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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Thursday 15 November 2007
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 15 November 2007
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Thursday 15 November 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 15 November of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Thursday 15 November see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165105) | 2
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what criteria were used to allocate funding referred to in the Answer of 23rd October 2007, Official Report, column 195W, on regional development agency: finance, to each regional development agency. | | [R] (165500) | 3
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many applicants for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to his Department and its predecessor department requested an internal review in cases where the Department had turned down the request in each year since the Act came into force; what the (a) average and (b) longest time taken was to conduct an internal review in that period; and what the total cost to his Department and its predecessor has been of such reviews. | | (165152) | 4
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what organisations within his responsibilities were discovered to have security staff who were illegal immigrants by the recent review of licences granted by the Security Industry Authority; and if he will make a statement. | | (165153) | 5
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what discussions he has had with the Director of the Office for Civil Nuclear Security (OCNS) on the problems reported in OCNS annual reports on the adequacy of security vetting in the civil nuclear industry. | | (165155) | 6
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether gap year companies are subject to any form of registration procedure or checks in relation to standards for safety in their overseas operations. | | (165200) | 7
N | Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many anonymous visits have been made to post offices to monitor the delivery of network change programme checks of key messages to customers. | | (164911) | 8
N | Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many post office staff have had disciplinary action taken against them for (a) breaches of confidentiality and (b) failing to deliver network change programme key messages; and if he will make a statement. | | (164912) | 9
N | Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) confidentiality agreement which sub-postmasters have been asked to sign in relation to the network change programme and (b) the programme's key messages for customers document. | | (164913) | 10
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165231) | 11
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many contracts were awarded by his Department and its predecessor to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department for each such project. | | (165267) | 12
N | Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what information his Department holds on the percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources of energy in each of the EU member states (a) in 1997 and (b) at the most recent date for which information is available. | | (163343) | 13
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, for what reason advertisements for the tax avoidance services provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers have appeared on his Department's website. | | (165563) | 14
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much his Department received from PricewaterhouseCoopers for the advertisements placed on his Department's website which promote that company's tax avoidance services. | | (165564) | 15
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on content on his Department's website which promotes the UK's favourable tax treatment of businesses. | | (165565) | 16
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many grants have been made through the Domestic Low Carbon Buildings Programme; and what proportion of valid applications this represented. | | (164039) | 17
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the value was of renewable energy generating equipment imported into the UK in the last five years; and what the value of such equipment manufactured in the UK was over the same period. | | (164040) | 18
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what plans he has to provide incentives for the establishment of small and medium-sized enterprises in the field of renewable energy technology manufacture in the UK. | | (164041) | 19
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many small businesses in Eastbourne constituency applied for small business tax relief in each of the last five years. | | (165330) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 20
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165104) | 21
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of proposals to limit the liability of UK airlines in the event of an airborne terrorist attack involving a UK airline in (a) British and (b) foreign airspace. | | (164831) | 22
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what has been the average time for a new applicant to be registered for VAT in the last three month period for which figures are available. | | (164456) | 23
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the savings made by the Office of Government Commerce as a result of implementing (a) e-commerce, (b) e-catalogues, (c) corporate cards and (d) e-auctions in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165219) | 24
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which of the Office of Government Commerce's contracts became shared contracts, including by sharing current contracts across central government, in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165220) | 25
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which of the Office of Government Commerce's (a) internal processes, (b) purchase orders and (c) invoicing processes were automated in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165221) | 26
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many events were held by the Office of Government Commerce in each year since 2003-04; how much was spent on those events was; and if he will make a statement. | | (165222) | 27
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the level of reductions in (a) salary and (b) administration costs made by the Office of Government Commerce in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165223) | 28
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost of relocating posts from London to Liverpool by the Office of Government Commerce Buying Solutions in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165224) | 29
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many posts were relocated from London to Liverpool by the Office of Government Commerce Buying Solutions in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165225) | 30
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on the Office of Government Commerce Buying Solution's expenditure of the relocation of London-based posts to Liverpool in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165226) | 31
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what procurement savings have been achieved by the Office of Government Commerce Buying Solutions since 2003-04; in respect of which support services they were achieved; and if he will make a statement. | | (165227) | 32
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect on travel costs of the use of video conferencing by the Office of Government Commerce Buying Solutions in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165228) | 33
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what grants in aid his Department made to the Statistics Commission in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165287) | 34
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what efficiency gains in relation to the HM Treasury Efficiency Technical Note of December 2006 have been made by the Statistics Commission in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165304) | 35
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) cost and (b) results were of the Office of Government Commerce's staff attitude survey on service levels in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165305) | 36
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) contractor and (b) temporary staff headcount was in the (i) core Treasury, (ii) Office of Government Commerce, (iii) Office of Government Commerce Buying Solutions and (iv) Debt Management Office; how much was spent on (A) agency staff and (B) consultants by each body in each year; and if he will make a statement. | | (165326) | 37
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which new policy priorities received strategic reserve allocations in the core Treasury in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165495) | 38
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to page 7 of HM Treasury Efficiency Technical Note (December 2006), what value and percentage of directorate purchases were made through central non-pay contracts in each year since 1998; and if he will make a statement. | | (165497) | 39
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to page seven of HM Treasury Efficiency Technical Note (December 2006) what (a) activities, (b) working practices and (c) workflow processes; were (i) terminated and (ii) redesigned in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165525) | 40
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to page seven of HM Treasury Efficiency Technical Note (December 2006) which team and management structures within directorates were (a) terminated and (b) redesigned in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (165526) | 41
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consideration he gave to abolishing the national insurance contributions exemption for holiday pay schemes on a phased basis; and what the reasons were for deciding not to procede on that basis. | | (165522) | 42
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to employers outside the construction sector of ending holiday pay schemes by 30th October 2007. | | (165523) | 43
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether EEA nationals living in the UK will be able to claim child benefit in respect of unborn children whose mother is living outside the UK from 2009 onwards. | | (165527) | 44
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to apply standard rate value-added tax to game birds which are bred for sport; and if he will make a statement. | | (165441) | 45
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people died from bowel cancer in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997. | | (165218) | 46
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were (a) diagnosed with and (b) died from lung cancer in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK in each year since 1997. | | (165400) | 47
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what scenarios have been used to test the effectiveness of the tripartite arrangements between his Department, the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority. | | (164466) | 48
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what volume of waste was generated by each central Government Department over the last 12 months, as recorded by the Electronic Property Information Mapping Service database. | | (165550) | 49
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) total area and (b) vacant space for the (i) Cabinet Office's and (ii) Prime Minister's Offices as recorded on the Electronic Property Information Mapping Service database was in (i) 1997 or the earliest date thereafter for which figures are available and (ii) the latest time for which figures are available. | | (165551) | 50
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the vulnerability of tax correspondence to identify theft. | | (165217) | 51
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many letters on tax credits from hon. and right hon. Members to (a) Ministers and (b) the Tax Credit Office were not sent a substantive reply within (i) one month, (ii) two months, (iii) three months and (iv) six months in the period 2005 to 2007. | | (165166) | 52
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the continuing appropriateness of the Barnett formula. | | (165134) | 53
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was spent by the Government per head in (a) Scotland, (b) Yorkshire and Humberside region and (c) Greater London in each year since 2000. | | (165451) | 54
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many business owners have received capital gains tax taper relief since 1998. | | (164472) | 55
N | Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to extend the tax-free status afforded to childcare vouchers to cover the care of elderly and disabled people; and what recent representations he has had on the economic aspects of such a proposal, including any likely savings to Government thereof. | | (164343) | 56
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many contracts were awarded by his Department and the agencies for which it is responsible to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the date of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department or agency in each case. | | (165328) | 57
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what figures he holds on the (a) percentage of the population liable to inheritance tax in each EU member state and (b) the rate payable. | | (165435) | 58
| Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the economic impact on Sunderland of closing the two city centre HM Revenue and Customs offices; and if he will make a statement. | | (165314) | 59
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue the Exchequer received from (a) fuel duty, (b) vehicle excise duty, (c) VAT on car sales, (d) VAT on fuel and (e) company car tax in each year since 1997. | | (165061) | 60
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the average aggregate annual cost to those required to complete stamp duty land tax returns of solicitors' work involved in completing such returns (a) in respect of all land transactions and (b) in respect of those land transactions in which no stamp duty land tax is payable. | | (165062) | 61
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many civil value-added tax fraud cases were adopted for investigation in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (165284) | 62
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what value of fines were imposed for value-added tax missing trader intra-community fraud in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (165285) | 63
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average sentence was for those convicted of value-added tax missing trader intra-community fraud in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (165286) | 64
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Eastbourne, (b) East Sussex and (c) England earn no more than the minimum wage; and what percentage of the relevant population in work each figure represents. | | (165318) | 65
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people over the age of 65 died during the winter months in (a) England and (b) the UK in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (165320) | 66
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people over the age of 85 died from (a) clostridium difficile and (b) MRSA infections in each year since 1997. | | (165334) | 67
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the proportion of recipients of child benefit in Eastbourne constituency who draw the benefit from post offices. | | (165391) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 68
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165103) | 69
| Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools in England serve rural communities; how many of these are voluntary aided primary schools; how many rural schools have used staff procedures with two panels constituted from the same governing body; and how many of these have resulted in the dismissal of a member of staff. | | (165130) | 70
| Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will list local education authorities in England ranked in order of value for money by correlating guaranteed per pupil funding for 2006 with the percentage of pupils attaining five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C including English and mathematics in 2006. | | (165054) | 71
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding his Department gave to supplementary schools in each of the last five years. | | (165201) | 72
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether his Department has any plans to change funding for supplementary schools. | | (165202) | 73
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children's centres were privatised in each of the last five years. | | (165203) | 74
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether his Department has any plans for further privatisation of children's centres. | | (165204) | 75
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether EU citizens from other Member States aged between 16 and 18 years old resident in England will have to remain in education or training until the age of 18 years old under the terms of the proposed Education and Skills Bill; and if he will make a statement. | | (165146) | 76
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many persons aged 16 to 18 years old there were in each local authority area in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and what proportion were (a) in full-time work and (b) not in education, employment or training. | | (165147) | 77
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165233) | 78
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of secondary schools in School Sports Partnerships held at least one sports day or sports festival in each of the last five years. | | (164452) | 79
N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether he has commissioned research on the relationship between adult and community learning and the educational attainment of the children of those involved in such learning. | | (164460) | 80
N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent discussions he has had with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust about its future role. | | (164461) | 81
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what variation is allowed in teachers' pay to compensate for local labour market and cost variations; which areas of England receive higher funding to accommodate higher pay costs; and if he will make a statement. | | (165067) | 82
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his Department's expectation is of the level of take-up of (a) vocational and (b) academic diplomas in each of the next three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (165068) | 83
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which 20 secondary schools had the biggest gap between pupil attendance and the funded school roll in the latest year for which figures are available; what the gap was in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (165069) | 84
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the real terms annual change was in the minimum funding guarantee for pupils in each year since 2000-01; what he expects it to be in each year until 2010-11; and if he will make a statement. | | (165070) | 85
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of funding per pupil in real terms using 2005-06 prices available in each local authority area in each year since 2001-02; how much will be available in each year until 2010-11; and if he will make a statement. | | (165071) | 86
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what additional funding will be provided to each local authority area for the new diploma programmes in each year from 2006-07 to 2012-13; and if he will make a statement. | | (165072) | 87
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what share each local authority will receive of the additional money for deprived pupils who attend schools in less deprived local authorities in each year from 2007-08 to 2011-12; how this money will be targeted on pupils with high assessed needs; and if he will make a statement. | | (165073) | 88
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the written Ministerial statement of 12th November 2007, Official Report, columns 27-31WS, on the school funding settlement for 2008-09 to 2010-11 what estimate of the average cost pressures on schools in each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11 underlay the decreases in the minimum funding guarantee; and if he will make a statement. | | (165074) | 89
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the written Ministerial statement of 12th November 2007, Official Report, columns 27-31WS, on the school funding settlement for 2008-09 to 2010-11 what assessment he has made of how schools can make the annual efficiency gains of one per cent. in each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11. | | (165075) | 90
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will make a statement on teachers' pay from September 2008. | | (165076) | 91
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of secondary schools with (a) above 50 per cent., (b) between 45 per cent. and 50 per cent., (c) between 21 per cent. and 35 per cent., (d) between 13 per cent. and 21 per cent., (e) between nine per cent. and 13 per cent., (f) between five and nine per cent. and (g) under five per cent. of children on free school meals had specialist status in (i) 2005, (ii) 2006, (iii) 2007 and (iv) at the most recent time for which figures are available; how many schools there were in each category; and if he will make a statement. | | (165156) | 92
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of 16 year olds who had been in custody for more than one year were entered for GCSE examinations in each year since 2001. | | (165164) | 93
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of 16 year olds in custody gained five A* to Cs at GCSE in each year since 2001. | | (165165) | 94
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which Minister is leading his Department's review of the academies programme; on what date the review was commissioned; which officials in his Department are carrying out the review; what the involvement in the review is of the No. 10 Downing Street Policy Unit; and if he will make a statement. | | (165167) | 95
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, on what date his Department will complete its review of the academies programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (165168) | 96
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which (a) Ministers, (b) officials and (c) other individuals and outside bodies attended the academies seminar on 1st November 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (165169) | 97
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effect of education maintenance allowance payments on achievement by students receiving them. | | (165080) | 98
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many contracts were awarded by his Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997 was; and what was(a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department. | | (165261) | 99
N | Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will provide grants for the recruitment of external experts to teach climate change science and sustainability in primary and secondary schools. | | (163342) | 100
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans he has to introduce standards of sustainability for new school buildings. | | (164043) | 101
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of surplus places there were in (a) primary, (b) middle (where appropriate) and (c) upper schools in the last period for which figures are available. | | (164464) | 102
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what direction has been given to the Isle of Wight Council in relation to proposed structural changes to the educational system on the island. | | (164465) | 103
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what changes are (a) planned and (b) proposed for (i) high schools, (ii) middle schools, (iii) primary schools and (iv) nursery schools on the Isle of Wight. | | (164673) | 104
N | Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of unauthorised absences pupils with (a) special educational needs and (b) a physical disability accounted for in each year since 2001 for which records exist. | | (164458) | 105
N | Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what professional in-service training sessions his Department provides to teachers and head teachers on (a) tackling bullying of children with special educational needs and (b) the academic attainment and attendance of children with special educational needs. | | (164459) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 106
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in the Cabinet Office in 2007. | | (165114) | 107
| Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what recent discussions he has had on the use of Linux Open source computer software in the public sector. | | (165144) | 108
| Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the voluntary sector organisations using Linux Open Source computer software; and if he will make a statement. | | (165145) | 109
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many applicants for information, requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, to his Department requested an internal review in cases where the request had been turned down, in each year since the Act came into force; what the (a) average, (b) longest and (c) shortest time taken was to conduct an internal review in that period; and what was the total cost of such reviews in that period. | | (165154) | 110
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165234) | 111
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Cabinet Office has made payments to Google in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (165547) | 112
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the guidelines were for the operation of citizens' juries in the 2006-07 Policy Review; and what the guidelines are for the operation of the citizens' juries announced by the Prime Minister on 3rd September; and if he will make a statement. | | (165553) | 113
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many contracts were awarded by the Cabinet Office to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Office in each case. | | (165394) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 114
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in her Department in 2007. | | (165122) | 115
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps are being taken to assist local authorities to work more closely with traveller and gypsy sites on ensuring appropriate waste management. | | (165293) | 116
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps are being taken to encourage local authorities to work more closely with landowners to combat fly-tipping. | | (165294) | 117
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps are being taken to improve access to civic amenity sites. | | (165295) | 118
