Oral Answers

Monday 7 January 2008

Work and Pensions1
    Affordable Credit
8
    Allied Steel and Wire
12
    Child Poverty
1
    Fylde Coast Employees
14
    Health and Safety Executive
11
    Jobcentre Plus
10
    Local Employment Partnerships
7
    Lone Parents
13
    Occupational Pensions
5
    Topical Questions
15

Written Ministerial Statements

Monday 7 January 2008

Communities and Local Government1WS
    ‘Call In' Directions
1WS
Culture, Media and Sport1WS
    Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts ) Bill
1WS
Defence2WS
    Iraq (Reserve Forces)
2WS
International Development2WS
    Crown Agents Holding and Realisations Board
2WS
Justice3WS
    Court Fees (Public Law Family Proceedings)
3WS

Petitions

Monday 7 January 2008

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform1P
    Post Office Closures (Bidborough)
1P
    Post Office Closures (Boat of Garten)
6P
    Post Office Closures (Nottingham)
2P
    Post Office Closures (Shipley)
5P
    Post Office Closures (St John's Road)
3P
    Post Office Closures (Thanet)
4P
Transport8P
    Boston Bypass (Lincolnshire)
8P

Written Answers

Monday 7 January 2008

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform191W
    Carbon Sequestration
191W
    Coal: Finance
192W
    Fossil Fuelled Power Stations: Carbon Emissions
193W
    Fuel Poverty: Lincolnshire
193W
    Gambling: Competition
193W
    Members: Correspondence
193W
    Minimum Wage
194W
    Nuclear Reactors: Flood Control
194W
    Political Levy
194W
    Post Offices
195W
    Radioactive Materials: Transport
195W
    Regional Development Agencies: Finance
195W
    Renewable Energy: Research
196W
    Sakhalin Island: Pipelines
196W
    Social Security Benefits: Christmas
196W
    Summertime
197W
    Utilities: Complaints
197W
    Utilities: Fees and Charges
197W
    Waste Heat Recovery
197W
    Wind Power
198W
Children, Schools and Families198W
    Academies
198W
    Academies: Admissions
198W
    Academies: Disadvantaged
199W
    Academies: Standards
200W
    Assessments: Standards
200W
    Building Schools for the Future Programme: Fire Extinguishers
200W
    Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
201W
    Children: Disabled
205W
    Children: Literacy
205W
    Corporate Hospitality
206W
    Education: Assessments
215W
    Education Maintenance Allowance
206W
    Education Maintenance Allowance: Apprentices
214W
    Faith Schools: Admissions
215W
    Family Courts
216W
    Free School Meals: Greater Manchester
216W
    Free School Meals: North East Region
217W
    General Certificate of Secondary Education
217W
    General Certificate of Secondary Education: Free School Meals
217W
    General Certificate of Secondary Education: Kent
218W
    General Certificate of Secondary Education: North East Region
218W
    General Certificate of Secondary Education: Standards
219W
    Grammar Schools
223W
    Home Education
225W
    International Baccalaureate
225W
    Languages: Education
225W
    Languages: GCE A-Level
226W
    Literacy: Teaching Methods
226W
    Lord Adonis
227W
    Mandarin: Teachers
227W
    Members: Correspondence
227W
    Personal Social and Health Education
228W
    Primary Education: Standards
228W
    Primary Education: Teachers
229W
    Pupils: English Language
235W
    Pupils: Sight Impaired
236W
    School Leaving: Newcastle
237W
    Schools
237W
    Schools: Finance
238W
    Science: Teachers
238W
    Specialised Diplomas: Expenditure
239W
    Teachers
241W
    Vocational Training: Sunderland
241W
    Young People: Disadvantaged
242W
    Youth Citizenship Commission
242W
Culture, Media and Sport179W
    Aviation
179W
    Carbon Emissions
181W
    Christmas
181W
    Club and Coaching Development Scheme
182W
    Computer Software
182W
    Cultural Heritage: Textiles
182W
    Departmental Databases
182W
