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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Thursday 29 November 2007
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 29 November 2007
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Thursday 29 November of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Thursday 29 November of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Thursday 29 November see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he expects to develop a strategy on heat as indicated in the Energy White Paper; and what the timetable is for its production. | | (169729) | 2
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which (a) Department and (b) Minister has lead responsibility for reducing heat emissions. | | (169847) | 3
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will publish in full the Office of Climate Change report on sustainable heat. | | (169943) | 4
| Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer from the Minister of 13th November 2007, Official Report, columns 132-3W, on post offices: York, when he expects the Managing Director of Post Office Limited to reply to the question. | | (169688) | 5
N | Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he expects to receive the report of the inspectors appointed by Ministers under section 432 of the Companies Act 1985 to investigate and report on the affairs of Phoenix Venture Holdings Ltd, MG Rover Limited and related companies; what progress has been made with the inquiry; and if he will make a statement. | | (169519) | 6
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170160) | 7
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been from his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (169899) | 8
| Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what terms he has laid down for specialist staff to be selected, trained and employed in those post offices which are being moved into WH Smith retail operations. | | (169971) | 9
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170241) | 10
N | Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, for what reasons he has instructed Post Office Ltd not to make announcements on proposed post office closures during the period 2nd April to 1st May 2008 in areas which have no local elections on 1st May 2008. | | (169475) | 11
N | Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many responses have been received to the six-week consultation over proposed post office closures in the Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Area Plan. | | (169476) | 12
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps his Department is taking to encourage fathers of young children to exercise their right to parental leave. | | (169920) | 13
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps his Department is taking to encourage fathers of young children to take advantage of the right to request flexible working. | | (169921) | 14
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many men have exercised their right to take paid paternity leave in the last three years; and what proportion of eligible men this figure represented in each year. | | (169922) | 15
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many (a) women and (b) men have exercised their right to request flexible working on the grounds of being a carer. | | (169923) | 16
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many (a) women and (b) men have taken advantage of the right to request flexible working on the basis of having a young child. | | (169924) | 17
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate his Department has made of the percentage of (a) people and (b) children from socio-economic groups (i) 1-3 and (ii) 4-7 with access to (A) internet and (B) broadband (1) nationally and (2) in London. | | (169819) | 18
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the future viability of businesses currently housing post offices once they are removed under the closure plans in Sussex. | | (169684) | 19
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether the economic impact on local business resulting from the closure of post offices was taken into account when deciding on the policy to close 2,500 post offices. | | (169685) | 20
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the economic effect on local businesses of the closure of post offices in Sussex. | | (169686) | 21
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what criteria the Government has set out to ensure that people with disabilities have continued access to post office facilities under the proposals to close services in Sussex. | | (169687) | 22
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will make a statement on the Post Office's compliance with the Cabinet Office's good practice guidance on public consultations in relation to its current consultation in Sussex. | | (170121) | 23
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will take steps to ensure that full information on the proposed closure of post offices in Sussex be delivered to every household in affected areas. | | (170122) | 24
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the environmental impact of the proposed closure of post offices in Sussex arising from increased travelling. | | (170123) | 25
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if his Department will provide additional resources for public transport in those areas where post offices are closed. | | (170124) | 26
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what pre-consultation preparation (a) the Government required and (b) was undertaken by Royal Mail before the public consultation on post office closures in Sussex was launched. | | (170126) | 27
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of the travel times to alternative post offices quoted in the documents supporting the post office's network change programme. | | (170131) | 28
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how the proportion of elderly people in affected communities was reflected in the Government's criteria for post office closures. | | (170132) | 29
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will ask Post Office Ltd to extend the period of consultation on the closure of post offices in Sussex to at least 12 weeks. | | (170133) | 30
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will reconsider the closure of post offices where there is significant public opposition to the closure plans. | | (170134) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 31
N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many child benefit claimants in each London borough are affected by the loss of bank details by HM Revenue and Customs; and if he will make a statement. | | (169313) | 32
N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether a reward has (a) been offered and (b) been proposed for the finder of the two compact discs containing confidential child benefit information; and if he will make a statement. | | (169314) | 33
N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, who will bear the costs to the banks of the increased customer activity due to the loss of two compact discs containing confidential child benefit information; and if he will make a statement. | | (169315) | 34