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons she has struck out the requirement for 10 per cent. on-site renewable energy in all major new developments from the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Spatial Strategy. | | (165297) | 119
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her Department's assessment is of the effect of ending the application of the existing Merton rule in the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Spatial Strategy on those individual local planning authorities wishing to use the rule. | | (165298) | 120
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her reasons were for not accepting the independent panel's recommendations that Yorkshire and the Humber should have a minimum region-wide 10 per cent. on-site renewables planning requirement for all major new developments. | | (165299) | 121
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what events and conferences (a) she and (b) other Ministers from her Department have addressed relating to (i) the construction and housebuilding industry and (ii) the renewable energy industry since July 2006. | | (165300) | 122
N | Mr Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will announce her decision on the setting up of a Berwick-upon-Tweed Town Council in time for elections to that council to take place in May 2008. | | [R] (162136) | 123
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what data will be used to measure each national indicator; and what the source of each dataset will be, broken down by indicator. | | (165040) | 124
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in her Department and its agencies. | | (165232) | 125
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what research (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated by her Department was taken account of in reaching the decision on new homes in the current plan period; and if she will make a statement. | | (165045) | 126
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, according to the English Housing Survey, how many and what percentage of homes in England were worth (a) £800,000 or more and (b) £1,000,000 or more at the most recent date for which figures are available. | | (165131) | 127
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to designate eco-towns as healthy towns. | | (165552) | 128
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of the new eco-towns are also expected to be designated as healthy towns. | | (165554) | 129
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will compile a register of mosques in the UK. | | (165450) | 130
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many contracts were awarded by her Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and in respect of each what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the date of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department. | | (165262) | 131
N | Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was spent on housing (a) in 2007 prices and (b) as a percentage of gross national product in each year since 1980; and what percentage of each year's total was spent on (i) owner-occupied housing, (ii) registered social landlord/housing corporation housing and (iii) council housing. | | (164667) | 132
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, who is responsible for setting the upper limit of social housing rent which each local authority is authorised to charge; how that upper limit is calculated; and if she will make a statement. | | (165544) | 133
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what allowance was made for debt service charges in the housing revenue account subsidy system for each local authority which has incurred council housing debt in each year since 2000. | | (165545) | 134
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, where surpluses accruing nationally from housing revenue accounts have been allocated in each year since 1997; and from which of the departmental budgets national housing revenue accounts have been financed in the same years. | | (165555) | 135
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much subsidy was paid to the housing revenue account of each local authority in respect of its council housing provision in each year since 1990. | | (165557) | 136
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the national level of housing revenue account subsidy was in each year since 1990; and what it is projected to be in each of the next 15 years, using the same assumptions which have been made for the housing revenue account pilot opt-outs. | | (165558) | 137
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the housing debt was of each local authority in each year since 1997; how much principal debt was paid off in each year by each authority and how this was resourced or otherwise financed, categorised by (a) right to buy receipts, (b) transfer receipts, (c) other capital receipts, (d) Treasury debt write off and (e) support for overhanging debt; what the cost was of servicing the debt, including the interest rate; and what were the means whereby this was funded. | | (165562) | 138
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the historic debt outstanding against council house construction was in each year since 1990 in (a) cash terms and (b) as a proportion of the public sector borrowing requirement; and what the projection for these figures is, including borrowing supported by arms-length management organisations. | | (165566) | 139
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the basis is for the assumptions for rent receipts allowances and interest rates for future years being used in the six authorities' pilot study for examining the removal of local authorities from the national housing revenue account. | | (165567) | 140
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effect of the Merton planning rule on the uptake of micro-renewables; and if she will make a statement. | | (165209) | 141
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the Climate Change planning Policy Statement will be published. | | (165210) | 142
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the use of the Planning Policy Statement 22 viability clause in the practical application of local authority Merton rules; and what estimate she has made of the number of developments under the Merton rule that have achieved at least a 10 per cent. carbon dioxide reduction from the use of onsite renewables. | | (165211) | 143
| Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was spent in (a) Wakefield and (b) Hemsworth constituency on homelessness by (i) central Government and (ii) local authorities in each of the last five years. | | (165143) | 144
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effects of flood risk on the development of coastal towns. | | (165331) | 145
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effects of migrant worker populations on the development of coastal towns; and if she will make a statement. | | (165332) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 146
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165109) | 147
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165235) | 148
| Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding was allocated by his Department to the British Library in each of the last six years; and what plans he has for future funding of the Library. | | (165139) | 149
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people attended the Creative Pioneer Academy in each of the last three years. | | (164473) | 150
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many individuals were given creative apprenticeships in each of the last three years. | | (164474) | 151
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many awards have been given as part of the Creative Pioneer Academy; and for what purposes these awards have been used. | | (164475) | 152
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the total cost was of the Creative Pioneer Academy in each of the last three years. | | (164476) | 153
| Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress has been made on raising the awareness of (a) pensioners, (b) people on low incomes and (c) vulnerable individuals of digital switchover. | | (165149) | 154
| Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on the obligations of the public service broadcasters in respect of television text services. | | (165288) | 155
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many contracts were awarded by his Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165260) | 156
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what percentage of people over 65 he estimates will qualify for assistance in switching over to digital television in (a) Eastbourne, (b) East Sussex and (c) England. | | (165333) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 157
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165112) | 158
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans the Government has for celebrating the centenary in 2008 of the establishment of the Territorial Army; and whether it intends to involve hon. and right hon. Members in such celebrations. | | (165047) | 159
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many field hospitals are available for deployment in Afghanistan. | | [R] (165055) | 160
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the training scheme for field hospital workers in Iraq and Afghanistan. | | [R] (165056) | 161
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are in training to work in field hospitals in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan. | | [R] (165452) | 162
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many field hospitals are available for deployment in Iraq. | | [R] (165456) | 163
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many field hospitals are deployed in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq. | | [R] (165457) | 164
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many field hospitals were available for deployment in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq in January. | | [R] (165458) | 165
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many field hospitals were deployed in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq in January. | | [R] (165459) | 166
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165236) | 167
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect of the rebuilding of the facility at Atomic Weapons Establishment Burghfield on the decommissioning of Trident warheads. | | (165026) | 168
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will hold a public consultation on the US's use of Menwith Hill base as part of the US Missile Defense Programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (165043) | 169
| Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what preparations are being made by his Department to mark the 100th anniversary of the Territorial Army; and how much has been allocated by his Department to fund events related to this anniversary. | | (165138) | 170
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many contracts were awarded by his Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165272) | 171
| Mr Elliot Morley (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps are taken to ensure that ex-service personnel are aware of available help for stress and mental illness. | | (165455) | 172
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which of his Department's bases are mothballed. | | (165064) | 173
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the role is of each unit of the (a) Territorial Army and (b) cadet forces in Hertfordshire; and if he will make a statement. | | (165065) | 174
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) aircraft, broken down by type and (b) tanks were withdrawn from service in each year since 1997. | | (165066) | 175
| Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veterans resident in (a) Enfield and (b) Enfield North constituency have applied for their Veterans Day badge. | | (165123) | 176
| Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving military personnel live in (a) Enfield and (b) Enfield North constituency. | | (165124) | 177
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many locally engaged staff are employed by his Department in Afghanistan. | | (164350) | 178
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has conducted any review of the procedures governing to operations of private security companies in Afghanistan since 2001. | | (164351) | 179
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the latest (a) establishment and (b) strength of the Territorial Army is for each rank of (i) officer and (ii) non-commissioned officer. | | (165050) | 180
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the hourly operating cost including crew time is for (a) Nimrod MR2, (b) Chinook, (c) Apache and (d) Tornado GR4 aircraft. | | (165051) | 181
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost has been of the detachment of modified Nimrod aircraft tasked to carry out duties over Iraq and Afghanistan in each of the last four financial years and what the equivalent cost was in 2007-08 to date; and what the overseas deployment component of that cost was in each case. | | (165052) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 182
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165120) | 183
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken to ensure that relevant businesses are aware of the legal requirement to carry a waste carrier licence. | | (165296) | 184
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken to reduce fly-tipping. | | (165301) | 185
