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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Tuesday 8 May 2007
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Tuesday 8 May 2007
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 8 May 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 Tuesday 8 May of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Tuesday 8 May see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 1
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse has been of implementing the (a) child tax, (b) working tax and (c) pension tax credit schemes since inception; and what the cost has been of recovering overpayments for each scheme. | | (136255) | 2
| Philip Davies (Shipley):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many deaths from MRSA contracted in NHS facilities there were in the period (a) 1987 to 1997 and (b) 1997 to 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (136299) | 3
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what powers are available to him in relation to the recovery of costs to the public purse caused by decisions by private sector companies in relation to coinage use and supply. | | (135934) | 4
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much and what proportion of the £3.8 million cost of the increase in demand for coinage in 2006-07 was attributable to Tesco changing its supplier for cash. | | (135935) | 5
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to recover the cost to the public purse in relation to coinage in 2006-07 arising from Tesco's change of cash supplier from (a) Tesco and (b) Tesco's new supplier of cash. | | (135936) | 6
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average hourly pay was of the (a) (i) lowest and (ii) highest decile, (b) (A) lowest and (B) highest quartile and (c) (I) lowest and (II) highest duo-decile as a percentage of the (x) average hourly pay and (y) average weekly wage of working people in employment in each year since 1997. | | (136393) | 7
| Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) underpayment and (b) overpayment there has been of (i) pension credit, (ii) working tax credit and (iii) child tax credit in each year since their introduction. | | (136404) | 8
N | Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to take a decision on whether to proceed with the planning gain supplement before the summer adjournment. | | (136248) | 9
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to update the third outline National Changeover Plan, published in 2003. | | (136302) | 10
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of preparations for the possibility of joining the European single currency since 1997. | | (136303) | 11
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, who the members are of the Standing Committee on Euro Preparations; how many times the Committee met in each of the last five years; what the annual administration cost of the Committee was in each of those years; how many civil servants are seconded to the Committee on a (a) full-time and (b) part-time basis; and what the grade is of each of those civil servants. | | (136304) | 12
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26th April 2007, Official Report, column 1319W, on tax: self-assessment, for what reason the figure for penalties paid for the year to end October 2006 is not available; when he expects the data to become available; and if he will publish the data once available. | | (136307) | 13
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4th December 2006, Official Report, column 196W, on departmental expenditure, what payments have been made by his Department to (a) Opinion Leader Research and (b) other opinion research companies since December 2006. | | (136309) | 14
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13th December 2006 by the Minister of State, Department for Transport, Official Report, column 1068W, on official cars, how many times his Department has granted permission to a special adviser to use an official car in the last 12 months. | | (136310) | 15
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost of producing the Budget Summary leaflet was in each year since 1997; and how much was accounted for by (a) design and commissioning, (b) printing and (c) distribution. | | (136318) | 16
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17th April 2007, Official Report, column 628W, on parliamentary questions, what the last occasion was on which such advice was provided to another Department. | | (136320) | 17
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17th April 2007, Official Report, column 626W, on departments: secondment, what policy areas the secondee from Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust covered within the Treasury's health team during his time at the Treasury. | | (136321) | 18
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Smith Institute publications his Department has purchased since 1997. | | (136325) | 19
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent in severance pay to special advisers since 1997. | | (136331) | 20
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many deaths in (a) Gloucestershire, (b) the Forest of Dean, (c) England and (d) the UK have been attributed to the illegal use of ketamine in the last five years. | | (136072) | 21
N | John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Ministerial red boxes his Department bought in each of the last five years; and how much each cost. | | (134951) | 22
N | John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what tendering process is used to decide which company supplies Ministerial red boxes to his Department. | | (134952) | 23
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much tax revenue was raised through the sale of petrol and diesel in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05 and (c) 2006-07. | | (136226) | 24
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the saving to the Treasury resulting from phasing the nurses' pay award in 2007; what percentage of the total money supply this saving represents; and what estimated reduction in inflation is predicted as a result of staging nurses' pay in 2007. | | (135938) | 25
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what advice he received from (a) Treasury officials and (b) HM Revenue and Customs officials before his decision to change the inheritance tax treatment of (i) accumulation and maintenance trusts and (ii) interest in possession trusts in the Finance Act 2006. | | (136349) | 26
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will introduce a moratorium on new duties imposed on mobility scooters imported to the UK to allow time for discussions with the wheelchair and scooter industry. | | [R] (136365) | 27
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the meetings his officials attended at the World Customs Organisation in each of the last three years. | | [R] (136366) | 28
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what status the World Customs Organisation holds in relation to UK law. | | [R] (136367) | 29
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans a public consultation on the Environmental Transformation Fund. | | (136277) | 30
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, from which Department's budget the Environmental Transformation Fund will be allocated. | | (136278) | 31
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the remit of the Environmental Transformation Fund. | | (136279) | 32
| Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the policy which determines that voluntary-aided schools subject to charitable status are required to pay 17.5 per cent. VAT on new school buildings. | | (136276) | 33
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families with an entitlement to milk tokens are not receiving them because their tax credits are not being paid by the automatic computer system. | | (136540) | 34
N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 29th March regarding a constituent, ref: 1/48830/2007. | | (136003) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 35
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 17th April 2007, Official Report, column 537W, on the Delivery Unit, by what means the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit provides performance management in key delivery areas. | | (136308) | 36
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 17th April 2007, Official Report, column 537W, on the Delivery Unit, for which key delivery areas the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (a) is providing performance management and (b) has provided performance management in the last 12 months. | | (136311) | 37
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 17th April 2007, Official Report, column 538W, on the Delivery Unit, which (a) education, (b) health, (c) home affairs and (d) social exclusion targets the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit is focusing on. | | (136312) | 38
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 17th April 2007, Official Report, column 538W, on the Delivery Unit, in which areas the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (a) is facilitating cross government working and (b) has facilitated cross government working within the last 12 months. | | (136313) | 39
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what role the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit will play in the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review. | | (136314) | 40
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if she will place in the Library a copy of the organisational chart for the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit. | | (136315) | 41
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if she will place in the Library a copy of each of the last 10 reports produced by the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit. | | (136316) | 42
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (a) is conducting and (b) has conducted in the last 12 months reviews of (i) the identity cards scheme, (ii) the Building Schools for the Future programme, (iii) the Connecting for Health programme, (iv) the City Academies programme, (v) the Foundation Hospitals programme, (vi) the use of private prisons, (vii) Home Office restructuring or competence to meet its core objectives, (viii) Sure Start and (ix) the New Deal. | | (136317) | 43
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the objectives are of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit for 2007-08. | | (136326) | 44
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what funding has been allocated to the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit for 2007-08. | | (136327) | 45
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on what projects the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit has started work in the last two months. | | (136328) | 46
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what projects the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit is planning to work on over the next 12 months. | | (136329) | 47
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on what projects the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit's (a) Justice team, (b) Asylum and Migration team, (c) Local Area Agreement team, (d) Health team and (e) Education team are working. | | (136330) | 48
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the date was of each leak inquiry initiated by the Cabinet Office since 1997; which department was concerned in each case; and what leak was being investigated in each case. | | (136332) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 49
N | Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the cost to her Department of the decision by the European Commission to suspend European Regional Development Fund payments for England. | | (135780) | 50
N | Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what projects will be affected by the suspension by the European Commission of payments under the European Regional Development Fund to (a) London, (b) the North West, (c) the North East, (d) the West Midlands, (e) Humberside, Yorkshire and (f) the East of England. | | (135781) | 51
N | Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects payments suspended by the European Commission of European Regional Development Fund for England to be resumed; and if she will make a statement. | | (135782) | 52
N | Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much is currently suspended by the European Commission in payments from the European Regional Development Fund to England. | | (135783) | 53
N | Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she was first notified by the European Commission of the prospect of European Regional Development Fund payments being suspended; on what grounds the payments are being suspended; what form this notification took; what action she has taken in response; and if she will make a statement. | | (135790) | 54
N | Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will give the figures referred to in the Answer of 22nd May 2006, Official Report, columns 1387-8W, on brownfield development, for the latest year available, broken down by region, county and local authority. | | (136372) | 55
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will consider delaying the starting date for the home information packs to 1st June 2007. | | (136344) | 56
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many inspectors are trained to carry out the environmental survey for home information packs. | | (136345) | 57
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether it will be possible to sell a house privately without a home information pack being prepared. | | (136346) | 58
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what average length of time she expects it to take to prepare a home information pack. | | (136387) | 59
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms are in place for monitoring the accuracy and completeness of home information packs. | | (136471) | 60
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance she has issued on the qualifications necessary to prepare the non-environmental sections of a home information pack. | | (136472) | 61
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she plans to bring forward delegated legislation setting out the responsibilities of (a) home owners, (b) relevant professionals and (c) prospective home buyers in relation to home information packs. | | (136473) | 62
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps she has taken to establish an effective scheme to provide professional indemnity insurance for home information pack inspectors. | | (136474) | 63
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the potential effect on the housing market of the introduction of compulsory home information packs. | | (136475) | 64
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance she has issued on the acceptability of searches performed by (a) home owners and (b) other non-solicitors for the purposes of a home information pack. | | (136476) | 65
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authority homes were sold under right to buy in each of the last five years; and how many new homes were built by (a) local authorities and (b) registered social landlords in each of the last five years. | | (136381) | 66
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to increase the availability of high quality part-time work for women. | | (135606) | 67
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to take account of the move to low carbon grid electricity in (a) the Building Regulations, (b) the Code for Sustainable Homes and (c) specifications for electric heating systems. | | (136292) | 68
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of whether individuals are correctly claiming second home discount on council tax. | | (136294) | 69
N | Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what constitutes a significant effect on an occupant's health due to structural noise issues when applying the new Housing Health and Safety Rating regime; and if she will make a statement. | | (136363) | 70
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in what circumstances a local authority may restrict access to public records required for home-buying. | | (136362) | 71
| Mr Andy Slaughter (Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 8th February 2007, Official Report, column 1159W, on the Supporting People programme, when she expects to publish the report on housing-related support through the Supporting People programme. | | (136528) | 72
| Mr Andy Slaughter (Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many bed spaces Arlington House in Camden had (a) before and (b) after its modernisation under the Hostels Capital Improvement Programme; and what alternative arrangements were made for individuals displaced from Arlington House. | | (136529) | 73
| Mr Andy Slaughter (Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 19th March 2007, Official Report, column 657W, on homelessness: hostels, how many single homeless people are living in hostel accommodation being upgraded under the Hostel Capital Improvement Programme. | | (136531) | 74
| Mr Andy Slaughter (Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 19th March 2007, Official Report, column 657W, on homelessness: hostels, when her Department expects to publish its review of hostels for rough sleepers in London. | | (136532) | 75
| Mr Andy Slaughter (Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with her colleagues in HM Treasury on the next three-year spending settlement for the Supporting People programme. | | (136533) | 76
| Mr Andy Slaughter (Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the measures introduced to deliver greater efficiency savings in the Supporting People budget. | | (136534) | 77
| Mr Andy Slaughter (Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many single homeless people are in hostel accommodation in England. | | (136535) | 78
| Mr Andy Slaughter (Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which bids for the recent Hostel Capital Improvement Programme funding were unsuccessful. | | (136536) | 79
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was spent on the (a) installation and (b) maintenance of (i) rubberised surfaces and (ii) loose fill surfaces in public playgrounds in each year since1997. | | (136539) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs 80
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19th April 2007, Official Report, column 7098W, on freedom of information, for what reasons her Department decided to publish submissions to the first round of consultation on the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Draft Regulations 2007 only after the completion of the second round of consultation; and what consideration was given to the merits of publication of the first round of responses while the second round was still active. | | (136245) | 81
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if she will list the reports produced by consultants to her Department in each of the last five years. | | (136230) | 82
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what costs have been incurred by her Department as a result of proposals to create a Ministry of Justice. | | (136305) | 83
| Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what the average cost was of hearing an incapacity benefit appeal at a tribunal in the last 12 months. | | (136151) | 84
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2nd May 2007, Official Report, column 1726W, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of Freedom of Information requests awaiting allocation to case officers at the Information Commissioner's office; and if she will make a statement. | | (136512) | 85
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what she expects the cost to be of replacing the (a) signs, (b) stationery, (c) clothing and (d) other items bearing the name or insignia of the Department for Constitutional Affairs. | | (136470) | 86
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 30th April 2007, Official Report, column 1452W, on courts: manpower, what research has been undertaken into the reasons for court service staff leaving. | | (136486) | 87
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, whether she has received representations concerning difficulties encountered by merchant seamen in responding to requests for information from electoral registration officers in relation to proxy vote entitlement. | | (136296) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 88
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the investment returns were for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from National Lottery funding in August 2006; and what estimate she has made of what they will be in 2007. | | (135932) | 89
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Arts Council of Northern Ireland received from the National Lottery in 2006; and how much it will receive in 2007. | | (135933) | 90
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Arts Council of Wales received from the National Lottery in 2006; and how much it is expected to receive in 2007. | | (136167) | 91
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the investment returns were for the Arts Council of Wales from National Lottery funding (a) in August 2006 and (b) in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (136168) | 92
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much National Lottery-funded money is yet to be allocated by the Arts Council of Wales; and what that figure was in August 2006. | | (136169) | 93
| Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 27th April 2007, Official Report, column 1327W, on cultural heritage: Iraq, what discussions she has had with the (a) British Museum and (b) British Library on the contribution made to the protection of sites of Iraqi cultural heritage since 2003; and if she will make a statement. | | (136359) | 94
| Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 27th April 2007, Official Report, column 1327W, on cultural heritage: Iraq, what (a) reports she has received on and (b) assessment she has made of the damage to sites of cultural heritage in Iraq since 2003. | | (136370) | 95
| Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 27th April 2007, Official Report, column 1327W, on cultural heritage: Iraq, what assessment she has made of the performance of the British Museum in assisting the preservation of sites of cultural heritage in Iraq; and how much her Department has provided to the British Museum for the purpose of assisting in the preservation of sites of Iraqi cultural heritage in each year since 2003. | | (136371) | 96
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what financial support her Department gives to (a) museums, (b) science centres and (c) other projects which (i) promote (A) science and (B) engineering to the general public and (ii) are involved in adding value to the teaching of those subjects in schools. | | (136249) | 97
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate her Department has made of (a) the number of overseas tourists coming to the UK for the Grand Prix and (b) the contribution of such tourists to the economy. | | (136220) | 98
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what initiatives her Department is taking to promote tourism in the UK to overseas visitors coming to the UK for the Grand Prix. | | (136233) | 99
| Mr David Marshall (Glasgow East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been spent to date on construction projects in preparation for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. | | (136286) | 100