N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) children and (b) adults in each (i) London borough and (ii) Government region have had their personal details lost in the recent security breach at HM Revenue and Customs. | | (169316) | 35
N | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of the individuals' records missing in the transfer of information from HM Revenues and Customs are of (a) adults and (b) children. | | (168457) | 36
N | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many of the individuals' records missing in the transfer of information from HM Revenues and Customs national insurance numbers were recorded. | | (168458) | 37
N | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, to what year the earliest child benefit case whose records were recently misplaced by HM Revenue and Customs dates back. | | (168559) | 38
N | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for how long information on individuals who are claimants of any benefits or tax credits is stored after they cease to be claimants; and what measures are taken to destroy these records. | | (168560) | 39
N | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): 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, how many of the individuals' records missing in the transfer of information from HM Revenue and Customs are (a) current and (b) former claimants of child benefit. | | (168561) | 40
| Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost of removing the data which was not required by the National Audit Office from the discs that recently went missing from HM Revenue and Customs. | | (169766) | 41
| Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost of sending letters to the families affected by the recent loss of data by HM Revenue and Customs. | | (169767) | 42
| Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in West Chelmsford constituency were paid less than the minimum wage in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169769) | 43
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many electronic databases within his Department contain (a) names, (b) addresses, (c) bank details and (d) other personal information on members of the public. | | (169710) | 44
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when each electronic database in his Department containing personal information on members of the public was first created. | | (169711) | 45
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many security breaches relating to access to personal data occurred within his Department in each year since 1997. | | (169712) | 46
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff of each grade have access to electronic databases in his Department which contain personal information on members of the public. | | (169713) | 47
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times databases in his Department containing personal information on members of the public were accessed in each month of the last five years. | | (169714) | 48
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times databases in his Department containing personal information on members of the public were transferred (a) physically and (b) electronically in each year since 1997. | | (169715) | 49
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many requests his Department received from the National Audit Office for access to its databases containing personal information on members of the public in each year since 1997. | | (169716) | 50
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what mechanisms his Department has in place to ensure that its databases containing personal information on members of the public are not accessed by (a) unauthorised staff and (b) authorised staff for unauthorised purposes. | | (169717) | 51
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many EU A8 nationals registered on the worker registration scheme and in receipt of (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit (i) gave notice of a change of circumstances and (ii) gave notice of their departure from the UK within one year of being granted these credits in each year since the inception of the worker registration scheme. | | (169302) | 52
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the population densities are expected to be of (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) Scotland, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland on the basis of the change in population forecast by the Government Actuary Department and the Office for National Statistics in 2031; what the respective population densities are currently; and if he will rank the UK in terms of the 2007 population density of each EU member state, giving the population density for each member state. | | (169303) | 53
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many EU A8 nationals have received (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit in each year since the inception of the worker registration scheme; and what (i) the total expenditure on these credits for EU A8 nationals and (b) the average amount of each credit received by successful EU A8 applicants was. | | (169304) | 54
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many EU A8 nationals registered on the worker registration scheme who have been granted (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit did not renew their application for these credits at the end of their first year of receipt of them in each year since the inception of the worker registration scheme. | | (169305) | 55
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, columns 583-4W, on foreign workers: EU nationals, what was (a) the number of people of working age in employment, (b) the working age population and (c) the working age population employment rate of (i) the UK, (ii) UK citizens, (iii) UK born citizens, (iv) non-UK citizens and (v) EU A8 citizens was in each year since 2001. | | (169408) | 56
| Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on market testing the data collection activities of the Office of National Statistics; and if he will make a statement. | | (170130) | 57
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the role is of the Director of Information Technology at HM Revenue and Customs; what his salary is; how many staff there are in his team; and what responsibility he had for the systems in operation prior to the loss of child benefit data. | | (170011) | 58
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the implications are, including sums involved, of the Office of National Statistics reclassifying Metronet and Tubelines costs from the private sector to the public sector for National Accounts purposes. | | (170013) | 59
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to require insurance companies and banks to establish effective arrangements for the tracing of unclaimed savings and insurance policies. | | (170217) | 60
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 29th October 2007, Official Report, column 905W, on HM Revenue and Customs: security, if he will disaggregate the 2,111 reported breaches of security recorded between HM Revenue and Customs' various offices. | | (169776) | 61