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken to provide support for landowners with the costs of (a) clearance and (b) prevention of fly-tipping on their land. | | (165302) | 186
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken to ensure that incidents of fly-tipping on private land are recorded on the fly-capture database. | | (165303) | 187
N | Mr Geoffrey Cox (Torridge & West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average individual financial contribution was to the cost of works quoted for by Eaga approved contractors for the purpose of a Home Energy Efficiency Grant required of those to whom a grant has been offered in (a) England, (b) rural areas and (c) urban areas in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (164828) | 188
N | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with his European counterparts on best practice in the implementation of the EC Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste 94/62/EC. | | (164463) | 189
N | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of British-produced packaging is (a) sold to British markets, (b) sold to EU countries which have implemented EC Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste 94/62/EC and (c) non-EU countries. | | (164467) | 190
N | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 apply to UK companies who sell products which were packaged in (a) other EU countries which have implemented the EC Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste 94/62/EC and (b) non-EU countries. | | (164468) | 191
N | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 apply to companies who handle packaging in the UK for products which are sold in (a) other EU countries which have implemented the EC Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste 94/62/EC and (b) non-EU countries. | | (164469) | 192
N | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has considered the merits of compelling packaging on products sold in the UK to carry a compliance mark to signify that the producer has complied with the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007. | | (164470) | 193
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the funding formula for local government takes account of the costs of managing and providing facilities on beaches for local authorities in coastal areas. | | (165323) | 194
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to complete his review of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991; when he expects to announce the outcome of that review; and if he will make a statement. | | (164829) | 195
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165237) | 196
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to ban the use of metal battery cages used for the rearing of gamebirds for shooting. | | (165428) | 197
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what basis individuals were invited to be members of the working group drawing up the Code of Practice resulting from the Animal Welfare Act 2006. | | (165429) | 198
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which organisation each member of the working group drawing up the Code of Practice resulting from the Animal Welfare Act 2006 represents. | | (165430) | 199
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent research he has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effect on (i) wildlife and (ii) the rural environment of lead shot left in the countryside by the gamebird shooting industry. | | (165432) | 200
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made is of the amount of lead shot which was left in the countryside by the gamebird shooting industry in 2006. | | (165433) | 201
| Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to restore the link between the minimum storage period required for slurries and poultry manures and the risk factors for individual farms under the proposed Nitrate Vulnerable Zone Action Plan to permit shorter storage periods where there is no demonstrable environmental risk. | | (165192) | 202
| David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was spent by his Department on research on (a) rabbits and (b) squirrels in each of the last five years. | | (165502) | 203
| David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many claims in Cumbria arising from the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak were settled in each year from 2001 to 2007; and how many are outstanding. | | (165503) | 204
| Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the trend in the nitrate content of the River Avon in Warwickshire over the last 10 years; and what estimate he has made of the likely trend in the next 10 years. | | (165041) | 205
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many contracts were awarded by his Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165269) | 206
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers are awaiting payment under the Single Payment Scheme for (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007 payments. | | (165383) | 207
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the value is of outstanding single payment scheme payments in relation to (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007. | | (165384) | 208
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the UK bird Registration Scheme under section 7 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in deterring the illegal taking of high value native species from the wild. | | (165498) | 209
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the UK Bird Registration Scheme under section 7 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in facilitating the enforcement of (a) the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora and (b) other wildlife laws by police. | | (165501) | 210
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of a discontinuation or weakening of the UK Bird Registration Scheme under section 7 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 on levels of illegal wildlife trade. | | (165505) | 211
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what definition he uses of premises in animal health controls, especially in regard to (a) different physical areas, separated by land under different ownership but owned by one individual or business, and (b) two notional premises but within the same ownership and on adjoining pieces of land within a ring fence. | | (165496) | 212
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to encourage Government departments and local authorities to publish their annual greenhouse gas emissions. | | (164042) | 213
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he expects to publish the Government's full response to the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' recent report on British Waterways before the Christmas recess. | | (164471) | 214
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the number of boats using inland waterways; and if he will make a statement. | | (164671) | 215
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations he has received on British Waterways' proposed increases in (a) licence and (b) mooring fees for boats using the inland waterways network; and if he will make a statement. | | (164674) | 216
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the measures proposed in his Department's Nitrates Directive consultation go beyond the minimum requirements of the Nitrates Directive; and if he will make a statement. | | (165462) | 217
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects a vaccine to be available to use to prevent the spread of bluetongue serotype 8; and if he will make a statement. | | (165463) | 218
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what vaccines are available to prevent the spread of each of the bluetongue serotype; and if he will make a statement. | | (165464) | 219
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what date he expects Merial to be able to resume working on a bluetongue vaccine at the Pirbright site; and if he will make a statement. | | (165465) | 220
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his estimate is of the likely cost to livestock farmers of purchasing a bluetongue vaccine; and if he will make a statement. | | (165466) | 221
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his assessment is of the effect on market prices of pedigree livestock of (a) the foot and mouth and (b) the bluetongue outbreak; and if he will make a statement. | | (165467) | 222
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 18th June 2007, Official Report, columns 1431-2W, on fisheries, what information his Department holds on discard pilot projects undertaken by other EU member states; and if he will make a statement. | | (165468) | 223
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make a statement on the discard pilot projects being undertaken by the UK. | | (165469) | 224
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his estimate is of the appropriate level for total allowable catch in the North Sea for (a) herring, (b) cod, (c) haddock, (d) whiting, (e) plaice and (f) sole in 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (165470) | 225
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which organisations he has consulted on the European Commission Communication Fishing Opportunities for 2008: Policy Statement from the European Commission (COM(2007) 295 final); and if he will make a statement. | | (165471) | 226
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the proposals contained in the European Commission Communication Fishing Opportunities for 2008: Policy Statement from the European Commission (COM(2007) 295 final); and if he will make a statement. | | (165472) | 227
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish proposals for consultation on fishing quota management reform by the end of 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (165473) | 228
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how often he has (a) used and (b) attempted to use powers under Articles 7, 8 and 9 of Council Regulation 2371/220 to enable him to close areas to fishing; and if he will make a statement. | | (165474) | 229
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the proposals in the Marine Bill White paper to introduce protected marine areas in UK waters will apply to foreign vessels with historic rights within the 12 nautical mile limit; and if he will make a statement. | | (165475) | 230
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects the first meeting of the Interdepartmental Working Group on British Waterways to take place; and if he will make a statement. | | (165476) | 231
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 29th October 2007, Official Report, column 724W, which of his ministerial colleagues have responded to his letter on the Interdepartmental Working Group on British Waterways; and if he will make a statement. | | (165477) | 232
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total amount of fish landed by the 10 metre and under fleet was in each fishery in each year since 1997, expressed in (a) tonnes and (b) as a percentage of the UK quota available for that fishery; and if he will make a statement. | | (165479) | 233
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how often he has used the dispute resolution procedures under the devolution agreements; and if he will make a statement. | | (165480) | 234
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 25th October 2007, Official Report, column 526W on fishery: quotas, for what reason no estimate was made of the value of the quota being swapped; and if he will make a statement. | | (165481) | 235
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is departmental policy to make estimates of the economic value of quota being swapped when a swap takes place; and if he will make a statement. | | (165482) | 236
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the considerable budgetary problems as a result of unfunded pressures in the 2006-07 financial year referred to in the Government's response to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2006-07, page 2, were; and if he will make a statement. | | (165483) | 237
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the likely average price of feed for the livestock sector in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (165506) | 238
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to reduce the regulatory burden on the fertiliser sector; and if he will make a statement. | | (165507) | 239
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he next plans to meet his counterparts in the devolved administrations to discuss budgetary arrangements for the European Fisheries Fund; and if he will make a statement. | | (165508) | 240
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effort reduction necessary in each UK fishery to ensure that maximum sustainable yield targets are met; and if he will make a statement. | | (165509) | 241
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the contribution that angling makes to the economy; and if he will make a statement. | | (165510) | 242
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the likely change in size of the angling sector over the next 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (165511) | 243
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to publish his draft recreational sea angling strategy for consultation; and if he will make a statement. | | (165512) | 244
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to complete his review of bass nursery areas; and if he will make a statement. | | (165513) | 245
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce inshore netting restrictions to improve bass stocks; and if he will make a statement. | | (165514) | 246
