were given contracts by (a) her Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by her Department in each of the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118474)

38
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what mechanisms are in place to prevent (a) repetitious and (b) fraudulent legal aid claims in child custody cases.

(118389)

39
John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many appeals have been made to the Information Commissioner against refusals by Bassetlaw District Council of freedom of information requests.

(118392)

40
N Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what estimate she has made of the potential liability arising from legal action taken by prisoners not allowed to vote in the Scottish Parliament elections in May 2007.

(117889)

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

41
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was spent by the Heritage Lottery Fund in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement.

(118344)

42
N Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many organisations for which she has responsibility she is proposing to reclassify as a non-departmental public body; how many of these organisations have expressed opposition to such a change in status; and if she will make a statement.

(117898)

43
Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will place in the Library a copy of the PMP report into the legacy of 2012 Olympic and Paralympic venues.

(118364)

44
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which public affairs firms were given contracts by (a) her Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by her Department in each of the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118494)

45
N Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what position the Government has taken on the (a) proposal to establish an European Union Cultural Heritage Agency and (b) selection of a host nation for the agency.

(117949)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

46
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which public affairs firms have were given contracts by (a) his Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by his Department in each of the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118430)

47
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to promote awareness of the Veterans Badge and its availability.

(118366)

48
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was spent on entertainment by the Chief of the General Staff in (a) 2005 and (b) 2006, broken down by event.

(118171)

49
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was spent on entertainment by the Adjutant General in (a) 2005 and (b) 2006, broken down by event.

(118172)

50
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces are assigned to the household of the (a) Adjutant General and (b) Chief of the General Staff.

(118180)

51
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was spent on travel costs for (a) members of the Army Board, (b) the Adjutant General and (c) the Chief of the General Staff in 2006.

(118181)

52
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the running costs were of the housing provided by his Department to the (a) Adjutant General, (b) Chief of the General Staff and (c) members of the Army Board in the last 12 months.

(118182)

53
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces are assigned to the households of members of the Army Board.

(118183)

54
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the market value of the housing provided by his Department to the (a) Chief of the General Staff, (b) Adjutant General and (c) members of the Army Board.

(118184)

55
N Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future of the Gap Year Commission in the British Army.

(117891)

56
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the status is of the British military presence in Kosovo; and what plans the Government has for changes to the number of British forces in Kosovo.

(118354)

57
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the status is of KFOR; what discussions he has had with his European Union and NATO counterparts on the future of the KFOR deployment; what the outcome was of those discussions; and if he will make a statement.

(118355)

58
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's total expenditure was on the Royal Navy in each year since 1990; what the projected spend is on the Royal Navy in each of the next 10 years; and if he will make a statement.

(118462)

Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister

59
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which public affairs firms were given contracts by his Department in each of the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118427)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills

60
N Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when he expects to publish a full evaluation of the outcomes from the trailblazing authorities on information sharing on children.

(117985)

61
N Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) placement orders and (b) adoption orders were made in 2006.

(117986)

62
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what science-based studies underpinned (a) the new school food-based standards and (b) the new school food nutrient-based standards; what advice he received on each of these sets of standards from the Food Standards Agency; what plans he has to monitor uptake of school meals since the introduction of new school meal standards; and when data on the uptake will be published.

(118124)

63
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the division of responsibilities for the new school food standards is between his Department, the School Food Trust and the Food Standards Agency; and what role the recommendations of the School Meals Review Panel played in the development of the new standards for school meals introduced from September 2006.

(118125)

64
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the appointment of the new Chair of the School Food Trust.

(118126)

65
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the work of the School Food Trust.

(118127)

66
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how responsibilities are divided between the Chair and the Chief Executive of the School Food Trust.

(118128)

67
Colin Burgon (Elmet):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many students living in Elmet constituency were in receipt of education maintenance allowance (EMA) in each year since its inception; and what total amount was paid to students living in the Elmet constituency in EMA payments in each year since its inception.

(118424)

68
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what (a) guidance and (b) resources have been provided by his Department to schools and colleges to enhance the teaching of climate change issues.

(118395)

69
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on progress with the introduction of the new 14 to 19 diplomas.

(118321)

70
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps he is taking to support school sport in Hendon.

(118431)

71
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will list the schools designated as (a) sports hubs and (b) specialist sports colleges in each London local authority.

(118432)

72
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which schools have been designated as (a) language colleges and (b) business and enterprise colleges in Barnet.

(118433)

73
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what opportunities the 2012 Olympics offers to school sports in Hendon.

(118434)

74
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many students in Hendon receive education maintenance allowance; and what assessment he has made of the education maintenance allowance has had on school staying on rates in Hendon.

(118435)

75
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what progress is being made in improving the standard of school meals, with particular reference to Hendon.

(118436)

76
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the academic results of the London Academy, Edgware, since it became a city academy; what the total (a) Government and (b) private sector expenditure has been on the Academy; and if he will make a statement.

(118438)

77
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much his Department has made available for capital expenditure in Hendon schools since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

(118439)

78
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools in Hendon provide fruit to their pupils each day.

(118440)

79
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what his plans are for future capital investment in schools in Hendon; and if he will make a statement.

(118441)

80
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools in Hendon were inspected by Ofsted in the last 12 months; what the outcome of each inspection was; and if he will make a statement.

(118442)

81
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether any schools in Hendon were (a) put into and (b) taken out of special measures in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

(118443)

82
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools in Hendon offer extended hours; and if he will make a statement.

(118445)

83
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what progress is being made in Hendon in establishing Sure Start and Children's Centres; and if he will make a statement.

(118446)

84
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what expenditure his Department has made on Sure Start and Children's Centres in Hendon; and if he will make a statement.

(118447)

85
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many free part-time early education places were taken up by three and four year olds in Hendon in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 1996-97; and if he will make a statement.

(118448)

86
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) Sure Start and (b) under fives child care places are available in Hendon; and if he will make a statement.

(118449)

87
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many nursery places were available through the Neighbourhood Nurseries Institute in Hendon in 2006-07; what the average cost per place was; and if he will make a statement.

(118450)

88
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what additional funds have been made available to Barnet Local Education Authority to extend free part-time nursery education to 38 weeks a year; and if he will make a statement.

(118451)

89
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will rank English local education authorities' by the percentage of children entitled to receive free school meals.

(118464)

90
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will rank London education authorities by (a) the (i) number and (ii) percentage of admission appeals lodged relating to secondary transfer and (b) the (A) number and (B) percentage of such appeals that were successful.