    Departmental Marketing
183W
    Departmental Recycling
183W
    Departmental Sustainable Development
183W
    Digital Broadcasting: Television
183W
    Gambling
184W
    Licensed Premises
186W
    Minimum Wage
187W
    Museums and Galleries
187W
    Portable Antiquities Scheme
189W
    Sports: Finance
190W
    Stonehenge: Visitors' Centre
189W
Defence16W
    Afghanistan: Frontiers
16W
    Afghanistan: NATO
16W
    Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operation
16W
    Airborne Manned Surveillance
20W
    Aircraft Carriers: Finance
20W
    Aircraft Carriers: Procurement
20W
    Animal Experiments
21W
    Armed Forces: Deployment
21W
    Armed Forces: Finance
21W
    Armed Forces: Health Services
22W
    Armed Forces: Housing
23W
    Armed Forces: Influenza
24W
    Armed Forces: Leave
24W
    Armed Forces: Legal Opinion
25W
    Armed Forces: Personnel Management
26W
    Armed Forces: Weapons
25W
    Armoured Fighting Vehicles
27W
    Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Afghanistan
27W
    Army’s Total Fleet Requirement 2007
27W
    AWE Burghfield
27W
    AWE Management
29W
    Ballistic Missile Defence
30W
    Bombs
30W
    Contracts
30W
    Corporate Hospitality
31W
    Defence Analytical Services Agency: Forecasts
31W
    Defence Analytical Services Agency: Publications
31W
    Defence Analytical Services Agency: Standards
32W
    Defence Equipment and Support: Cost Effectiveness
32W
    Defence Equipment and Support Organisation: Private Sector
32W
    Defence Equipment: Procurement
33W
    Defence Estates: Charities
33W
    Defence: Finance
34W
    Defence: ICT
35W
    Defence: Lobbying
35W
    Defence Manufacturers Association
34W
    Defence: Procurement
36W
    Defence Suppliers Service
34W
    Departmental Assets
37W
    Departmental Carbon Emissions
39W
    Departmental Coordination
40W
    Departmental Equality
40W
    Departmental Expenditure Limits
40W
    Departmental Finance
40W
    Departmental Freedom of Information
41W
    Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers
42W
    Departmental Pay
42W
    Departmental Public Expenditure
42W
    Ex-servicemen: Military Decorations
42W
    Hazardous Substances: Fort Halstead
43W
    Helicopters
44W
    Helicopters: Procurement
45W
    Helicopters: Training
46W
    Influenza: Disease Control
47W
    Iran: Sequestration of Assets
47W
    Iraq Conflict: Legal Opinion
48W
    Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations
48W
    Legal Costs
49W
    Members: Correspondence
50W
    Mercian Regiment
50W
    Military Aircraft
50W
    Military Aircraft: Helicopters
51W
    Military Bases: Carbon Emissions
51W
    Minimum Wage
51W
    Ministerial Duties
52W
    Ministerial Policy Advisers
52W
    National Identity Register
52W
    Nimrod Aircraft
52W
    Nuclear Submarines
53W
    Nuclear Submarines: Decommissioning
53W
    Nuclear Weapons: Finance
53W
    Official Engagements
53W
    Operating Costs
54W
    Operational Readiness Force
55W
    Phantom Clocking
55W
    Princess Mary’s Hospital
55W
    Recruitment
56W
    Redundancy Pay
56W
    Reserve Forces: Wales
56W
    Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Contracts
57W
    Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Manpower
57W
    Territorial Army: Military Decorations
57W
    Type 45 Destroyers: Procurement
57W
    United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
58W
    Warships: Deployment
58W
Duchy of Lancaster84W
    Catering
84W
    Communication: Finance
84W
    Departmental Procurement
84W
    Departmental Public Expenditure
85W
    Departmental Publicity
86W
    Departmental Recycling
86W
    Licensing
86W
    Minimum Wage
86W
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs63W
    Agriculture: Wastes
63W
    Biodiversity
63W
    Birds: Conservation
63W
    Carbon Emissions: Heathrow Airport
