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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Thursday 7 June 2007
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 7 June 2007
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Thursday 7 June of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Thursday 7 June of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Thursday 7 June see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 1
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects to answer Question 131611, on HM Revenue and Customs, tabled by the hon. Member for Taunton on 29th March 2007. | | (141214) | 2
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many open Pay as You Earn cases there were at the end of each of the three last financial years; and if he will make a statement. | | (141463) | 3
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Revenue and Customs (a) consult and (b) share information with the US Inland Revenue Service on tax shelter or tax mitigation schemes. | | (141155) | 4
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimate is of the annual value of capital gains tax taper relief on carried interest in each of the last three financial years. | | (141157) | 5
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax shelter or mitigation schemes were notified to him in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many of these have been deemed not to be acceptable by HM Revenue and Customs. | | (141170) | 6
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many pre-surplus staff there were at HM Revenue and Customs at the end of each quarter since 1st April 2005; and what the average length of service was for pre-surplus workers in the most recent quarter for which figures are available. | | (141171) | 7
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the aggregate value of pension fund surpluses, as defined for tax purposes, on 1st July 1997 or the nearest available prior date. | | (141523) | 8
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the estimated value was of actuarial liabilities against which the £60 billion surplus referred to in the Inland Revenue's note to him of 27th May 1997 was measured. | | (141524) | 9
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the estimated £60 billion actuarial surplus in all pension funds as estimated in the Inland Revenue's note to him of 27th May 1997 was (a) a net figure which included schemes reporting deficits and (b) a gross figure which excluded such schemes. | | (141525) | 10
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the actuarial valuation assumptions referred to in the Inland Revenue policy note of 21st May 1997 as very cautious were. | | (141538) | 11
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what method was used to extrapolate the position of all pension schemes from the sample of 32 large pension schemes by the Inland Revenue in the memorandum addressed to him dated 27th May 1997. | | (141539) | 12
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what projection he has made of how the changes to income tax and National Insurance announced in the Budget will affect the value of tax relief on pension contributions in future years. | | (141540) | 13
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total value is of assets held in (a) self-administered private sector occupational defined benefit schemes, (b) self-administered private sector occupational defined contribution schemes, (c) self-administered public sector defined benefit schemes, (d) insured occupational defined benefit schemes, (e) insured occupational defined contribution schemes, (f) group personal pensions, (g) group stakeholder pensions, (h) individual personal pensions and (i) individual stakeholder pensions. | | (141552) | 14
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff funded by the public purse in (a) HM Revenue and Customs, (b) Valuation Office Agency, (c) Office for National Statistics, (d) Royal Mint, (e) Office of Government Commerce and OGC Buying Solutions, (f) National Savings and Investments and (g) UK Debt Management Office are classified as people without posts. | | (141388) | 15
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions (a) he and (b) other Treasury ministers have had with the Ministry of Justice on amendments to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and associated regulations in the last six months. | | (141390) | 16
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was raised for charities through payroll giving in the last year for which figures are available. | | (141391) | 17
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many items there are in HM Treasury's library; what the cost of purchasing stock for the library was in each year since 1997; and how many staff were employed to work in the library in each year. | | (141269) | 18
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) date, (b) value and (c) purpose was of each payment made by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies to Eligo International Limited since 1997. | | (141270) | 19
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, to which posts he has appointed Lord Bhattacharyya since 1997. | | (141293) | 20
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, by which date he expects each policy review being undertaken as part of his Comprehensive Spending Review to be completed. | | (141295) | 21
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which of his Comprehensive Spending Review policy reviews have reported. | | (141296) | 22
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) purpose and (b) value was of each payment made by his Department to Professor Iain Maclean of Oxford University since 1997. | | (141297) | 23
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which items with his Department's logo were (a) produced and (b) bought by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies in each year since 1997; and what the cost was of those items. | | (141309) | 24
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance his Department has issued on the secure disposal of final review reports where a decision has been taken not to publish them. | | (141364) | 25
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total cost to the Exchequer was of providing the tax relief for workplace pensions advice during (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07. | | (141365) | 26
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what cost benefit analysis was undertaken prior to introducing the workplace advice tax credit; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the measure in promoting access to financial advice in the workplace. | | (141366) | 27
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress his Department has made in promoting wider access to financial advice in the workplace following the launch of its consultation Extending Employers' Freedoms in the 2006 Budget. | | (141367) | 28
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the decision-making process is for the allocation of Private Finance Initiative credits to each department. | | (141368) | 29
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the funding allocation was of Private Finance Initiative credits to each department in each year since 1997. | | (141369) | 30
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance he has issued to departments on the criteria to be used in deciding priorities for the type of projects to be supported using Private Finance Initiative credits. | | (141370) | 31
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff have been working as part of his Department's Comprehensive Spending Review on the reviews of (a) counter-terrorism and security, (b) mental health and employment outcomes, (c) sub-national economic development and regeneration, (d) supporting housing growth and (e) future role of the third sector in social and economic regeneration, broken down by payband. | | (141386) | 32
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance the Treasury has provided to the Office of Government Commerce on the retention of documents associated with Gateway reviews. | | (141387) | 33
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rayleigh of 23rd May 2007, Official Report, column 1360W, on Redundancy Pay: Ministerial Policy Advisers, and the Written Statement by the Prime Minister of 26th July 2006, what calculation he has made of his Department's contribution to the figure for severance pay. | | (141477) | 34
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consultations there were between (a) officials and (b) Ministers in his Department and (i) officials and (ii) Ministers of the Department for Work and Pensions in (A) 2005 and (B) 2006 before the decision not to implement fully the recommendations of the Government Actuarial Department on contracted-out rebates for salary-related pension schemes; and if he will make a statement. | | (141180) | 35
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the annual revenue yield from treating as income for tax purposes the capital gains received by private equity funds on disposals of assets held by the funds they manage; and if he will make a statement. | | (141427) | 36
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the next set of data on tax credit take-up rates will be released; and what official releases of data in relation to tax credits there will be in each month from June 2007 to June 2008. | | (141428) | 37
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many written (a) appeals and (b) complaints there were in relation to tax credits for each (i) month, (ii) quarter and (iii) year from April 2003 to May 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (141470) | 38
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his latest estimate is of the potential annual saving from reducing the current tax credits disregard on income increases from £25,000 to zero; and if he will make a statement. | | (141485) | 39
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were taken to court for non-payment of tax credit overpayments in each month from April 2003 to June 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (141489) | 40
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date he plans to release the latest estimates of tax credit fraud and error in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05 and (c) 2005-06; and if he will make a statement. | | (141490) | 41
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls were made to the tax credits helpline in each month from April 2003 to April 2007; and how many of these calls were unanswered, broken down by reason for the call. | | (141492) | 42
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what bonuses were paid to staff working on tax credits in each (a) month, (b) quarter and (c) year from April 2003 to May 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (141494) | 43
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the case for returning to a system of fixed tax credit awards since January 2006. | | (141496) | 44
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimate is of the revenue consequences for the Exchequer of moving to a system of six monthly fixed awards for tax credits; and if he will make a statement. | | (141497) | 45
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the quality of performance of the tax credits IT systems from January 2006 to May 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (141517) | 46
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his latest estimates are of tax credits (a) overpayments and (b) fraud and error for each year from 2003-04 to 2007-08; how much is estimated in each year to be (i) uncollectable and written off, (ii) unlikely to be collected but not yet written off, (iii) collected and (iv) likely to be collected; and if he will make a statement. | | (141522) | 47