(118465)

91
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will rank education authorities in (a) London and (b) England by the (i) number and (ii) percentage of pupils with a first language other than English; and if he will make a statement.

(118466)

92
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will rank education authorities in (a) London and (b) England by the (i) number and (ii) percentage of pupils with special educational needs but without statements; and if he will make a statement.

(118467)

93
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to reform history teaching in schools.

(118468)

94
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many primary schools in Hendon offer teaching in modern languages; and if he will make a statement.

(118469)

95
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what progress has been made in Lord Dearing's review of language teaching; and if he will make a statement.

(118470)

96
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether (a) GCSE and (b) A level examinations are available in (i) Gujarati, (ii) Hindi, (iii) Urdu, (iv) Tamil, (v) Somali, (vi) Farsi, (vii) Cantonese and (viii) Mandarin; and if he will make a statement.

(118471)

97
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children in Hendon participated in the Bookstart programme in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(118472)

98
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average percentage of school-age children entitled to free school meals was in (a) Barnet, (b) London and (c) England in (i) grammar schools, (ii) local authority maintained schools, (iii) denominational schools and (iv) other schools, including special schools in the last period for whcih figures are available.

(118473)

99
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the per pupil funding allocated to Barnet Education Authority (a) is for 2006-07, (b) is expected to be for 2007-08 and (c) was in 1996-97; and if he will make a statement.

(118476)

100
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what financial support for schools in Hendon is being paid direct to head teachers (a) in 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement.

(118477)

101
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what allocation Barnet Education Authority has received for personalised learning in 2006-07; how much is expected to be allocated for 2007-08; and if he will make a statement.

(118478)

102
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the baseline Dedicated Schools Grant is for schools in Hendon; what the most recent figure is; and if he will make a statement.

(118479)

103
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which schools in Hendon received capital funding directly from his Department in each year since May 1997; and if he will make a statement.

(118480)

104
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what capital funding was made available to Barnet Education Authority in each year since 1996-97; and if he will make a statement.

(118481)

105
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what funding was made available to Barnet College in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(118482)

106
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils in Hendon completed apprenticeships in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.

(118483)

107
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) school support staff, (b) teachers and (c) teaching assistants there are in Hendon schools; how many there were in 1997; and if he will make a statement.

(118487)

108
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average level of school (a) attendance and (b) exclusions in Hendon was in the last period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(118488)

109
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children there were on average in key stage 1 classes in Hendon in (a) 1997 and (b) 2006; and if he will make a statement.

(118489)

110
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of 14 year olds in Hendon reached the required standard in English and mathematics in (a) 1997 and (b) 2006; and if he will make a statement.

(118490)

111
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of children in primary schools in Hendon reached the required standards in (a) mathematics, (b) English, (c) science and (d) all three subjects in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2006; and if he will make a statement.

(118491)

112
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the A and AS level results were in Hendon in (a) 1997 and (b) 2006; and if he will make a statement.

(118492)

113
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of secondary school students in Hendon achieved five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C in (a) 1997 and (b) 2006; and if he will make a statement.

(118493)

114
Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 19th January 2007, Official Report, column 455, on competition managers, how many of the competitions identified are considered new competitions.

(118303)

115
Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 19th January 2007, Official Report, columns 455 and 1376W, on competition managers, what the age groups were of the participants in the identified competitions, broken down by school year.

(118304)

116
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which public affairs firms were given contracts by (a) his Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by his Department in each of the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118453)

117
Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what recent academic studies funded by his Department researched the social and economic backgrounds of perpetrators of youth crime and the influence of social and economic backgrounds on youth crime.

(118363)

118
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much was spent on (a) primary and (b) secondary school education in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) England in each year since 1997.

(118221)

119
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils achieved (a) at least five GCSE grades A* to C and (b) GCSE grades A* to C including English and mathematics in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) England in each year since 1997.

(118232)

120
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers were employed in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) England in each year since 1997.

(118233)

121
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of children leaving full-time education in (a) Gateshead East and Washington West and (b) Tyne and Wear went on to a place at university in 2006.

(118535)

122
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps are being taken towards implementing youth opportunity cards in Sunderland; and when their launch is expected.

(118536)

123
N Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much from public funds was paid to Catholic adoption agencies in each year since 1997.

(117946)

124
N Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much from public funds was paid to Catholic faith schools in each year since 1997.

(117947)

125
Ian Lucas (Wrexham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many students from (a) Wrexham and (b) Wales attended universities in England as undergraduates in each of the last five years.

(118235)

126
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the timetable is for the implementation of the Children's Information Sharing Index; what information will be entered on to the index; who will enter the information on to the index; what the penalties will be for not complying with the requirements of the index; and who will have access to the information on the index.

(118177)

127
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when he expects to reply to Question 115962, tabled on 17th January 2007.

(118178)

128
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many young people in Darlington received an educational maintenance allowance in each year since the introduction of the allowance.

(118531)

129
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) young people and (b) adults participated in further education in Darlington in each year since 1992.

(118540)

130
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of pupils at state schools in Darlington achieved five or more A* to C grades in GCSEs in each of the last 10 years.

(118543)

131
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many young people were not in education, employment or training in each local authority area in the latest year for which figures are available.

(118544)

132
Mr Elliot Morley (Scunthorpe):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the capital allocation for schools in North Lincolnshire was in (a) 1995 and (b) 1996.

(118230)

133
Mr Andrew Pelling (Croydon Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the percentage change was in the number of students aged 19 and over in the academic year 2005-06 from that in 2004-05 in (a) further education colleges, (b) adult and continuing education and (c) adult work-based learning (i) in England and (ii) in the London Borough of Croydon.

(118253)

134
Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many vacancies for head teachers there are in Morecambe and Lunesdale.

(118547)

135
Mr John Spellar (Warley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate he has made of bidding costs for projects under Building Schools for the Future.

(118110)

136
Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what his policy is on monitoring home education; and if he will make a statement.

(118108)

137
Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when he expects to sign off the plans for the Academy for the Isle of Sheppey.

(118236)

138
Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether he has considered alternatives to the proposed Academy on the Isle of Sheppey.

(118237)

139
Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) parents, (b) teachers and (c) elected councillors from the Isle of Sheppey are represented on the Shadow Academy.

(118238)

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

140
N Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much coniferous woodland has been planted in the UK during the last 10 years.

(117714)

141
N Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to increase the area of coniferous woodland planted.

(117715)

142
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham of 26th January 2007, Official Report, columns 211-13W, on bovine TB, what changes to the tabular systems are under consideration; and how proposals will be consulted on.