| Mr David Marshall (Glasgow East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many landscaping contracts have been awarded as part of the preparation for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games programme; and if she will make a statement. | | (136287) | 101
| Mr David Marshall (Glasgow East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what events in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held outside London. | | (136288) | 102
| Mr David Marshall (Glasgow East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been spent to date on landscaping projects in preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games programme. | | (136289) | 103
| Mr David Marshall (Glasgow East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the number of construction training programmes set up to ensure adequate numbers of skilled contractors to work on the construction stages of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. | | (136290) | 104
| Anne Milton (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many representations her Department received on the Gambling Commission and local authority fees for betting shops in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007; and if she will make a statement. | | (136430) | 105
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 25th April 2007, Official Report, columns 1119-20W, on gaming machines, what the critical milestones are for finalising the testing regime for ensuring that gaming machines comply with the technical standards required under the Gambling Act 2005. | | (136183) | 106
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what guidelines her Department has issued to national sports governing bodies on the sponsorship of sports events and competitions involving children by commercial organisations. | | (136282) | 107
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her Department's policy is on the sponsorship of sports events and competitions involving children by commercial organisations that produce food and drink products that are high in fat, salt and sugar. | | (136283) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 108
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what definition he uses of vital interests in the context of protection by possession of a nuclear defence capability. | | (136166) | 109
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the Government agreed to participation in the life extension work on the Trident D5 missile in the Prime Minister's exchange of letters with the President of the United States in December 2005. | | (136175) | 110
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria he uses to judge the size of the minimum required capacity for a nuclear defence programme for the United Kingdom. | | (136176) | 111
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) military and (b) civilian aircraft (i) took off from and (ii) landed at each operational Royal Air Force flying station in the United Kingdom between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. in the last 12 months for which figures are available on (A) weekdays and (B) weekends; and which stations were involved. | | (136439) | 112
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions service personnel were given authorisation to speak to the media between 16th April and 1st May 2007. | | (136077) | 113
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made on replacing the GQ 1000 parachute with the GQ 5000 following recommendation 7h of the RAF Board of Inquiry's Military Aircraft Accident Summary into the aircraft accident of Tornado F3 ZG751 of 25th August 2003; and if he will make a statement. | | (136170) | 114
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what professional qualifications are held by the full-time staff who direct specialist welfare support for service personnel and their dependent families; and if he will make a statement. | | (136171) | 115
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many uniformed, professionally qualified, full-time staff in the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy, (c) Royal Air Force and (d) Tri-Service specialise in providing welfare support for service personnel and their dependent families; and if he will make a statement. | | (136172) | 116
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Forest of Dean of 7th March 2007, Official Report, column 1981W, on armed forces housing, which Housing Directorate regions collected and managed the information in respect of maintenance and refurbishment of properties leased from Annington homes in each year since 5th November 1996. | | (136340) | 117
N | John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Ministerial red boxes his Department bought in each of the last five years; and how much each cost. | | (134950) | 118
N | John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what tendering process is used to decide which company supplies Ministerial red boxes to his Department. | | (134953) | 119
| Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on polo ponies in each of the last five years. | | (136384) | 120
| Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what sporting facilities are available at the residences paid for by his Department of the (a) Adjutant General, (b) Chief of the General Staff, (c) General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland and (d) Commander in Chief Land. | | (136385) | 121
| Robert Key (Salisbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British military personnel serving in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan (i) were casevacced from theatre, (ii) were injured by enemy action and (iii) have sustained life-changing injuries since 1st January 2006. | | (136403) | 122
| Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many telephone helplines are sponsored by his Department with the prefix (a) 0870 and (b) 0845; and whether alternative geographic numbers are available in each case. | | (136257) | 123
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether (a) the Royal Navy and (b) his Department received notice of any statement of intent from a member of the families of the returned Royal Navy personnel to sell their story to the media indirectly in circumstances where the personnel in question were refused permission to do so directly. | | (135642) | 124
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any member of (a) the Royal Navy and (b) his Department made the statement to media representatives seeking to purchase the stories of the returned Royal Navy personnel that they should `get their cheque books out'. | | (135643) | 125
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Statement of 16th April 2007, Official Report, column 24, on Iraq, who decided which of the returned Royal Navy personnel should participate in the Department's press conference on 6th April 2007; and for what reason Leading Seaman Turney was not included. | | (135644) | 126
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Statement of 16th April 2007, Official Report, column 25, on Iraq, which of the returned Royal Navy personnel had expressed an intention to set the record straight in relation to their behaviour while detained by speaking to the media. | | (135645) | 127
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which (a) Royal Navy and (b) Departmental staff were directly involved in negotiating the price for which the stories of (i) Leading Seaman Turney and (ii) Operator Mechanic Batchelor would be sold; and on what dates such negotiations took place. | | (135646) | 128
| Patrick Mercer (Newark):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many traumatic amputations there have been in the recent 2 Rifles Operation Telic tour. | | (136511) | 129
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) British and (b) Afghan (i) armed forces members and (ii) civilians were killed in (A) each of the years since the present conflict began and (B) in each month of the most recent year. | | (135785) | 130
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to make a decision on the future of the Royal Air Force site at Innsworth, Gloucestershire, with particular reference to the possibility of basing the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (HQ ARRC), 1 Signals Brigade and 102 Logistics Brigade there; and if he will make a statement. | | (135786) | 131
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what types of helicopter are on order for (a) the Royal Navy, (b) the Royal Air Force and (c) the Army. | | (136177) | 132
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to place the order for the new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. | | (136180) | 133
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the latest estimate is of the cost of refurbishing his Department's headquarters in London. | | (136009) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 134
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, on how many occasions in the last 12 months he has chaired meetings to consider issues relating to the future of the Post Office network. | | (136143) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 135
N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans the Learning and Skills Council has to work with the Building Research Establishment on a methodology for the environmental assessment of capital development projects in the further education sector; and if he will make a statement. | | (134437) | 136
N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and further education colleges are expected to take as a result of the LSC document From Here to Sustainability: The Learning and Skills Council's strategy for Sustainable Development; whether progress on these actions is being monitored; and what progress has been made to date. | | (134438) | 137
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools have been in special measures for two years or more. | | (136427) | 138
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools have been in either serious weaknesses or special measures for two years or more; and how many pupils attend such schools. | | (136428) | 139
N | Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what information his Department has supplied to overseas trained teachers on qualified teacher status. | | (135602) | 140
N | Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many overseas trained teachers there are in each London borough; how many of these have not enrolled in training courses for qualified teacher status in each borough; and if he will make a statement. | | (135603) | 141
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to tackle fraud on the payment of educational maintenance allowances to older children; how many staff have been involved; how many fraudulent claims were established; how many prosecutions have been made; and how much has been recovered in each of the last five years. | | (135931) | 142
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 1st May 2007, Official Report, column 1575W, on secondary education: curriculum, whether the Qualification and Curriculum Authority has established causal links between the principles of effective teaching it has identified and cognitive outcomes. | | (136341) | 143
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 1st May 2007, Official Report, column 1575W, on secondary education: curriculum, what documents containing evidence on the principles of effective teaching were taken into consideration by the Qualification and Curriculum Authority in the preparation of the secondary curriculum review (a) programmes of study and (b) supporting guidance. | | (136342) | 144
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what (a) professional development and (b) technical assistance the Department plans to provide to schools for the implementation of the secondary curriculum review's findings. | | (136360) | 145