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the European Commission about the composition of regional advisory councils; what his policy is on their composition; and if he will make a statement. | | (165515) | 247
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with his European counterparts on the merits of fishing effort reduction in UK fisheries; and if he will make a statement. | | (165516) | 248
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by what method he calculates the maximum sustainable yield for each UK fishery; and if he will make a statement. | | (165517) | 249
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how he plans to allocate the European Fisheries Fund between the fisheries sectors; and if he will make a statement. | | (165518) | 250
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the European Fisheries Fund he plans to allocate to the fishing industry for more sustainable gears; and if he will make a statement. | | (165519) | 251
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the European Fisheries Fund he plans to allocate to the aquaculture sector; and if he will make a statement. | | (165520) | 252
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, under what circumstances the European Commission may penalise the UK in relation to the European Fisheries Fund; and if he will make a statement. | | (165521) | 253
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the most recent estimate is for the time by which the EU discards atlas will be completed; and if he will make a statement. | | (165543) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 254
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165106) | 255
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what provisions are in place to provide for the safe passage of British citizens from Zimbabwe should the security situation necessitate such action. | | [R] (165292) | 256
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress was made on the co-ordination of border control between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the course of the meeting referred to in the Answer of 9th October 2007, Official Report, columns 549-50W, on Pakistan: Taliban. | | (165549) | 257
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has a procedure for recording and collating incidents and complaints made by British citizens who have taken part in overseas trips organised by gap year companies. | | (165199) | 258
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the security situation on the border between Serbia and Macedonia; and if he will make a statement. | | (165375) | 259
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the political and security situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | | (165376) | 260
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the political and security situation in Kosovo. | | (165377) | 261
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his (a) EU and (b) US counterpart on the possibility of Kosovo declaring unilateral independence from Serbia; and if he will make a statement. | | (165378) | 262
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what factors underlay the decision by the EU to initial the Stabilisation and Association Accord with Serbia; and if he will make a statement. | | (165379) | 263
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what EU criteria have been met by Serbia which allowed it to initial a Stabilisation and Association Accord with the EU; and if he will make a statement. | | (165380) | 264
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Russian counterpart on the future status of Kosovo. | | (165381) | 265
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of applications for visas for relatives and dependants made by applicants were (a) not granted and (b) granted within (i) 13 weeks, (ii) six months, (iii) a year, (iv) 18 months, (v) two years, (vi) two and a half years, (vii) three years and (viii) longer in each year since 2001. | | (164675) | 266
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of applications for visit visas made by applicants were (a) not granted and (b) granted within (i) 13 weeks, (ii) six months, (iii) a year, (iv) 18 months, (v) two years, (vi) two and a half years, (vii) three years and (viii) longer in each year since 2001. | | (164679) | 267
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165238) | 268
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the proposal by Commonwealth countries in Africa to transfer the Commonwealth Secretariat from London to Uganda; and if he will make a statement. | | (165448) | 269
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the government of Uganda on (a) Dr Kizza Besigye's treason trial, (b) the detention without trial of 14 alleged rebel Peoples Redemption Army members and (c) the death in detention of opposition members Denis Nabilema, Moses Dramani and David Oboma; and if he will make a statement. | | (165449) | 270
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the amount spent on the renovation of the Uganda State House in advance of the Queen's State Visit. | | (165556) | 271
| Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Pakistan in relation to the situation in that country; and if he will make a statement. | | (165140) | 272
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the level of (a) corruption, (b) electoral fraud and (c) human rights abuses in Venezuela. | | (165490) | 273
| Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many asylum applications were received at UK posts abroad in 2006-07; and of those how many were (a) granted and (b) refused. | | (165403) | 274
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many contracts were awarded by his Department and the agencies for which it is responsible to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department or agency. | | (165342) | 275
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of the People's Republic of China on the development of the Chinese legal system to internationally-recognised standards; whether he expects such reforms to the Chinese legal system to be in place by 2012; and if he will make a statement. | | (165151) | 276
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to build an international coalition to secure an outright ban on whaling as practised by the Japanese whaling fleet. | | (165053) | 277
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on UK objectives for the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Uganda. | | (164344) | 278
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to raise issues relating to Zimbabwe at the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Uganda; and if he will make a statement. | | (164345) | 279
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many locally engaged staff are employed by his Department in Afghanistan. | | (164347) | 280
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funds the UK has provided to the Afghan reconciliation programme, Programme Takhim-e-Solh; and if he will make a statement on the operation of the programme. | | (164348) | 281
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made or plans to make to the government of Sudan on the recent expulsion of the head of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs in South Darfur, Mr Wael al-Haj Ibrahim; and if he will make a statement. | | (164349) | 282
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to raise the current political and security situation in Pakistan at the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Uganda. | | (164352) | 283
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his estimate is of the number of Pakistani citizens who have been detained by the authorities in Pakistan under the state of emergency. | | (164353) | 284
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the security situation along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border. | | (165362) | 285
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the terrorist threat originating from Eritrea. | | (165363) | 286
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UN arms embargo on Somalia; and if he will make a statement. | | (165364) | 287
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia on stability in the Horn of Africa. | | (165365) | 288
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what value of funds belonging to the Burmese regime have been (a) identified and (b) frozen since 2000 by EU member states in accordance with the EU's Common Position 2000/346/CFSP. | | (165366) | 289
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the EU is taking to support the democratic process in Zimbabwe during elections in 2008, as discussed at the EU Council meeting on 15th October 2007. | | (165367) | 290
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department's in-house language group was established; and how many of his Department's staff have received foreign language training in the language school since its establishment. | | (165368) | 291
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking with its international partners to secure the re-entry of Wael al-Haj Ibrahim, Head of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs in South Darfur, into that country. | | (165369) | 292
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects the UN-African Union hybrid peacekeeping force mandated by UN Security Council Resolution 1769 to be deployed; and if he will make a statement. | | (165370) | 293
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding commitment has been made by the international community to the UN-African Union hybrid peacekeeping force; and whether the funding has been received. | | (165371) | 294
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what broader measures that target sources of revenue for the Burmese regime the Government has discussed with other EU member states as referred to in the Answer of 23rd October 2007, Official Report, column 188W, on Burma: sanctions. | | (165431) | 295
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on the size of the UN mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea. | | (165499) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 296
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165110) | 297
| Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what redress companies will have in the event of a dispute about the accuracy of a product's classification under proposed changes to Part IX of the Drug Tariff. | | (165372) | 298
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for hearing aid assessments in (a) Mid Essex and (b) England in the last period for which figures are available. | | (163631) | 299
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to receive Treasury approval for the Broomfield Hospital private finance initiative scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (163632) | 300
| Mr William Cash (Stone): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) angioplasty and (b) revascularisation procedures were carried out in (i) Stoke, (ii) South Staffordshire, (iii) North Staffordshire, (iv) Telford and Wrekin and (v) Shropshire County primary care trusts in each year since 2003, broken down by type. | | (165216) | 301
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what resources have been committed by his Department for research into chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. | | (165327) | 302
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many British companies hold the patents to drugs that have no generic alternative. | | (165195) | 303
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practitioners in each (a) Government region and (b) primary care trust area were invited by their primary care trust to attend courses to update their or their practice's skills in the last 18 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (165197) | 304
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for an appointment with (a) a knee consultant and (b) a urologist for (i) patients of Wirral Hospital Trust, (ii) patients in Merseyside and (iii) nationally in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (164668) | 305
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for (a) a knee operation and (b) a hysterectomy for (i) patients of Wirral Hospital Trust, (ii) patients in Merseyside and (iii) nationally in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (164669) | 306
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy is on offsetting costs of private operations in order for a person to return to work and leave statutory sick pay. | | (164670) | 307
| Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will meet ministerial colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions to discuss the relationship between benefits paid to people with disabilities and the fuel costs incurred by such people because of their disability. | | (165437) | 308
| Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the domestic heating needs of persons suffering from high lesion spinal cord injuries; and if he will make a statement. | | (165438) | 309
| Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what account his Department's health map takes of the special needs of spinal cord injured people. | | (165439) | 310
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165239) | 311
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps (a) he has taken and (b) he is planning to take to ensure that healthcare professionals comply with a patient's advance decision to refuse treatment in certain circumstances; and if he will make a statement. | | (165447) | 312