64W
    Flood Control
65W
    Floods: River Derwent
65W
    Fly Tipping: North East Region
65W
    Inland Waterways: Freight
66W
    Nitrate Sensitive Areas
67W
    Renewable Energy
67W
    Reptiles: Imports
67W
    Sustainable Development: Heathrow Airport
68W
    Thames and Severn Canal
68W
    Waste Disposal: Finance
68W
    Waste Disposal: Greater London
68W
    Waste Management: Regional Development Agencies
69W
    Waste Management: Standards
69W
Foreign and Commonwealth Office87W
    Afghanistan
87W
    Afghanistan: Frontiers
87W
    Chernobyl: Children
87W
    Cyprus: Diplomatic Relations
89W
    Defence: Private Sector
90W
    Departmental Pay
90W
    Diplomatic Service
91W
    Embassies
91W
    EU-Africa Lisbon Summit
91W
    European Gendarmerie Force
92W
    Iran: Nuclear Power
93W
    Iraq: Documents
94W
    Languages
95W
    Lisbon Treaty
95W
    Middle East: Peace Negotiations
95W
    Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe: Finance
96W
    Russia: British Council
96W
    Serbia: Disabled
97W
    Sudan: Peacekeeping Operations
97W
    Turkey: Armenia
99W
Health100W
    Ambulance Services: Hampshire
100W
    Autism
101W
    Broadmoor Hospital: Suicide
101W
    Cancer: Health Services
102W
    Cancer: Mortality Rate
102W
    Care Homes: Fees and Charges
103W
    Children: Greater London
103W
    Chiropody: Elderly
104W
    Commission for Social Care Inspection: Surveys
104W
    Departmental Christmas
104W
    Departmental Equality
104W
    Departmental Land
105W
    Departmental Publicity
106W
    Drugs: Olympic Games 2012
106W
    Health: Children
108W
    Health Services: Armed Forces
107W
    Health Services: Hertfordshire
107W
    Health Services: North West Region
107W
    Health Services: Standards
108W
    Healthcare Commission: Complaints
110W
    Henderson Hospital: Closures
111W
    Home Care Services: Eastbourne
111W
    Incontinence: Medical Equipment
111W
    Independent Sector Procurement Forum
112W
    Industrial Diseases
112W
    Information Centre for Health and Social Care
113W
    Living Wills
113W
    Medical Records
114W
    Medical Records: Databases
114W
    Mental Health Services: Greater London
114W
    Mental Health Services: Standards
119W
    Mental Health Services: Suffolk
121W
    Mental Health Services: Young People
121W
    Midwives: Higher Education
122W
    NHS: EU Emissions Trading Scheme
123W
    NHS: ICT
123W
    NHS: Inflation
125W
    NHS: Pay
126W
    NHS: Procurement
126W
    NHS Treatment Centres: Private Sector
122W
    Primary Care Trusts
127W
    Private Finance Unit
127W
    Prosthetics: Ex-servicemen
128W
    Psychiatry
128W
    Psychiatry: Greater London
129W
    Richard Granger
133W
    Sheep: Disease Control
133W
    Spinal Muscular Atrophy
133W
    Vaccination: Children
133W
    Waiting Lists
134W
    Walnuttree Hospital: Hospital Wards
134W
    West Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust: Heart Disease Nurses
134W
House of Commons Commission3W
    Energy Efficiency
3W
    Portcullis House: Fires
4W
Innovation, Universities and Skills76W
    Apprentices: Construction
76W
    Sign Language: Education
77W
    Students: Engineering
78W
    Students: Grants
77W
    UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation
83W
    Vocational Training: Complaints
83W
International Development99W
    Afghanistan: Reconstruction
99W
    Overseas Aid
100W
Justice135W
    Association of Electoral Administrators
135W
    Chelmsford Crown Court: Facilities
135W
    Chelmsford Prison
135W
    Christmas
136W
    Constituencies
137W
    Courts: Buildings
137W
    Courts: Colchester
138W
    Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme
138W
    Crown Courts: Milton Keynes
138W
    Data Protection
138W
    Departmental Data Protection
139W
    Departmental Employment Agencies
143W