(118106)

143
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which public affairs firms were given contracts by (a) his Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by his Department in each of the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118437)

144
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government remains committed to the 2012 deadline for the prohibition of battery cages in the UK.

(118425)

145
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of preparations to deliver single farm payments for 2006-07; and if he will make a statement.

(118251)

146
N Anne Moffat (East Lothian):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the sustainability of markets for recycled materials.

(117980)

147
N Anne Moffat (East Lothian):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to raise the targets on recycling for local authorities.

(117981)

148
Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any payments have been made under the single payment scheme for Ireby Fell, Lancashire.

(118548)

149
Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans there are to improve flood defences at Sunderland Point, Morecambe.

(118549)

150
Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce energy consumption in public buildings.

(118552)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

151
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations she has made to Kazakhstan on the persecution of the Hare Krishna community there; and if she will make a statement.

(118319)

152
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports she has received of the trafficking of Kachin women across the China-Burma border.

(118186)

153
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations she has made to the Ugandan authorities in the last three weeks on their refusal to release 19 civilian People Redemption Army suspects; and if she will make a statement.

(118309)

154
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which public affairs firms were given contracts by (a) her Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by her Department in each of the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118495)

155
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether she has made representations to the Ugandan authorities on the recent order by the constitutional courts for the immediate release of 19 civilian members of the People's Redemption Army; and if she will make a statement.

(118096)

156
Mr David Jones (Clwyd West):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations her Department has made to the Colombian government on the detention of Samuel Morales and Raquel Castro.

(118503)

157
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the prevalence of small arms in Kosovo; what support the Government is giving to arms eradication programmes in Kosovo; and if she will make a statement.

(118357)

158
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of (a) the political situation in Kosovo and (b) the political consequences of UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's recommendations for the future status of Kosovo.

(118358)

159
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions she has had with her International Contact Group for Kosovo counterparts on the recommendations of UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari; what the outcome was of those discussions; and if she will make a statement.

(118359)

160
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with her (a) European Union, (b) United States and (c) Russian counterparts on the European Union's future role in Kosovo; what the outcome was of those discussions; and if she will make a statement.

(118360)

161
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications of the recent parliamentary elections in Serbia for the process to establish the final status of Kosovo.

(118361)

162
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent attempts have been made by (a) the British Ambassador to Burma and (b) other UK Government officials to visit Aung San Suu Kyi.

(118375)

163
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of UN envoy Gambari's visits to Burma.

(118376)

164
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impacts on (a) Burma and (b) British industry of a ban on British trade with Burma; whether she is reviewing the Government's policy on banning investment in Burma; and if she will make a statement.

(118378)

165
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the position of the Non-Aligned Movement on a United Nations Security Council resolution on Burma.

(118379)

166
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the political situation in Karen State, Burma.

(118382)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

167
Ms Celia Barlow (Hove):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many salaried doctors are working in the NHS; and how many were working in the NHS in 1997.

(118107)

168
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information is held centrally by her Department on the net financial balance as a whole for the National Health Service.

(118121)

169
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information is held centrally by her Department on individual accounting units' net financial balance in the National Health Service.

(118122)

170
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to privatise the commissioning of local health services.

(118123)

171
Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations she has made to strategic health authorities to ensure they consult upon and deliver a workforce strategy for primary care; and if she will make a statement.

(118522)

172
Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors are employed by Bedfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT); and how many were employed by (a) Bedford PCT and (b) Heartlands PCT in (i) 2005, (ii 2004 and (iii) 2003.

(118523)

173
Ann Coffey (Stockport):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her Answer of 26th January 2007 to the hon. Member for Bolton South East, Official Report, column 2139W, on integrated clinical assessment and treatment services, what recent figures have been given to her by the NHS North West Strategic Health Authority on the financial impact of the introduction of the independent integrated clinical assessment and treatment services on the foundation and acute trusts in Greater Manchester.

(118206)

174
Philip Davies (Shipley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on acupuncture for prisoners in Category (a) A, (b) B, (c) C and (d) D conditions in each of the last five years.

(118484)

175
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that patients in hospital over the age of 65 years receive an appropriate diet; and if she will make a statement.

(118254)

176
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations she has received on the diets of hospital patients over the age of 65 years; and if she will make a statement.

(118255)

177
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that residential care and nursing homes for the elderly meet nutritional requirements; and if she will make a statement.

(118256)

178
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on the Government's Dignity for Older People campaign; and if she will make a statement.

(118257)

179
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in meeting the Government target set in 2004 to halve the number of MRSA cases by April 2008; and if she will make a statement.

(118342)

180
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will place in the Library the memo written by the Director of Health Protection, Liz Woodeson, in October 2006 on Government targets to combat MRSA; and if she will make a statement.

(118343)

181
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what investment the Government is making in new technologies to combat MRSA in NHS hospitals; and if she will make a statement.

(118346)

182
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations she has received on new strains of MRSA in the NHS; what steps her Department is taking to prevent such strains; and if she will make a statement.

(118347)

183
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what expenditure the Government has made available in each year since 1997 to combat healthcare associated infections in NHS hospitals; and if she will make a statement.

(118348)

184
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training is provided to medical staff in NHS hospitals on the risks of healthcare associated infections; and if she will make a statement.

(118349)

185
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations she has received on new technologies to combat MRSA in NHS hospitals; and if she will make a statement.

(118350)

186
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recommendations have been made by the Rapid Review Panel to the Health Protection Agency on investment in new technologies to combat healthcare associated infections; and if she will make a statement.

(118351)

187
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in the review of policy on the uniforms of medical staff in NHS hospitals to prevent healthcare associated infections; and if she will make a statement.

(118352)

188
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what account is taken of (a) convictions and (b) accepted cautions when employing (i) doctors, (ii) nurses and (c) other healthcare workers to work for the NHS.

(118225)

189
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether meat from (a) cloned animals and (b) offspring of cloned animals may be sold for human consumption; and what regulations apply to the (i) processing and (ii) labelling of the products of cloned animals.

(118296)

190
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which public affairs firms were given contracts by (a) her Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by her Department in each of the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118486)

191
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate of teenage pregnancy in (a) Gateshead East and Washington West and (b) Tyne and Wear constituencies was in each year since 1997.

(118532)

192
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the take up is of the choose and book system amongst primary care practices in each primary care trust in the East of England in the period for which figures have most recently been collected; and if she will make a statement.

(118518)

193
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will assess the merits of publishing advertisements promoting awareness of the health implications of excessive and inappropriate sunbed use.