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, where the call centres are located which handle calls to the national helpline of HM Revenue and Customs. | | (141560) | 48
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the telephone system used by the national helpline of HM Revenue and Customs is capable of recording (a) the average waiting time before a call from a member of the public is answered and (b) whether a call has been automatically terminated before being answered; and if he will make a statement. | | (141561) | 49
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what benchmarks he uses to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the national helpline of HM Revenue and Customs in providing a service to the public. | | (141562) | 50
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the borrowing limit of the London Development Agency was in 2006-07; and how much it will be in 2007-08. | | (141106) | 51
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the interest accrued by the Student Loans Company (SLC) money paid by former students prior to it being passed onto the SLC; and if he will make a statement. | | (141478) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 52
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the recent levels of gift aid relief for charities. | | (141476) | 53
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the (a) value and (b) purpose was of each payment made by her Department to Opinion Leader Research since 1997. | | (141445) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 54
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of key workers living in (a) Somerset and (b) Taunton constituency. | | (141227) | 55
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties were (a) bought and (b) part-bought in (i) Somerset and (ii) Taunton constituency under the Government's Homebuy scheme in each of the last five years. | | (141228) | 56
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidelines her Department has issued to local authorities on the subject of basement excavations to residential properties; and if she will make a statement. | | (141165) | 57
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many staff funded by the public purse in (a) English Partnerships, (b) the Housing Corporation, (c) the Commission for Racial Equality, (d) the Audit Commission, (e) the Standards Board and Adjudication Panel for England, (f) the Government Office for (i) London, (ii) the South East, (iii) the South West, (iv) West Midlands, (v) East Midlands, (vi) North West, (vii) East of England, (viii) North East and (ix) Yorkshire and Humberside, (g) the Fire Service College, (h) Ordnance Survey, (i) the Planning Inspectorate, (j) the Rent Service and (k) QE2 Conference Centre are classified as people without posts. | | (141308) | 58
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24th May 2007, Official Report, column 1525W, on departments: manpower, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of keeping the staff referred to in employment during the period in which they were without a post. | | (141363) | 59
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of regeneration schemes in coalfield communities. | | (141441) | 60
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local government institutions have contacted her Department for guidance on visits from (a) Narconon and (b) the Church of Scientology in the last two years; and what guidance has been issued by her Department. | | (141162) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 61
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to offer the Panathlon Challenge financial support. | | (141159) | 62
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations she has received from (a) hon. and right hon. Members, (b) schools, (c) teachers, (d) parents and (e) others on the funding position of the Panathlon Challenge in each of the last two years. | | (141160) | 63
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on her plans to expand competitive sport in schools. | | (141168) | 64
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent research she has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effectiveness of the Panathlon Challenge in increasing the involvement of school children in competitive sport; and if she will make a statement. | | (141169) | 65
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd May 2007, Official Report, column 1178W, on the Olympic Games: Greater London, what the dates were of the meetings chaired by the Minister of Sport as part of the separate cost review set up to take forward the work of the Olympic Cost Review Steering Group. | | (141371) | 66
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd May 2007, Official Report, column 1178W, on the Olympic Games: Greater London, which external consultancy companies were involved in the separate cost review set up to take forward the work of the Olympic Cost Review Steering Group. | | (141372) | 67
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd May 2007, Official Report, column 1178W, on the Olympic Games: Greater London, who the members were of the separate cost review group chaired by the Minister for Sport to take forward the work of the Olympic Cost Review Steering Group; and who the members were of the original steering group. | | (141373) | 68
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd May 2007, Official Report, column 1178W, on the Olympic Games: Greater London, what reports were prepared (a) for and (b) by the separate cost review chaired by the Minister of Sport to take forward the work of the Olympic cost review steering group. | | (141374) | 69
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when and for what reason KPMG was commissioned to provide on-going advice on the cost of the Olympic Games in 2012; when the final report on the cost of the Olympics commissioned from KPMG for delivery by the end of November 2005 was provided to her Department; and if she will make a statement. | | (141375) | 70
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd May 2007, Official Report, column 1178W, on the Olympic Games: Greater London, on what date discussions of VAT with HM Treasury in relation to the proposed Olympic Delivery Authority (a) commenced and (b) concluded. | | (141376) | 71
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the merits of different forms of (a) ownership and (b) funding of Channel 4. | | (141377) | 72
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her policy is on the (a) ownership and (b) funding of Channel 4. | | (141378) | 73
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) reports, (b) other documents and (c) electronic presentations KPMG has produced for her Department in connection with that company's role in providing advice on the Olympics cost review; and on what date each was (i) submitted or presented and (ii) produced. | | (141382) | 74
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd May 2007, Official Report, column 1178W, on the Olympic Games: Greater London, what the name was of the separate cost review set up to take forward the work of the Steering Group and chaired by the Minister of Sport. | | (141484) | 75
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the timescale is for the publication of the revised Memorandum of Understanding between the Government and the Mayor of London on the new funding arrangements and share of future land sales relating to the 2012 Olympic Games. | | (141107) | 76
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the First Minister of the Welsh Assembly Government on celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of Prince Charles' investiture as Prince of Wales. | | (141335) | 77
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what celebrations her Department has planned for the 50th Anniversary of Prince Charles' investiture as Prince of Wales. | | (141336) | 78
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what public funds her Department plans to make available for celebrations to mark the 50th Anniversary of Prince Charles' investiture as Prince of Wales. | | (141337) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 79
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of supply of military helicopters in Afghanistan. | | (141276) | 80
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the replacement costs of military equipment damaged and destroyed owing to use in Iraq since the start of the war (a) in total and (b) for (i) tanks and other armoured vehicles, (ii) aircraft and (iii) helicopters. | | (141465) | 81
| Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost to the public purse was of each of the contracts between BAe Systems and his Department in each of the last five years. | | (141313) | 82
| Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which defence procurement contracts are in place between his Department and BAe Systems. | | (141314) | 83
| Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value is of each defence procurement contracts in place between his Department and BAe Systems. | | (141315) | 84
| Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many current members of the board of BAe Systems have previously worked for his Department; and in what capacity. | | (141316) | 85
| Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many lobbying companies his Department engaged on (a) a paid and (b) an unpaid basis in each of the last five years; and for what purpose. | | (141317) | 86
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answers of (a) 19th January 2007, Official Report, column 1364W, and (b) 5th February 2007, Official Report, column 688W, on housing, when he expects to provide the information. | | (141239) | 87
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) value, (b) purpose and (c) date was of each payment made by his Department to CMT Dynamics since 1997. | | (141312) | 88
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what most recent estimate he has made of planned troop numbers in Afghanistan for each of the next four years. | | (141380) | 89
N | Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had on recent ICBM tests undertaken by Russia; what assessment he has made of the implications of such tests for UK defence policy; and if he will make a statement. | | (140710) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 90
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the evidential basis was for the statement made by Ofsted in its report Time for Change? Personal, Social and Health Education that (a) research suggests that education that promotes abstinence but withholds information about contraception can place young people at higher risk and (b) school nurses provide a particularly valuable service in providing emergency hormonal contraception to pupils; and if he will make a statement. | | (141462) | 91
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that local education authorities and individual schools will have free, fresh (a) drinking water and (b) chilled drinking water available to school children by 1st September. | | (141328) | 92
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what targets have been set to measure the meeting by schools of the Healthy Schools Standard for the availability of free, fresh water in schools by 1st September; and what percentage of schools are expected to achieve those targets. | | (141329) | 93
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what procedures have been put in place by Ofsted for the auditing of the availability and provision of free, fresh (a) drinking water and (b) chilled drinking water throughout the school day as part of the new nutritional standards for schools; and if he will make a statement. | | (141330) | 94
