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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Wednesday 28 November 2007
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Wednesday 28 November 2007
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Wednesday 28 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 Wednesday 28 November of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Wednesday 28 November see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many (a) people and (b) households in each London borough (i) are classified as living in fuel poverty and (ii) were classified as living in fuel poverty in each year since 1997. | | (169245) | 2
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many registered small businesses in London there were in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (169273) | 3
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many small businesses in London applied for small business tax relief in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (169274) | 4
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169369) | 5
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps he has taken to consult (a) London residents and (b) local authorities in London on the transportation by rail through London of nuclear waste; and if he will make a statement. | | (169388) | 6
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, who is responsible for the security of trains carrying nuclear waste through London; and if he will make a statement. | | (169389) | 7
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what arrangements his Department uses to (a) monitor and (b) track nuclear waste materials; and if he will make a statement. | | (169395) | 8
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the risks arising from the movement of nuclear waste by rail through (a) tunnels and (b) inner city areas; and if he will make a statement. | | (169396) | 9
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he last discussed the security implications of nuclear waste being transported through London with (a) the Mayor of London and (b) the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police; and if he will make a statement. | | (169397) | 10
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent representations his Department has received on security provision in the event of (a) an accident and (b) a terrorist attack involving nuclear waste in transit in (i) an urban and (ii) a rural environment; and if he will make a statement. | | (169398) | 11
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps his Department has taken to (a) review and (b) improve the security arrangements for (i) nuclear facilities and (ii) the transportation of nuclear materials including (A) MOX plutonium and (B) nuclear waste; and if he will make a statement. | | (169399) | 12
N | Mr Frank Doran (Aberdeen North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many fallow fields there are in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean in which there has been no development over the last 10 years; and which company currently holds the licence to develop in each case. | | (167866) | 13
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the number of former customers of retail mobile phone companies now in administration who have (a) been given notice of legal action and (b) been taken to court by the network providers. | | (169294) | 14
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the number of former customers of retail mobile phone companies now in administration who have been given a negative credit reference as a result of action taken by the network providers. | | (169295) | 15
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the number of former customers of retail mobile phone companies now in administration who have been referred to debt collection agencies by the network providers. | | (169296) | 16
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the Government's policy is on requiring postmen to maintain a pace of four miles per hour across their route as determined by the Pegasus 2 programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (169332) | 17
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the claimants pilot in Rother Valley; and what criteria he used to make that assessment. | | (169174) | 18
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many individuals responded to the claimants pilot in Rother Valley. | | (169175) | 19
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the reasons are for the time taken to give names of claimants to the Legal Complaints Service to advise on solicitors' charges following the Rother Valley pilot. | | (169191) | 20
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, on what date he is expecting to give names of claimants to the Legal Complaints Service to advise on solicitors' charges following the Rother Valley pilot. | | (169192) | 21
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many meetings with ex-coalminers his Ministers have had in coalfield communities in each of the last two years. | | (169193) | 22
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what advice he has received on regional strategies and regional development agencies from 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. | | (169596) | 23
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, from where the uranium for the UK's nuclear power stations is sourced; and what percentage came from each country in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169225) | 24
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he expects global supplies of uranium to be exhausted; and if he will make a statement. | | (169226) | 25
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether his Department requires its employees to retire at the latest at 65 years of age; and if he will make a statement. | | (169617) | 26
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will take steps to ensure that all customers of an energy supplier have access to the cheapest tariff provided by that supplier. | | (169419) | 27
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will take steps to improve the ability of customers to make an informed choice on the merits of installing a water meter. | | (169478) | 28
| Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether the decision to appoint Christine Channon to the South West Regional Development Agency in November 2004 was made following open competition in accordance with the guidelines set down in the Commissioner for Public Appointments' code of practice. | | (169189) | 29
| Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what processes were put in place in his Department following the appointment of Christine Channon in 2004 to prevent future such cases arising. | | (169190) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 30
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that information kept by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies is (i) accurate and up-to-date and (ii) kept securely. | | (169420) | 31
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of those whose data was lost by HM Revenue and Customs were (a) adults and (b) children of each sex in (i) Southend West constituency, (ii) Southend and (iii) Essex. | | (169421) | 32
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what occasions discs containing personal data were lost by HM Revenue and Customs and its predecessors in each year since 1997; and whether in each case the data was (a) subsequently found and (b) considered (i) lost and (ii) stolen. | | (169422) | 33
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps (a) he has taken and (b) he plans to take to alleviate the concerns of child benefit recipients resident in Southend West constituency whose data was lost by HM Revenue and Customs on possible (i) identity fraud and (ii) criminal use of bank or building society account details; what recent representations he has received from members of the public about the loss; and if he will make a statement. | | (169423) | 34
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the password to access the child benefit information was contained in the same package as the discs containing the data provided by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to the National Audit Office on each of the occasions that discs were sent; what the policy is of (a) his Department and (b) HMRC on the sending of such passwords in the post; and if he will make a statement. | | (169428) | 35
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was spent by (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs on services provided by TNT in each month since January 2005. | | (169429) | 36
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what sanctions he has (a) taken and (b) plans to take against the HM Revenue and Customs official who posted two compact discs containing confidential child benefit information; what grade the official is; and if he will make a statement. | | (169430) | 37
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what occasions officials of (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs were (i) disciplined and (ii) dismissed for (A) alleged breaches of data protection requirements and (B) inappropriate use of personal or sensitive data, broken down by (1) grade, (2) sex and (3) age in each of the last five years for which information is available. | | (169431) | 38
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which (a) organisations, (b) agencies and (c) individuals have (i) partial and (ii) total access to personal tax or benefit data held by HM Revenue and Customs; under what conditions such access is given; what legislation regulates such access; and if he will make a statement | | (169529) | 39
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which information the National Audit Ofice (NAO) is entitled to request from (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) on (i) personal tax and (ii) benefit data; by what mechanisms such information is provided to the NAO by HMRC; and if he will make a statement | | (169530) | 40
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Statement of 20th November 2007, Official Report, columns 1101-2, on HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), how many of the individual records missing in the transfer of information from HMRC are former claimants of child benefit resident in Southend West constituency; what the policy is of HMRC for the storing of information of former claimants of child benefit; and if he will make a statement | | (169531) | 41
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fuel duty was payable on a litre of petrol in (a) January 1996, (b) January 1999, (c) January 2001, (d) January 2003, (e) January 2005 and (f) January 2007. | | (169587) | 42
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research has been (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated by his Department on the effect of an (i) increase and (ii) decrease in fuel duty on (A) food prices and (B) the cost of living; what recent representations he has received the cost of fuel; and if he will make a statement. | | (169588) | 43
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people of each grade have (a) partial and (b) full access to data held by (i) his Department and (ii) HM Revenue and Customs on child benefit recipients; what guidance his Department issues to persons seeking access to this data; and if he will make a statement. | | (169589) | 44
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in each London borough were paid less than the minimum wage in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169241) | 45
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of people in each London borough are employed in (a) service industries and (b) manufacturing industries. | | (169242) | 46
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of people in each London borough were classified as (a) professionals and (b) skilled workers in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (169243) | 47
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people resident in each London borough over the age of 65 years died during the winter months in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (169244) | 48
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169383) | 49
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the potential liability HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) may be under to provide compensation to financial institutions or individuals arising from any financial fraud committed against child benefit recipients whose identity details have been lost by HMRC. | | (169488) | 50
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what percentage of HM Revenue amd Customs investigations into the smuggling of (a) drugs, (b) people, (c) tobacco, (d) alcohol and (e) firearms resulted in a conviction in each of the last 10 years. | | (168639) | 51
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the Office of National Statistics UK population forecast of 71 million by the year 2031 is attibutable to a net inward flow of migrants. | | (169089) | 52
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, to whom letters of apology have been sent following the recent loss of data by HM Revenue and Customs; how many letters he expects to be sent; and what the cost is expected to be of sending those letters. | | (169467) | 53
N | Mr Frank Doran (Aberdeen North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of decommissioning North Sea oil and gas platforms and other infrastructure on tax revenues over the next (a) five, (b) 10, (c) 15 and (d) 20 years. | | (167778) | 54
N | Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what personal data in relation to child benefit awards was provided to KPMG as part of the National Audit Office's 2006-07 resource accounts audit for HM Revenue and Customs. | | (169050) | 55