(118384)

194
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will commission a study to ascertain the number of unstaffed coin-operated tanning salons and their locations.

(118385)

195
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will commission a public health study into sunbed use by people under 16.

(118386)

196
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will record rates of infection of (a) meticillin-resistant staphylococcus auerus, (b) Clostridium difficile and (c) other hospital-acquired infections recorded under mandatory surveillance procedures, broken down by age.

(118119)

197
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she will reply to Questions numbers (a) 107383 and 107387 tabled on 29th November 2006, (b) 106107, 106073, 106110 and 106124 tabled on 23rd November 2006, (c) 103354 tabled on 21st November 2006 and (d) 101934, 101933 and 101728 tabled on 16th November 2006 by the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire.

(118120)

198
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what total expenditure by the NHS on diabetes was in each year since 2000-01.

(118132)

199
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to section 4.6 of the Ministerial Code, on how many occasions (a) she and (b) Ministers in her Department have made representations on behalf of constituents over health service reconfigurations in their capacity as constituency MPs in each year since 1997.

(118133)

200
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions she has received representations from other Government Ministers on behalf of constituents concerning health service reconfigurations acting in their capacity as constituency hon. Members in each year since 1997.

(118134)

201
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the average percentage of the overall budget of (a) primary care trusts and (b) NHS trusts which was spent on IT in the most recent period for which figures are available.

(118135)

202
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of people with (a) type 1 and (b) type 2 diabetes in each year since 1997; how many finished episodes of care relating to the treatment of diabetes there have been in each year since 1997; what estimate she has made of the number of patients who will have each type of diabetes in 2010; and if she will make a statement.

(118136)

203
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what average percentage of the allocation to an (a) primary care trust and (b) NHS trust is for information technology expenditure.

(118137)

204
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will place in the Library copies of the letters of appointment of each of her special advisers.

(118138)

205
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions in each year since 1997 her Department's accounting officer has indicated that a course of action being considered would breach the requirements of propriety and regularity as set out in section 3.3 of the Ministerial Code.

(118139)

206
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions in each year since 1997 a Minister in her Department has had duties removed to avoid a potential conflict of interest under section 5.17 of the Ministerial Code.

(118140)

207
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which private finance initiative health projects have been cancelled in each year since 1997.

(118141)

208
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency first began investigating the withholding of data from clinical trials of paroxetine; when she expects the Criminal Investigation Unit to take a decision on whether to refer the case to the police; whether she has the ultimate authority to decide whether a matter under investigation by the Criminal Investigation Unit is referred to the police; and if she will make a statement.

(118142)

209
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the total costs arising directly from the structural reorganisation of (a) strategic health authorities and (b) primary care trusts, exclusive of any savings made through reductions in the cost of administration.

(118143)

210
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether Exeptional Income (SHA Bank Support), as stated in appendix C of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust's Financial Performance Report for the month ending 30th November 2006, is in-year financial support; and if she will make a statement.

(118144)

211
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what overall change to primary care trust allocations for purchasing parity adjustments in cash terms her Department provided from central budgets in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07; and what the overall change she anticipates making to primary care trust allocations in 2007-08.

(118145)

212
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) spells of patient care and (b) finished consultant episodes there were in each year since 2004-05.

(118146)

213
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the mean length of stay was for patients admitted to hospital in each year from 1997-98 to 2005-06.

(118147)

214
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) mean and (b) median waiting times were as provided by data drawn from hospital episode statistics in each year from 1993-94 to 2005-06; and what the commissioner-based (i) mean and (ii) median waiting times were as provided by NHS organisations' monthly returns to her Department in each year.

(118148)

215
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress she has made in developing an NHS life check.

(118149)

216
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether she has made an assessment of changes to (a) provider and (b) commissioner behaviour arising from the implementation of payment by results; and what plans she has to assess such behaviour.

(118150)

217
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to table 5 in her Department's Memorandum to the Health Committee entitled Public Expenditure on Health and Personal Social Services 2006, HC 1692-i, published 21st November 2006, what the total NHS Trust reported use of additional resources for the purpose of debt repayment was in each year since 2001-02, expressed (a) as a percentage of the additional resources available and (b) in cash terms; and if she will make a statement.

(118152)

218
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to instruct NHS Employers to negotiate a cap on general practitioners' earnings under the General Medical Services contract.

(118153)

219
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Payment by Results (PbR) guidance 2007-08 issued by her Department on 20th December 2006, Gateway reference 7539, which organisations whose PbR gains are capped in 2007-08 her Department has informed strategic health authorities are eligible for support; which organisations have had their (a) PbR gains and (b) PbR losses capped in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07; and if she will make a statement.

(118154)

220
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many bariatric surgical interventions were undertaken by the NHS in each year since 1997-98.

(118155)

221
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many liposuction procedures were undertaken by the NHS in each year since 1997-98.

(118156)

222
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many emergency readmissions there were in each quarter since the quarter ending June 2002; and what percentage of patients was readmitted as an emergency in each quarter.

(118157)

223
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of patients on outpatient waiting lists were seen within thirteen weeks in each year since 1990, as recorded by (a) the Korner waiting time statistics and (b) the Hospital Episodes Statistics database.

(118158)

224
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what gifts have been received by (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in her Department in each financial year since 1997-98; on what date each gift was given; what the estimated cost was of each gift; and who the (i) donor and (ii) recipient was in each case.

(118159)

225
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training courses have been offered to (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in her Department in the last 12 months.

(118160)

226
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the average working hours for (a) staff in her Department, (b) nurses, (c) doctors, (d) other clinicians and (e) all other NHS staff in each year since 1997-98.

(118161)

227
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what opinion polls have been undertaken by her Department since May 2005; and what the (a) cost and (b) purpose was of each.

(118162)

228
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on artwork by her Department in each year since 1997-98

(118163)

229
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions (a) she and (b) Ministers in her Department have used (i) non-scheduled flights and (ii) helicopters within the UK on official business in the last 12 months; and what the (A) purpose and (B) estimated cost was of each such flight.

(118164)

230
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) destination and (b) purpose was of each overseas visit outside the European Union undertaken by staff in her Department in the last two months.

(118165)

231
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on (a) travel, (b) accommodation, (c) subsistence and (d) other associated travel expenses as a result of travel within the UK by staff in (i) her Department and (ii) its agencies in each year since 2001-02.

(118166)

232
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what her Department's total expenditure has been in each of the last three years on (a) newspapers, magazines and periodicals, (b) landscape gardening and flora and (c) (i) stationery and (ii) promotional merchandise branded with the name of the Department.