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what funding his Department (a) has made and (b) plans to make available to local education authorities and individual schools to ensure that they meet the nutritional standards to provide free, fresh (i) drinking water and (ii) chilled drinking water throughout the school day by 1st September 2007. | | (141331) | 95
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children of (a) primary and (b) secondary school age in each local authority area were diagnosed with dyslexia in each of the last 10 years. | | (141219) | 96
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding was allocated to (a) special educational needs and (b) gifted and talented learning in each local authority area in each of the last 10 years. | | (141220) | 97
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children were given an individual education plan in each of the last 10 years. | | (141221) | 98
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many learning support assistants there were in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each local authority area in each of the last 10 years. | | (141222) | 99
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many new statements were issued for children with special educational needs of (a) primary and (b) secondary school age in each local authority area in each of the last 10 years; and what percentage of school age children they constituted in each case. | | (141223) | 100
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children originally from EU accession states were enrolled in schools in (a) Somerset and (b) Taunton constituency in (i) 2002, (ii) 2004 and (iii) 2006. | | (141229) | 101
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding from the New Arrivals Excellence programme has been made available to each local authority area in Somerset since the initiation of the programme. | | (141230) | 102
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what percentage of children in (a) Somerset and (b) Taunton constituency have English as a second language; and what funding has been made available for individual schools in each area to support those children in each of the last five years. | | (141231) | 103
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average teacher-pupil ratio was in (a) mainstream primary, (b) mainstream secondary and (c) special needs schools in each local authority area in each of the last 10 years. | | (141232) | 104
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children of (a) primary and (b) secondary school age in each local authority area undertook anger management courses in each of the last 10 years. | | (141233) | 105
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to his Answer of 24th May 2007, Official Report, column 1390W, on Mandarin, if he will take steps to encourage schools to offer Mandarin as a subject at all levels; and what steps he is taking to increase the pool of teachers qualified to teach Mandarin. | | (141444) | 106
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on the teaching of Mandarin and its potential impact on the preparedness of the UK workforce for dealing with China. | | (141553) | 107
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to promote Mandarin to young people as an academic subject. | | (141555) | 108
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many university academic staff specialising in midwifery there were in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (141186) | 109
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what schemes are in place to support school pupils' mathematics education by using university students to mentor them; and how many pupils are participating in such schemes. | | (141266) | 110
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans the Government has to introduce drugs education schemes to primary schools. | | (141291) | 111
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding was allocated to tackling bullying in schools in each financial year since 1997-98. | | (141379) | 112
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which organisations his Department is working with to tackle bullying in schools; and in what year his Department commenced joint working with each such organisation. | | (141381) | 113
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps he has taken to evaluate (a) the 21st Century science GCSEs and (b) other new syllabi. | | (141486) | 114
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of (a) maintained, (b) specialist science, (c) grammar and (d) independent schools offer separate science GCSEs in physics, chemistry and biology. | | (141487) | 115
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of headteachers have a degree in a science subject. | | (141488) | 116
| Helen Jones (Warrington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much (a) capital and (b) revenue funding was allocated to Warrington Collegiate in each year since 1997, broken down by funding stream category. | | (141158) | 117
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make it his policy to ensure that training courses for new teachers and headteachers include learning about sustainable development. | | (141192) | 118
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make changes to schools' curriculums to include more content about sustainable development. | | (141193) | 119
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what support his Department provides for the eco-schools programme; and if he will adopt a target to make every school an eco-school. | | (141194) | 120
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will introduce beacon school status for those schools which put sustainable development into practice. | | (141195) | 121
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make it his policy to require Ofsted (a) to inspect and (b) to report on schools' commitment to sustainable development in (i) teaching and (ii) property management. | | (141208) | 122
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what consideration local authorities give to the level of private, voluntary and independent nursery sector provision when determining the levels of funding under the free entitlement requirements for providers in the area. | | (141425) | 123
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if his Department will commission an independent regulatory impact assessment on the 2006 Code of Practice on free entitlement to nursery education; and what assessment he has made of the impact of the implementation of the code on the number of children's nurseries. | | (141426) | 124
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils took A-levels in (a) French, (b) German, (c) Italian, (d) Spanish and (e) Russian in each year since 2000. | | (141416) | 125
N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of pupils at state city academies obtained five or more A*-C passes at GCSE in 2006. | | (141022) | 126
N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what average A-level results were obtained by pupils at (a) state city academies and (b) other schools at A-level in 2006. | | (141023) | 127
N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average private sector capital contribution has been to new city academies established over the last 12 months. | | (141024) | 128
N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether any city academy school sites are owned by private sector interests. | | (141025) | 129
N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what rights private sector sponsoring companies have to hire and fire staff in state city academies. | | (141026) | 130
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make it his policy to pass Student Loans Company (SLC) money deducted from a former students' monthly salary onto the SLC immediately after deduction; and if he will make a statement. | | (141479) | 131
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools have contacted his Department for guidance on visits from (a) Narconon and (b) the Church of Scientology in the last two years; and what guidance has been issued by his Department. | | (141161) | 132
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the success of the Narconon programme in schools. | | (141163) | 133
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what contact his Department has had with (a) Narconon and (b) the Church of Scientology in the last two years. | | (141164) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 134
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on amending the performance indicator applicable to local councils in respect of recycling levels to reflect performance in terms of waste minimisation. | | (141320) | 135
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what studies his Department has undertaken on the capacity of water resources to meet plans for increased housing numbers, with particular reference to the south-east of England. | | (141322) | 136
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the extent of new water infrastructure required in England; and where such new infrastructure will be located. | | (141323) | 137
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the cooperation and information sharing by the Regional Planning Bodies with statutory bodies to determine the extent and location of new water infrastructure required in England. | | (141324) | 138
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the level of recycling by businesses in each region in England. | | (141224) | 139
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which local authorities exceeded their targets for household waste recycling in the last year for which figures are available. | | (141225) | 140
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the household recycling rates were for each local authority area in England in the last year for which figures are available. | | (141226) | 141
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Environment Agency spent on flood defences in Yorkshire in each year since 1997. | | (141565) | 142
N | Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to publish the consultation paper on the social and environmental guidance due in March 2008. | | (141027) | 143
N | Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to publish the Water Strategy; and what account it will take of affordability. | | (141028) | 144
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to define standards for eradication of Japanese knotweed; and if he will make a statement. | | (141298) | 145
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to reply to the Fourth Report of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Fourth Report on Radioactive Waste Management: an Update. | | (141122) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 146
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions she has had on the EU constitutional arrangement; and if she will make a statement. | | (141475) | 147
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of (a) the numbers of African Union troops deployed in Somalia and (b) the impact of that deployment on the security situation in the country. | | (141197) | 148
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what requests have been received by the UK from the African Union (AU) for NATO air transport support for AU troops in Somalia; and if she will make a statement. | | (141198) | 149
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of Syrian compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 1701; and if she will make a statement. | | (141199) | 150
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the role of the Government's Global Conflict Prevention Pool is in relation to the Middle East Peace Process; and if she will make a statement. | | (141201) | 151