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 1st May 2007, Official Report, column 1575W, on secondary education: curriculum, what the evidential basis was for the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority's decision to reduce the amount of specific and particular subject content in the secondary curriculum review programmes of study. | | (136361) | 146
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 1st May 2007, Official Report, column 1575W, on secondary education: curriculum, what the main principles of effective teaching identified by the review of research into effective teaching carried out in the preparation of the secondary curriculum review were. | | (136388) | 147
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions he has had with (a) manufacturers, (b) suppliers and (c) installers of roof-mounted microgeneration technologies for the Eco-Schools programme. | | (136513) | 148
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to encourage the awarding of contracts to accredited or TrustMark affiliated contractors for the Eco-Schools programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (136514) | 149
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions he has had with representatives of the roofing industry on the construction of eco-friendly roofs as part of the Eco-Schools programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (136515) | 150
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what financial support his Department gives to (a) science centres and (b) other projects which (i) promote (A) science, (B) engineering and (C) technology to the general public and (ii) are involved in adding value to the teaching of those subjects in schools. | | (136250) | 151
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what education is provided for juveniles aged between 10 and 17 years in (a) young offender institutions, (b) secure training centres and (c) local authority secure children's homes; who provides the teaching; and for how many hours each week. | | (136429) | 152
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the education budget was for Cumbria Local Education Authority in financial year (a) 1996-97 and (b) 2006-07. | | (136267) | 153
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) primary school teachers, (b) primary school teaching assistants, (c) secondary school teachers and (d) secondary school teaching assistants were employed in Copeland in financial year (i) 1996-97 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (136268) | 154
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many nursery school places were available in Copeland in (a) 1996-97 and (b) 2006-07. | | (136269) | 155
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the pupil to teacher ratio in Copeland (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools was in financial year (i) 1996-97 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (136270) | 156
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average class sizes in Copeland (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools were in financial year (i) 1996-97 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (136271) | 157
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what guidance he plans to provide to schools on the avoidance of the bullying of children with disabilities; and if he will make a statement. | | (135787) | 158
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many education grants were given to 16 to 19 year olds in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what the total cost was of these grants; and if he will make a statement. | | (135788) | 159
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many vocational course places were available for 16 to 19 year olds in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (135789) | 160
| Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much has been spent on Giles Brook Primary School, Milton Keynes in (a) original building costs, (b) repairs and making good building defects and (c) provision of temporary classrooms. | | (136265) | 161
| Sarah Teather (Brent East):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many temporary school buildings were in use in each London borough in each year since 1997. | | (136260) | 162
N | Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which (a) central government and (b) local government public sector employers with more than 1,000 staff will (i) be participating and (ii) not be participating in the Skills Pledge announced by his Department. | | (135930) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 163
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance he has provided to other departments and agencies on the establishment of environmentally sustainable strategies for the Government estate in relation to (a) new buildings, (b) retrofitting existing buildings, (c) water use, (d) land use and (e) transport arrangements. | | (136244) | 164
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, (b) the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and (c) the Director of the Office of Government Commerce on sustainable procurement in the building construction sector. | | (136407) | 165
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research he has examined on whether avian influenza H5N1 is transmissible through the carcasses of infected poultry. | | (136293) | 166
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what account was taken by his Department of the guiding principles of the Animal Health and Welfare Strategy for Great Britain and England Implementation Group indicators in drawing up the draft Rural Development Programme for England 2007-2013. | | (136420) | 167
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the likely contribution of measures contained in the draft Rural Development Programme for England 2007-2013 to meeting the targets for 2014 set out in the Animal Health and Welfare Strategy for Great Britain; and if he will make a statement. | | (136421) | 168
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what account he took of the size of the budget for the draft Rural Development Programme for England 2007 to 2013 in deciding on the inclusion of measures relating to animal health and welfare in the draft Programme. | | (136422) | 169
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the England Implementation Group was asked to comment on the draft Rural Development Programme for England 2007-2013 prior to its publication on 13th April. | | (136423) | 170
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the guidelines under which his Department sets a reduced time limit for initial responses to public consultations. | | (136424) | 171
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average excess payable by households receiving Warm Front grants is in each (a) local authority area and (b) government office region. | | (136347) | 172
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many households in each local authority were assisted by the Warm Front scheme in each year since the scheme was introduced. | | (136348) | 173
| Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects the review of the Environmental Protection (Restriction on Use of Lead Shot) (England) Regulations 1999 to be published. | | (136148) | 174
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of dredging at sea on coastlines suffering from erosion; and if he will make a statement. | | (136140) | 175
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of gangmasters in (a) Cambridgeshire, (b) Norfolk and (c) Lincolnshire. | | (136238) | 176
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken to ensure that migrant workers are not exploited by unregistered gangmasters. | | (136239) | 177
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken to ensure that gangmasters are complying with the law on the minimum wage. | | (136240) | 178
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many regulations were implemented by his Department in each year since 2001. | | (136338) | 179
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) adjusted payments have been made, (b) cases are under review, (c) claimants have not received any payment and (d) claimants are awaiting their balance payment having already received a partial payment under the 2005 Single Payment Scheme. | | (136339) | 180
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will issue guidance to local authorities on the frequency of refuse collections; and if he will make a statement. | | (135797) | 181
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help improve the productivity of farming. | | (136075) | 182
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to decrease the level of regulatory burden for which his Department is responsible. | | (136076) | 183
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make a statement on the future funding of his Department's science budget. | | (136080) | 184
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve food security in Great Britain. | | (136081) | 185
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of metered households in each local authority area in England which (a) are eligible for and (b) that have been granted assistance in paying their water bills under the Vulnerable Groups Regulations. | | (136263) | 186
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to prevent further erosion of the cliff top at Barton-on-Sea; and if he will make a statement. | | (135599) | 187
| Sarah Teather (Brent East):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many days in the last 12 months air pollution levels recorded on Neasden Lane exceeded (a) moderate, (b) high and (c) very high; and if he will make a statement. | | (136259) | 188
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28th April 2007, Official Report, column 1230W, on bovine tuberculosis, what steps he is taking to increase the speed with which results of tests to determine the presence of bovine TB in cattle are conveyed to the owner. | | (136242) | 189
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to tackle carbon dioxide emissions from outdoor space heaters. | | (136295) | 190
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many heavy lambs were imported into the UK in each month of the last two years. | | (136266) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 191
| Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to her Oral Answer of 1st May 2007, Official Report, columns 1360-1, on Iraq, where in their evidence sessions (a) John Scarlett and (b) John Williams referred to the draft dossier of 9th September 2002; and whether the draft dossier was seen by Lord Hutton. | | (136509) | 192
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports she has received on the amount of cocaine seized by the Colombian government in 2006. | | (136383) | 193
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of civilians who died as a result of the conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sri Lankan government in March and April. | | (136386) | 194
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1st May 2007 to the hon. Member for Wells, Official Report, column 1347, on the European Constitution, if she will publish the questionnaire and her replies to it, relating to a revised constitutional treaty for the European Union to which she referred. | | (136483) | 195
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the German government's training of police in Afghanistan. | | (136484) | 196
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve coordination between the US and UK on drug eradication policy and operations. | | (136485) | 197
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the political situation in Sri Lanka. | | (135855) | 198