(118167)

233
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will publish the anticipated trajectory on which the percentage of (a) admitted and (b) non-admitted patients waiting 18 weeks or less for treatment will migrate towards 100 per cent. by 2008.

(118168)

234
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions her Department has had with the European Commission on legislation to ban smoking in public places across the European Union.

(118169)

235
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations she has received from primary care trusts on the impact of prison overcrowding on providing health care to prisoners.

(118170)

236
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her Department's press statement of 23rd January 2007 on patient choice, if she will give a break down by provider of the 200 hospitals and treatment centres referred to.

(118208)

237
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25th January 2007, Official Report, column 2046W, on public service agreements, what the 27 targets are which are contained in the Our Healthier Nation framework; and if she will list all public services agreement targets.

(118215)

238
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17th October 2007, Official Report, column 1163W, on diagnostic tests, where the sites are which strategic health authories and primary care trusts have confirmed they will require services.

(118216)

239
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 29th January 2007, Official Report, column 62W, on practice-based commissioning, what plans she has to collect data on component two of the payment; and whether her Department has made any estimate of the proportion of practices in receipt of component two.

(118217)

240
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the evidential basis is for her statement of 23rd January 2007, Official Report, column 1305, that local variation in the incidence of Clostridium difficile is greater than local variation in the incidence of meticillin resistant staphylococcus auerus.

(118218)

241
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15th January 2007, Official Report, column 919W, on inpatient waiting times, what percentage of people were removed from the NHS waiting list in each year since 1989-90.

(118219)

242
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15th January 2007, Official Report, column 910W, on accident and emergency departments, which NHS trusts the NHS has told her are (a) consulting on and (b) planning to consult on changes to their accident and emergency departments.

(118220)

243
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 29th January 2007, Official Report, column 61W, on the National Director for Heart Disease and Stroke, for what reasons the National Clinical Directors were asked by her to produce reports; and what estimate she has made of the cost of producing each report.

(118240)

244
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her statement of 10th January 2007, Official Report, columns 314-15, which problems in the NHS arise from the previous Government's negotiation of the European Working Time Directive; and how they differ from the additional problems driven by the impact of the SiMAP and Jaegear judgements.

(118243)

245
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 8th January 2007, Official Report, column 62W, on resource accounting, when she plans to look again at reversing the impact of past resource accounting and budgeting reductions on delivery of financial balance on 2006-07.

(118244)

246
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 8th January 2007, Official Report, column 39W, on hospital closures (media interest), what methodology was used to arrive at predictions for media interest (a) now, (b) in the summer, (c) in the autumn and (d) in the future as indicated on the heat maps released by her Department on 7th November 2006; and for what reasons her Department analysed media interest surrounding potential hospital closures.

(118245)

247
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the statement by the Minister of State for Delivery and Reform in Westminster Hall of 14th December 2006, Official Report, column 357WH, when she will write to the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire on the difference in levels of disease in Leigh and Eastbourne.

(118246)

248
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 20th July 2006, Official Report, column 43WS, on the Patient Power Review, when her Department expects the Patient Power Review Group to publish its final report on the communications services offered to hospital patients; for what reasons the report's publication has been delayed from December 2006; and if she will make a statement.

(118247)

249
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23rd January 2007, Official Report, column 1749W, on NHS Finance, whether sources of financial support besides in-year financial support are available to NHS organisations.

(118248)

250
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for (a) in-patient, (b) day cases and (c) out-patient appointments in Darlington Memorial Hospital in each year since 1992.

(118530)

251
N Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding she plans for the provision of NHS dental care in Leeds in each of the next three years.

(117982)

252
N Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to improve access to NHS dentistry in Leeds.

(117983)

253
N Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are registered with an NHS dentist in (a) the city of Leeds and (b) West Yorkshire.

(117984)

254
Mr John Spellar (Warley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which Government departments and other public sector bodies will be involved in Operation Winter Willow.

(118111)

255
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which organisations have been consulted during the review of funding for children's hospices; and how many meetings have been held with representatives of those organisations.

(118545)

256
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make it her policy to ensure that children's hospices receive adequate funding; and if she will make a statement.

(118553)

257
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she expects to receive the recommendations of the review of the funding of children's hospices.

(118554)

258
Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many retailers have been deregistered from the Healthy Start scheme since its inception.

(118109)

259
Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the Government's policy is on the future provision of complementary medicine through NHS homeopathic hospitals.

(118362)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

260
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have received (a) one and (b) more than one fixed penalty notice for driving without insurance in each year since 2003.

(118252)

261
N Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of safer neighbourhood teams operate throughout the period between midnight and six a.m. each night in (a) England and Wales and (b) Avon and Somerset.

(117761)

262
N Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding has been allocated to neighbourhood policing teams in Avon and Somerset for (a) 2007 and (b) 2008.

(117762)

263
N Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the Department for Education and Skills on the duty of local authorities to consider the implications of all their activities on crime and disorder under section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

(117763)

264
N Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many safer neighbourhood teams in England and Wales do not have their full complement of (a) police officers, (b) police community support officers, (c) special constables and (d) youth workers.

(117765)

265
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of prostitutes who were (a) addicted to drugs, (b) born outside the UK and (c) victims of human trafficking in each of the last 10 years.

(118334)

266
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research his Department has conducted on the merits of the use of lie detection tests in rape cases.

(118339)

267
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful prosecutions relating to (a) soliciting by a prostitute, (b) kerb crawling and (c) the operation of a brothel there were in each of the last 10 years.

(118340)

268
Philip Davies (Shipley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time was spent in category D conditions before release by (a) violent offenders and (b) non-violent offenders in each of the last five years.

(118320)

269
Philip Davies (Shipley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average prison sentence handed down by courts was for (a) violent crimes and (b) non-violent crimes in each of the last five years; and what the average sentence served was of prisoners in each category who were released in each of these years.

(118393)

270
Philip Davies (Shipley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which groups and organisations the Prison Service considers to be racist.

(118394)

271
David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners on remand there were in England and Wales in each year since 2000; and how many of these received a custodial sentence.

(118460)

272
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions there have been where CCTV evidence has been used following incidents on the railways in each of the last 10 years.

(118322)

273
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes were committed on buses in each year since 1997.

(118331)

274
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes were committed at each railway station in England and Wales in each year since 1997.

(118332)

275
N Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many legacy cases being considered by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate have (a) a deportation appeal and (b) an asylum appeal outstanding.

(117975)

276
N Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many legacy cases under consideration by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate have been outstanding for more than (a) one, (b) three and (c) five years.