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Civil Service grades have permission to download to CD-ROM information on the child benefit database at HM Revenue and Customs; what checks they are required to undertake; which protection mechanisms they should use; and what evaluation he has made of the suitability of current arrangements for such data transfer. | | (169780) | 62
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons the helpline number 0845 302 1444 for enquiring about child benefit database concerns is a premium rate line; if he will ensure that people are able to call the helpline at local tariff rates; and if he will make a statement. | | (169726) | 63
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170244) | 64
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent on the Crosby Public-Private Forum on Identity Management to date. | | (169862) | 65
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many items placed with mail carriers for delivery by HM Revenue and Customs in the last 12 months did not reach their intended destination. | | (169863) | 66
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people are employed by HM Revenue and Customs to monitor deliveries placed with mail carriers and at what cost to his Department in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169864) | 67
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list all mail carriers employed by HM Revenue and Customs to handle outgoing mail. | | (169939) | 68
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how HM Revenue and Customs allocates deliveries to mail carriers employed to handle outgoing mail. | | (169944) | 69
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170225) | 70
| Mr Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make representations to the pensions regulator to ensure that existing and future liabilities of the pension schemes of those employed by Northern Rock are fully funded. | | [R] (169849) | 71
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of millionaires resident in the Peterborough City Council area. | | (169826) | 72
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average wage was for persons aged between 16 and 25 years (a) in total and (b) for those (i) with and (ii) without higher education qualifications in each parliamentary constituency in the Eastern region in each year since 1997. | | (169827) | 73
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what percentage of London residents (a) with and (b) without British citizenship migrated to (i) other regions of the UK and (ii) outside the UK in each of the last 10 years. | | (169671) | 74
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what percentage of British citizens migrated from other regions of the UK to London in each of the last 10 years, broken down by (a) sex and (b) age. | | (169672) | 75
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many non-UK domiciled persons became resident in London in each of the last 10 years for (a) fewer than 12 months and (b) more than 12 months. | | (169673) | 76
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what percentage of (a) males and (b) females residing in London were (i) under five, (ii) between five and 15, (iii) between 15 and 20, (iv) between 20 and 44, (v) between 45 and 65 and (vi) over 66 years of age in each of the last 10 years available, broken down by borough. | | (169674) | 77
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the population turnover rates were of each London borough in each of the last five years, broken down by age group. | | (169675) | 78
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was distributed under the Barnett formula to (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland as a result of expenditure on London in each of the last 10 years. | | (169820) | 79
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) 16, (b) 17, (c) 18, (d) 19, (e) 20, (f) 21, (g) 22, (h) 23 and (i) 24 year old (i) women and (ii) men were in employment but not receiving education or training in each London borough in each of the last 10 years. | | (169823) | 80
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) 16, (b) 17, (c) 18, (d) 19, (e) 20, (f) 21, (g) 22, (h) 23 and (i) 24 year old (i) women and (ii) men were not in education, employment or training in each of the last 10 years available, broken down by London borough. | | (169824) | 81
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what role his Department is playing in the review of the academies programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (169836) | 82
N | Mr Angus MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) assessment he has made of the utility and (b) estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of providing protective registration under the credit industry fraud avoidance system at no cost to those individuals whose data was contained on the discs lost between HM Revenue and Customs and the National Audit Office. | | (169208) | 83
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the percentage of eligible parents who have opened a child trust fund in (a) Rotherham, (b) Sheffield, (c) Doncaster, (d) Barnsley, (e) Richmond-upon-Thames, (f) York and (g) Harrogate. | | (169709) | 84
N | Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the level of corporate tax rates in each of the OECD economies in each year since 1990. | | (167867) | 85
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library the data supporting chart 5.1 in the 2006 Pre-Budget Report; and what the expected benefits to families in each category will be of the health in pregnancy grant. | | (170069) | 86
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26th November 2007, Official Report, column 57W, on public expenditure: Wales, what elements of spending in relation to subscriptions to international organisations are devolved; what transport programmes Cycling England spending is now subsumed within; and what the comparability factor of that programme is for Wales. | | (170222) | 87
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what occasions he and his predecessor met the Departmental Security Officer of (a) his Department, (b) the Inland Revenue, (c) HM Customs and Excise and (d) HM Revenue and Customs in the last three years. | | (169734) | 88
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Departmental Security Officer for (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs were appointed. | | (169735) | 89
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what concerns about security at HM Revenue and Customs have been reported by the Departmental Security Officer of (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs in the last two years. | | (169736) | 90
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Minister in his Department reviewed the formal document submitted by the Departmental Security/IT Officer following the risk assessment and risk management process for information security. | | (169755) | 91
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officials in (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs are responsible for monitoring and reviewing security arrangements to ensure that policy, standards and procedures for information security remain up-to-date. | | (169756) | 92