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints have been received by the Financial Ombudsman Service on the sale of (a) critical illness insurance for all types of breast cancer and (b) critical illness insurance for ductal carcinoma in situ. | | (169169) | 56
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many fields there are in the HM Revenue and Customs child benefit database; and how many of these contain data which were recently requested by the National Audit Office. | | (169001) | 57
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, by what process an IT operator could have extracted data from the HM Revenue and Customs child benefit database in the form requested by the National Audit Office. | | (169002) | 58
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost of extracting the information requested by the National Audit Office from the HM Revenue and Customs child benefit database. | | (169003) | 59
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps are being taken to (a) compensate former customers of the money transfer company First Solution and (b) establish a new regulatory framework for the operation of such companies. | | (169269) | 60
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the evidential basis was for his estimate that 14,000 A8 nationals in the UK claim child benefit in respect of children living abroad, as referred to in the Answer of 10th September 2007, Official Report, column 1968W, on child benefit: EU nationals; and what sources of information he used to make the estimate. | | (169504) | 61
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to measure the amount of child tax credit paid to A8 nationals in respect of children living abroad. | | (169505) | 62
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the health in pregnancy grant will be payable in respect of A8 nationals living outside the UK. | | (169507) | 63
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon what data his Department's estimates of the number of child benefit claims made by A8 nationals in respect of children living abroad are made. | | (169508) | 64
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to recover tax credits overpaid to claimants from their estates after their decease, as referred to in the Answer of 8th October 2007, Official Report, column 243W, on welfare tax credits: overpayments. | | (169509) | 65
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Statement of 20th November 2007, Official Report, columns 1101-4, on HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), how much time banks requested after receipt of data files from HMRC to ensure adequate protection of customer accounts before details of the loss of personal information was released to the public; and when he received the request. | | (169539) | 66
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the likely effects of increasing the capital gains tax rate to 18 per cent. from April 2008 in relation to business assets held for at least two years on (a) long-term investment, (b) entrepreneurial risk-taking and (c) numbers of small businesses being established in England. | | (169097) | 67
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of equalising the capital gains tax rates of long-term business assets and personal investments in shares and property on (a) propensity to invest and (b) business optimism within the small business sector; and if he will make a statement. | | (169098) | 68
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reconsider his decision to increase the capital gains tax rate on business assets held for at least two years from 10 per cent. to 18 per cent. from April 2008. | | (169099) | 69
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will retain the 10 per cent. taper relief on business assets held for at least two years. | | (169100) | 70
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on how many occasions HM Revenue and Customs have packaged personal data on disc along with the access passwords for transportation in 2007. | | (169101) | 71
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have dispatched discs containing confidential data to solicitors dealing with HMRC prosecutions in the same package as the access password over the last three years. | | (169102) | 72
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of security measures taken by HM Revenue and Customs in respect of the transportation of discs containing (a) confidential and (b) personal data. | | (169103) | 73
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what purposes the National Audit Office (NAO) required a complete list of child benefit recipients; and what categories of data were (a) on the database and (b) requested by the NAO. | | (169104) | 74
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to help alleviate concerns of child benefit recipients whose data was lost by HM Revenue and Customs on possible use of the data by third parties to establish contact with minors. | | (169261) | 75
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what changes have been made to the remit and membership of the Council of Economic Advisers since June 2007; who the members of the Council are; and to which pay band each is allocated. | | (169591) | 76
| Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many maternity deaths there were in Suffolk in each of the last five years. | | (169569) | 77
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what tax is paid by a (a) recipient of money then donated to a political party and (b) donor of money to employees which is then spent as a political donation. | | (169417) | 78
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with HM Revenue and Customs on retrospective applications for entitlement to Home Responsibilities Protection in the tax years immediately after the scheme was introduced in April 1978; and if he will make a statement. | | (169390) | 79
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many deaths attributable to (a) alcohol and (b) illegal drugs there were in the UK in each of the last five years, broken down by primary care trust. | | (169360) | 80
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of inward migration on (a) economic activity and (b) the labour market in (i) North West Cambridgeshire, (ii) Cambridgeshire and (iii) the East of England over the last 10 years. | | (169391) | 81
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of migrant workers in (a) North West Cambridgeshire, (b) Cambridgeshire, (c) the East of England and (d) the UK in each of the last five years. | | (169392) | 82
| Jeremy Wright (Rugby & Kenilworth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department expects to publish details of the new test intended to replace the reasonable belief test used in disputed cases of overpayment of tax credits. | | (169090) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 83
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the levels of numeracy and literacy were among primary school leavers in each London borough on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (169230) | 84
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many students in each London borough were charged with a criminal offence for incidents that took place (a) in educational institutions and (b) on school property in each of the last five years. | | (169232) | 85
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what transport support provision is available for journeys from home to school or college for students in further education in each London borough; and if he will make a statement. | | (169234) | 86
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department has taken to improve sports programmes within secondary schools in 2006-07; and what funding has been allocated for that purpose for 2007-08. | | (169235) | 87
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average Government spending was in the latest period for which figures are available per child in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each London borough. | | (169237) | 88
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of pupils in each London borough achieved more than five A* to C grades at GCSE in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (169238) | 89
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of students in each London borough were eligible to receive free school meals in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169239) | 90
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of students in each London borough were on the Gifted and Talented programme in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169240) | 91
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169367) | 92
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what guidance has been provided to schools on implementing school nutrient analysis. | | (169572) | 93
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment his Department has made of the achievability of the school nutrition standards iron target. | | (169573) | 94
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps are being taken to ensure the security of the Contact Point database. | | (169444) | 95
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans he has to raise awareness among teachers of the effects of Marfan syndrome on performance in sports. | | (169341) | 96
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department has taken to improve the way that faith and culture are addressed through the national curriculum as recommended in the Preventing Extremism Together report. | | (169610) | 97
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils recorded at least (a) one, (b) 10 and (c) 40 unauthorised absences in each year since 1997, broken down by (i) region and (ii) local education authority. | | (169123) | 98
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when waves 7 to 14 of the Building Schools for the Future programme will be completed. | | (169124) | 99
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of pupils in maintained schools achieved five A* to C grades in 2007, excluding equivalents. | | (169125) | 100
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils eligible for free school meals achieved five A* to C grades in English, mathematics, science and a modern foreign language in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169126) | 101
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals studied for a modern foreign language at GCSE in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169127) | 102
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils studied (a) history, (b) geography and (c) a modern language GCSE in each year since 1997. | | (169128) | 103
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils who were given a permanent exclusion were sent to a Pupil Referral Unit in each year since 1997. | | (169129) | 104
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils studied for (a) 14, (b) 15, (c) 16, (d) 17 and (e) 18 or more GCSEs in each of the last three years. | | (169130) | 105
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of the pupils who achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE gained English, mathematics, science and a modern foreign language GCSEs in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169131) | 106
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what research he has commissioned into studio schools. | | (169132) | 107
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in how many schools more than (a) 20 per cent., (b) 30 per cent., (c) 40 per cent., (d) 50 per cent., (e) 60 per cent., (f) 70 per cent., (g) 80 per cent., and (h) 90 per cent. of pupils took an unauthorised absence in the last school year for which figures are available, broken down by (i) region and (ii) local education authority. | | (169133) | 108
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils who were given a permanent exclusion were sent to another mainstream school in each year since 1997. | | (169134) | 109
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) mathematics, (b) science, (c) history and (d) English graduates entered teacher training to qualify as secondary school teachers in each year since 2001-02. | | (169135) | 110
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time teachers entering the profession left the profession within (i) three years and (ii) five years in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169136) | 111
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many headteachers left the profession in each year between 1997 and 2007. | | (169137) | 112
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) secondary schools and (b) primary schools there were where more than (i) 30 per cent., (ii) 50 per cent. and (iii) 70 per cent. of pupils spoke English as a second language in the latest period for which figures are available, broken down by local authority. | | (169138) | 113
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils attended secondary schools in which there were (a) over 1,000, (b) over 1,500 and (c) over 2,000 pupils in each year since 1997. | | (169139) | 114
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the proportion of male pupils eligible for free school meals obtained 5 A* to C GCSE grades including English and mathematics in the latest period for which figures are available, broken down by ethnicity. | | (169140) | 115
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils at Key Stage 4 gained (a) no qualifications and (b) no GCSEs in 2007. | | (169141) | 116
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of pupils achieving combined Level 4 at Key Stage 2 reading, writing and mathematics tests in each year between 1997 and 2002 subsequently went on to achieve five GCSEs at A* to C. | | (169142) | 117