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the role of the Africa Conflict Prevention Pool is in relation to the conflict in Darfur; and if she will make a statement. | | (141202) | 152
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the annual budget of the Middle East and North Africa strategy of the UK Global Conflict Prevention Pool is, broken down by expenditure on each country involved. | | (141203) | 153
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support is being provided by (a) the UK and (b) the EU to the African Union AMISOM force in Somalia; and if she will make a statement. | | (141568) | 154
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps she plans to take to increase contacts and trade with Mexico. | | (141413) | 155
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if she will make a statement on President Putin's threat to acquire new targets in Europe for Russian nuclear missiles. | | (141417) | 156
N | Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the security threat facing Iraqis who have worked in a civilian capacity for UK and multi-national forces in Iraq; what measures the Government is taking to improve the safety of such individuals; and if she will make a statement. | | (140496) | 157
N | Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether she intends to petition the House of Lords for leave to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal on 23rd May regarding the Chagos Islands; what estimate she has made of the likely cost of such an appeal; and if she will make a statement. | | (140497) | 158
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government has taken to encourage the deployment of an international peace-keeping force in Somalia. | | (141514) | 159
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports she has received on (a) the human rights situation and (b) compliance with humanitarian law in the last month in Somalia. | | (141515) | 160
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions she has held with other EU and NATO member states on the security situation in Somalia. | | (141516) | 161
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) conferences and events and (b) visitors there were at (i) Lancaster House and (ii) Marlborough House in each of the last five years. | | (141429) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 162
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Specialised Services National Definitions are planned to be updated. | | (141235) | 163
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether changes to the Specialised Services National Definitions set are to be subject to public consultation; and if she will take steps to ensure that patient representative groups are consulted on the changes. | | (141236) | 164
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions she has had with the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group about commissioning services for muscular dystrophy and neuromuscular conditions. | | (141237) | 165
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions she has had with patient representatives on changes to the portfolio of the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group in the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement. | | (141238) | 166
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent studies her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) received on the potential health hazards from (i) mobile phone masts and (ii) handheld mobile phones; and if she will make a statement. | | (141319) | 167
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what relevance (a) existing and (b) proposed European Union directives have to her Department's decision to require independent midwives to have professional indemnity insurance. | | (141081) | 168
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23rd May 2007, Official Report, columns 1317-8W, on midwives: insurance, if she will clarify the information included in the White Paper. | | (141083) | 169
| John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what resources and funding have been made available for bereavement services in 2006-07 in Buckinghamshire Primary Care Trust; and if she will make a statement. | | (141190) | 170
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many junior doctors are registered in Taunton constituency. | | (141212) | 171
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons hospital staff are not exempt from hospital parking fees; and if she will make a statement. | | (141213) | 172
| Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what factors the North Essex Primary Care Trust took into account in deciding to fund a community development worker to liaise with Colchester and Tendring Black and Minority Ethnic Partnership; and how much she expects to be spent on the worker. | | (141392) | 173
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to make sutent available in England for the treatment of cancer. | | (141215) | 174
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps have been taken since October 2005 to ensure that fresh drinking water is available free of charge to care home residents throughout the day. | | (141209) | 175
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps have been taken since October 2006 to ensure that care standards require that fresh drinking water is (a) available and (b) regularly offered to care home residents throughout the day; and if she will make a statement. | | (141210) | 176
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is the policy of her Department to support the World Health Organisation definition of water as an important nutrient for the human body and critical to human life. | | (141211) | 177
| Dr Hywel Francis (Aberavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans she has to re-examine the role of social care providers in the running of LINKS programmes following the recent Health Select Committee report on Patient and Public Health Involvement in the NHS; and if she will make a statement. | | [R] (141148) | 178
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when NHS Maternity Services, England: 2005-06 will be published. | | (141184) | 179
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average annual cost was to the public purse of training a midwifery student in each year since 1997. | | (141185) | 180
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) value and (b) purpose was of each payment made by her Department to Opinion Leader Research since 1997. | | (141520) | 181
N | Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on changes to neonatal care at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, with particular reference to the care of babies born under 27 weeks gestation. | | (140709) | 182
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which regional newspapers are regularly monitored by her Department. | | (141290) | 183
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provision is available on the NHS for occipital nerve stimulation for cluster headaches; and whether the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has been consulted on the provision of the treatment. | | (141423) | 184
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the annual expenditure on home care services was per care recipient of each local authority in England with social services responsibilities in 2006-07. | | (141433) | 185
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what average annual charge was paid to each local authority in England with social services responsibilities by home care services users that contribute towards the cost of their care in 2006-07. | | (141434) | 186
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made since the introduction of Fairer Charging Policies for Home Care and non-residential Social services - Guidance for Councils with Social Services Responsibilities of the impact on home care service users in England of the ability of local authorities with social services responsibilities to set their own charging schemes for home care services. | | (141435) | 187
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans her Department has to fast-track new drugs and therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. | | (141446) | 188
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans her Department has to fund elsewhere in the UK research initiatives similar to the Translational Research Centre of Excellence for Neuromuscular Diseases in London. | | (141447) | 189
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make the drug PTC-124 available through the NHS to all boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy with single point variations of the gene. | | (141448) | 190
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps her Department has taken to identify boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy with single point variations of the gene. | | (141449) | 191
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if her Department will allocate funding for the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Registry in the UK. | | (141450) | 192
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps her Department is taking to ensure privacy and dignity in toilet use for the elderly in hospitals and care homes; and if she will make a statement. | | (141451) | 193
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with a stroke in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (140921) | 194
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will release the documents returned to the Department by solicitors in a previous litigation against the Department as referred to in the Review of Documentation relating to the Safety of Blood Products 1970 to 1985 to the independent public inquiry chaired by Lord Archer into contaminated blood and blood products; and if she will make a statement. | | (141029) | 195
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans her Department has to submit (a) written evidence and (b) oral evidence from (i) Ministers, (ii) civil servants and (iii) NHS staff to the independent public inquiry chaired by Lord Archer into contaminated blood and blood products; and if she will make a statement. | | (141030) | 196
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether her Department has been asked to provide (a) ministers, (b) civil servants and (c) NHS staff as witnesses for oral evidence in the independent public inquiry chaired by Lord Archer into contaminated blood and blood products; and if she will make a statement. | | (141031) | 197
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what records her Department holds on the work of the Advisory Committee on the Virological Safety of Blood relating to the years 1989 to 1993; and if she will make a statement. | | (141032) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 198
| Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North & Stoke Newington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether correspondence between hon. and right hon. Members and inmates is routinely opened by HM Prison staff before it reaches recipients; and if he will make a statement. | | (141263) | 199
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Independent Police Complaints Commission's (IPCC) target is for conclusion of a complaint against the police from the date of registration of the complaint; what the average time taken per case has been since the IPCC was set up; and if he will make a statement. | | (141454) | 200
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints were referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission in (a) England and (b) Essex since June 2006, broken down by police force; and how many have been upheld in each case. | | (141459) | 201