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what dedicated security branches (a) the Inland Revenue and (b) HM Customs and Excise had; and how many officials were assigned to each of them. | | (169757) | 93
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what dedicated security branches HM Revenue and Customs has; and how many officials are assigned to them. | | (169758) | 94
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what occasions he has met the Departmental Security Officer who last carried out a periodic security review of (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs in accordance with the manual of protective security. | | (169759) | 95
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when HM Revenue and Customs first carried out a risk assessment in accordance with section 0 (12) of the manual of protective security after its establishment; and when it last carried one out. | | (169760) | 96
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department carried out risk assessments in accordance with section 0 (12) of the manual of protective security over the last five years. | | (169761) | 97
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the last periodic review of security risks in (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs took place in accordance with section 0 of the manual of protective security. | | (169762) | 98
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the last reassessment of risk was carried out by (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs in accordance with section 0 (24) of the manual of protective security. | | (169763) | 99
N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason women who had stopped receiving deficiency notices prior to 1996-97 and who did not receive a letter in 2004-05 as part of the deficiency notice recovery programme were allowed to pay class 3 national insurance contributions on favourable terms in respect of the years from 1996-97 to 2001-02 inclusive. | | (169198) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 100
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what reviews have been undertaken by external consultants of the security measures proposed for the ContactPoint database; and what recommendations were made in those reviews. | | (170027) | 101
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent assessment he has made of the implementation by local authorities of the policy of offering boarding school education where appropriate to looked-after children. | | (169626) | 102
| Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of integrating the Communication Trust's Speech, Language and Communication Framework into the Children's Workforce Development Council's Integrated Qualifications Framework. | | (169781) | 103
| Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much was allocated to schools in the West Chelmsford constituency for (a) books, (b) computers, (c) musical instruments and (d) sports equipment in (i) the latest period for which figures are available and (ii) 2001. | | (169764) | 104
| Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average Government spending per child in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in West Chelmsford Parliamentary constituency was in (i) the latest year for which figures are available and (ii) 2001. | | (169765) | 105
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, by what means he expects secondary schools to conduct school nutrient analysis. | | (170031) | 106
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170161) | 107
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library copies of the regulations, guidance and directions, on the operation of databases made under section 9 of the Children Act 2004. | | (170208) | 108
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the outcome was of the feasibility work undertaken to identify the best source of a unique identifying number in relation to databases established under the Children Act 2004. | | (170209) | 109
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (169894) | 110
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will make a statement on the implementation of the Rose Review recommendations in primary schools. | | (169933) | 111
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what correspondence his Department has had with the Rosemellin Community Interest Company on their proposals to meet community needs with a one stop shop facility; if he will place in the Library copies of that correspondence; and if he will make a statement. | | (169317) | 112
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identities; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170239) | 113
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) 16, (b) 17, (c) 18 and (d) 19 year old (i) women and (ii) men were receiving education or training but were not in employment in each London borough in each of the last 10 years. | | (169829) | 114
N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what consideration he has given to making academies set up prior to the 2006 model funding agreement more accountable for any permanent exclusions. | | (169306) | 115
N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many academies have (a) produced proposals for collaboration with other schools and (b) allowed their staff to teach in other local schools. | | (169307) | 116
N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what consideration he has given to requiring academies to operate according to the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document; what recent representations he has received on this matter; and whether he plans to consult on it. | | (169308) | 117
N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what data his Department collects on the take-up of childcare by families on low incomes. | | (169309) | 118
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many candidates successfully completed the National Professional Qualification for Headship in each academic year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. | | (169793) | 119
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of those teachers who have obtained a National Professional Qualification for Headship have been appointed as (a) head teachers and (b) deputy head teachers of (i) primary schools, (ii) secondary schools and (iii) special schools, broken down by (A) ethnicity, (B) sex and (C) region. | | (169794) | 120
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teachers have been appointed without the National Professional Qualification for Headship as existing head teachers changing schools, in each year since 2004; and if he will make a statement. | | (169795) | 121
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether the National Professional Qualification for Headship will be compulsory for all new head teachers, including those changing schools; and if he will make a statement. | | (169796) | 122
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether the National Professional Qualification for Headship will be compulsory for those candidates seeking headships in academies; and if he will make a statement. | | (169797) | 123
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his estimate is of the annual cost of increasing the funding of all maintained secondary schools to at least the level obtained by those schools granted specialist status; and if he will make a statement. | | (169798) | 124