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils who achieved Level 5 at Key Stage 3 mathematics in each year between 1997 and 2004 subsequently went on to achieve a C grade or above at GCSE mathematics. | | (169143) | 118
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of the total number of pupils at Key Stage 4 who gained no qualifications in the latest period for which figures are available were eligible for free school meals. | | (169144) | 119
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many maintained mainstream schools there were in which pupils at Key Stage 4 achieved no qualifications in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169145) | 120
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of persistent truants gained (a) fewer than five A* to C grades, (b) fewer than five A* to G grades and (c) no GCSEs in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169146) | 121
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils who were given a fixed period exclusion gained (a) fewer than five A* to C grades, (b) fewer than five A* to G grades and (c) no GCSEs in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169147) | 122
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils permanently excluded gained (a) fewer than five A* to G grades, (b) fewer than five A* to C grades and (c) no GCSEs in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169148) | 123
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many primary school pupils received a (a) fixed period exclusion and (b) permanent exclusion in the last 12 months, broken down by (i) reason for exclusion and (ii) local authority. | | (169149) | 124
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what mechanism is used to measure the number of pupils aged 16 to 18 years attending (a) maintained sixth form colleges, (b) further education colleges and (c) maintained secondary schools being reported absent. | | (169150) | 125
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children readmitted to school by an independent appeals panel after expulsion were expelled again within (a) one year, (b) two years and (c) five years in each relevant period since 1997. | | (169151) | 126
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children who won their independent appeals panel hearing against exclusion were readmitted to the school from which they had been excluded in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169152) | 127
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children who won their independent appeals panel hearing against exclusion and were readmitted to the same school were subsequently permanently excluded in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169153) | 128
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children who won their independent appeals panel hearing against exclusion and were readmitted to the same school were subsequently given a fixed period exclusion in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169154) | 129
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will publish the review commissioned by his Department of existing evidence on the merits of raising the education participation age to 18 years. | | (169155) | 130
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will publish the National Evaluation of Children's Trusts commissioned by his Department. | | (169156) | 131
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will publish research his Department has completed into teachers' workload in the last five years. | | (169157) | 132
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how his Department plans to assess the four building blocks he has set out for raising the participation age. | | (169158) | 133
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what changes will be made to the eligibility criteria for education maintenance allowances when the raising of the participation age is implemented. | | (169159) | 134
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many assaults on school staff by pupils were recorded in each of the last three years. | | (169160) | 135
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his latest estimate is of the cost of implementing the proposed raising of the school participation age to 18 years. | | (169161) | 136
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many infants were in classes of more than 30 pupils in each year since 2000. | | (169162) | 137
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department has taken to promote synthetic phonics for the teaching of reading in primary schools. | | (169163) | 138
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many staff of the former Department for Education and Skills are employed by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. | | (169164) | 139
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many young persons are on courses approved by local authorities which are not eligible for funding under the education maintenance allowance. | | (169165) | 140
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many students aged 16 years in 2006-07 who were offered a place in continuing education under the September guarantee took up that place; and how many were still in education after (a) six months and (b) one year. | | (169166) | 141
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department has paid to consultants looking into the implementation of the new diplomas. | | (169167) | 142
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children readmitted to school after permanent exclusion were permanently excluded again within (a) one year, (b) two years and (c) five years in each year since 1997. | | (169182) | 143
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the cost of extending the education maintenance allowance to cover all provision approved by local authorities. | | (169183) | 144
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils received more than one fixed term exclusion in the latest period for which figures are available, broken down by reason of exclusion. | | (169184) | 145
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) permanent exclusions and (b) fixed term exclusions there were in primary schools in each of the last three years, broken down by (i) age of the child and (ii) reason for exclusion. | | (169185) | 146
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what work was undertaken by Geronimo Communications in financial years (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 to date for his Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (168807) | 147
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans he has to extend the academies programme to primary and junior schools; and if he will make a statement. | | (169289) | 148
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many times databases held by his Department and containing personal information on members of the general public were accessed in each month of the last five years. | | (169275) | 149
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many requests his Department received from the National Audit Office for access to databases containing personal information on members of the general public in each year since 1997. | | (169276) | 150
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what mechanisms his Department has in place to ensure that databases containing personal information on members of the general public are not accessed (a) by unauthorised staff and (b) by authorised staff for unauthorised purposes. | | (169277) | 151
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many electronic databases held by his Department contain (a) names, (b) addresses, (c) bank details and (d) other personal information on members of the general public. | | (169278) | 152
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when each electronic database held by his Department containing personal information on members of the general public was first created. | | (169279) | 153
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many security breaches regarding access to personal data occurred within his Department in each year since 1997. | | (169280) | 154
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many staff in his Department have access to electronic databases which contain personal information on members of the general public, broken down by grade. | | (169281) | 155
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department plans to take to involve trades unions and employers in anti-bullying initiatives. | | (169482) | 156
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in which 20 (a) local education authorities and (b) schools the most incidences of bullying occurred in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169492) | 157
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of bullying upon educational attainment in schools. | | (169493) | 158
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the correlation between incidence of bullying and levels of school performance. | | (169494) | 159
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department is taking to eradicate bullying in schools. | | (169613) | 160
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many reported cases of bullying there were in schools in the last year for which records are available. | | (169616) | 161
| Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment his Department has made of the additional demands that children without English as their first language place on primary and secondary schools. | | (169550) | 162
| Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what additional teaching and financial resources are being made available to primary and secondary schools to help them meet the educational needs of children who do not have English as a first language in 2007-08. | | (169551) | 163
| Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which secondary schools in England achieved above average key stage 2 to 4 results in 2007. | | (169335) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 164
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether he proposes to review how the Cabinet Office transports data; and whether the Cabinet Office uses TNT to transport data. | | (169368) | 165
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Cabinet Office requires its employees to retire at the latest at 65 years of age; and if he will make a statement. | | (169619) | 166
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much has been spent on (a) advertising and (b) conducting the Government's consultation on its draft legislative programme. | | (169359) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 167
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to review how her Department transports data; and whether her Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169380) | 168
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the total cost has been of all consultants' fees for the FireControl Project to date, broken down by consultancy. | | (169489) | 169
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has received from fire authorities of the convergence costs associated with FireControl, broken down by (a) authority and (b) region. | | (169490) | 170
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the total cost of the FireControl project team has been to date including (a) staffing costs, (b) secondment costs, (c) payments made by fire authorities under the new burden principle and (d) travel costs. | | (169491) | 171
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on consultants' fees for the Fire Link project to date, broken down by consultancy. | | (169606) | 172
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on the (a) staffing costs, (b) secondment costs, (c) payments made to fire consultancies under the new burdens principle, (d) travel costs and (e) other costs of the FireLink project team. | | (169607) | 173
| Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will meet the Leader and Chief Executive of Lichfield District Council and the hon. Member for Lichfield to discuss plans for an eco-village near Fradley. | | (169170) | 174
| Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consultations she has had with (a) district and county councils and (b) regional assemblies on the location of the proposed new eco-towns and villages. | | (169171) | 175
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will commisson research into the quality of assessments of the vulnerability of homeless applicants, housing medical assessments and assessments on disabled facilities grant applications which have been made by private companies. | | (169433) | 176
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will issue guidance on the methodology to be adopted by private medical assessors providing homelessness vulnerability assessments, housing medical assessments and assessments for disabled facilities grant applications. | | (169434) | 177
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made in preparing and disseminating guidance for teaching materials to be used in citizenship courses in madrassahs; and what the uptake of such material has been amongst the UK's madrassahs. | | (169614) | 178
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she plans to publish guidance for local authorities on how to run effective citizenship activities. | | (169615) | 179
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the likely effect on provision of low-cost residential housing in Peterborough constituency of the introduction of home information packs for one- and two-bedroomed homes; and if she will make a statement. | | (169540) | 180
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether 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 have taken decisions relevant to Government policy in relation to their regions. | | (169120) | 181
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on how many occasions the Information Commissioner was contacted by her Department to report breaches of data protection security in each of the last five years. | | (169333) | 182
| Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 requiring investigation there have been in the last five years in her Department; what the nature such breaches were; and what the results of the investigations were in each case. | | (169254) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 183
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he had with the Football Association before the construction of Wembley Stadium on (a) the provision of a roof and (b) facilities within the stadium; and if he will make a statement. | | (169535) | 184
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent representations he has received about the pricing regime of Premier League football tickets for the 2007-08 season; and if he will make a statement. | | (169536) | 185
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what meetings he had with the Football Association in each week since June 2007; what the (a) location and (b) duration of each meeting was; whether a record of each meeting was kept; who attended each meeting; what the cost was of each meeting, broken down by (i) administrative and (ii) other costs; and if he will make a statement. | | (169537) | 186
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to tackle anti-semitism in (a) football and (b) other sports; what recent representations he has received on the issue; what recent meetings he has had with the Football Association about the issue; what the (i) location and (ii) duration of each meeting was; whether a record of each meeting was kept; who attended each meeting; what the cost was of each meeting, broken down by (A) administrative costs and (B) other costs; and if he will make a statement. | | (169538) | 187
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169213) | 188
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding his Department allocated to sport in (a) each London borough and (b) each Government region in the last five years. | | (169378) | 189
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) reviews, (b) consultations and (c) taskforces his Department is (i) responsible for and (ii) scheduled to undertake; on what date each (A) started and (B) is expected to be completed; and what the purpose is of each. | | (169500) | 190
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many reports relating to funding awards his Department and its agencies expect to receive from sports governing bodies in each year until 2010; how many staff his Department expects to allocate to processing these reports and analysing the findings in each year; and how much is allocated to fund that activity. | | (169501) | 191
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will bring forward from 2012 the proposed start of digital broadcasting from the Salisbury transmitter. | | (169288) | 192
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will ensure that the British Film Council publishes the short-list of candidates to be chair of the British Film Institute prior to his approving the Film Council's choice. | | (169365) | 193
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on his oversight role under the Royal Charter establishing the British Film Council. | | (169366) | 194
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make representations to enable a women's football team from Great Britain to compete in the 2008 Olympics; and if he will make a statement. | | (169361) | 195
| Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 requiring investigation there have been in the last five years in his Department; what the nature of such breaches were; and what the results of the investigations were in each case. | | (169259) | 196
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what increase in jobs he expects the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games to bring to Scotland in each year from 2007. | | (169441) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 197
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the work of the Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations; and who the members of the group are. | | (169424) | 198
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the work of the Information Strategy Co-ordination Group; and who the members of the group are. | | (169425) | 199
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169217) | 200
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list all land and properties in London that his Department (a) rents, (b) leases and (c) owns, indicating in each case whether the property is used by (i) the Territorial Army and (ii) other services. | | (169372) | 201
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veterans in each constituency have applied for the Veterans' Badge; and if he will make a statement. | | (169373) | 202
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent in near cash terms on entertainment and hospitality as listed in his Department's resource account code hierarchy in each financial year since 2000-01. | | (169344) | 203
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on which occasions his Department leased helicopters from commercial contractors in each year since 2003; and what the cost was in each year. | | (169345) | 204
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the estimated cost to his Department is of extending the out-of-service date of (a) HMS Illustrious and (b) HMS Ark Royal caused by the delay of the in-service dates of the CVF Carriers from 2012 and 2015 to 2014 and 2016. | | (169346) | 205
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent, in near cash terms, on (a) legal fees, (b) legal fees incurred in relation to land acquisition/disposal and (c) legal fees incurred in relation to compensation payments, as listed in his Department's resource account code hierarchy, in each financial year since 2000-01. | | (169347) | 206
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the target number was of recruits to the Army in each month in 2007, broken down by corps; and how many were recruited in each month. | | (169348) | 207
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's total expenditure was on (a) food services and (b) food purchases as listed in his Department's resource account code hierarchy, in near cash terms, in each financial year since 2000-01. | | (169349) | 208
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's total expenditure was on fees for professional services, as listed in his Department's resource account code hierarchy, in near cash terms, in each financial year since 2000-01. | | (169350) | 209
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's total expenditure was on (a) administration and (b) administration claims, as listed in his Department's resource account code hierarchy, in near cash terms, in each financial year since 2000-01. | | (169353) | 210
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's Head Office streamlining consultation document. | | (169354) | 211
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's total expenditure on welfare services, as listed in his Department's resource account code hierarchy, was in near cash terms in each financial year since 2000-01. | | (169355) | 212
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates, HC 29, if he will break down the revised provision by subhead in (a) near cash and (b) non-cash terms. | | (169356) | 213
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates, HC 29, what the source is of the £55 million operating income not appropriated in aid; for what reasons the direct resource departmental expenditure limit will increase by that amount; and if he will make a statement. | | (169357) | 214
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates HC 29, for what reasons he plans to transfer £455 million from capital departmental expenditure limit (DEL) to resource DEL; and if he will make a statement. | | (169358) | 215
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many submissions from private sector companies the team carrying out the review of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office has received. | | (169449) | 216
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who decided the terms of reference of his Department's review of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office; and whether these terms of reference were delivered to private sector stakeholders when they were published. | | (169450) | 217
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which private stakeholders his Department has met to discuss the review of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. | | (169451) | 218
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the status is of plans to create a UK/Netherlands EU battlegroup; and if he will make a statement. | | (169452) | 219
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department's financial contribution will be to the EU military mission to Chad and the Central African Republic under the 2004 ATHENA mechanism. | | (169453) | 220
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK personnel were deployed on operations at the most recent date for which figures are available, broken down by location. | | (169457) | 221
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when EUFOR Chad/RCA will reach its full operational capacity. | | (169458) | 222
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his official engagements were between 1st and 21st November 2007. | | (169459) | 223
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many instances of cyber-attacks on his Department's (a) public internet website, (b) non-classified intranet, (c) classified intranet, (d) non-classified email system and (e) classified email system were reported in each month since 2005; and what the circumstances were of each incident. | | (169461) | 224
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any EU members have placed caveats or national restrictions on their military contribution to EUFOR-Althea. | | (169462) | 225
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the status is of the EU's Air Rapid Reaction Force; and if he will make a statement. | | (169463) | 226
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Chief of the General Staff's Briefing Team Report 2007. | | (169464) | 227
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he had with his EU counterparts at the meeting of Defence Ministers in Brussels on 19th November 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (169465) | 228
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the change was in military salaries measured against retail price index inflation in each financial year since 2001-02. | | (169472) | 229
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the change in his Department's civilian salaries was measured against retail price index inflation in each financial year since 2001-02. | | (169473) | 230
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Prime Minister's Statement of 8th October 2007, Official Report, columns 21-25, on Iraq, what progress has been made in relocating the 500 logistics personnel; and if he will make a statement. | | (169575) | 231
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Prime Minister's Statement of 8th October 2007, Official Report, columns 21-25, on Iraq, whether service personnel relocated from Iraq to Kuwait will receive the (a) Operation Telic medal and (b) operational allowance. | | (169577) | 232
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the estimated cost to his Department is of extending the out-of-service date of the existing fleet of submarines until the in-service date of the Astute class submarines is reached. | | (169620) | 233
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd November 2007, Official Report, column 1033W, on nuclear responsibilities, what assessment he has made of the contribution the nuclear non-proliferation treaty has made towards nuclear disarmament. | | (169469) | 234
N | Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 481W, on Iraq: peacekeeping operations, what the estimated cost of providing medical services to employees of private military and security companies under Government contract in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan was in each of the last five years; what estimate he has made of the cost of procuring such services from the private sector; and if he will make a statement. | | (168453) | 235
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of the decommissioning of the Vanguard Class submarines; and if he will make a statement. | | (169442) | 236
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the estimated annual maintenance cost of the Trident weapons system is expected to be in (a) 2007-08 and (b) each year until 2024. | | (169443) | 237
N | Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any individuals captured by British forces during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have at any subsequent time been held at the United States detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. | | (169051) | 238
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to promote job-sharing amongst its employees; and how many people in his Department job-share. | | (169393) | 239
| Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 requiring investigation there have been in the last five years in his Department; what the nature of such breaches were; and what the results of the investigations were in each case. | | (169260) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 240
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169216) | 241
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) advice and (b) guidance he has given to local authorities along the River Thames on flooding and the prevention of flooding; and if he will make a statement. | | (169270) | 242