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many officials in the (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies have private health insurance provided as part of their employment package. | | (165046) | 313
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to open new private sector diagnostic and treatment centres for NHS patients; and if he will make a statement. | | (165160) | 314
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of primary care trusts that have fully implemented all National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines. | | (165162) | 315
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many contracts were awarded by his Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165270) | 316
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many community or cottage hospitals were operating in 1980; how many were closed in each subsequent year; and what the change was in the number of bed spaces as a result in each year. | | (165157) | 317
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to resolve the dispute between maintenance craft workers and Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Trust. | | (165434) | 318
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust Community Service Team's psychiatric emergency assessment referral and liaison unit is expected to assess. | | (165460) | 319
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the percentage of births which did not require (a) medical and (b) significant midwifery intervention in each year since 1977; and if he will make a statement. | | (165442) | 320
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered midwives were not practising in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (165443) | 321
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the quality of the childbirth experience on (a) the incidence of intervention during labour, (b) the quality of the bond between parents and baby, (c) the success and duration of breast-feeding and (d) the incidence of post-natal depression; and if he will make a statement. | | (165444) | 322
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) midwife-led, (b) consultant-led and (c) other maternity units there were in each year since 1997; how many births there were in each type of unit in each year; and if he will make a statement. | | (165445) | 323
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many emergency transfers there were from (a) midwife-led maternity units and (b) home births to consultant-led units in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (165446) | 324
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received from manufacturers of medical consumables on the classification of their products by his Department; what steps he plans to take in response; and if he will make a statement. | | (165559) | 325
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to reimburse private employers for the cost of specialist nurse visits. | | (165561) | 326
N | Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department estimates GP surgeries receive in revenue from calls to 0844 revenue sharing numbers. | | (164453) | 327
N | Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs' surgeries in each primary care trust area use 0844 revenue sharing telephone numbers. | | (164454) | 328
N | Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, through what mechanism GP surgeries receive payment from calls to 0844 revenue sharing numbers. | | (164455) | 329
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was paid out by the NHS litigation authority in respect of each NHS trust in Hertfordshire in each of the last three years. | | (165275) | 330
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints were made about services at each NHS trust in each of the last three years; and how many such cases resulted in litigation. | | (165276) | 331
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contingency plans there are for national emergencies within the contract for supply chain logistics due to be managed by the Supply Chain Management Division of the NHS Business Service Authority; and if he will make a statement. | | (165277) | 332
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff in his Department received bonus payments in each of the last five years for which information is available; what proportion of the total workforce they represented; what the total amount of bonuses paid has been; what the largest single payment was in each year; and if he will make a statement. | | (165278) | 333
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients are informed of their entitlement to treatment by an NHS dentist. | | (165279) | 334
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many missed dental appointments there were in each primary care trust area in each year since 1997. | | (165280) | 335
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many students (a) started and (b) graduated from dentistry courses in England in each year since 1997. | | (165281) | 336
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dentists there were per head of population in each English constituency in each year since 1997. | | (165282) | 337
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with a home address in Scotland were treated in NHS facilities in England in each year since 2004. | | (165283) | 338
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical schools train students without using cadavers; and if he will make a statement. | | (165081) | 339
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many practising general practitioners are over (a) 80, (b) 75, (c) 70 and (d) 65 years of age; and what percentage of practising general practitioners each figure represents. | | (165082) | 340
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the numbers of (a) doctors and (b) dentists who the NHS requires to be (i) recruited and (ii) trained in each of the next three years; and what percentage of (A) doctors and (B) dentists are expected to graduate from (1) medical schools and (2) dental schools in the UK in each of those years. | | (165560) | 341
| Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness with which the former Chief Executive of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority carried out his functions; and if he will make a statement. | | (165194) | 342
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have (a) contracted and (b) died from clostridium difficile at East Sussex NHS Trust hospitals in the last 10 years. | | (165309) | 343
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans there are to improve NHS chiropody services in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex. | | (165310) | 344
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the rates of antibiotic resistant infections in hospitals. | | (165311) | 345
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many households received domiciliary care in Eastbourne in (a) 1987, (b) 1992, (c) 1997, (d) 2002 and (e) at the most recent date for which figures are available. | | (165313) | 346
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many care homes have closed in (a) Eastbourne, (b) East Sussex and (c) England in the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (165316) | 347
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average age was of patients admitted to accident and emergency units in the East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (165322) | 348
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many babies were born while their mothers were in transit to (a) Eastbourne District General Hospital and (b) Hastings Conquest Hospital in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (165329) | 349
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many home hazard assessments were performed by the East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust in each year since 1997. | | (165335) | 350
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Eastbourne District General Hospital will receive its deep clean. | | (165336) | 351
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs in Eastbourne were invited by their primary care trusts to attend courses to update their skills in each year since 1997. | | (165337) | 352
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what average annual earnings for general practitioners in the East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust were in each year since 1997. | | (165338) | 353
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients are registered with NHS dentists in Eastbourne constituency. | | (165339) | 354
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the Patient Environment Action Team scores for cleanliness were in the Eastbourne District General Hospital in each year since 1997. | | (165340) | 355
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the take-up of influenza vaccine by pensioners living in Eastbourne constituency in each year since 1997. | | (165341) | 356
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hip replacement operations were performed on patients over 65 at the Eastbourne District General Hospital in each year since 1997. | | (165399) | 357
| David Wright (Telford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the national bowel cancer screening programme will be implemented in the Telford and Wrekin Primary Care Trust area. | | (165190) | 358
| David Wright (Telford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the delivery of the National Service Framework on stroke services in the Telford and Wrekin Primary Care Trust area; and if he will make a statement. | | (165191) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 359
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in her Department in 2007. | | (165121) | 360
N | Mr Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the passport interview office at Chandlery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, is expected to open. | | (162919) | 361
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many permits were granted in each of the last five years under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme. | | (163619) | 362
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme permit-holders are believed to have defaulted and failed to return at the end of the permit period in each of the last five years. | | (163620) | 363
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many permits were granted under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme in each of the last five years. | | (163621) | 364
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of likely (a) insured and (b) uninsured costs to (i) London and (ii) any other UK cities of a terrorist attack similar to that which took place in New York on 11th September 2001. | | (164830) | 365
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the level of injuries and financial damage to property resulting from the 7th July 2005 terrorist attacks in London. | | (164833) | 366
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her statement of 13th November and her answer to the hon. Member for Hertsmere, how many of the non-EEA nationals without the right to work to whom she referred have been issued with national insurance numbers. | | (165386) | 367
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many alcohol disorder zones were instituted in each year since their inception. | | (165423) | 368
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her plans are for changing the resident labour market test under the points-based system; and what definition there will be of employment which will be removed from the requirements of the test. | | (165425) | 369
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding has been allocated to Operation Pentameter 2; and if she will make a statement. | | (165196) | 370
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the outcomes of Operation Pentameter 2; and if she will make a statement. | | (165205) | 371
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on the compatibility of the restructuring of the Merseyside Police with the framework laid down by her workforce modernisation agenda. | | (164457) | 372
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications for British citizenship were (a) not granted and (b) granted within (i) 13 weeks, (ii) six months, (iii) a year, (iv) 18 months, (v) two years, (vi) two and a half years, (vii) three years and (viii) longer in each year since 2001. | | (164676) | 373
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications for indefinite leave to remain made by applicants who were (a) eligible to be in the UK and (b) not eligible to be in the UK were (i) not granted and (ii) granted within (A) 13 weeks, (B) six months, (C) a year, (D) 18 months, (E) two years, (F) two and a half years, (G) three years and (H) longer in each year since 2001. | | (164677) | 374
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications for asylum made by applicants who were (a) eligible to be in the UK and (b) not eligible to be in the UK were (i) not granted and (ii) granted within (A) 13 weeks, (B) six months, (C) a year, (D) 18 months, (E) two years, (F) two and a half years, (G) three years and (H) longer in each year since 2001. | | (164678) | 375
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in her Department and its agencies. | | (165240) | 376
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the records of discussions within her Department which took place on the grant of a project licence to Professor Tipu Aziz permitting him to conduct scientific procedures on the primate Felix. | | (165387) | 377
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Animal Procedures Committee in granting a licence for experiments on Felix the primate took into account the extent to which those experiments had been (a) documented in scientific literature and (b) previously conducted on (i) non human primates and (ii) human patients. | | (165388) | 378