    Departmental Parliamentary Questions
144W
    Departmental Postal Services
144W
    Departmental Telephone Services
144W
    Detention Centres: Children
147W
    Domestic Violence
147W
    Driving Under the Influence
147W
    Elections
148W
    Elections: Supermarkets
148W
    Electoral Systems
148W
    European Convention on Access to Official Documents
148W
    Fixed Penalties
150W
    Fraud: Elections
149W
    Freedom of Information Act 2000
150W
    High Court: Birmingham
151W
    Hollesley Bay Prison: Prisoners Escape
151W
    Housing: Carbon Emissions
152W
    Immigration
152W
    Land Registry
152W
    Land Registry Direct
153W
    Legal Advice
153W
    Legal Aid: Hercules Aircraft
153W
    Legal Aid Scheme: ICT
153W
    Legal Services Commission
154W
    Members' Correspondence
154W
    Minimum Wage
155W
    Ministerial Duties: Public Sector
155W
    New Hall Young Offenders Institution: Injuries
155W
    Offenders: Crimes of Violence
155W
    Personal Records: Data Protection
155W
    Political Parties: Finance
156W
    Prison Service
157W
    Prison Service: Sick Leave
158W
    Prisoner Escapes
160W
    Prisoners
159W
    Prisoners: Deportation
161W
    Prisoners: Diets
161W
    Prisoners: Drugs
162W
    Prisoners: Employment
163W
    Prisoners: Foreigners
163W
    Prisoners: Mentoring
164W
    Prisoners: Police Custody
164W
    Prisoners: Release
166W
    Prisoners Transfers
161W
    Prisons
166W
    Prisons: Education
166W
    Prisons: Exercise
167W
    Prisons: Food
167W
    Prisons: Therapeutic Residential Units
168W
    Probation Service
168W
    Probation Service: Expenditure
169W
    Procurement
171W
    Prosecutions: Easington
171W
    Regulation
172W
    Schools
172W
    Security Breaches
173W
    Sentencing
173W
    Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
174W
    Voting Rights
174W
    Young Offenders
176W
    Young Offenders: Crime
175W
    Young Offenders: Sentencing
177W
    Youth Justice Body
179W
Northern Ireland58W
    Aviation
58W
    Christmas
59W
    Civil Disorder: Belfast
60W
    Departmental Manpower
60W
    Departmental Procurement
60W
    Motor Vehicles: Theft
61W
    Rape
62W
Olympics75W
    Olympic Games 2012
75W
    Olympic Games 2012: Finance
75W
    Olympic Review Group
75W
Prime Minister73W
    Departmental Labour Turnover
73W
    Departmental Manpower
73W
    Departmental Procurement
74W
    Departmental Secondment
74W
    Local Government
74W
    Ministers: National Lottery
74W
Scotland1W
    Christmas
1W
    Departmental Minimum Wage
1W
    Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers
1W
    Members' Correspondence
2W
Transport4W
    Aircraft: Noise
4W
    Cars: Exhaust Emissions
5W
    Cumbrian Coastal Rail Service
6W
    Departmental Conditions of Employment
6W
    Departmental Illegal Immigrants
6W
    Departmental Training
7W
    Galileo
7W
    Galileo: Finance
7W
    Heathrow Airport: Railways
8W
    Public Transport
8W
    Public Transport: Concessions
9W
    Railways: Standards
9W
    Refuse Collection Vehicles
9W
    Road Traffic
10W
    Roads
10W
    Roads: Accidents
11W
    Roads: Children
11W
    Roads: Lorries
12W
    Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
12W
    Roads: Safety
13W
    Roads: Tolls
14W
    South West Trains
15W
    Speed Limits
15W
    Sustainable Development: Finance
15W
    Trains
16W
Wales2W
    Barnett Formula
2W
    Departmental Minimum Wage
2W
    Departmental Redundancies
2W
    Regulation
3W
Work and Pensions70W
    Barriers to Employment
72W
    Child Support Agency
72W
    Financial Assistance Scheme
71W
    Housing Benefit
71W
    Incapacity Benefits
72W
    Independent Living
71W
    Lone Parents
73W
    Occupational Pensions
70W
    Pensioners: East Anglia
71W
    Pensions: Financial Assistance Scheme
73W
    Provision for Retirement
72W
    Voluntary Organisations
73W