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which areas of Kent he has identified as particularly vulnerable to flooding; and if he will make a statement on future plans for flood defence spending in Kent. | | (169565) | 243
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the procedure is for reimbursing CORGI gas installers who accept warm front vouchers and who do not have access to the internet. | | (169338) | 244
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, at what stage his Department informs CORGI gas installers installing equipment under the warm front programme that £50 of each £300 voucher they accept in payment from a customer will be withheld from them as payment for administration charges. | | (169339) | 245
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of reductions in the budget for the maintenance of inland waterways. | | (169108) | 246
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the effect of reductions in the budget for inland waterways on the tourist industry. | | (169110) | 247
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial corrections were imposed on the UK by the European Commission as a result of non-respect of farm payment deadlines in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06 and (d) 2006-07. | | (169445) | 248
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the costs associated with the 2007 outbreak of foot and mouth disease, broken down by subheading. | | (169446) | 249
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which local authorities have expressed interest in having a depository for nuclear waste in their area; and if he will make a statement. | | (169218) | 250
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of humpback whales living in the wild. | | (169542) | 251
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many offences were committed against birds of prey in the United Kingdom in the last five years. | | (169544) | 252
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of wild tortoises imported from Slovenia in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (169545) | 253
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to tackle the trade in wildlife on the internet in (a) the United Kingdom and (b) globally. | | (169546) | 254
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to cull badgers. | | (169547) | 255
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on the quality and value of recycled material of separating waste for recycling. | | (168558) | 256
| Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many incidents of fly-tipping were recorded in (a) the East of England and (b) Suffolk in each of the last five years; what the estimated cost was of dealing with incidents of fly-tipping in each area in each year; and how many (i) prosecutions and (ii) convictions there were for fly-tipping in each area in each year. | | (169568) | 257
| Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 requiring investigation there have been in the last five years in his Department; what the nature of such breaches were; and what the results of the investigations were in each case. | | (169257) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 258
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had with the government of Israel on rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza; and if he will make a statement. | | (169600) | 259
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement about the work and function of the IOps section of MI6. | | (169549) | 260
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169215) | 261
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the prevalence of the neo-Nazi movement in Russia. | | (169248) | 262
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the political situation in Pakistan. | | (169394) | 263
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15th November 2007, Official Report, column 363W, on Iraq: foreign workers, how many third country nationals are eligible to receive a package of financial payment to aid resettlement; and if he will make a statement. | | (169578) | 264
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he had on the Yasser Arafat International Airport in the Gaza Strip on his recent visit to the Middle East. | | (169418) | 265
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many complaints his Department has received about the visa application services provided by Worldbridge Services. | | (169330) | 266
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the (a) target time and (b) average time was for the processing of visa applications provided by Worldbridge Services in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169331) | 267
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what criminal records checks are made on non-UK citizens seeking to enter the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. | | (168809) | 268
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of removing the requirement for interviews by entry clearance officers of visa applicants on UK security; and if he will make a statement. | | (169119) | 269
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to encourage rebel groups to implement a ceasefire and engage in the negotiation of a political settlement to the conflict in Darfur, Sudan. | | (169109) | 270
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of (a) the feasibility of establishing and (b) the means of enforcing a no-fly zone over Darfur, Sudan; what his policy is on the matter; and if he will make a statement. | | (169106) | 271
N | Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15th November 2007, Official Report, column 392W, on Middle East: peace negotiations, what rank or grade is held by the seconded civil servants to Mr Blair's office; what their combined salary and expenses costs have been; from what budget these costs are being drawn; what financial and logistical contributions have been made by (a) the United States of America, (b) Russia and (c) the European Union to the United Nations Development Programme Trust Fund to support the work of Mr Blair and his office; and if he will make a statement. | | (168454) | 272
N | Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what mechanisms his Department has in place to assess the costs and benefits of the services provided to the Government by private military security companies; and if he will make a statement. | | (168455) | 273
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the target processing time is for non-straightforward visa applications for Moroccan nationals; and what the average processing time was for such applications in the last 12 months. | | (169576) | 274
| Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 requiring investigation there have been in the last five years in his Department; what the nature of such breaches were; and what the results of the investigations were in each case. | | (169258) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 275
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what files are held by his Department on the Abortion Act 1967; and if he will make a statement. | | (169534) | 276
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many human embryos were created specifically for the purposes of research in each year since the passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. | | (169603) | 277
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which (a) diseases and (b) conditions were treated using materials created by research on (i) embryonic stem cells and (ii) adult stem cells in each year since 1997. | | (169604) | 278
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what files are held by his Department on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill of session 1989-90. | | (169605) | 279
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169223) | 280
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations were cancelled at each London hospital within (a) seven days and (b) 24 hours of the appointment in each of the last five years. | | (169375) | 281
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many midwives worked in each London primary care trust on the 1st July in each of the last 10 years. | | (169376) | 282
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England. | | (169377) | 283
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the role of Assura Group is in the NHS; and if he will make a statement. | | (169118) | 284
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the levels of expenditure by private companies on primary care premises and polyclinics; and if he will make a statement. | | (169195) | 285
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what targets the Government sets for waiting times for cancer patients requiring diagnostic endoscopies; and what the average waiting time was for cancer patients awaiting diagnostic endoscopies by the Royal Cornwall Trust in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (169400) | 286
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, columns 612-4W, on NHS Treatment Centres: Cornwall, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of the transfer of waiting list patients from the Royal Cornwall Trust to the Independent Sector Treatment Centre on the funding that the Royal Cornwall Trust receives through the Payment by Results system. | | (169401) | 287
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to raise awareness of Marfan syndrome among medical professionals. | | (169340) | 288
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who is able to gain access to the NHS medical records of individuals; what procedures are involved in accessing those records; and how his Department monitors access. | | (169000) | 289
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contractual arrangements the NHS has in place to allow the Commercial Director of the NHS, Chan Wheeler, to participate in the legal actions in which he is involved in the United States of America. | | (169497) | 290
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) his Department and (b) NHS trusts spent on English language classes for staff in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (169557) | 291
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people sat the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board test in each testing centre in each of the last five years. | | (169563) | 292
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for (a) inpatient admissions at the East Kent NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and (b) inpatient mental health services in England in 2006; and if he will make a statement. | | (169567) | 293
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to include women between the ages of 18 and 26 years in the human papilloma virus vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (169364) | 294
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 20th November 2007, Official Report, column 820W, on consent to medical treatment, which primary care trusts have put in place procedures for implementing the Mental Capacity Act 2005. | | (169471) | 295
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when (a) Peterborough District Hospital and (b) Edith Cavell Hospital can expect to receive their deep cleans; and if he will make a statement. | | (168808) | 296
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the submissions to the 2004 consultation Proposals to Exclude Overseas Visitors from Eligibility to Free NHS Primary Medical Services. | | (169116) | 297
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to make adjustments to the distribution of units of dental activity across different dental functions in light of the experience of the April 2006 dental contracts. | | (169262) | 298
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the April 2006 dental contract on the provision of maintenance dental activities, including screening for oral cancer, preventing decay and monitoring children's dental growth and need for orthodontics. | | (169263) | 299
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the April 2006 dental contract on (a) existing and (b) newly-established dental practices. | | (169264) | 300
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total shortfall of units of dental activity (UDAs) was among NHS dentists in England who did not undertake the contracted number of UDAs in the financial year 2006-07. | | (169265) | 301
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what average number of units of dental activity (UDAs) undertaken was as a percentage of the contracted number of UDAs for NHS dentists in England in the financial year 2006-07. | | (169266) | 302
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dentists in England face clawbacks of funding under the April 2006 dental contracts for the financial year 2006-07 who work in dental practices established (a) prior to and (b) after April 2006. | | (169267) | 303
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dentists in England face clawbacks of funding under the April 2006 dental contract for the financial year 2006-07. | | (169268) | 304
| Mr Ian McCartney (Makerfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) name, (b) employment background, (c) ethnicity, (d) gender and (e) political affiliation, if any, is of each person appointed to the boards of (i) NHS acute trusts, (ii) primary care trusts and (iii) mental health trusts in North West of England since 2001. | | (169211) | 305
N | Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 20th November 2007, Official Report, column 829W, on malnutrition, if he will break down the figures for 2005-06 by NHS trust. | | (168070) | 306
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when Food Standards Agency officials proposed that Ministers from his Department should meet representatives of consumers of food supplements to discuss the setting of maximum permitted levels for nutrients in such supplements; and for what reasons no date for such a meeting has been set. | | (169179) | 307