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many extradition requests were received by the UK from (a) the USA, (b) each of the other EU member states and (c) other countries, in each of the last five years; and how many of those were (i) granted and (ii) refused. | | (165422) | 379
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the cost referred to in the Identity Cards Scheme Cost Report of November 2007 as common to passports and identity cards would be incurred in order to introduce biometric passports alone. | | (165049) | 380
| David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reported honour killings there were in each police force area in each of the last 10 years. | | (165504) | 381
| David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces routinely record on video, or audio tape, briefings to officers before armed operations. | | (165573) | 382
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many men were (a) arrested and (b) prosecuted for crimes arising from them paying for sex in each of the last five years. | | (165133) | 383
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contracts were awarded by her Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165273) | 384
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what evidence of (a) actual and (b) potential effects on (i) local wage levels and (ii) local unemployment have been identified through research on international immigration (1) commissioned and (2) evaluated by her Department in the last six years. | | (165385) | 385
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made in the development of a roadside impairment testing apparatus for use in the identification of drug use by drivers. | | (165189) | 386
| Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, in taking decisions on proscription of organisations under counter-terrorism legislation, she takes account of whether other countries proscribe such organisations. | | (165193) | 387
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of foreign nationals who will remain in the UK in 2008 as a result of the international graduate scheme. | | (165319) | 388
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research projects have been undertaken using data from the National DNA Database; and if she will make a statement. | | (164672) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 389
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165119) | 390
N | Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what matters he discussed with the University of York during his recent visit to York; and if he will make a statement. | | (164273) | 391
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what steps the Government has taken to increase the numbers of students studying science based degrees. | | (164037) | 392
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what steps the Government has taken to recruit more women as university lecturers since 1997. | | (164038) | 393
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165241) | 394
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, when the results of the student income and expenditure survey are expected to be published. | | (165528) | 395
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what proportion of the Further Education Funding Council's budget was spent on in-house education and training in each of its last four years of existence. | | (165529) | 396
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much his Department has spent in implementing recommendations of the Burgess Report since its publication. | | (165530) | 397
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many and what percentage of students in England who achieved three A grade A-levels at state funded schools or colleges applied for Oxford and Cambridge Universities in each year since 1997. | | (165531) | 398
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much his Department has spent on the (a) delivery partnership and (b) post-qualification admission process since 2005. | | (165532) | 399
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much the Further Education Funding Council spent on administration costs in each of its final four years of operation. | | (165533) | 400
N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what recent discussions he has had on the demographic profile of the higher education workforce; and if he will make a statement. | | (164462) | 401
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment he has made of the merits of conducting an audit of skills in England. | | (165159) | 402
N | Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, if he will make a statement on progress made in knowledge transfer between research institutions and industry as part of the EU Lisbon Agenda. | | (164255) | 403
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much was allocated for dentistry courses in each year since 1997. | | (165212) | 404
N | Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what plans his Department has to work with employers to ensure that the higher education sector equips students with appropriate skills. | | (164270) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 405
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165111) | 406
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the effects of UK aid funding on the situation in Darfur. | | (165373) | 407
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the long-term effects of the flooding in Africa; and what additional work his Department is undertaking to assist the flood hit regions. | | (165374) | 408
| Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his policy is on the provision of safe abortions in developing countries; and if he will make a statement. | | (165324) | 409
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the Government is offering support to countries which wish to use Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights flexibilities to produce, export or import generic medicines. | | (165206) | 410
| Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) vaccination, (b) treatment services and (c) complementary livestock feeding has been undertaken by the UN High Commission for Refugees and its implementing partners in 2007. | | (165440) | 411
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165242) | 412
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the extent of use of child labour in the cocoa supply chain in developing countries. | | (165042) | 413
| Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress his Department has made in helping (a) reduce and (b) prevent child labour in (i) Asia, (ii) Africa and (iii) Latin America. | | (165150) | 414
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid the UK Government gave to Pakistan in each year since 2000. | | (165453) | 415
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many contracts were awarded by his Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and its report to the Department in each case. | | (165268) | 416
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what stage has been reached in the implementation of his Department's financial support for the electoral process in Pakistan, as announced in January; and what implications the current situation in Pakistan has for this programme. | | (164346) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 417
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165118) | 418
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners recalled from release on end of custody licence (ECL) for reoffending have been convicted of offences committed while on ECL; and what offences have been so committed. | | (164355) | 419
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released on end of custody licence were recalled (a) to each prison and (b) in each prison region for reoffending from (i) 29th June to 5th July, (ii) 6th July to 31st July, (iii) 1st August to 31st August, (iv) 1st September to 30th September and (v) 1st October to 31st October. | | (164356) | 420
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165243) | 421
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, according to the most recent Land Registry data, how many and what percentage of homes in England are worth (a) £800,000 or more and (b) £1,000,000 or more. | | (165132) | 422
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women were imprisoned in each year since 1997. | | (165454) | 423
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many contracts were awarded by his Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165274) | 424
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inquests for members of the armed forces were pending in each month since March 2003. | | (165306) | 425
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time between a death and the start of a inquest was for members of the armed forces in each month since March 2003, in respect of completed inquests. | | (165307) | 426
| Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it remains the practice to require new applicants to become magistrates and members of the judiciary to declare membership of the Freemasons; and what declarations were made by each current office holder. | | (165315) | 427
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drivers were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for the offence of driving under the influence of drugs in each of the last three years for which figures are available. | | (165187) | Questions to the Leader of the House 428
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Leader of the House, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in her Office in 2007. | | (165116) | 429
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Leader of the House, whether her Office has conducted any public opinion polls since 27th June; and if she will make a statement. | | (165548) | 430
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Leader of the House, how many contracts were awarded by her Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165266) | 431
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Leader of the House, when her planned timetable is for the establishment of regional select committees. | | (165308) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 432
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165108) | 433
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department. | | (165214) | 434
| Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to introduce a geographical telephone number for the Police Service of Northern Ireland's non-emergency calls. | | (165135) | 435
| Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people called the Police Service of Northern Ireland's non-emergency telephone number in each of the past 12 months for which figures are available; and how much revenue was generated by the use of this number over the same period. | | (165136) | 436
| Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of people deterred from calling the Police Service of Northern Ireland's non-emergency telephone number on account of the cost of calls. | | (165137) | 437
| Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how long the Police Service of Northern Ireland took on average to carry out a criminal records check in each of the last 12 months; and how many requests for such were submitted in each such month. | | (165141) | 438
| Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people were convicted of sexual offences against children in Northern Ireland in each of the last six years; and what sentence was imposed in each case where proceedings are complete. | | (165142) | 439
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many contracts were awarded by his Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165259) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 440
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what contribution (a) London council tax revenue and (b) Lottery funding will make to Olympics cost overruns. | | (165436) | 441
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, whether the Revised Memorandum of Understanding between the Government and the Mayor of London replaces the original memorandum. | | (165484) | 442
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, whether she plans to further revise further the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government and the Mayor of London. | | (165485) | 443
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, if she will place in the Library a copy of the Olympic Delivery Authority's Register of Gifts and Hospitality. | | (165486) | 444
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, whether the Mayor of London's pledge to provide £10 million a year as a funder of last resort for Olympics legacy management is (a) a legally binding commitment and (b) sufficient to underwrite the legacy. | | (165487) | 445
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what consideration is being given to using revenues from business rates to fund the Olympic legacy. | | (165488) | Questions to the Prime Minister 446
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Prime Minister, what additional cost to the public purse there will be from the appointment of Baroness Taylor of Bolton to replace Lord Drayson as Minister of State for Defence Equipment and Support; and if he will make a statement. | | (165546) | 447
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Prime Minister, what role is being played by officials in his Policy Unit in the review of the academies programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (165163) | 448