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what complaints to the Independent Police Complaints Commission have been upheld since June 2006; what action was taken by the relevant police force to implement the relevant recommendations; and if he will make a statement. | | (141460) | 202
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recommendations of the Independent Police Complaints Authority have not been implemented in each of the last five years; and what the reason was in each case. | | (141461) | 203
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many serving police officers have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of a criminal offence in each month since June 2006, broken down by (i) sex, (ii) age and (iii) police force; and how many were (A) suspended from duty, (B) demoted, (C) dismissed and (D) cautioned. | | (141480) | 204
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) primary and (b) delegated legislation regulates the Independent Police Complaints Commission; what changes have been made to each such instrument since enactment; what further amendments are planned; and if he will make a statement. | | (141481) | 205
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all British animal research and breeding establishments will be compliant with the new Europe-wide guidelines on laboratory animal housing and care as set out in the revised Appendix A to the Council of Europe Convention ETS 123 which will come into force on 15th June. | | (141326) | 206
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what date he estimates that all British animal research and breeding establishments will be compliant with the revised Appendix A to the Council of Europe Convention ETS 123. | | (141327) | 207
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the administration of police investigations. | | (141471) | 208
| Lorely Burt (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children in Solihull have their DNA stored on a database; and how many of those have been charged with committing a criminal offence. | | (141196) | 209
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) women, (b) men, (c) women under 30 years old and (d) men under 30 years old committed drink driving offences in each of the last 10 years. | | (141234) | 210
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the United States Department for Homeland Security on limits to the visa waiver proramme for security purposes; and whether exclusions based on (a) ethnic and (b) behavioural profiling have been discussed. | | (141354) | 211
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will provide a substantive answer to Question 123572, on removal proceedings, tabled on 21st February by the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam for answer on 23rd February. | | (141355) | 212
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were arrested for non-recordable offences in each of the last five years. | | (141356) | 213
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on the confiscation of identity cards once issued. | | (141357) | 214
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration he has given to how those with diseases such as Alzheimer's will be accommodated within the identity card application and issuing system, with particular reference to informed consent. | | (141358) | 215
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to make provision for those physically unable to travel to interview centres in the identity card issuing system. | | (141359) | 216
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what account has been taken of those individuals who work under a professional name in the development of the identity cards system. | | (141360) | 217
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what account is taken of membership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in assessing applications for asylum in the UK. | | (141361) | 218
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent on moving asylum claimants between immigration removal centres in each of the last five years. | | (141394) | 219
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discretionary powers are available to him to permit individuals to enter the UK in exceptional circumstances. | | (141395) | 220
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration is given to service in the UK armed forces by non-UK nationals when deciding who is eligible to reside in the UK. | | (141396) | 221
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what criteria non-UK nationals can legally (a) reside and (b) work in the UK. | | (141397) | 222
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria are used to measure whether an individual has strong ties with the UK when considering whether or not to allow that person to reside in the UK. | | (141398) | 223
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what studies have been (a) undertaken and (b) commissioned by his Department into the prevalence of companies that advertise and sell false official documents and employment records via the internet; and if he will make a statement. | | (141399) | 224
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance has been issued to immigration officers in light of the ruling by the House of Lords in (a) Huang and (b) Kashmiri v Secretary of State for the Home Department. | | (141400) | 225
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the right to religious observance is upheld in immigration removal centres. | | (141401) | 226
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines his Department has issued on collective worship in immigration removal centres. | | (141402) | 227
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with which countries' agencies the Immigration and Nationality Directorate co-operated in order to return failed asylum seekers in the last 12 months. | | (141403) | 228
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which countries have been passed information about detained asylum seekers originating from those countries in the last 12 months. | | (141404) | 229
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, embassy officials from which countries have met asylum seekers detained in the UK in the last 12 months. | | (141405) | 230
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what circumstances embassy officials from foreign countries are given access to detained asylum seekers before their claims have been refused. | | (141406) | 231
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether detained asylum seekers are given a choice whether to meet officials from the embassy of their country of origin. | | (141407) | 232
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time a Home Office presenting officer spent on (a) a deportation appeal, (b) an asylum appeal and (c) an immigration appeal, excluding the time spent travelling and waiting for, and presenting, an appeal hearing was over the last 12 months. | | (141409) | 233
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost of an immigration appeal, excluding deportation and asylum appeals, before the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal where his Department is represented by (a) a presenting officer and (b) Treasury counsel was over the last 12 months. | | (141410) | 234
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration he has given to the compatibility of proposed changes to counter-terrorism legislation with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. | | (141216) | 235
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received on the conformity with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights of the changes he is preparing to propose to anti-terrorism legislation. | | (141318) | 236
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police community support officers are involved in tackling bullying in schools as part of their duties. | | (141294) | 237
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) he and (b) (i) other ministers and (ii) officials from his Department attended a (A) steering group, (B) working group and (C) other regular series of meetings on HM Treasury's Comprehensive Spending Review policy review into counter-terrorism and security. | | (141310) | 238
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department has provided to HM Treasury as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review policy review of counter-terrorism and security. | | (141311) | 239
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what promotional items bearing his Department's name or logo or other branding have been procured in each of the last five years; at what cost, broken down by item; and how many units of each item were purchased over that period. | | (141383) | 240
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd May 2007, Official Report, column 1244W, on Departments: Delivery Unit, if he will place in the Library copies of the reviews conducted with the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit. | | (141384) | 241
N | Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on Government policy on UK residency for former Gurkhas. | | (140708) | 242
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to ensure that there are adequate checks in place on sex offenders coming into the UK from the European Union. | | (141424) | 243
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women (a) are being held in UK prisons and (b) were being held in each year since 2000. | | (141412) | 244
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect of the new licensing laws on combating crime in Bridgend. | | (141542) | 245
N | Mr George Mudie (Leeds East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent staff are working on priority legacy cases. | | (141120) | 246
| Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to tackle drivers avoiding prosecution through being untraceable to an address. | | (141300) | 247
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has happened to the (a) signed poster designed by Banksy and (b) other materials seized from Brian Haw by the Metropolitan Police on his removal from Parliament Square. | | (141299) | 248
N | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role the Home Office Identity Fraud Steering Committee has undertaken in relation to the Confidential Access website; and if he will make a statement. | | (140918) | 249
N | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had on the Confidential Access website. | | (140919) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 250
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the House will be taking part in Lights out London on 21st June; and if he will make a statement. | | (141321) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 251
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress has been made on meeting the 2005 G8 commitments on poverty relief; and if he will make a statement. | | (141166) | 252
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd March 2007, Official Report, columns 1091-2W, on Lebanon, what UK initiatives to promote democratic oversight of reconstruction spending and planning in Lebanon are in place; and if he will make a statement. | | (141182) | 253
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd March 2007, Official Report, columns 1091-2W, on Lebanon, what assessment he has made of the (a) impact and (b) potential impact of the recent conflict and instability in Lebanon on UK bilateral programmes in (i) the Occupied Palestinian Territory and (ii) Iraq; and if he will make a statement. | | (141183) | 254