Written Answers

Monday 7 January 2008

Communities and Local Government243W
    Christmas
243W
    Closed Circuit Television: Planning
243W
    Community Relations
243W
    Community Relations: Chelmsford
244W
    Departmental Conditions of Employment
244W
    Empty Property
244W
    English National Land Use Database
245W
    English Partnerships: Expenditure
245W
    Environment Protection: EU Law
245W
    Fires: Chemicals
246W
    Floods: Maps
246W
    Green Belt
247W
    Housing
247W
    Housing: Carbon Emissions
248W
    Housing: Cleethorpes
248W
    Housing: Finance
248W
    Housing: Low Incomes
249W
    Housing: Parking
249W
    Housing: Prices
249W
    Influenza
249W
    Law and Order: Antisocial Behaviour
250W
    Local Authorities: Standards
250W
    Local Authority Business Growth Incentives Scheme
251W
    Members: Correspondence
251W
    National Identity Register
251W
    Planning: Finance
252W
    Planning Permission: Aerials
252W
    Population: Tamworth
252W
    Property: Databases
253W
    Schools: Finance
253W
Home Department253W
    101 Calls
253W
    Airwave Radio System
255W
    Alcoholic Drinks: Crime
256W
    Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
256W
    Animal Experiments: Scotland
256W
    Antisocial Behaviour Orders
257W
    Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Lincolnshire
258W
    Assets Recovery Agency: Christmas
259W
    Asylum
259W
    Asylum: Deportation
260W
    Asylum: Entry Clearances
261W
    Aviation
261W
    British Nationality: Overseas Residence
262W
    Christmas
262W
    Closed Circuit Television
262W
    Closed Circuit Television: Bus Services
262W
    Closed Circuit Television: Prosecutions
263W
    Corruption
263W
    Council Tax: Rates and Rating
263W
    Crime: Essex
264W
    Crime: Greater London
265W
    Crime: Racial Violence
265W
    Crimes of Violence
266W
    Crimes of Violence: Greater London
267W
    Demonstrations: Greater London
268W
    Departmental Coordination
268W
    Departmental Procurement
268W
    Deportation
269W
    Deportation: EC Action
269W
    Emergency Calls
269W
    Entry Clearances
270W
    Essex Police Authority: Qualifications
270W
    Essex Police: Standards
270W
    Firearms
271W
    Firearms: Databases
271W
    Foreigners: NHS
272W
    Forensic Science Service
272W
    Genetics: Databases
273W
    Humberside Police Authority
281W
    Identity Cards
282W
    Identity Cards: Foreigners
283W
    Identity Documents
284W
    Illegal Immigrants
284W
    Immigrants: Catering
284W
    Immigration Controls
285W
    Immigration Officers
285W
    Immigration: Olympic Games 2012
285W
    Marriage to Partners from Overseas
286W
    Members: Correspondence
286W
    Metropolitan Police: Impounded Vehicles
286W
    Metropolitan Police: Motor Insurance Database
286W
    Migration Impacts Forum
286W
    Mr. Chanceless Takaruva
287W
    National DNA Database
287W
    National Identity Register
287W
    Offenders: Deportation
288W
    Offensive Weapons
288W
    Passports
290W
    Passports: Applications
292W
    Passports: Fraud
293W
    Police
293W
    Police: Cumbria
293W
    Police: Influenza
294W
    Police: Legislation
294W
    Police: Manpower
295W
    Police: Retirement
297W
    Project Semaphore
298W
    Prosecutions: Driving Under the Influence
298W
    Public Order Act 1986
298W
    Sexual Offences
299W
    Speed Cameras
300W
    Speed Enforcement Operations
301W
    Stop and Search
301W
    Stowaways
301W
    Terrorism
302W
    Terrorism: Olympic Games 2012
302W
    Violence Against the Person
303W
    Visas
303W
Treasury304W
    Alcoholic Drinks: Death
304W
    Capital Gains Tax
305W
    Car Allowances
306W
    Car Allowances: Public Sector
307W
    Carers: Census
307W
    Census
307W
    Child Benefit: Personal Records
308W
    Childbirth
309W
    Civil Servants: North East Region
309W
    Climate Change
310W
    Customs Officers: Job Satisfaction
311W
    Customs Officers: Manpower
311W
    Departmental Data Protection
311W
    Departmental ICT
312W
    Departmental Public Expenditure
312W
    Departmental Redundancies
313W
    Departmental Secondment
313W
    Direct Debits
316W
    Disposable Income
317W
    Divorce
318W
    Employment
318W
    Employment: Darlington
321W
    Employment: Disabled
321W
    Employment: Ethnic Groups
323W
    Employment: Lone Parents
324W
    Employment: Older Workers
327W
    Enterprise Investment Scheme
329W
    Excise Duties: Fuels
329W
    Foreign Workers
330W
    Fuels: Prices
331W
    Government Departments: Property
331W
    HM Revenue and Customs’ Data
332W
    Housing: Prices
332W
    Immigrants: France
332W
    Insurance Companies
332W
    Landfill Tax
332W
    Migrant Workers
333W
    National Insurance Contributions
333W
    National Insurance Contributions: Females
335W
    Oil
335W
    Pay
335W
    Prescription Drugs: Death
336W
    Revenue and Customs: Correspondence
337W
    Revenue and Customs: Data Protection
337W
    Revenue and Customs: Huddersfield
338W
    Revenue and Customs: Location
339W
    Revenue and Customs: Pay
339W
    Revenue and Customs: Postal Services
339W
    Sandstorm Report
340W
    Security Clearances
340W
    Smuggling
340W
    Smuggling: Tobacco
341W
    Social Security Benefits: Personal Records
341W
    Spinal Muscular Atrophy
342W
    Suicide
342W
    Tax Allowances
343W
    Tax Allowances: Motor Vehicles
343W
    Tax Havens
344W
    Tax Yields
344W
    Taxation
345W
    Taxation: Domicil
346W
    Taxation: Pensioners
346W
    Tobacco: Price Elasticity
346W
    Unpaid Taxes: Pensioners
346W
    Voluntary Organisations: Finance
346W
    Welfare Tax Credits: Overseas Residence
347W

Ministerial Corrections

Monday 7 January 2008

Foreign and Commonwealth Office1MC
    The Akhtar Family
1MC
Justice1MC
    Prison Officers: Dismissal
1MC

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