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many maintained secondary schools have not yet attained specialist status; how many of these have failed to meet the required minimum standards for specialist school application; and if he will make a statement. | | (169799) | 125
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will list by local authority area those schools which have (a) applied for and (b) been granted (i) trust and (ii) foundation status since 1st September 2006; and if he will make a statement. | | (169800) | 126
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate his Department has made of the number of additional primary school teachers required in each of the next 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (169801) | 127
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he is taking to increase the number of people training to be primary school teachers; and if he will make a statement. | | (169802) | 128
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the proportion of applicants accepted on to a primary teacher training course was in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (169803) | 129
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many qualified primary school teachers worked in maintained primary schools in each year since 1997. | | (169804) | 130
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils were in maintained primary schools in each year since 1997. | | (169805) | 131
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether he plans to make a statement on the conclusions of the Delivery Unit Report into academies. | | (169832) | 132
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will list the (a) officials, (b) special advisers and (c) Ministers who attended the Academies Seminar on 1st November 2007. | | (169833) | 133
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which academies he has visited since becoming Secretary of State. | | (169834) | 134
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will list the special advisers employed by his Department, setting out in each case their (a) responsibilities and (b) pay bands. | | (169835) | 135
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of children at each city technology college established prior to 1st May 1997 are eligible for free school meals at each such school. | | (169837) | 136
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will list for each academy approved since 1st June 2007 the (a) lead sponsor and (b) co-sponsors; and if he will make a statement. | | (169838) | 137
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his latest estimate is of the average time to statement a child in each local authority area. | | (169839) | 138
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether he plans to introduce a fast-track statementing process for children with very high needs. | | (169840) | 139
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his latest estimates are of the proportion of pupils in academies obtaining (a) five or more A* to C GCSEs and (b) five or more A* to C GCSEs, including Mathematics and English. | | (170196) | 140
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the truancy rate was in (a) secondary and (b) primary schools in (i) Uxbridge constituency, (ii) each London borough and (iii) England in each year since 1997. | | (169680) | 141
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of children in (a) Uxbridge constituency and (b) each London borough were eligible for free school meals in each year since 1997. | | (169681) | 142
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what average Government spending was per child in (a) Uxbridge constituency, (b) each London borough and (c) England in (i) primary schools and (ii) secondary schools in each year since 1997. | | (169682) | 143
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the ratio of teachers to children in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) the Uxbridge constituency, (ii) each London borough and (iii) England was in each year since 1997. | | (169975) | 144
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many free early years education places have been available in (a) Suffolk, (b) Norfolk, (c) Essex and (d) Cambridgeshire in each year since 1997. | | (169962) | 145
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils aged 16 to 18 years have been educated in (a) further education colleges and (b) sixth form colleges in the East of England in each year since 1997, broken down by local authority area. | | (169963) | 146
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many students have been permanently excluded from schools in Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | (169964) | 147
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding each local education authority in the East of England has received from his Department and its predecessors in each year since 1997. | | (169965) | 148
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of (a) 16, (b) 17 and (c) 18 year olds not in full-time education or training, broken down by local education authority area in the East of England. | | (169967) | 149
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how often (a) local authority childrens' homes and (b) privately run childrens' homes are required to be inspected. | | (170109) | 150
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what guidance has been issued to (a) local authority children's services, (b) local authority children's homes and (c) privately run children's homes on their responsibility to provide personal individual support for looked after children exhibiting difficulty at school either in relation to bullying or educational matters. | | (170111) | 151
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of secondary school lessons in Yorkshire and the Humber were taught by a supply teacher in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area; and if he will make a statement. | | (169737) | 152
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will take steps to support Wizz Bang multi-media science and technology presentations to encourage the take up of science and related subjects in schools. | | (169773) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 153
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which companies are under contract to (a) the Cabinet Office, (b) the Prime Minister's Office and (c) the Leader of the House's Office to provide mail services. | | (170178) | 154
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in the Cabinet Office in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (169900) | 155
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in (a) the Prime Minister's Office and (b) the Leader of the House's Office in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170215) | 156
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining (a) the Cabinet Office's and its agencies' corporate identity and (b) the Office of the Prime Minister's corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (i) producing and (ii) complying with such guidelines. | | (170240) | 157