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent estimate has been made of the numbers of (a) internally displaced people, (b) Sudanese refugees and (c) civilian casualties caused by the fighting in Darfur; and if he will make a statement. | | (141217) | 255
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the numbers of individuals displaced within Lebanon by the recent violence; and whether any changes are planned to the UK's humanitarian assistance for Lebanon. | | (141218) | 256
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Somalia; what steps have been taken by the (a) UK and (b) EU to improve the situation; and if he will make as statement. | | (141567) | 257
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many publications produced by his Department and funded by the public purse have been (a) provided at no cost and (b) sold to the Labour Party or Parliamentary Labour Party Office in the last 12 months. | | (141264) | 258
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to promote economic regeneration in Afghanistan. | | (141268) | 259
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what payments were made (a) by and (b) through his Department to overseas (i) trades unions and (ii) collections of trade unionists from the public purse in each year since May 1997; and what the (A) value and (B) recipient was of each. | | (141292) | 260
N | Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, who represented the UK at the United Nations conference in Geneva on Iraqi refugees and internally displaced people on 17th and 18th April 2007; and if he will make a statement on the outcome of that conference. | | (140494) | 261
N | Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent estimate he has made of the number of internally displaced people in Iraq; and what efforts the UK Government is taking to help those displaced people. | | (140495) | 262
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that humanitarian relief funding to Somalia is reaching those who need it most. | | (141279) | 263
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of UK financial support for the Somali Transitional Federal Government. | | (141518) | Questions to the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice 264
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, in how many and what proportion of cases heard by small claims courts claimants had legal representation in each year since 1990. | | (141455) | 265
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, what average payment has been made to successful claimants in cases heard by small claims courts where the claimant (a) had and (b) did not have legal representation in each year since 1990. | | (141456) | 266
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, what (a) primary and (b) delegated legislation regulates small claims courts; what changes have been made to each since their enactment; what further amendments are planned; and if she will make a statement. | | (141457) | 267
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, what the average time taken from allocation to hearing for small claims was in each county court in Essex in 2006. | | (141458) | 268
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, what the functions are of the Professional Standards Unit at HM Prison Service in the (a) gathering and (b) evaluation of intelligence about misconduct among (i) staff and (ii) inmates at prison establishments; and if she will make a statement. | | (141272) | 269
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, what (a) mechanisms and (b) resources exist within the Professional Standards Unit Investigation Support Section at HM Prison Service to conduct investigations into alleged staff misconduct; and if she will make a statement. | | (141273) | 270
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, how many investigations were conducted by the Professional Standards Unit Investigation Support Section at HM Prison Service into alleged staff misconduct in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (141274) | 271
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, how many staff are employed in the Professional Standards Directorate at HM Prison Service; and if she will make a statement. | | (141275) | 272
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, how many staff are employed in the intelligence section of the Professional Standards Unit at HM Prison Service; and if she will make a statement. | | (141277) | 273
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, how many (a) prison governors and (b) prison officers are suspended pending investigation at each prison establishment; and if she will make a statement. | | (141278) | 274
| Philip Davies (Shipley):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, how much has been spent on condoms and lubricants for distribution to prisoners by the Prison Service in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (141156) | 275
| Robert Key (Salisbury):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, when work will start on the construction of the Salisbury Justice Centre; and when the centre will come into service. | | (141189) | 276
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, on which dates the Joint Ministerial Committee has met in plenary form in the last two years; and if she will make a statement. | | (141556) | 277
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, what criteria determine whether a 2052 SH form should be opened on a prisoner detained in a young offenders institution; and if she will make a statement. | | (141557) | 278
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, how many (a) assaults by prisoners on staff and (b) assaults by prisoners on other prisoners there were in each young offender institution in each year since 2003. | | (141559) | 279
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, how many (a) convicted prisoners and (b) remand prisoners committed suicide in each financial year from 2000-01 to 2006-07. | | (141563) | 280
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, how many (a) suicides and (b) incidents of self-harm took place at each young offender institution in (i) 2002-03, (ii) 2003-04, (iii) 2004-05, (iv) 2005-6 and (v) 2006-07. | | (141564) | 281
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, whether her Department is undertaking a review of the electronic tagging operations of Group 4 Securicor. | | (141442) | 282
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, what representations her Department and its predecessors have received on Group 4 Securicor. | | (141443) | 283
| Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, how many prison officers were refused payment of a section 11 benefit award following the issuing of a certificate of permanent injury qualification in each of the last five years. | | (141431) | Questions to the Prime Minister 284
N | Justine Greening (Putney):To ask the Prime Minister, which Government Department is responsible for social mobility policy; and if he will make a statement. | | (140711) | 285
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Prime Minister, whether he expects to receive a ministerial severance payment when he leaves office. | | (141389) | Questions to the Solicitor General 286
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Solicitor General, when he will provide a substantive answer to Question 109674, on detention of foreign prisoners, tabled on 12th December 2006 by the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam for answer on 14th December 2006. | | (141566) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 287
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the closure of the post office in Rushden town centre against the Government's access criteria. | | (141473) | 288
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he will answer Question (a) 136543, on maternity and paternity leave, and (b) 136541, on Overseas Trade magazine, tabled on 3rd May 2007 by the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton. | | (141262) | 289
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what payments were made to the Smith Institute as part of the Government's Review of Maternity Pay and Leave and Parental Leave. | | (141267) | 290
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to paragraphs 2.69 and 2.70 of the Energy White Paper, what estimate he has made of the number of free visual real-time displays of energy consumption to be given to consumers in each year from 2008. | | (141385) | 291
N | Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many post offices were open in the Cheltenham district in May of (a) 1987 and (b) 1997; and how many are now open. | | (140493) | 292
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps have been taken to evaluate the 21st Century science GCSEs, and other new syllabi. | | (141468) | 293
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he expects to publish the Government's response to the Office of Fair Trading's report The Commercial Use of Public Information. | | (141325) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 294
N | Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to authorise changes to the Eurostar train services from Ashford International Train Station. | | (140916) | 295
N | Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on the compulsory purchase order for the Weald Smokery in East Sussex. | | (140917) | 296
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects to (a) receive and (b) publish his response to the desk study report by Heriot Watt University and the Transport Research Laboratory on longer heavier vehicles. | | (141411) | 297
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the likely change in the levels of emissions as a result of expansion of aviation outlined in the Government's Air Transport Strategy; and what provisions will be made to ensure that such emissions do not prevent the UK meeting its 2050 emissions targets. | | (141307) | 298
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the (a) cost and (b) merits of funding the Galileo project through (i) public and (ii) private finance. | | (141149) | 299
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the balance of risk between private and public sectors in the Galileo project is the same as that adopted by the Government in relation to domestic public private partnerships. | | (141150) | 300
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what percentage of the total cost of the Galileo programme between 2007 to 2013 will be paid for by the UK. | | (141151) | 301
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what powers the traffic commissioners have to grant vehicle operator licences; and whether these powers have been delegated to other officials. | | (141152) | 302
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans there are to strengthen the GNSS programme as referred to in the European Commission communication COM (2007) 261 of 16th May 2007; and by what mechanisms it will be strengthened. | | (141153) | 303
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the scope is of the European Union EGNOS programme; what the timetable is for its implementation; what its cost will be to the UK; how the programme is regulated; which British (a) nationals and (b) firms are involved in this initiative; and if he will make a statement. | | (141154) | 304
| Andrew Gwynne (Denton & Reddish):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the vehicles of Highways Agency staff on the M60 were provided with matrix signals to instruct traffic; and when they will be authorised to use them. | | (141466) | 305
| Andrew Gwynne (Denton & Reddish):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when Highways Agency traffic officers will be able to use the scrolling arrows provided in their vehicles to direct traffic on the M60. | | (141482) | 306