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Prime Minister, how many contracts were awarded by his Office to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165325) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 449
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165115) | 450
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department. | | (165208) | 451
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many contracts were awarded by his Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165271) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 452
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in her Department in 2007. | | (165107) | 453
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the International Civil Aviation Organisation's proposals to provide insurance cover for third party casualties in the event of an aircraft crash resulting from a terrorist attack; and if she will make a statement. | | (164832) | 454
N | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to encourage co-ordination of rail booking systems throughout Europe; and if she will make a statement. | | (164354) | 455
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in her Department and its agencies. | | (165229) | 456
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to ensure access for (a) general aviation and (b) the local community to Daedalus airfield; and if she will make a statement. | | (165044) | 457
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the expected additional journey time is for commuters who will have to travel from Winchester to Romsey by rail, via Southampton, when the direct rail link bus service is discontinued; and if she will make a statement. | | (165427) | 458
| Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the peformance of First Great Western train services; and if she will place in the Library the most recent performance statistics. | | (165289) | 459
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which businesses she expects to contribute more than (a) £1m, (b) £2m, (c) £5m, (d) £10m, (e) £50m and (f) £100m towards Crossrail, broken down by (i) direct contributions and (ii) contributions through the supplementary business rate. | | (165491) | 460
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research has been commissioned by her Department and its agencies into road safety and the use of articulated buses. | | (165492) | 461
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what financial contribution BAA is making to Crossrail. | | (165493) | 462
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many contracts were awarded by her Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165263) | 463
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the contribution made by driving under the influence of illegal substances to the numbers of deaths and injuries on the roads. | | (165188) | 464
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the cost of maintaining the Eurostar platforms at Waterloo station per month. | | (165290) | 465
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has authorised the sale of any land containing disused rail lines in the last six months. | | (165291) | 466
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to improve access at Leominster railway station; whether Leominister railway station will be included in the next round of access for all funding; and if she will make a statement. | | (165461) | 467
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much in freight facility grants she allocated to British Waterways in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement. | | (165478) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 468
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165113) | 469
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he had with ministerial colleagues in HM Treasury on the Comprehensive Spending Review settlements for the (a) Welsh Assembly Government and (b) Wales Office. | | (165215) | 470
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department. | | (165207) | 471
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many contracts were awarded by his Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165264) | Questions to the Minister for Women 472
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Minister for Women, what contracts relating to its policies on women and equalities the Government has granted to Opinion Leader Research since 1997; and what (a) the title and purpose of the project, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates at which (i) the project was put to tender, (ii) the project was awarded to Opinion Leader Research, (iii) the project was carried out, (iv) the project was completed and (v) the project's findings were presented to Government in each instance. | | (165039) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 473
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the specification for the CS2 IT project entered into with EDS in September 2000 was changed in each year since 2000. | | (165077) | 474
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the percentage of economically active people aged between 50 years and state pension age who (a) have a health problem and are educated to degree level or higher, (b) have a health problem and are educated to GCSE or A-Level, (c) have a health problem and have other or no qualifications, (d) do not have a health problem and are educated to degree level or higher, (e) who do not have a health problem and are educated to GCSE or A Level and (f) who do not have a health problem and who have other or no qualifications. | | (165078) | 475
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the percentage of people aged between 50 and 69 years who were claiming (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) New Deal 50 plus and (c) New Deal 25 plus in (i) spring 2001, (ii) spring 2002, (iii) spring 2003, (iv) spring 2004, (v) spring 2005, (vi) spring 2006 and (vii) spring 2007, broken down by gender. | | (165079) | 476
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in his Department in 2007. | | (165117) | 477
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals participated in the New Deal for Disabled People in each year since its inception; and what estimate he has made of the number of people who will access (a) the New Deal for Disabled People and (b) Pathways to work following the roll out of Pathways to work, broken down by Jobcentre Plus district. | | (165524) | 478
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Department and its agencies. | | (165230) | 479
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many incapacity benefit payments were made in each of the last three years in the Vale of York; and if he will make a statement. | | (165048) | 480
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracts were awarded by his Department to Opinion Leader Research in each year since 1997; and what was (a) the title and purpose, (b) the cost to the public purse and (c) the dates of (i) tender, (ii) award, (iii) operation and (iv) completion and report to the Department in each case. | | (165265) | 481
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department monitors the effectiveness of those medical assessments used in determining eligibility for incapacity benefit; in how many cases the outcomes of those medical assessments were appealed against in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (165059) | 482
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what budget was allocated for carers and the carer's allowance in (a) Dacorum and (b) England in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement. | | (165063) | 483
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is for the amount of unclaimed means-tested benefits in 2006-07. | | (165312) | 484
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people in Eastbourne who collect their pensions from the post office. | | (165317) | 485
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid by his Department to consultants for advice on the implementation of the personal accounts system. | | (165389) | 486
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information was used to calculate invoices for the Pension Protection Fund in 2006-07. | | (165390) | 487
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information was used to calculate the levies for the Pension Protection Fund in 2006-07; and if he will make a statement. | | (165392) | 488
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many service calls on invoicing issues were recorded by the Pension Protection Fund in each month since the fund began operating. | | (165393) | 489
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of recipients of council tax benefit in Eastbourne constituency who draw it from post offices. | | (165396) | 490
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of people in Eastbourne receive out-of-work benefits. | | (165397) | 491
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of (a) attendance allowance and (b) disability living allowance payments for people over the retirement age living in Eastbourne was in (a) 1996-97 and (b) 2006-07. | | (165398) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 492
N | Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many UK companies have claimed tax credits for research and development since the introduction of the scheme. | | [Question Unstarred][Transferred] (164264) | 493
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in each (a) London borough and (b) Government region earn no more than the minimum wage; and what percentage of the working population each figure represents. | | [Transferred] (165198) | 494
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many EU citizens from other member states aged between 16 and 18 years years old were resident in each local authority area in each of the last three years for which figures are available. | | [Transferred] (165148) | 495
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were diagnosed with bowel cancer in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (165321) | 496
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were (a) diagnosed with and (b) died from throat cancer in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (165401) | 497
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were (a) diagnosed with and (b) died from leukaemia in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (165402) | 498
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of migrant workers there were in the Vale of York in each of the last three years. | | [Transferred] (165158) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 499
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many learners in programme-led apprenticeships have received an education maintenance allowance. | | [Transferred] (165534) | 500
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will reduce the age limit for education maintenance allowance eligibility. | | [Question Unstarred][Transferred] (164253) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 501
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information is collected by her Department and its agencies on the number of accidental road vehicle fires involving buses; and whether figures are held for road vehicle fires involving articulated buses. | | [Transferred] (165489) | 502
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the formal responsibilities are of the Ministers for (a) the North East, (b) the North West, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber, (d) London, (e) the South East, (f) the South West, (g) the East Midlands, (h) the West Midlands and (i) the East of England. | | [Transferred] (165382) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 503
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the vulnerability of Thurrock to flooding from surge tide in the Thames following the high tides on 8th and 9th November; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (165057) | 504
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made of the (a) need for and (b) practicability of an additional Thames barrier to the East of the existing one; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (165058) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 505
N | Anne Snelgrove (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what his plans are for public funding for science and innovation; and if he will make a statement. | | [Question Unstarred] (164254) | 506
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what research his Department is undertaking on the effect of university tuition fees. | | [Question Unstarred] (164256) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 507
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many penalty notices for disorder were issued in each year since their inception; and what estimate he has made of the average administrative cost of issuing such an order. | | [Transferred] (165424) | 508
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions there were for selling alcohol to children and young people under the age of 18 years in (a) England and Wales and (b) each police force area in each year between 2004 and 2007. | | [Transferred] (165404) | 509
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many warrants were issued by the Traffic Enforcement Centre following penalty charge notices in (a) England and (b) London in each year since the operation of the centre. | | [Transferred] (165494) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 510
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what plans the Government has for celebrating the Act of Union of 1707. | | [Transferred] (165060) |
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