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Sub-committee on Information Security has a member of HM Treasury on it. | | (169741) | 158
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Sub-committee on Information Security issued any instructions to (a) HM Treasury, (b) HM Revenue and Customs and (c) the Department for Work and Pensions on information security in the last 12 months. | | (169742) | 159
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Sub-committee on Information Security has received any reports of security breaches at (a) HM Treasury, (b) HM Revenue and Customs and (c) the Department for Work and Pensions in the last two years. | | (169743) | 160
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when the Sub-committee on Information Security last discussed information security at HM Revenue and Customs. | | (169744) | 161
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Sub-committee on Information Security found any weaknesses in the integrity system at (a) HM Treasury and (b) HM Revenue and Customs in the last two years. | | (169745) | 162
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when the IT security officers forum met in the last three years; and whether a representative of (a) HM Treasury and (b) HM Revenue and Customs attended. | | (169746) | 163
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether minutes of the IT security officers forum will be made available to investigators looking at the recent HM Revenue and Customs data loss. | | (169747) | 164
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the IT security officers forum has discussed security at (a) HM Revenue and Customs and (b) the Department for Work and Pensions in the last two years. | | (169748) | 165
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when the last reassessment of risk was reported to his Office by (a) each Government department and (b) his Office in accordance with section 0 (24) of the Manual of Protective Security. | | (169749) | 166
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Interdepartmental Committee on Protective Security has a member of HM Treasury on it. | | (169750) | 167
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Interdepartmental Committee on Protective Security has issued any instructions to (a) HM Treasury, (b) HM Revenue and Customs and (c) the Department for Work and Pensions on information security in the last 12 months. | | (169751) | 168
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Interdepartmental Committee on Protective Security received any reports of security breaches at (a) HM Treasury, (b) HM Revenue and Customs and (c) the Department for Work and Pensions in the last two years. | | (169752) | 169
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when the Interdepartmental Committee on Protective Security last discussed information security at HM Revenue and Customs. | | (169753) | 170
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Interdepartmental Committee on Protective Security found any weakness in the integrity system at (a) HM Treasury and (b) HM Revenue and Customs during the last two years. | | (169754) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 171
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which companies are under contract to her Department to provide mail services. | | (170162) | 172
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of mosques in the UK which are funded by groups or organisations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. | | (169698) | 173
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of imams in the UK who were (a) born in Saudi Arabia and (b) educated or trained in Saudi Arabia. | | (169699) | 174
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of mosques in the UK which promote Wahhabism. | | (169700) | 175
| Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department spent on meeting the burial costs of (a) Christian, (b) Jewish and (c) Muslim paupers in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169806) | 176
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in her Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (169895) | 177
N | Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have (a) submitted area action plans, (b) had area action plans approved and (c) withdrawn area action plans under the new local development framework. | | (168950) | 178
N | Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities' area action plans are subject to current planning inspectors' examinations. | | (168951) | 179
N | Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities' area action plans have been deemed (a) sound and (b) unsound by planning inspectors after public examination. | | (168952) | 180
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she plans to issue guidance on translation services for local authorities, government departments and their agencies; and if she will make a statement. | | (169778) | 181
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining her Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170238) | 182
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what support her Department provides to local authorities to ensure that enough homes are available with appropriate adaptations to meet the needs of people using wheelchairs. | | (169925) | 183
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when her Department last reviewed the guidelines or regulations on how local councils communicate with residents about planning applications affecting their neighbourhood. | | (169926) | 184
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will encourage local authorities to make full use of the internet to enable interested local residents to be informed by e-mail of any planning application made within their neighbourhood. | | (169927) | 185
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will review the guidance given to local authorities on informing local residents of planning applications in their neighbourhood. | | (169928) | 186
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what statutory requirements her Department imposes upon local authorities in relation to informing local residents of planning applications that affect their neighbourhood. | | (169929) | 187
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what advice her Department provides to local authorities on how to inform local residents of a planning application in their neighbourhood. | | (169930) | 188
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the proposals from Leicester City Council for a sustainable community at Ashton Green; what support her Department will make available to Leicester City Council in respect of this development; and what steps it will take to help Leicester City Council secure an element of affordable housing within the development. | | (170139) | 189
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average length of time the Local Government Ombudsman took to consider a complaint was in each of the last three years. | | (170219) | 190
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many complaints her Department has received on the decision-making process of the Local Government Ombudsman in each of the last three years. | | (170220) | 191