| Andrew Gwynne (Denton & Reddish):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, under what (a) section of the Highways Act and (b) associated regulations police officers on the M60 use the scrolling arrow traffic signs in their vehicles to direct traffic. | | (141483) | 307
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which operators are in discussions with his Department on local authority re-imbursement of concessionary fares; what the (a) amount involved and (b) local authority is in each case; when he expects to issue further guidance on the matter; and if he will make a statement. | | (141167) | 308
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to reply to the submission made by the South Hampshire Rail Group on the franchise operated by South West Trains; and if he will make a statement. | | (141187) | 309
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects to publish guidance under the Traffic Management Act 2004 on enforcement over parking on grass verges; and if he will make a statement. | | (141188) | 310
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will ban the parking of cars in bicycle lanes. | | (141414) | 311
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether satellite local authority road pricing schemes will be able to use the (a) American GPS, (b) Russian Glonas and (c) Chinese Beidou satellite global positioning systems. | | (141491) | 312
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what impact he expects EC Directive 2004/52 on the interoperability of electronic toll collection systems to have on the (a) choice and (b) implementation of local authority road pricing systems. | | (141493) | 313
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what provisions he plans to make for the transfer of electronic on-board units fitted to vehicles using local authority road pricing schemes, in the event that the user changes their vehicle; and who will be responsible for the costs incurred thereby. | | (141495) | 314
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to offer redress to businesses within the catchment areas of local authority pricing schemes who are able to demonstrate a loss of profit arising from the implementation of a scheme. | | (141498) | 315
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what provision will be made for the issuing of single invoices where drivers and operators register with multiple road pricing schemes; and what arrangements will be made for the sharing of data between authorities to enable this to happen. | | (141519) | 316
| Sir Peter Soulsby (Leicester South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to deter drivers from using mobile phones when driving. | | (141437) | 317
N | Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects mixed mode operations to start at Heathrow. | | (141082) | 318
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many calls for assistance the Royal National Lifeboat Institution received on (a) Sunday 27th and (b) Monday 28th May 2007, broken down by vessel. | | (140904) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 319
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what celebrations his Department is planning for the 50th anniversary of Prince Charles' investiture as Prince of Wales. | | (141332) | 320
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what public funds his Department plans to make available for celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of Prince Charles' investiture as Prince of Wales. | | (141333) | 321
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with the First Minister of the Welsh Assembly Government on celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Prince Charles' investiture as Prince of Wales. | | (141334) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 322
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to publish the results of the second round of testing of the revised personal capability assessment. | | (141191) | 323
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) nurses and (b) midwives claimed jobseeker's allowance in each of the last three years. | | (141080) | 324
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has for simplifying the benefits system for people with disabilities. | | (141474) | 325
| Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what date the decision was (a) taken and (b) enacted to move his Department's post opening and distribution services in Kent from Haden Building Management to the Royal Mail. | | (141432) | 326
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many days in advance of payment to claimants of (a) income support, (b) jobseeker's allowance, (c) disability living allowance and (d) pension credit his Department transfers funds to banks. | | (141422) | 327
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many previous participants of the New Deal for Disabled People not currently participating on the scheme are claiming incapacity benefit; and how many left the scheme for employment before returning to benefit. | | (141112) | 328
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many participants of the New Deal for Partners left the scheme for employment in each month since 1998; and how many returned to benefit within six months of having left the New Deal. | | (141113) | 329
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of partners who would be eligible for the New Deal for Partners (a) were claiming jobseeker's allowance and (b) had been claiming jobseeker's allowance for more than five years in each month since 1997. | | (141114) | 330
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many lone parent families eligible to receive Child Support benefit do not receive the benefit because the father does not contribute to the Child Support Agency. | | (141115) | 331
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 19th December 2006, Official Report, column 2004W, on pensions, how much state pension and savings credit would be received by a median earner working continuously from the age of 25, reaching the age of 68 in 2053, and saving in line with the assumptions in Figure 8 of security in retirement: towards a new pension system (a) with pension reform and (b) without pension reform but with collection of state pension deferred until the individual turns 68. | | (141436) | 332
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19th February 2007, Official Report, columns 364-5W, on pensions, how many employees benefiting from combined employer and employee contributions in excess of (a) £3,000 and (b) £5,000 belong to (i) private sector defined benefit or hybrid schemes that are open to new members, (ii) private sector defined benefit of hybrid schemes that are closed to new members and (iii) private sector defined contribution schemes. | | (141438) | 333
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 19th February 2007, Official Report, columns 364-5W, on pensions, whether the recorded contribution levels exclude the value of contracted-out rebates; and how many employees in each contribution band were contracted out. | | (141439) | 334
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19th February 2007, Official Report, columns 364-5W, on pensions, how many employees benefiting from combined employer and employee contribution in excess of £5,000 work in (a) the private sector and (b) the public sector. | | (141440) | 335
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19th December 2006, Official Report, column 2005W, on pensions, what was assumed about the (a) mean salary and (b) median salary of people eligible for auto-enrolment and choosing not to opt out, when calculating the cost to employers of auto-enrolling staff into existing open schemes on existing terms. | | (141467) | 336
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19th February 2007, Official Report, column 365W, on pensions, if he will expand the table to show the number of employees with combined employer and employee contributions that are (a) less than £1,000, (b) £1,000 to £1,999, (c) £2,000, to £2,999, (d) £3,000 to £3,999, (e) £4,000 to £4,999, (f) £5,000 to £9,999 and (g) £10,000 or more. | | (141469) | 337
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many defined benefit schemes reduced the cap on indexation of pensions in payment from five per cent. to 2.5 per cent. for accruals from April 2005; and how many active members there are in aggregate in these schemes. | | (141526) | 338
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to correct the statistics on second tier provision in 2004-05 following the validation of more class one National Insurance contributions. | | (141527) | 339
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assumption has been made on the annual uprating of the contribution limit for personal accounts in the stochastic modelling described on pages 113 and 114 of the Regulatory Impact Assessment to Personal Accounts: A New Way to Save. | | (141528) | 340
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what replacement rate the median earner described on pages 113 and 114 of the Regulatory Impact Assessment to Personal Accounts: A New Way to Save would achieve if investments performed in line with central assumptions each year and if his total savings were (a) £3,000 each year and (b) £5,000 each year. | | (141529) | 341
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what percentage of cases the median earner detailed on pages 113 and 114 of the Regulatory Impact Assessment to Personal Accounts: A New Way to Save would have a replacement rate in excess of 100 per cent. if he saved (a) £3,000 each year and (b) £5,000 each year, according to the Department's stochastic modelling. | | (141530) | 342
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what terms the proposed £10,000 limit on contributions to personal accounts in their first year of operation is expressed. | | (141531) | 343
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what terms the £5,000 annual limit on contributions proposed in Personal Accounts: A New Way to Save is expressed. | | (141532) | 344
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to what year the figures in table 5.2 of the Regulatory Impact Assessment to Personal Accounts: A New Way to Save pertain. | | (141533) | 345
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the average contributions to personal and stakeholder pensions detailed in table 5.2 of the Regulatory Impact Assessment to Personal Accounts: A New Way to Save include contracted-out rebates. | | (141534) | 346
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Personal Accounts: A New Way to Save, page 25, whether the Government expects that the default fund will invest in a wide range of (a) classes of asset and (b) equities and bonds. | | (141535) | 347
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will update figure (a) 2.4, (b) 2.5, (c) 2.6 and (d) 2.7 and tables (i) 4.5 and (ii) 6.1 from Financial incentives to save for retirement (Research Report No. 403) using the new income tax rates. | | (141536) | 348
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will break down the figures in table 7.12 of the Family Resources survey to show the proportion of working age private sector employees with pension provision in 2005-06; and what the comparable figures were for each year since 1996-97. | | (141537) | 349
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of (a) schemes and (b) members included in the sample of defined benefit schemes analysed in the Purple Book were in the public sector. | | (141541) | 350
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the proportion of the 5.7 million employees identified on page 94 of the regulatory impact assessment to Personal Accounts: a new way to save as being offered contributions greater than 6 per cent. who are (a) non-members of these schemes but eligible to join and (b) non-members of the schemes who are not currently eligible to join. | | (141543) | 351