(117976)

277
N Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many legacy cases being considered by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate concern people (a) whose whereabouts are unknown and (b) who have left the country.

(117977)

278
N Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many legacy cases were outstanding at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate on 1st January 2007.

(117979)

279
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which public affairs firms have been given contracts by (a) his Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by his Department in the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118485)

280
N Mr David Heath (Somerton & Frome):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded crimes there were in Somerset in each of the last 10 years, broken down by local authority area.

(112193)

281
N Mr David Heath (Somerton & Frome):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the conviction rate was for (a) violent crimes and (b) all crimes recorded in (i) Avon and Somerset and (ii) England and Wales in each of the last 10 years.

(112194)

282
Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those convicted of sexual offences have absconded while (a) on parole, (b) on early release and (c) serving a suspended sentence in Essex in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

(118151)

283
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research his Department (a) has commissioned and (b) is supporting on the effect of improved nutrition on behaviour in prisons.

(118209)

284
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria are used by the police for determining whether to bring charges for an offence under section 132 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

(118210)

285
N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 23rd January 2007, Official Report, column 1690W, on early release scheme, what definition of early release schemes he used in responding to parliamentary question 104193.

(117711)

286
N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) murders, (b) manslaughters and (c) other categories of unlawful killing have been committed by convicted criminals released (i) halfway through their sentences and (ii) earlier than the full period to which they were sentenced, in each year since 1997.

(117712)

287
N Chris McCafferty (Calder Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many social service interventions have taken place relating to female genital mutilation since the introduction of the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003; and what assessment he has made of the outcome of such interventions.

(117896)

288
N Chris McCafferty (Calder Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions under the provisions of the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 have taken place since the Act's implementation.

(117897)

289
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what grounds a police force may turn down a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

(118173)

290
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what average percentage of the operational budget for policing of police forces in England and Wales was spent on police pensions in the last period for which figures are available.

(118174)

291
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional police officers the Government made a commitment to deliver (a) in England and Wales and (b) in North Yorkshire in each of the last five years.

(118175)

292
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional police officers were employed in (a) England and Wales and (b) North Yorkshire in each of the last five years.

(118176)

293
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) parenting orders, (b) parenting contracts and (c) anti-social behaviour orders were initiated in the Darlington area in each year since their introduction.

(118541)

294
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appeals he considered against Tribunal decisions to deport asylum seekers in each of the last four years; how many such requests came from (a) hon. Members, (b) lawyers and (c) other individuals; and in how many cases in each category he overturned the decision of the Tribunal.

(118259)

295
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of failed asylum seekers who were (a) accompanied children, (b) unaccompanied children, (c) spouses of failed asylum seekers, (d) single applicants and (e) failed asylum seekers with criminal records were deported in the last 12 months.

(118284)

296
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed asylum seekers were deported in each of the last 12 months.

(118285)

297
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of appeals by asylum seekers against deportation were decided by (a) him and (b) officials in the latest period for which figures are available; and whether an independent review of Tribunal decisions is considered when making such decisions.

(118286)

298
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his comment made on the Today programme of 26th January 2007, that failed asylum seekers are being expelled at a rate of one every 26 minutes, over what period this rate was calculated; what the comparative rate was in (a) 2005 and (b) 2001; whether the figure takes account of spouses and children of failed asylum seekers; and whether (i) targets and (ii) incentives are set for Immigration and Nationality Directorate staff regarding expulsion of failed asylum seekers.

(118288)

299
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time was between (a) Tribunal rejection of applications to remain by asylum seekers and (b) rejection of human rights appeals and deportation or departure.

(118291)

300
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he authorises individual early morning immigration enforcement visits to detain failed asylum seekers.

(118292)

301
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total budget of the North Wales Police Authority was in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each of the last 20 years.

(118185)

302
Sir Peter Soulsby (Leicester South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who have been waiting 12 months or more for a decision on their case have applied for permission for the right to work; and how many of these applications have been successful.

(118508)

303
Mr John Spellar (Warley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign prisoners were deported in (a) October, (b) November and (c) December 2006.

(118113)

304
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the extent to which sharia courts have been used in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement.

(118555)

305
Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women supported by the Poppy Project over the last three years were first trafficked before they were 18 years; and of those how many entered the UK before they were 18 years.

(118537)

306
Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children found as a result of Operation Pentameter were pregnant; and what assistance was offered to such children.

(118538)

307
N Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the 101 programme to be implemented in the West Midlands police area.

(117892)

308
N Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent on publicising the 101 programme since its introduction.

(117893)

309
N Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many calls were handled by the five local authorities participating in the 101 programme in 2006.

(117894)

310
N Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many calls to the police 999 emergency services were classed as being non-emergencies in the most recent year for which figures are available.

(117895)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

311
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department has any role in animal (a) health and (b) welfare in developing countries.

(118212)

312
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which public affairs firms have been given contracts by (a) his Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by his Department in the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118454)

313
N Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions he has had on measures to ensure effective governance of forestry use and control of the timber trade in the rainforests of Africa.

(117830)

314
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Karen State, Burma.

(118383)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

315
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he expects the 30 per cent. target for Roman Catholic representation in the Police Service of Northern Ireland envisaged under the Patten recommendations to be achieved.

(117955)

316
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what notification was given by the organisers of the parade that took place in Londonderry on Sunday 28th January 2007 to commemorate the events that took place there in January 1972.

(117956)

317
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, further to the Answer of 24th January 2007, Official Report, column 1823W, on the Assets Recovery Agency, what he expects the (a) total cost and (b) full complement of staff of the Northern Ireland section of the Serious Organised Crime Agency to be in the first full year of its work.

(118042)

318
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which public affairs firms have been given contracts by (a) his Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by his Department in the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118512)

Questions to the Prime Minister

319
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Prime Minister, whether the Cabinet Office IT Department holds web traffic data of visits from 10 Downing Street computers to webmail email accounts; and if he will make a statement.

(118249)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

320
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which public affairs firms have been given contracts by his Department in the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118506)

Questions to the Solicitor General

321
N Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Solicitor General, what assessment he has made of the capacity of the Serious Fraud Office to detect and investigate financial crime; and if he will make a statement.

(117764)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

322
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimates his Department has made of the proportion of eligible parents who are aware of their right to request flexible working.

(118326)

323
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps his Department is taking to encourage individuals to exercise their right to request flexible working.

(118327)

324
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans he has to extend the right of parents to request flexible working.

(118328)

325
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether he plans to introduce general employment protection on the grounds of gender identity in addition to protection for those who seek or who have had gender reassignment surgery.