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Sri Lankan counterparts on the Sri Lankan government restarting negotiations with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. | | (135856) | 199
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of reports of the use of child soldiers in Sri Lanka. | | (135857) | 200
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23rd April 2007 to the hon. Member for Edinburgh North and Leith, Official Report, column 919W, on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which states have blocked progress on the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty. | | (136395) | 201
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effect of the recent bombings at Dhaka and Sylhet railway stations in Bangladesh on the recommencement of the election processs; and if she will make a statement. | | (136431) | 202
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which Cabinet Ministers stayed at the British Embassy in (a) Beijing between 19th and 24th February 2005 and (b) Dubai between 19th and 23rd September 2003. | | (136324) | 203
| Mr George Galloway (Bethnal Green & Bow):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of standards of policing in Basra; and if she will make a statement. | | (136479) | 204
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26th February 2007, Official Report, column 84W, on Iran, whether any changes to the flexibility about the modalities for opening negotiations were proposed by (a) Mr Javier Solana and (b) Mr Ali Larijani during their meetings of 25th and 26th April 2007; and if she will make a statement. | | (136490) | 205
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25th April 2007, Official Report, column 1175W, on Iraq, how many requests for resettlement assistance have been received from Iraqi citizens working for the British army deployed in Southern Iraq; in which countries these requests have been received; and how many have been (a) accepted and (b) rejected. | | (136491) | 206
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25th April 2007, Official Report, column 1177W, on the United Nations Security Council, what proposals were put forward by the United Kingdom at (a) the informal Security Council discussion on Sudan on 16th April and (b) any subsequent discussions for action to be taken by the Security Council on Darfur. | | (136492) | 207
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the role of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the funding and support of terrorism in the Middle East; in which countries IRGC members are known to be active in this way; and if she will make a statement. | | (136493) | 208
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will place in the Library copies of the reports submitted by the (a) United Kingdom and (b) EU to the Security Council Committee established pursuant to the Resolution 1736 (2006) on the action required under Clause 18 (a) of UNSCR 1737 with a view to implementing that resolution effectively. | | (136494) | 209
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps have been taken by the European Union to implement the call by the UN Security Council in its Resolution 1747 on 24th March for all states and international financial institutions not to enter into new commitments for grants, financial assistance and concessional loans to the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran except for humanitarian and developmental purposes; and if she will make a statement. | | (136495) | 210
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the proposed tripartite talks on Iraq refugees between the EU, Syria and Iraq are to take place; and what the UK involvement will be. | | (136496) | 211
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment has been made of the United Kingdom's responsibilities for Iraqi refugees under international law since 2003. | | (136497) | 212
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with her (a) US and (b) Ethiopian counterparts regarding the security situation in Somalia; and if she will make a statement. | | (136516) | 213
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment has been made of the humanitarian situation in Somalia following the Transitional Federal Government's arrival in Mogadishu; and if she will make a statement. | | (136517) | 214
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports she has received on the number of Ethiopian troops operating in Somalia; and if she will make a statement. | | (136518) | 215
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with her US counterparts on the deployment of limited missile capabilities in Europe; what proposals are under discussion; and if she will make a statement. | | (136519) | 216
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when she expects the Kosovo final status process to be concluded; and if she will make a statement. | | (136520) | 217
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will make a statement on progress in the search for Bosnian Serb war-crime suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. | | (136521) | 218
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of (a) Serbia's and (b) Montenegro's cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the detection and arrest of fugitive indictees Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. | | (136522) | 219
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to secure the release of the captured BBC correspondent Alan Johnston; and if she will make a statement. | | (136523) | 220
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the UK Government's position is on the candidacy of Belarus for the 17th May elections for the UN Human Rights Council. | | (136524) | 221
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the Islamic Courts' influence and capability in Somalia; and if she will make a statement. | | (136525) | 222
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations she has made to the government of China on (a) human rights in China and (b) the human rights of followers of Falun Gong in China. | | (136409) | 223
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent estimate she has made of the numbers of (a) religious and (b) political prisoners in China; what her estimate is of the number of such prisoners who are followers of Falun Gong; and if she will make a statement. | | (136410) | 224
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support has been given to Libya in relation to its decommissioning of weapons of mass destruction as agreed between Libya, the UK and third parties. | | (136163) | 225
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support the UK has given to Libya in helping to prevent immigration of Africans to the EU through its borders and ports. | | (136164) | 226
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations the Government has made about the health of Dr Oscar Elias Biscet, detained in the Combinado del Este Maximum Security Prison in Havana; and if she will make a statement. | | (135854) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 227
| Tony Baldry (Banbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the National Director for Heart Disease and Stroke will be responsible for implementing the National Stroke Strategy for England; and whether additional financial resources will be allocated to the strategy. | | (136526) | 228
| Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she will answer the letter from the hon. Member for Billericay dated 29th March, on professional indemnity insurance for independent midwives. | | (136425) | 229
| Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made with plans to require independent midwives to have professional indemnity insurance; and what consultation (a) has taken place and (b) is planned with (i) midwives, (ii) other healthcare professionals and (iii) women on those plans. | | (136426) | 230
N | Hugh Bayley (City of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the capital expenditure on York Hospital was in each year since 1992. | | (136146) | 231
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical secretaries were employed in the Mid Essex Hospital Trust (a) in 2000, (b) in 2005, (c) in 2006 and (d) on the most recent date for which figures are available. | | (135577) | 232
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical secretaries in the Mid Essex Hospital Trust have (a) taken voluntary retirement and (b) been made redundant and not had their posts replaced in the last 12 months. | | (135578) | 233
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the work formerly carried out by in-house medical secretaries in the Mid Essex Hospital Trust is now being carried out by agency staff; and what the effect on costs of the Trust has been in each quarter of the relevant period. | | (135579) | 234
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS trusts have received funding for dealing with prisoners with psychiatric and mental health problems; how much they have received; how they have spent the money; how many prisoner patients have received treatment as a consequence; and if she will make a statement. | | (136369) | 235
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the latest figures are for the incidence of acinetobacter baumannii in England; whether there is in place a system for (a) the reporting and (b) the investigation of all cases; whether a process for identifying acinetobactor baumannii is undertaken as a matter of course; and if she will make a statement. | | (136390) | 236
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government's policy on patient choice will enable patients to choose homeopathy from a local NHS homeopathic clinic or an NHS homeopathic hospital. | | (136165) | 237
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will issue guidance to primary care trusts to remind them that homeopathy in the NHS should continue to be an option for all patients. | | (136173) | 238
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is the Government's policy that homeopathic treatment should continue to be provided via NHS homeopathic hospitals. | | (136174) | 239
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any patient wishing to choose NHS homeopathic treatment will be able to access it from one of the four NHS homeopathic hospitals over the next five years. | | (136247) | 240
| Philip Davies (Shipley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the plans for a children's and maternity hospital in Leeds. | | (136297) | 241
| Philip Davies (Shipley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of STERIS vaporised hydrogen peroxide technology in tackling MRSA within the NHS. | | (136298) | 242
| Philip Davies (Shipley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of MRSA were contracted in NHS facilities in the period (a) 1987 to 1997 and (b) 1997 to 2007; and if she will make a statement. | | (136300) | 243
| Mrs Janet Dean (Burton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the evidential basis is for the statement made in the Musculoskeletal Service Framework that the year-on-year costs of TNF alpha inhibitors are likely to be offset by keeping patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at work and reducing the need for them to claim incapacity benefits; what research her Department has funded on this topic; and what steps her Department is taking to enable people with RA (a) to remain in and (b) to return to work. | | (136377) | 244
| Mrs Janet Dean (Burton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many members of the National Director for Health and Work's team have been appointed. | | (136378) | 245
| Mrs Janet Dean (Burton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps she has taken to ensure that the clinical assessment treatment services envisaged by the Musculoskeletal Service Framework include expertise in rheumatology to enable patients with rheumatoid arthritis to be diagnosed at the earliest opportunity. | | (136379) | 246