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate how many of the estimated 10.8 million employees listed as eligible for automatic enrolment in figure 1.xi of Security in retirement: towards a new pension scheme work for employers with defined benefit schemes that are still open to new members; and how many active members there are in these schemes. | | (141544) | 352
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library the information his Department holds on the industrial classification of employers which have kept defined benefit schemes open to new employees. | | (141545) | 353
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received combined pension forecasts in the last year for which figures are available. | | (141546) | 354
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library the figures which form the basis of the charts in the two pensions White Papers published in 2006 which are on his Department's website. | | (141547) | 355
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library the figures illustrated by the graph in figure 8 of Security in retirement: towards a new pension system. | | (141548) | 356
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what advice he has received about the prospects for removing legal obstacles to the use of automatic enrolment in group personal pensions and group stakeholder pensions. | | (141550) | 357
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact on national insurance revenues of recent changes in the number of people contracted out of the state second pension. | | (141551) | 358
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of the estimated 10.8 million employees listed as eligible for automatic enrolment in figure 1.xi of security of retirement: towards a new pension system who work for (a) employers who currently make no pension contributions, (b) employers who currently offer pension contributions worth less than three per cent. of salary, (c) employers who currently offer pension contributions worth at least three per cent. of salary but less than six per cent. and (d) employers who currently offer pension contributions of six per cent. of salary or more. | | (141554) | 359
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made of the impact on public sector defined benefit schemes of requiring automatic re-enrolment every three years. | | (141558) | 360
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the figures which form the basis of chart 3.11 of the Purple Book indicating how many defined benefit schemes in the sample closed in each year since 1995. | | (141570) | 361
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made in extending the right to request flexible working arrangements to cover care of older children further to the consultation strategy published in February 2005. | | (141265) | 362
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to revise the level of contracted-out national insurance rebates for (a) April 2008 and (b) April 2012; and if he will make a statement. | | (141172) | 363
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, a Minister in which Department made the decision not to implement in full the recommendations of the Government Actuary on the level of contracted-out national insurance rebates from April 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (141173) | 364
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions since May 1997 his Department has not accepted recommendations from the Government Actuarial Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (141174) | 365
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people (a) aged 44 and over in appropriate personal pensions and (b) aged 48 and over in money purchase schemes for whom contracted-out rebates may not replace foregone state second pension benefits; and if he will make a statement. | | (141175) | 366
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what action he has taken to inform individuals (a) aged 44 and over in appropriate personal pensions and (b) aged 48 and over in money purchase schemes that their contracted-out rebates may not replace the foregone state second pension benefits; and if he will make a statement. | | (141176) | 367
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many UK citizens are in (a) appropriate personal pensions (APPs) and (b) money purchase schemes which are contracted-out; how many of these people are aged (i) over 44 in APPs and (ii) over 48 in money purchase schemes; and if he will make a statement. | | (141177) | 368
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons his Department has capped the level of contracted-out rebates for contracted-out appropriate personal pensions and money purchase schemes; and if he will make a statement. | | (141178) | 369
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the saving to the public purse has been from capping contracted-out rebates to (a) money purchase schemes and (b) appropriate personal pensions since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (141179) | 370
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to review the levels of the contracted-out rebates for pensions; what plans the Government has to make further changes from April 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (141181) | 371
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what savings are expected to result for the Exchequer from the decision to cap contracted-out rebates for personal pensions and money purchase occupational schemes (a) at 7.4 per cent. rather than the previous cap level of 10.5 per cent. and (b) at 7.4 per cent. rather than at the levels recommended by the Government Actuary in each year from 2007-08 to 2012-13; and if he will make a statement. | | (141204) | 372
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is the policy of his Department to encourage people over the age of 40 years to take up opted out defined contribution pension schemes; and if he will make a statement. | | (141205) | 373
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his latest estimate is of the number of people in contracted-out defined benefit schemes in each year from 2001-02 to 2015-16; and if he will make a statement. | | (141206) | 374
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his latest estimate is of the cost of contracted-out rebates for (a) defined benefit and (b) defined contribution pension schemes in each year from 1997 to 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (141207) | 375
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what effect on costs to the public purse the Government has achieved from capping the age-related national insurance rebate to appropriate personal pension schemes for each year from 2007-08 to 2012-13; and if he will make a statement. | | (141452) | 376
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the effect on costs to the Exchequer of the cap on the level of the age-related national insurance rebates for contracted-out pension schemes for each year from 1992-93 to 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (141453) | 377
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his latest estimate is of the average pension value for individuals in defined benefit schemes of the contracted out rebates for each year from 2007-08 to 2050-51. | | (141569) | 378
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which Ministers attended the International Labour Organisation's annual conference in each year since 2000. | | (141415) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 379
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the impact on voluntary sector recycling projects of the introduction by local authorities of twin bins. | | [Transferred] (140920) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 380
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what account is taken of past convictions for violent crimes when considering whether to issue visas to foreign nationals. | | [Transferred] (141362) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 381
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate the Government has made of the number of women trafficked into the UK in 2006 for the purpose of sexual exploitation. | | [Transferred] (141472) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 382
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) UK government and (b) EU studies have been undertaken into the effectiveness of the temporary international mechanism in delivering aid to the Palestinians; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (141200) | Questions to the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice 383
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, what the (a) original planned completion date, (b) original estimated cost, (c) current planned completion date and (d) current estimated cost of all IT projects associated with the eConveyancing Programme is; and if she will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (141464) | 384
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, whether an estimate has been made of the total potential liability faced by the Government from claims before the Independent Assessor of Compensation for Miscarriages of Justice; what oversight mechanism is in place to review the Assessor's work; what the budget of her office is for 2007-08; how many and what proportion of cases completed in 2006-07 took more than two years to conclude; what the average length of an independent assessment process was over the last five years; in how many open cases interim but not final payments have been awarded; how many cases are before the Assessor as at 7th June; how much the Assessor was paid in each of the last five years; and how much has been deducted for board and lodging in awards made by the Assessor in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (141393) | 385
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, if she will make a statement on the effectiveness of the Sex Offender Treatment Programme (SOTP) for (a) high, (b) medium and (c) low risk offenders; and what the subsequent reconviction rates are for offenders from each of these categories who took part in the SOTP since its inception. | | [Transferred] (141289) | Questions to the Solicitor General 386
| Mr Nick Clegg (Sheffield, Hallam):To ask the Solicitor General, what the average time Treasury solicitors spent on (a) a deportation appeal, (b) an asylum and (c) an immigration appeal was over the last 12 months. | | [Transferred] (141408) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 387
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what responsibilities the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has with regard to the setting of packing standards for radioactive waste; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (141121) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 388
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made with purchasing a new aeroplane for use by the Prime Minister; what the cost of purchasing the aeroplane will be; and by what date he expects the purchase to be complete. | | [Transferred] (141271) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 389
N | Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what steps the Government is taking to promote equality in the provision of social housing. | | [Question Unstarred] (140951) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 390
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who will reach the age of 65 between 2024 and 2054 and die before becoming eligible to receive their state pension. | | [Transferred] (141549) |
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