(118338)

326
N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many citizens advice bureau offices operate in (a) England and (b) the West Midlands.

(112590)

327
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether (a) his Department and (b) his non-departmental public bodies has any role in animal (i) health and (ii) welfare.

(118213)

328
N Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the gifts received by special advisers in his Department and declared to his Department in 2005-06; on what date each gift was given; what the estimated cost was of each gift; what was given; and what the name of the donor was.

(117950)

329
N Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's staff handbook.

(117951)

330
N Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what training courses were offered to (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in his Department in the last 12 months.

(117952)

331
N Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what notices of external employment were given by special advisers in his Department in each of the last two years.

(117953)

332
N Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will place in the Library copies of his Department's evaluations of media coverage since January 2004.

(117954)

333
Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what total amount of compensation payments to mineworkers suffering from industrial diseases has been paid directly to claimants; what deductions have been made from these payments by solicitors; and what payments have been made directly to third parties including solicitors, unions and companies administering the scheme on behalf of the Government.

(118456)

334
N Mr Christopher Fraser (South West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how his Department defines (a) urban, (b) rural and (c) remote areas in the context of access criteria in the Post Office Network Consultation Document.

(117766)

335
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which public affairs firms have been given contracts by (a) his Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by his Department in the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118496)

336
Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he was first informed of the most recent forecasts of the commercial revenues of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority; and if he will make a statement.

(118368)

337
Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment his Department has made of the implications of the changes to forecasts of the commercial revenues of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority for the future sale of the British Nuclear Group; and if he will make a statement.

(118369)

338
Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate his Department has made of the overall cost to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority of the closure of the THORP facility at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant; and if he will make a statement.

(118370)

339
N Mr David Heath (Somerton & Frome):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many (a) supermarkets, (b) national chain stores and (c) independent shops (i) opened and (ii) closed in Somerset in each of the last 10 years, broken down by local authority area.

(112195)

340
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what legislation governs the imposition of service charges by food retail outlets; and what requirements there are for the provision of information about such charges (a) on menus and (b) in in-house advertisements.

(118388)

341
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of skills in the construction industry; and if he will make a statement.

(118211)

342
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many cases for agreement of (a) individual voluntary arrangements and (b) compulsory voluntary arrangements following bankruptcy orders have been heard (i) in England, (ii) the South East and (iii) under the jurisdiction of the Brighton Office of the Insolvency Service in each of the last five years.

(118118)

343
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the waiting time is for agreement of (a) individual voluntary arrangements and (b) company voluntary arrangements in the case of individual insolvencies and company liquidations listed for hearing at the Insolvency Courts (i) in England and Wales, (ii) within the South East and (iii) under the jurisdiction of the Brighton Office of the Insolvency Service.

(118214)

344
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the extent of British trade with Burma; and which British companies are the main exporters to Burma.

(118356)

345
N Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire North):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will establish further carbon capture and storage demonstration projects in addition to those proposed in the Pre-Budget Report.

(117827)

346
Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the Answer of 26th January 2007, Official Report, column 2066W, on post office closures, when he expects to announce the detailed list of posts offices to be closed.

(118428)

347
Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he expects to publish new guidelines relating to planning considerations for on-shore wind farms; and if he will make a statement.

(118353)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

348
N Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to upgrade the A21 between Flimwell and Hurst Green.

(117713)

349
N Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which properties he expects to be purchased under compulsory purchase orders in each area along the route of the proposed A21 upgrade in East Sussex.

(117800)

350
Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to encourage public transport franchises to give customers the option of buying carnet tickets.

(118341)

351
N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what resources his Department (a) has provided in the last two years and (b) intends to provide in the next two years for the creation of a bicycle-friendly road network.

(117548)

352
N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to provide greater purchase incentives for smaller, cleaner vehicles.

(117549)

353
N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to include information on the dangers of using a mobile phone while driving in its safer driving campaign; and if he will make a statement.

(117550)

354
Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent representations has he received on the location of bus stops in the London Borough of Bexley.

(118287)

355
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many motorists were stopped by the police and found to have (a) drugs and (b) weapons in their cars in each of the last 10 years, broken down by police force.

(118289)

356
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many motorists were found by police to be driving without (a) a valid UK driving licence, (b) insurance, (c) an MOT and (d) a valid tax disc in each of the last 10 years, broken down by police force.

(118290)

357
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many prosecutions there have been for fare evasion on the national rail network in each of the last 10 years.

(118294)

358
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many tax discs have been applied for on line in each of the last three years.

(118295)

359
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many tax discs ordered on line were reported as lost in the post in each of the last three years.

(118297)

360
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how his Department enforces the rules covering drivers from non-EC/EEA on the 12 months validity of their driving licence in the United Kingdom.

(118298)

361
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many motorists have been (a) stopped by the police and (b) convicted for driving using a non-United Kingdom or EU/EEA driving licence more than 12 months after they arrived in the United Kingdom in each of the last three years.

(118299)

362
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate has he made of the number of motorists driving illegally in the United Kingdom because they are using their non UK or non-EC/EEA licence more than 12 months after their arrival in the UK.

(118300)

363
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many motorists in the UK are using non-UK or EC/EEA licences.

(118301)

364
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on services from Waverley Management Consultants in the past three years; and who within the Department has used the reports prepared by the firm.

(118302)

365
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many CCTV cameras cover train stations in England and Wales; and how many people monitor these cameras.

(118323)

366
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many rail platforms have been lengthened since 1997.

(118324)

367
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what checks are made on security guards working at train stations.

(118329)

368
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many bus stops have been vandalised in each of the last 10 years.

(118330)

369
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) unmanned and (b) manned overground train stations there were in each of the last 10 years.

(118333)

370
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) annual cost and (b) final year is of each public private partnership and private finance initiative contract with his Department and its agencies.

(118345)

371
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what changes he made to the train service requirements from (a) Ashwell and Morden, (b) Baldock and (c) Letchworth in the specification for the current Thameslink/First Capital Connect franchise compared to the service under the previous franchise.

(118505)

372
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason community transport operators are not included in the concessionary fares scheme for pensioners; and if he will revise this policy when the national scheme is introduced.

(118509)

373
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has carried out into the length of delays at the UK's airports as a result of changes to security measures introduced in 2006.

(118529)

374
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which public affairs firms have been given contracts by (a) his Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by his Department in the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118507)

375
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his estimate is of the change in freight train capacity and use on the South Wales line since 1997; and what steps his Department is taking to increase such capacity and use.