| Mrs Janet Dean (Burton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the cost effectiveness models used by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence take into account potential savings in work-related benefits of treatments which enable people with rheumatoid arthritis to remain in or return to work. | | (136380) | 247
| Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what her estimate is of the number of junior doctors who will not secure jobs in the 2007 medical training application service selection process; and what assistance will be provided for these doctors. | | (136252) | 248
| Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Mersey Deanery is taking to provide information on changes to the medical training application service and modernising medical careers to medical trainees. | | (136253) | 249
| Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provisions have been made for flexible training in the modernising medical careers programme. | | (136254) | 250
| Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provision there will be to maintain standards of patient care during the period after 1st August when all junior doctors will change jobs. | | (136284) | 251
| Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason junior doctors may not sample academic medicine unless they have completed a foundation academic programme. | | (136285) | 252
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of smokers being treated for smoking-related illness in the NHS. | | (136405) | 253
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 30th April 2007, Official Report, column 1514W, on the NHS: secondment, whether her Department keeps a record of secondees from the NHS to other Government departments. | | (136235) | 254
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) value and (b) purpose was of each payment made by the Food Standards Agency to the Smith Institute since 1997. | | (136322) | 255
| Mr George Galloway (Bethnal Green & Bow):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) estimate she has made of the impact on the number of doctors being trained and (b) assessment she has made of the impact on the training given to those who secure places of the Modernising Medical Careers programme. | | (136478) | 256
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23rd March 2007, Official Report, column 1190W, on childbirth, in what form her Department holds information on the hospital episode statistics of maternity cases. | | (136498) | 257
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd March 2007, Official Report, column 1141W, what information her Department took into account in drawing up the four national choice guarantees in Maternity Matters; and what (a) information will be collected and (b) research will be undertaken to assist in implementing the guarantees by the end of 2009. | | (136499) | 258
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the Royal College of Midwives' estimates of the number of full-time equivalent midwives required to ensure that the proposals in Maternity Matters can be implemented; and whether she has made her own estimate. | | (136500) | 259
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she made of the full-time equivalent number of (a) fully qualified midwives and (b) maternity care attendants needed in the (i) acute and (ii) community sector to enable the guarantees made in Maternity Matters to be implemented. | | (136501) | 260
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she made of the (a) overall capacity of maternity services, (b) qualified midwife staffing ratios on acute wards, (c) caseloads of community midwives and (d) availability of safety and monitoring equipment before the publication of Maternity Matters. | | (136502) | 261
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the safety of maternity services in the UK compared with (a) other European and (b) non-European developed countries. | | (136503) | 262
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what factors were taken into account by her Department in estimating the appropriate caseload of community midwives to enable the guarantees in Maternity Matters to be implemented. | | (136504) | 263
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many newly-trained midwives (a) obtained and (b) did not obtain a job in midwifery within six months of graduating in each year since 1995. | | (136505) | 264
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the additional (a) staff and (b) facilities which will be needed to implement the Maternity Matters proposals. | | (136506) | 265
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what records her Department collects on the (a) performance and (b) capacity of the NHS to provide a safe and satisfactory (i) antenatal and (ii) post-natal service. | | (136507) | 266
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of mothers spent (a) less than one day, (b) one day, (c) two days, (d) three days, (e) four days, (f) five days, (g) six days, (h) seven days and (i) eight days or more in hospital after giving birth in each year since 1995 for which records are available. | | (136527) | 267
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the long-term health impacts of effective access to secondary healthcare. | | (136396) | 268
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what response she has made to the conclusion of the Tenth Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights, HC 60-1, that the denial of secondary healthcare to refused asylum seekers is inconsistent with the UK's international human rights obligations. | | (136397) | 269
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what acount was taken of the denial of secondary healthcare to refused asylum seekers in the Department's report on Human Rights in Healthcare - A Framework for Local Action; and if she will make a statement. | | (136398) | 270
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the impact of the denial of secondary healthcare to refused asylum seekers on their health. | | (136399) | 271
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many refused asylum seekers (a) sought and (b) were denied access to secondary healthcare in each of the last five years. | | (136400) | 272
N | Justine Greening (Putney):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether her Department instructed the Medical Training Application Service contractor Methods to password protect personal details of foundation programme applicants made available to the postgraduate deaneries on dedicated webpages prior to details being uploaded onto the relevant web page; and if she will make a statement. | | (136010) | 273
| Patrick Hall (Bedford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how she plans to ensure that local councils which receive a targeted grant provided for making contractual arrangements with a host organisation to support a LINK spend all the grant for that purpose. | | (136435) | 274
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the impact of ketamine used illegally on health in (a) Gloucestershire, (b) the Forest of Dean and (c) England in the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (136073) | 275
N | John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Ministerial red boxes her Department bought in each of the last five years; and how much each cost. | | (134948) | 276
N | John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what tendering process is used to decide which company supplies Ministerial red boxes to her Department. | | (134949) | 277
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many midwifery posts are vacant in each NHS trust in the East of England Strategic Health Authority area; and if she will make a statement. | | (136229) | 278
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment she has made of the security of each database containing personal details used by the NHS. | | (136144) | 279
| Mr Sadiq Khan (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in assisting independent midwives to establish a system for the provision of indemnity cover. | | (136274) | 280
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people visited the Medical Training Application Service website between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on (a) 23rd April, (b) 24th April and (c) 25th April. | | (136004) | 281
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who have gained unauthorised access to the Medical Training Application Service website. | | (136005) | 282
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken by her Department to ensure that those doctors whose details were available on the Medical Training Application Service website do not become victims of identity theft and fraud. | | (136006) | 283
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements her Department (a) has made and (b) plans to make to analyse the security implications of the recent Medical Training Application Service website security breach for the Connecting for Health IT project. | | (136007) | 284
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps have been taken to ensure that doctors' personal details which are available on the Medical Training Application Service website are no longer in the public domain through other websites or publications. | | (136008) | 285
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate she has made of the number of children under five with tooth decay in England in each year between 1997 and 2005. | | (136389) | 286
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what complaints she has received about Patientline; and if she will make a statement. | | (136147) | 287
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she last met representatives of Bromley NHS Trust; and what was discussed. | | (135574) | 288
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the financial position of Bromley NHS Trust. | | (135575) | 289
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has for the provision of specialist asthma healthcare staff and care plans. | | (136065) | 290
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what studies her Department has undertaken of the variations in rates of admission for asthma attacks across primary care trusts. | | (136066) | 291
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps her Department is taking (a) to improve preventative provision for asthma and (b) to reduce the need for asthma-related emergency admissions. | | (136074) | 292
N | Ian Stewart (Eccles):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she expects to bring into force the NHS Redress Act 2006. | | (136141) | 293
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether her Department collects data on the death or injury of third parties as a result of ingesting methadone provided to an addict as a drug substitute. | | (136232) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 294
| Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) shop workers, (b) hospital staff, (c) bus drivers, (d) firemen, (e) police officers and (f) other public sector workers were victims of violence at work in the last year for which figures are available. | | (136419) | 295
| Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in what percentage of crime in each of the last five years alcohol was determined as a contributing factor; and what trends are discernible in the figures. | | (136433) | 296
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce self-harming by women prisoners; and if he will make a statement. | | (136382) | 297
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce the female prison population. | | (136391) | 298
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the performance of each safer neighbourhood team in Leyton and Wanstead. | | (136392) | 299
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration his Department has given to the election of police officials. | | (135604) | 300