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which member states of the European Union have indicated they will support the United Kingdom's objective for and approach to the setting of maximum permitted levels for vitamins and minerals in food supplements; what progress has been made on achievement of the UK's objectives; and if he will make a statement. | | (169180) | 308
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which Minister in his Department has responsibility for the the achievement of his objectives for setting maximum permitted levels for nutrients in food supplements; and what discussions that Minister has had with (a) the European Commission and (b) other EU member state governments on the matter. | | (169181) | 309
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department requires its employees to retire at the latest at 65 years of age; and if he will make a statement. | | (169618) | 310
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to receive the report into the findings of the National Treatment Agency survey into drug treatment projects. | | (169574) | 311
N | Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by what mechanisms Monitor is held accountable to Parliament. | | (168570) | 312
| Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children in (a) the East of England and (b) Suffolk were prescribed Ritalin in each of the last five years. | | (169570) | 313
| Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many care homes in Suffolk have closed in the last five years. | | (169571) | 314
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the next Government Professional Health Reform Implementation Programme National Advisory Conference will take place; and what steps he is taking to ensure the representation of the public and patients. | | (169177) | 315
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the final reports to Ministers from the chairpersons of each of the seven Government Professional Health Reform Implementation Programme work streams are required to reflect a consensus position of all chairpersons. | | (169186) | 316
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what responses his Department has received as a result of the work of each of the seven Government Professional Health Reform Implementation Programme work streams; and what the dates were of those responses. | | (169187) | 317
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which representatives of which public and patient organisations attended each of the seven Government Professional Health Reform Implementation Programme work streams; when each was invited to participate; how many of these meetings each attended; what estimate he has made of the period of time between the receipt of papers for meetings and the dates of those meetings; and whether patient and public representatives have been given opportunities to make formal presentations at those meetings. | | (169188) | 318
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to enhance public and patient confidence in each of the seven Government Professional Health Reform Implementation Programme work streams. | | (169194) | 319
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the financial position of Brent Teaching Primary Care Trust. | | (169301) | 320
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 20th November 2007 to the hon. Member for Yeovil, Official Report, columns 837-8W, on ritalin: children, if he will break down the number of children prescribed ritalin in each year since 1999 by primary care trust. | | (169168) | 321
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of pharmaceutical regulations on dispensing doctors' surgeries; and if he will make a statement. | | (169252) | 322
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of sexually transmitted diseases were diagnosed in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) primary care trust and (b) type of disease. | | (169282) | 323
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) dentists and (b) orthodontists provided services to the NHS in each of the last five years, broken down by primary care trust. | | (169284) | 324
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for orthodontic treatment on the NHS was in each of the last five years, broken down by primary care trust. | | (169285) | 325
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to introduce screening for mouth cancer. | | (169121) | 326
| Jeremy Wright (Rugby & Kenilworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that the version of the patient record that can be accessed by the patient can be invisibly edited so that selected information can be removed at the patient's request, while remaining visible in the summary care record accessible to clinicians. | | (169178) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 327
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent meetings she has had with the Director of Public Prosecutions on (a) terrorism and (b) an increase of the 28 days maximun pre-charge detention of suspected terrorists; what the (i) location and (ii) duration of each meeting was; whether a record of each meeting was kept; who attended each meeting; what the cost was of each meeting, broken down by (A) administrative costs and (B) other costs; and if she will make a statement. | | (169432) | 328
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what legislation she may (a) deny entry to the UK to and (b) deport from the UK people whose presence is not conducive to the public good; on what occasions each power has been used in each year since 1990; and if she will make a statement. | | (169454) | 329
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will deny entry to the UK to Ibrahim Moussawi; what recent representations she has received about this person; and if she will make a statement. | | (169455) | 330
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislation to give the Secretary of State for the Home Department powers to remove the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis from office; what recent representations she has received about the matter; and if she will make a statement. | | (169456) | 331
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she proposes to review how her Department transports data; and whether her Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169222) | 332
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many SO19 officers are currently suspended from duty; and what percentage of the total SO19 squad those suspensions represent for each police force. | | (169246) | 333
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police community support officers there were in London on 1st October (a) 2004, (b) 2005, (c) 2006 and (d) 2007. | | (169247) | 334
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police cells and (b) custody suites there are in each London borough. | | (169271) | 335
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have had with the Metropolitan Police on proposals for police officers to meet identified gang members to discuss levels of gang related violence; and if she will make a statement. | | (169483) | 336
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to receive the report she has commissioned from the President of the Association of Chief Police Officers, on gun and gang crime. | | (169484) | 337
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the membership of the Tackling Gangs Action Programme is; and what terms of reference have been given to the unit. | | (169485) | 338
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which community projects have been identified to receive the £1 million of additional funding announced on 9th September to help combat gun and gang crime. | | (169486) | 339
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support parents in challenging the behaviour of their children who are gang members or at risk of becoming gang members; and how much her Department has committed to such initiatives in the last 12 months. | | (169487) | 340
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what percentage of police officers in each police force area left the police force within two years of joining in each of the last 10 years. | | (168640) | 341
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average (a) length of service and (b) retirement age was for police constables in each of the last 10 years. | | (168641) | 342
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many grants of the right to remain in the UK were issued to applicants who entered the UK as work permit holders in each year since 2000. | | (169292) | 343
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14th November 2007, Official Report, columns 583-4W, on foreign workers: EU nationals, what her most recent estimate is of the number of dependants aged under 17 years residing in the UK with A8 nationals working in the UK. | | (169336) | 344
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average occupancy rate was of police custody suites in (a) Wales, (b) Dyfed-Powys police area and (c) Pembrokeshire in (i) 2006 and (ii) since 1st January 2007. | | (166249) | 345
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the capacity is of police custody units in (a) Wales, (b) Dyfed-Powys police area and (c) Pembrokeshire. | | (166250) | 346
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what checks her Department and its agencies make on the immigration status of couriers working within her Department and its agencies; and if she will make a statement. | | (169552) | 347
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many couriers working for or within her Department and its agencies were found to be illegal immigrants in each of the last five years. | | (169553) | 348
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times (a) her Department and (b) the Border and Immigration Agency lost or misplaced databases relating to (i) British citizens and (i) foreign nationals in each of the last five years; what information, relating to how many people, was held on lost or misplaced databases; and if she will make a statement. | | (169554) | 349
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials in her Department are authorised to access electronic files and databases relating to an individual's (a) immigration status, (b) asylum application and (c) passport application; and if she will make a statement. | | (169555) | 350
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department and its agencies (a) investigated, (b) disciplined and (c) dismissed for matters relating to unauthorised or attempted unauthorised access to files or databases containing personal information in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (169556) | 351
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many electronic and computer files her Department and its agencies lost in transit in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (169558) | 352
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people working for or on behalf of her Department and its agencies were (a) investigated, (b) disciplined and (c) dismissed for losing or misplacing sensitive personal data in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (169559) | 353
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department and its agencies were (a) investigated, (b) disciplined and (c) dismissed for not following practice and protocols when handling files and databases containing personal information on members of the public in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (169560) | 354
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) Government organisations and providers and (b) private sector providers her Department and its agencies use for postal and courier services; which of these have lost her Department's files, documents or databases containing personal information in the last five years; what information, relating to how many people, has been lost or mislaid in the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (169561) | 355
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many forged UK passports, including biometrics, have been detected and cancelled since November 2006. | | (169566) | 356
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Reading East of 8th October 2007, Official Report, column 169W, on prisons: deportation; when the Chief Executive of the Border and Immigration Agency will next update the Home Affairs Committee on the position of foreign national prisoners in the immigration detention estate. | | (169602) | 357
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what percentage of police officers were off work for longer than a week as a result of injuries sustained whilst on duty in each police force in England in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (169214) | 358
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how often overseas centres, approved to supply non-human primates to human laboratories in the UK, is revisited by her Department's inspectors. | | (169543) | 359
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal wildlife items were seized in the United Kingdom in each year since 2000; and if she will make a statement. | | (169548) | 360
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons her Department has decided to end the work of the Research and Alternatives Sub-committee of the Animal Procedures Committee. | | (169586) | 361
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what infringements there have been of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 since 1997; and if she will make a statement. | | (169590) | 362
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for information held on the national DNA database her Department received from other countries in each year since 2004. | | (169351) | 363