(118365)

376
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans First Great Western has to dispose of Adelante rolling stock; and what plans they have to acquire new rolling stock.

(118371)

377
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) locomotives and (b) carriages operated by First Great Western were built before 1980.

(118372)

378
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average age is of Mark III carriages used by First Great Western.

(118373)

379
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost is for First Great Western to hire an (a) Mark III first class carriage, (b) Mark III standard class carriage and (c) Mark III buffet bar carriage.

(118374)

380
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what minimum number of services west of Swansea is stipulated by the Greater Western franchise; and what consideration his Department has given to increasing the number of West Wales services.

(118391)

381
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to improve rail freight capacity (a) along the East coast main line, with particular reference to the line north of Newcastle, and (b) elsewhere in England.

(118546)

382
Mr Elliot Morley (Scunthorpe):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much in financial support was made available for bus transport in North Lincolnshire in each year since 1996.

(118229)

383
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to set a ceiling on the level of charges imposed by private clamping companies; and if he will make a statement.

(118305)

384
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the operation of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 in relation to the activities and charges of private clamping companies; and if he will make a statement.

(118306)

385
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on the regulation of private clamping companies operating on private land; and if he will make a statement.

(118307)

386
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received on the activities of private clamping companies; and if he will make a statement.

(118308)

387
Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding is available to improve rail services on the Lancaster/Morecambe line.

(118550)

388
Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will encourage the relevant train operators to provide more direct train services from Manchester and Preston to Morecambe.

(118551)

389
Mr John Spellar (Warley):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's latest estimate is of the number of (a) untaxed and (b) unlicensed vehicles; and what steps he is taking to reduce the numbers.

(118112)

390
N Hywel Williams (Caernarfon):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he last used the London Underground on official business; at what time and between which stations the journey took place; when he last used one of London's buses on official business; at what time the journey took place; and where the journey (a) began and (b) ended.

(117943)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

391
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether any of the potential locations for the final disposal of radioactive waste being screened by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority are in Wales.

(118459)

392
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which public affairs firms have been given contracts by (a) his Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by his Department in the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118511)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

393
N Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been budgeted for the review of welfare-to-work programmes being conducted by David Freud; when the review is expected to report back; and if he will make a statement.

(117802)

394
N Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which (a) organisations and (b) individuals David Freud (i) has consulted and (ii) intends to consult in his review of welfare-to-work programmes.

(117803)

395
N Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there will be an open consultation as part of the review of welfare-to-work programmes being conducted by David Freud; and if he will make a statement.

(117804)

396
Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will assess the merits of including laryngeal dystonia in the list of conditions qualifying for industrial injuries disablement benefit.

(118117)

397
Ms Dawn Butler (Brent South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much from the European Social Fund was spent on projects based in London in (a) 2005 and (b) 2006; and how much is planned to be spent in 2007.

(118293)

398
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which public affairs firms have been given contracts by (a) his Department and (b) public bodies sponsored by his Department in the last five years; and what the purpose was of each contract.

(118444)

399
Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Health and Safety Executive expects to publish a report on its investigation into the leak at THORP facility at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant.

(118367)

400
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claimed Jobseeker's Allowance in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.

(118222)

401
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claimed incapacity benefit in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.

(118224)

402
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Gateshead East and Washington West and (b) Tyne and Wear have received winter fuel payments since 2005.

(118533)

403
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Gateshead East and Washington West, (b) Tyne and Wear and (c) the North East Region have been receiving (i) incapacity benefit and (ii) jobseeker's allowance for (A) under six months, (B) six months to one year, (C) one to two years and (D) over two years.

(118534)

404
Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will update leaflet INDG209 to include warnings about the use of unstaffed tanning salons.

(118390)

405
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will carry out an assessment of the damage caused to people's hearing by dangerous high levels of noise in nightclubs.

(118426)

406
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a shadow funding round will be introduced in order to fill the gap before the implementation of the 2007 to 2013 European Social Fund round; and if he will make a statement.

(118114)

407
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding from the European Social Fund was spent on projects based in London in (a) 2005 and (b) 2006; how much is planned to be spent in 2007; and if he will make a statement.

(118115)

408
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the gap between the end of the 2000 to 2006 European Social Fund round and implementation of the 2007 to 2013 round; and if he will make a statement.

(118116)

409
Ian Lucas (Wrexham):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of young people aged 16 to 25 years are not in work, education or training in each local authority area in England and Wales ranked in descending order in the last three years.

(118234)

410
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent representations he has received on his targets to reduce child poverty.

(118179)

411
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Darlington received the winter fuel allowance in each year since its introduction; and what the cost was in each year.

(118539)

412
Mr Alan Milburn (Darlington):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job vacancies were notified to Jobcentre Plus in Darlington in each of the last 12 months.

(118542)

413
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases have been referred to debt collection agencies by the Child Support Agency in the last 12 months; how many of these resulted in the successful collection of the debt; and if he will make a statement.

(118463)

414
N Hywel Williams (Caernarfon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants there were of industrial injuries disablement benefit in (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) each Welsh Parliamentary constituency in each of the last three years; and what percentage of the relevant working population each figure represents.

(117944)

415
N Hywel Williams (Caernarfon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims were made in Wales under the compensation scheme for slate quarrymen in each of the last three years.

(117945)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

416
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were employed in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.

[Transferred] (118223)

417
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people claimed child tax credits in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.

[Transferred] (118226)

418
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level of unemployment was in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.

[Transferred] (118227)

419
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people claimed working tax credits in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.

[Transferred] (118228)

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

420
N Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he next plans to meet organisations involved in carbon offset activities to discuss the effectiveness and reliability of their products and services.

[Question Unstarred] (117816)

Questions to the Prime Minister

421
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Prime Minister, how many different email systems operate in the offices of 10 Downing Street.

[Transferred] (118129)

422
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Prime Minister, whether (a) all and (b) some webmail accounts are blocked in the offices of 10 Downing Street.

[Transferred] (118130)

423
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Prime Minister, what guidance has been produced for Cabinet Office (a) staff and (b) special advisers on the use of non-government email accounts for official purposes.

[Transferred] (118131)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

424
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what process the Government would have to follow to ban British companies from investing in Burma.

[Transferred] (118377)

425
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether the Government has the power to ban the export of luxury items to Burma.

[Transferred] (118380)

426
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether the Government has the power to stop British companies providing goods and services to the (a) military regime in Burma, (b) state-owned companies in Burma and (c) companies owned or controlled by business people linked to the military regime in Burma.

[Transferred] (118381)

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