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of surveillance resources and expertise available to work on counter-terrorism; and whether the new MI5 Director has requested any additional resources. | | (136241) | 301
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the reports produced by consultants to his Department in each of the last five years. | | (136231) | 302
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Metropolitan Police spent on translators in each of the last five years. | | (136406) | 303
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding was given to the Drug Interventions Programme in each year since 2003; and what funding he expects to allocate to the programme in each of the next three years. | | (136178) | 304
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to introduce new measures to release offenders from prison early to ease prison overcrowding. | | (136179) | 305
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30th April 2007, Official Report, column 1407W, on identity cards, what estimate he has made of the total savings from the cost of identity fraud which will be realised as a result of the introduction of identity cards in each of the first five years following their introduction. | | (136236) | 306
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding is planned for police training in each of the next three financial years. | | (136301) | 307
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27th March 2007, Official Report, columns 1441-2W, on departments: public expenditure, for which losses his Department was granted Treasury approval in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (136319) | 308
| Mr George Galloway (Bethnal Green & Bow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications for his detention of the passing of a polygraph test by life prisoner Jeremy Bamber; and if he will make a statement. | | (136477) | 309
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will review the appropriateness of the classification of Ketamine as a class C drug. | | (136079) | 310
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes were recorded involving knives in the Cambridgeshire Constabulary area in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (136228) | 311
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what initiatives his Department is taking to combat people trafficking. | | (136221) | 312
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what definitions of human trafficking are given in UK legislation. | | (136234) | 313
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many workers were registered under the Workers Registration Scheme in (a) Cambridgeshire, (b) Norfolk and (c) Lincolnshire in each of the last five years. | | (136237) | 314
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25th April 2007, Official Report, columns 1136-40W, on burglaries: Greater London, why (a) recorded crime data is published on a financial year basis and (b) conviction data is published on a calendar year basis; and if he will make a statement. | | (135576) | 315
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Iraqis (a) were granted and (b) applied for asylum in the UK in each year since 2003; and if he will make a statement. | | (136336) | 316
N | Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners are held at HMP Leyhill; and how many are (a) Category D prisoners and (b) Category C prisoners. | | (135940) | 317
N | Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes he has made to the categories of prisoners eligible to be transferred to HMP Leyhill; and if he will make a statement. | | (135941) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 318
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 23rd April 2007, Official Report, column 873W, on Parliament: parking, if he will estimate the annual revenue which would be raised by the introduction of a £10 charge for the use of car parking facilities on the estate. | | (136264) | 319
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the causes are of the delay in completing the works relating to the new public entrance; when works were originally planned to be completed; when completion is expected; and if he will make a statement. | | (135784) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 320
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his policy is on (a) reducing the level of poverty in Haiti and (b) cancelling Haiti's international debt; and if he will make a statement. | | (136408) | 321
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which countries have (a) set and (b) published details of interim targets for 2008 towards universal access for anti-retroviral drugs; and what targets have been set. | | (136281) | 322
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he last visited Afghanistan to review progress in the eradication of poppy fields. | | (136436) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 323
N | Mark Durkan (Foyle):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made in implementing the Workplace 2010 scheme in Northern Ireland; which bidders have been short-listed during the procurement stage; and whether Ministers-designate were consulted during the short-listing process. | | (135937) | 324
N | Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, for what reasons no response has yet been made to the questions submitted by Mr Justice Girvan in relation to the appointment of the Interim Victims Commissioner. | | (136067) | 325
N | Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what consideration he has given to providing a staged reply to the questions submitted by Mr Justice Girvan in relation to the appointment of the Interim Victims Commissioner as and when individual responses become available. | | (136068) | 326
N | Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he expects to respond to the questions submitted by Mr Justice Girvan in relation to the appointment of the Interim Victims Commissioner. | | (136069) | 327
N | Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will estimate the total cost of the development of Queen's Parade on Bangor seafront in County Down; and what financial contribution is being made by the Department of Social Development to the project, broken down by area of funding. | | (136070) | 328
N | Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on the progress made in taking forward the Queen's Parade project on Bangor seafront in County Down. | | (136071) | 329
N | Dr Alasdair McDonnell (Belfast South):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will defer the Northern Ireland recruitment process relating to the Modernising Medical Careers programme for 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (136358) | 330
| David Simpson (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 30th April 2007, Official Report, column 1440W, on Departments: official hospitality, if he will provide a breakdown by main categories of expenditure of the money spent on official hospitality by the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister in 2006-07. | | (136272) | 331
N | David Simpson (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 30th April 2007, Official Report, column 1440W, on Departments: official hospitality, what the reason was for the increase in the amount spent on hospitality by his Department in 2006-07 compared with 2005-06. | | (136273) | 332
N | David Simpson (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 30th April 2007, Official Report, column 1446W, on Olympic Games: Greater London, which organisations have representatives sitting on the Olympic NI Task Force; and what recommendations the task force has made (a) to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and (b) to the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. | | (136333) | 333
N | David Simpson (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what initiatives have been identified by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure in discussions with the Olympic NI Task Force, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games as being suitable Olympic projects for Northern Ireland; and what assessment he has made of the potential benefit of these initiatives is to Northern Ireland. | | (136334) | Questions to the Prime Minister 334
| Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Oral Answer of 2nd May 2007, Official Report, column 1505, on engagements, what the basis was of his claim on 24th September 2002 that, if he were able to purchase fissile material illegally, it would be only a year or two before Saddam Hussein acquired a usable nuclear weapon. | | (136508) | 335
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Written Ministerial Statement of 26th April 2007, Official Report, column 27WS, for what reasons he appointed Dr Michael Goodman to write the official history of the Joint Intelligence Committee; and if he will place in the Library Dr Goodman's biographical details. | | (136350) | 336
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 29th March 2007, Official Report, columns 133-5WS, on machinery of Government change, what the estimated cost is of the machinery of Goverment changes; and if he will make a statement. | | (136481) | 337
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Written Ministerial statement of 29th March 2007, Official Report, columns 133-5WS, on machinery of Government change, if he will place in the Library all cost evaluations undertaken on the machinery of Government changes. | | (136482) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 338
N | Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when he plans to meet the First Minister of Scotland following the Scottish Parliament elections; and what he plans to discuss. | | (135090) | 339
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what role (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department played in the negotiation of the contracts with private companies to carry out the printing, collating and distribution of postal ballot papers for the elections in Scotland on 3rd May. | | (136136) | 340
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will conduct an investigation into the postal ballot delays for the Scottish elections on 3rd May. | | (136137) | 341
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what his estimate is of the number of voters in Scotland who will be unable to cast their vote for the Scottish Parliamentary and local government elections as a result of the delay in sending out the postal ballots; and if he will make a statement. | | (136138) | 342
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, on what dates in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007 (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in his Department had meetings regarding the running of the Scottish elections on 3rd May 2007. | | (136139) | Questions to the Solicitor General 343
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Solicitor General, what the budget of HM Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office was in each of the last five years. | | (136306) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 344
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what permission is required for British Nuclear Group Sellafield Limited and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to send radioactively contaminated metals from decommissioning facilities at Sellafield to the Studsvik decontamination plant in Sweden. | | (136343) | 345
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much funding was provided by his Department for research and development into renewable energy technologies in each year since 1990, broken down by type. | | (136243) | 346
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on the International Atomic Energy Agency proposal for an international nuclear fuel bank; and if he will make a statement. | | (135605) | 347