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests have been made to chief constables for the removal of (a) DNA and (b) police national computer records since 2006; and how many of these requests have been granted. | | (169352) | 364
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what she plans the next steps of the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy to be; and what stage each one has reached. | | (169176) | 365
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to help prevent internet fraud; and if she will make a statement. | | (169249) | 366
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list each legislative measure the UK needs to take to ensure it is ready to ratify the European Convention on Action against trafficking in Human Beings; and how many of those measures are contained in the Bills scheduled for the 2007-08 Session. | | (169283) | 367
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals residing in Scotland were (a) issued with deportation orders and (b) subject to forced returns to Iraq in each month since January 2006. | | (169479) | 368
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Iraqi and (b) Afghan nationals were granted asylum in (i) the last 12 months for which figures are available and (ii) each of the previous six years. | | (169480) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 369
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much the Medical Research Council (MRC) has spent on research using (a) human embryos, (b) adult stem cells and (c) umbilical cord blood in each year since the coming into force of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990; and how much the MRC plans to spend in each category of research in each of the next three years. | | (169468) | 370
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 573W, on sector skills council: licensing, whether the Commission for Employment and Skills will be taking over from the Sector Skills Development Agency all its licensing functions; and whether the relicensing programme for sector skills councils will be a rolling process. | | (169426) | 371
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assistance is afforded by his Department to UK-based students who wish to travel abroad for short periods to support their studies or career development potential or for volunteering and cannot afford the cost. | | (169427) | 372
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169221) | 373
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many students from each London borough entering higher education applied for loans from the Student Loans Company in each year since 1997. | | (169231) | 374
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what percentage of 18 to 22 year olds from each London borough were studying at university (a) in 1997 and (b) at the latest dates for which figures are available. | | (169233) | 375
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that residents from each London borough will have the requisite skills to take advantage of jobs resulting from the Olympics in 2012; and if he will make a statement. | | (169236) | 376
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many apprenticeships were created in each London borough in each of the last three years. | | (169370) | 377
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what estimate he has made of the debt owed to the Student Loans Company by residents of each London borough. | | (169371) | 378
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what percentage of 18 to 24 year olds in West Chelmsford constituency are in full-time education; and what the figures were in each of the last five years. | | (168456) | 379
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, if he will make a statement on the Department's proposal to stop funding at Higher Education Funding Council for England level for students undertaking study for equivalent or lower level qualifications at the Open University; what impact assessment he has made of the decisions with particular reference to students from lower income backgrounds and part-time students; and what other funding sources are available to those people. | | (169609) | 380
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, when he plans to assess the effectiveness of the recently introduced changes to the provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages. | | (169608) | 381
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what steps the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and universities are taking to address the gaps in Islamic studies teaching and research highlighted in the report Islam at Universities in England - meeting the needs and investing in the future; and how the HEFCE intends to spend the £1 million the Government committed to this work in June 2007. | | (169611) | 382
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, when the Higher Education Funding Council for England plans to respond to the recommendations of the report Islam at Universities in England. | | (169612) | 383
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much was charged in variable tuition fees in 2006, broken down by (a) university and (b) course. | | (169592) | 384
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of overseas students who had to withdraw from a course at a UK university due to delays in receiving their visa and (b) the number of overseas students who applied for university courses in the UK and subsequently applied for a student visa (i) successfully and (ii) unsuccessfully in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169594) | 385
| Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 requiring investigation there have been in the last five years in his Department; what the nature of such breaches were; and what the results of the investigations were in each case. | | (169255) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 386
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169220) | 387
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what meetings have occurred between his Department and officials from the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries about economic partnership agreements; and what the outcomes were. | | [R] (169172) | 388
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how economic partnership agreements will be ratified if signed; and what the role of Parliament will be in the ratification process. | | [R] (169173) | 389
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that any African, Caribbean or Pacific country unable to sign an economic partnership agreement by the end of 2007 does not experience more restricted market access into the EU from 1st January 2008. | | (169621) | 390
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support his Department has provided to (a) Animals Aid Foundation and (b) China Wildlife Conservation Association in relation to bear bile farming in China. | | (169363) | 391
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions his Department has had with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (169496) | 392
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the humanitarian situation in Darfur, Sudan. | | (169111) | 393
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations the Government has made to NATO on logistical support for the UN-African Union force in Darfur, Sudan. | | (169112) | 394
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations the Government has made to the UN Security Council to expedite the deployment of an effective UN-African Union force to Darfur, Sudan. | | (169113) | 395
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the likelihood that the UN-African Union force will be able to deploy in full strength in Darfur, Sudan by January 2008. | | (169114) | 396
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what air and ground transport capacity the Government (a) has provided and (b) plans to provide to the UN-African Union force in Darfur, Sudan. | | (169115) | 397
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan; and if he will make a statement. | | (169107) | 398
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department allocated to support work with refugees from (a) Iraq, (b) Afghanistan, (c) Sudan and (d) Somalia in each of the last 10 years. | | (169440) | 399
| Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 requiring investigation there have been in the last five years in his Department; what the nature of such breaches were; and what the results of the investigations were in each case. | | (169256) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 400
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169219) | 401
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) police cells and (b) custody suites in each London borough were occupied by serving prisoners who had been given a custodial sentence at the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (169272) | 402
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cells in police custody units in (a) Wales, (b) Dyfed-Powys police area and (c) Pembrokeshire are reserved for prisoners. | | (166246) | 403
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many days police custody suites in (a) Wales, (b) Dyfed-Powys police area and (c) Pembrokeshire have been used to accommodate prisoners in 2007. | | (166247) | 404
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been accommodated in police custody suites in (a) Wales, (b) Dyfed-Powys police area and (c) Pembrokeshire in 2007. | | (166248) | 405
| Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners absconded from HM Prison Hollesley Bay in each of the last six years. | | (169091) | 406
| Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how long each of those prisoners who have absconded from HM Prison Hollesley Bay in the last six years had left to serve of their sentences at the point at which they absconded. | | (169092) | 407
| Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, of what crimes those prisoners who have absconded from HM Prison Hollesley Bay in the last six years had been convicted. | | (169093) | 408
| Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners who have absconded from HM Prison Hollesley Bay in the last six years remain at large. | | (169094) | 409
| Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how long on average prisoners who have absconded from HM Prison Hollesley Bay in the last six years have been at large. | | (169095) | 410
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent in each prison on translation and interpretation services in the last year for which figures are available in the prison estate; and if he will make a statement. | | (168948) | 411
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Courts Service spent on translation and interpretation services in Cambridgeshire in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (168949) | 412
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what basic skills education and training courses are (a) available and (b) planned for prisoners at HMP Peterborough; and if he will make a statement. | | (169564) | 413
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the latest estimate is of the cost of the new courts centre in Salisbury. | | (169290) | 414
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of those convicted of burglary received a custodial sentence in each of the last 10 years in (a) England and Wales and (b) North West Cambridgeshire. | | (169251) | 415
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released from prison early by mistake over the last five years; how early the release was in each case; and of what offences each prisoner had been convicted. | | (169601) | Questions to the Leader of the House 416
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Leader of the House, whether she plans to allow regional ministers to answer written parliamentary questions from hon. Members. | | (169598) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 417
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169224) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 418
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, if she will place in the Library a list of gifts and hospitality given by members of the Olympic Delivery Authority; and if she will make a statement. | | (169374) | Questions to the Prime Minister 419
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, for what reasons Question 167389 on the cross-Government working group on anti-semitism, was transferred to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government; what criteria he uses when deciding to transfer a Question; how many Questions tabled to him have been transferred to other Government Ministers since June 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (169532) | 420
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Prime Minister, whether he proposes to review how his Office transports data; and whether his Office uses TNT to transport data. | | (169229) | 421
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Prime Minister, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in his Office. | | (169502) | 422
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Prime Minister, on what dates he has consulted the (a) Director of Public Prosecutions, (b) the Attorney General and (c) the Solicitor General on Government proposals to increase the number of days a suspect may be held under anti-terror legislation since June 2007. | | (169253) | 423
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Prime Minister, how many meetings he has had with trades union leaders since 27th June; which leaders he met; when and where such meetings took place; and if he will make a statement. | | (169286) | Questions to the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission 424