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether he plans to table regulations to provide for additional paternity leave under section 3 of the Work and Families Act 2006; and if he will make a statement. | | (136530) | 348
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which representative of Bridges Community Ventures made the presentation to the Capital for Enterprise Board on 21st November 2006. | | (136323) | 349
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what financial support his Department gives to (a) science centres and (b) other projects which (i) promote engagement in science to the general public and (ii) are involved in adding value to the teaching of those subjects in schools. | | (136251) | 350
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what initiatives his Department is taking to increase trade with Canada; and if he will make a statement. | | (136227) | 351
| Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the progress of the Companies Act investigation into MG Rover. | | (136291) | 352
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will establish an inquiry into the operation of the Miners' Compensation Scheme. | | (136142) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 353
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what regulations exist to cover the safe transport of radioactively contaminated metals from United Kingdom nuclear plants to other member states of the European Union for decontamination treatment. | | (136354) | 354
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason EU driving licences cannot be upgraded in the UK; and whether there are plans to allow such upgrading in the future. | | (136246) | 355
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will introduce a national concessionary bus fare scheme which ensures that all pensioners have the opportunity to travel across national borders within the UK. | | (136078) | 356
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1st May 2007, Official Report, column 1527W, on aviation exhaust emissions, whether he has made any assessment of the potential effects on health of contrails from aircraft. | | (136145) | 357
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what account is taken in the revised Highway Code of the statement in the Response to Consultation Report of March 2007 that road users other than cyclists need to be made aware that the choice to use cycle facilities remains with the cyclist and there is no law compelling their use. | | (136480) | 358
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with his Welsh counterpart on improvements to the Cambrian line between Shrewsbury and Aberystwyth. | | (136160) | 359
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has made to help develop rail infrastructure in Shropshire on the line between Wolverhampton and Central Wales. | | (136161) | 360
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what account of the likely effects on congestion was taken of the roadworks taking place north of junction 8 of the M1 when scheduling the dates of lane closures and roadworks taking place near junction 4 of the motorway; whether consideration was given to delaying the work near junction 4 until the completion of the work north of junction 8; and if he will make a statement. | | (136181) | 361
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the condition of the track between Hull and Scarborough on the possibility of running special excursion trains on that line; and if he will make a statement. | | (136222) | 362
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the condition of the train track running between Hull and Scarborough; and if he will make a statement. | | (136223) | 363
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to reinstate the requirement for local councils to have his approval before introducing 20 miles per hour speed zones. | | (136224) | 364
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has conducted or reviewed on the relative effectiveness of part-time and permanent 20 miles per hour zones; and if he will make a statement. | | (136225) | 365
| Susan Kramer (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of air transport movements which would take place at Heathrow if a third runway is built and mixed mode is introduced. | | (136417) | 366
| Susan Kramer (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the estimate of 720,000 air transport movements each year at Heathrow if a third runway is built referred to in the Air Transport White Paper Progress Report 2006 includes an assumption that mixed mode will be introduced. | | (136418) | 367
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consultations took place between (a) his Department and (b) the Highways Agency and (i) Transport for London and (ii) the Metropolitan Police on the recent closure of the contraflow system of the Blackwall Tunnel. | | (135939) | 368
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consultation he has carried out with disability groups on the new classification of mobility scooters as vehicles rather than invalid carriages and the impact of such classification on their use on the highways and footpaths. | | [R] (136364) | 369
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what he expects the impact of the new EU classification of mobility scooters as motorised vehicles to be on the capacity to use those scooters on footways and highways. | | [R] (136368) | 370
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he expects the new emissions cost assessment designed to inform decisions on major increases in aviation capacity as outlined in the recent Progress Report on the Aviation White Paper to apply to proposals (a) to introduce mixed mode and (b) to construct a sixth terminal or a third runway at Heathrow; who is involved in developing this emissions cost assessment; and what level of consultation there will be in developing the process. | | (136437) | 371
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how his Department plans to respond to the advice from the Air Quality Expert Group's recently published report Air Quality and Climate Change: A UK Perspective that reversal of the growing trend for long-distance commuting and the growth in air travel would be highly beneficial for both local air quality and the global atmosphere. | | (136438) | 372
| Ian Stewart (Eccles):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Honorary Medical Advisory Panel on Driving and Diabetes Mellitus has (a) lay representatives and (b) a chosen insulin-treated diabetic who can attend meetings of the panel in a non-voting capacity. | | (136256) | 373
| Ian Stewart (Eccles):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is undertaking the additional research recommended in the Road Safety Research Report Number 61, `Stratifying Hypoglycaemic Event Risk in Insulin-treated Diabetes'. | | (136275) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 374
| Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend):To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what progress has been made on the Government Action Plan: Implementing the Women and Work Commission recommendations; and if she will make a statement. | | (136432) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 375
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people were living in households with (a) below the (i) mean, (ii) mode and (iii) median averages of income in each year since 1992 and (b) below 60 per cent. of each of those averages of income. | | (136108) | 376
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total welfare expenditure was, including tax credits, in the financial years (a) 1991-92, (b) 1996-97, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2006-07; and what the (i) actual and (ii) percentage change in expenditure was between each of those years. | | (136109) | 377
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners received their pension (a) via direct debit into their bank accounts and (b) through Post Office Accounts in the latest month for which data is available. | | (136357) | 378
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of decisions on applications made to the Child Support Agency were revised because they contained errors in each quarter since spring 2003. | | (136487) | 379
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average time was taken for applications to the Child Support Agency to be processed from the initial application to clearance stage in each quarter since spring 2003; and what the average wait was for such cases. | | (136488) | 380
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications were made to the Child Support Agency in each quarter since spring 2003; and how many were (a) cleared for maintenance payments and (b) cleared for closure in each quarter. | | (136489) | 381
| Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of incapacity benefit were subject to a personal capability assessment in 2005-06. | | (136149) | 382
| Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received incapacity benefit in 2005-06. | | (136150) | 383
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants had their council tax benefit reduced for earning over the earnings disregard level in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the value of those reductions was. | | (136182) | 384
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants had their housing benefit reduced for earning over the earnings disregard level in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the value was of those reductions. | | (136280) | 385
| Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many telephone helplines are sponsored by his Department with the prefix (a) 0870 and (b) 0845; and whether alternative geographic numbers are available in each case. | | (136258) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 386
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many heavily armoured Land Rovers are available to British troops in each region of Afghanistan. | | [Transferred] (136394) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 387
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what agreements exist between the UK and Libya on the (a) forced repatriation and (b) extradition of nationals. | | [Transferred] (136162) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 388
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to protect refugees who have fled sectarian violence in Iraq. | | [Transferred] (136337) | 389
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of Government assistance to internally displaced people in Iraq is channelled through (a) international NGOs, (b) Iraqi NGOs, (c) the Iraqi government and (d) UK military forces. | | [Transferred] (136351) | 390
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what Government funding and resources for internally displaced people in Iraq (a) was allocated in each year since 2001 and (b) will be provided in each of the next three years. | | [Transferred] (136352) | 391
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance the UK is providing to (a) Syria and (b) Jordan for refugees who have fled sectarian violence in Iraq; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (136353) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 392
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many fatalities there have been resulting from play activities in public playgrounds in the UK in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (136537) | 393
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recorded injuries, excluding fatalities, there have been resulting from play activities in public playgrounds in the UK in each year since 1997; and what the nature of these injuries was. | | [Transferred] (136538) |
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