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, what plans the National Audit Office (NAO) has to review the practices involved in transporting data; whether the NAO (a) uses and (b) plans to continue to use TNT to transport data; and what plans it has to put the transportation of confidential data out to tender. | | (169387) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 425
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169386) | 426
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Executive on the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. | | (167469) | 427
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what his official engagements were between 1st and 21st November 2007. | | (169460) | 428
N | Mr David Marshall (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if his Department will bring forward proposals for the Government to assist with the holding of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014; and if he will make a statement. | | (167464) | Questions to the Solicitor General 429
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Solicitor General, what plans her Department has to review the practices involved in transporting data; whether the Law Officers' Department (a) uses and (b) plans to continue to use TNT to transport data; and what plans it has to put the transportation of confidential data out to tender. | | (169385) | 430
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Solicitor General, how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in the Law Officers' Departments. | | (169503) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 431
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she proposes to review how her Department transports data; and whether her Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169384) | 432
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what expansion plans her Department has for Bristol International Airport; and if she will make a statement. | | (169448) | 433
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what categories of information her Department and its agencies hold on individuals; who has access to that information in each case; and how the individuals concerned can ascertain (a) by whom and (b) for what purposes data held on them has been accessed. | | (168999) | 434
| Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the setting of the world steam record. | | (169105) | 435
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will urge South West Trains to replace the Desiro Class 450 units on the Portsmouth to London services in the interests of passenger comfort. | | (169337) | 436
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether, under the terms of their franchise, South West Trains is permitted to close the travel centre at Salisbury Railway Station (a) without consultation and (b) without equivalent alternative arrangements being made. | | (169287) | 437
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much revenue was raised through fines issued by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency due to the failure of registered keepers of cars to notify them of changes in car ownership in each of the last three years. | | (169402) | 438
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many extra flights she has estimated will pass through the airspace of each London borough if a third runway is built at Heathrow Airport per (a) hour, (b) week and (c) year. | | (169299) | 439
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will place in the Library information on the proposed flightpaths that would be created to serve a third runway at Heathrow Airport. | | (169300) | 440
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the likely change in the number of journeys made by (a) car, (b) train, (c) bus and (d) aircraft in each of the next 10 years. | | (169250) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 441
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what plans his Department has to review the practices involved in transporting data; whether his Department (a) uses and (b) plans to continue to use TNT to transport data; and what plans it has to put the transportation of confidential data out to tender. | | (169382) | 442
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to the Answer of 14th November 2007, Official Report, column 312W, on departmental consultations, when he plans to place copies of the 18 responses in the Library. | | (169579) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 443
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on (a) advice on and (b) overall implementation of local housing allowance in the nine pathfinder areas. | | (169088) | 444
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what costs his Department incurred in recruiting the Chair designate of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission. | | (169096) | 445
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he proposes to review how his Department transports data; and whether his Department uses TNT to transport data. | | (169381) | 446
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) UK nationals, (b) non-UK EU nationals and (c) non-EU nationals were in (i) full-time employment and (b) part-time employment in the UK in each year since 1995; and what the percentage rate of change was for UK nationals in each type of employment as a proportion of the UK working age population in each of those years. | | (169293) | 447
| Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will assess the merits of providing financial support to terminally ill people without an estate, next of kin or life insurance to allow them to make personal arrangements for their funerals. | | (169379) | 448
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department makes available to people with Marfan syndrome in job applications. | | (169342) | 449
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what provisions are in place for people with Marfan syndrome to access disability living allowance. | | (169343) | 450
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the reasons were for the decision to terminate the contracts of suppliers of translation services to his Department and change the procurement process for these services. | | (169435) | 451
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what rate per 1,000 words is charged by the companies employed to translate documents for his Department. | | (169436) | 452
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what rate was paid to translators per 1,000 words providing direct services to his Department in the last 12 months. | | (169437) | 453
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which companies have been awarded a formal contract for providing translation services to his Department. | | (169438) | 454
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which translators carried out work for his Department in each of the last three years; and how much was paid to those translators. | | (169439) | 455
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library the evidential sources for his statement that there are 600,000 vacancies in the economy in each month. | | (169498) | 456
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the £960 million in efficiency savings that his Department is projected to make under the Spending Review 2004 efficiency review is cashable. | | (169506) | 457
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of staff at the Bolton Child Support Agency offices were employed (a) on permanent contracts, (b) on temporary contracts and (c) via an employment agency in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (169334) | 458
| Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to (a) increase the availability of and (b) improve the distribution of bereavement benefit claim forms; and if he will make a statement. | | (169291) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 459
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what transitional agreements will be made with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries that are not ready to sign economic partnership agreements by the end of 2007. | | [Transferred] (169122) | 460
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether his Department plans to revise ETSU R-97 as it relates to existing and planned wind turbine installations. | | [Transferred] (169212) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 461
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to ring-fence the additional revenue his Department will receive as a consequence of bringing forward the introduction of an Upper Accruals Point for the State Second Pension for future pensions spending; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (169499) | 462
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the revenue generated from landfill tax revenue in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07 has been allocated to the Business Resource Efficiency and Waste programme. | | [Transferred] (169403) | 463
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total amount of landfill tax revenue was in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07; and how much of that revenue in each year was allocated to his Department. | | [Transferred] (169404) | 464
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the likely income from landfill tax in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09. | | [Transferred] (169405) | 465
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the income from landfill tax in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09 has been allocated to the Business Resource Efficiency and Waste programme. | | [Transferred] (169406) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 466
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when he plans to introduce the scheme announced in the 2006 Pre-Budget Report to reduce tuition fees for students participating in volunteering schemes. | | [Transferred] (169593) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 467
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when her Department plans to carry out an area action plan on Bristol International Airport. | | [Transferred] (169447) | 468
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, who was invited to take part in the consultation on the Government's draft legislative programme by 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] (169595) | 469
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations she has received on central government policy relevant to economic growth and sustainable development from 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] (169597) | 470
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which high level events have been attended by 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] (169599) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 471
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what definition he uses of minimum welfare standards for performing animals, as referred to in the recent Report of the Chairman of the Circus Working Group; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (169541) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 472
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on a defence capabilities charter for the EU. | | [Transferred] (169466) | 473
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in what forum he expects to discuss a framework for nuclear disarmament with (a) India, (b) Pakistan and (c) Israel; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (169362) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 474
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the involvement of Assura Group with primary care trusts. | | [Transferred] (169117) | 475
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what controls the Government has put in place to prevent genetically modified food from entering the food chain through the use of animal feed that has been GM derived; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (169227) | 476
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to investigate supermarkets' food labelling claims to ensure that GM-derived food is not marketed as GM free. | | [Transferred] (169228) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 477
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many criminal proceedings involving alleged ticket touting at football matches under section 166 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 have been pursued since the Act came into force; and how many convictions have been secured. | | [Transferred] (169533) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 478
| Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many local authorities offered concessionary fees for adult education courses for people over the age of 65 years in the 12 month period (a) before and (b) after the introduction of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. | | [Transferred] (169495) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 479
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the Environmental Transformation Fund has been earmarked for adaptation in developing countries. | | [Transferred] (169297) | 480
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when the UK is to ratify the UN Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. | | [Transferred] (169298) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 481
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20th November 2007, Official Report, column 820W, on consent to medical treatment, when he expects the Public Guardian to produce the first annual report on the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. | | [Transferred] (169470) | 482
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of young people supervised under the auspices of the Youth Offending Teams who habitually use cannabis; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (169481) |
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