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consideration she has given to bringing forward amendments to reform the system of appeals against local government ombudsman decisions. | | (170221) | 192
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the vacancy rate was of (a) homes, (b) social rented homes and (c) commercial properties in each London borough in each of the last 10 years. | | (169815) | 193
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) enforcement notices have been served and (b) prosecutions have been brought as a result of non-compliance with the energy efficiency requirements in Part L of the Building Regulations in each year since 2002. | | (169934) | 194
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she plans to announce the chosen eco-town development sites. | | (169410) | 195
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the criteria are for selection of eco-town sites. | | (169411) | 196
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what powers local planning authorities will have over the selection and approval of eco-town development sites. | | (169412) | 197
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what bids have been made for eco-town developments. | | (169413) | 198
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what percentage of new builds in (a) Uxbridge constituency, (b) each London borough and (c) England were built on (i) previously developed land and (ii) back gardens in the last five years. | | (169828) | 199
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many empty properties there have been in each local authority area in the East of England in each year since 1997. | | (169961) | 200
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many times electronic data containing personal information on members of the public have been transferred (a) physically and (b) electronically between her Department and another body in each year since 1997. | | (169777) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 201
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent representations he has made to the football association on the pricing regime of Premier League football tickets for the 2007-08 season; and if he will make a statement. | | (170129) | 202
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170163) | 203
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (169896) | 204
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will ask Ofcom to place in the Library the material in its possession originating from (a) West Midlands police, (b) the Crown Prosecution Service and (c) other sources relating to Channel 4's Dispatches programme, Undercover Mosques and the Ofcom investigation into it. | | (169627) | 205
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170237) | 206
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): 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 initiate; on what date each (A) started and (B) is expected to be completed; and what the purpose is of each. | | (169938) | 207
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) (i) UK and (ii) London residents, broken down by socioeconomic group and (b) non-UK residents who visited (1) museums and (2) art galleries in London in each of the last eight years. | | (169811) | 208
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the cost of the floods in the summer of 2007 to the tourism industry. | | (169855) | 209
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues in the Department for Children, Schools and Families on football development in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools; and if he will make a statement. | | (170104) | 210
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many qualified football coaches are active in (a) boys and (b) girls football in each UK region. | | (170105) | 211
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools with (i) a boys' football team and (ii) a girls' football team that meets Football Association standards. | | (170110) | 212
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 26th November 2007, Official Report, column 11W, on museums and galleries, if he will list each of the (a) museums and (b) art galleries sponsored by his Department in each of the last 10 years. | | (169969) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 213
| Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces widows voluntarily surrendered their pensions on remarriage or cohabitation in each of the last five years; and what the associated saving to the defence budget was in each year. | | (169976) | 214
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170164) | 215
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a public apology for the death of Baha Mousa in British custody in Iraq; and what related remedial steps he has taken since the completion of court proceedings on the case. | | (170012) | 216
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (169897) | 217
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to discuss a European defence capabilities charter with his EU counterparts. | | (170010) | 218
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170236) | 219
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many requests have been made for medical records of (a) serving and (b) veteran service personnel by (i) GPs, (ii) hospital consultants and (iii) individual service personnel and veterans, in each of the last five years; how many of those records were unable to be retrieved; and if he will make a statement. | | (170212) | 220
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial contribution he has made to those primary care trusts with the greatest number of serving and veteran service personnel within their areas. | | (170214) | 221
N | Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will name the prime contractors bidding for the Future Rapid Effect System contract; and if he will make a statement. | | (169310) | 222
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent representations he has received on the quality of accommodation for members of the armed forces in the UK. | | (169910) | 223
N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Nimrod Line personnel at RAF Kinloss (a) requested premature voluntary redundancy and (b) took redundancy in 2006; and how many have done so in 2007. | | (169474) | 224
| Anne Snelgrove (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial contribution his Department has made to the (a) Army, (b) Sea and (c) Air Cadets for each of the last five financial years. | | (169807) | 225
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) Army Cadet force instructors and (b) Reserve officers on the Army unposted list are owed arrears of pay for a period of more than one month; and what the total of these arrears is. | | [R] (169206) | 226
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the service level agreement on the resolution of problems encountered by personnel in relation to the operation of the Joint Pay and Allowance System. | | [R] (169207) | 227
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect on the UK's defence policy of the Australian Prime Minister's stated intention to withdraw Australian troops from Iraq. | | (169931) | 228
N | Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what consideration he has given to allocating resources to the provision of new techniques for assessing hearing deterioration amongst former military personnel. | | (169210) | 229
N | Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will (a) initiate a review of and (b) publish the evidence his Department uses when considering hearing tribunals for former military personnel. | | (169312) | 230
| Phil Wilson (Sedgefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for changes to the level of funding for the Air Cadets. | | (170115) | 231
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 29th October 2007, Official Report, column 953W, on armoured fighting vehicles: Afghanistan, what other new protected vehicles are required to make up the total number of Mastiff vehicles to 400. | | (170018) | 232
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason there are no Army figures for 1st July 2007 published on the Defence Analytical Services Agency TSP 09. | | (170019) | 233
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how Officers OF 1 to 10 and other ranks OR 1 to 9 relate to 2nd Lieutenant through to General and Private to Warrant Officer on the Rank Structure section of the Defence Analytical Services Agency TSP 09. | | (170020) | 234
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of the 25 airlift A400M aircraft is; and whether the order is on a fixed value contract. | | (170021) | 235
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what factors were taken into account in deciding the production and delivery timetable of (a) Future Rapid Effects System utility and (b) reconnaissance vehicles; and if he will make a statement. | | (170022) | 236
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what conflict scenario the Future Rapid Effects System has been designed for. | | (170117) | 237
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the allocation of funding is for each Future Rapid Effects System utility vehicle. | | (170118) | 238
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether consideration has been given to the purchase of the Cheetah vehicle by his Department. | | (170119) | 239
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd November 2007, Official Report, column 1032W, on Iraq: peacekeeping operations, how many of the media assignments facilitated since April 2007 were for a single media outlet or organisation; and from which exclusive access to information arose. | | (170120) | 240
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21st November 2007, Official Report, column 901W, on Territorial Army: manpower, what records of the components of the Territorial Army liability figures are maintained by his Department, with particular reference to the numbers of liable former (a) lieutenants and (b) second lieutenants; and how many of the strength figure are (i) officer training corps and (ii) privates. | | (170256) | 241
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the Special Boat Service personnel serving in Afghanistan to receive their full pay. | | (169202) | 242
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Specialist Pay Team last paid the salaries of the Special Boat Service in Afghanistan. | | (169203) | 243
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken with the Specialist Pay Team to ensure the payment of the full salaries of the Special Boat Service in Afghanistan. | | (169204) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 244
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has considered the contribution of heating networks towards the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target. | | (169733) | 245
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what pesticides have been banned for use (a) for reasons of public health and (b) for other reasons. | | (166777) | 246
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what studies have been (a) conducted and (b) assessed by his Department on nitrate levels in (i) rivers and (ii) other sensitive areas. | | (166778) | 247
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what limits have been placed on the pesticides used on food imported (a) from within the EU and (b) from outside the EU. | | (166779) | 248
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the nitrate levels were in each of the areas which his Department plans to designate as nitrate vulnerable zones (a) on the most recent date for which figures are available and (b) (i) five and (ii) 10 years prior to that date. | | (166780) | 249
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessments he has made of the effect on the environment of the use of concrete to prevent the leakage of nitrates into the ground. | | (166781) | 250
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170165) | 251
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will meet representatives of Gloucestershire County Council to discuss its recent report on flooding in the area. | | (170103) | 252
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (169898) | 253
N | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has considered the merits of ensuring that minimum fish and shellfish sizes applied to UK fisheries landings are also applied to imports of fish and shellfish from (a) European Union and (b) non-European Union countries. | | (169407) | 254
N | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made a recent assessment of the market impact of the importing of fish and shellfish into the UK for (a) retail and (b) consumption from (i) European Union and (ii) non-European Union countries which would have been illegal had they been landed in the UK. | | (169414) | 255
N | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the annual volume of imported fish from (a) other European Union and (b) non-European Union countries into the UK for consumption which would not have been caught legally had they been landed in the UK. | | (169415) | 256
N | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations he has (a) received and (b) made in respect of the importing of Canadian lobsters into the UK. | | (169416) | 257
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170235) | 258
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many complaints he has received from recipients of warm front vouchers alleging that contractors have asked them to pay administration fees; and if he will make a statement. | | (169831) | 259
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26th November 2007, Official Report, column 28W, on animal welfare: codes of practice, what the membership is of the working group on gamebirds; and what the areas of expertise of each member are. | | (170137) | 260
| Mr Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ensure that water customers in the North East region will not have to contribute to a national recovery of compensation costs which affect other regions and other water company areas under the Water Abstraction Charges Scheme. | | (169850) | 261
| Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the performance of Leicester City Council on collection, recycling and disposal of household waste. | | (169940) | 262
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the carbon dioxide emissions of each department as a result of the consumption of (a) gas, (b) electricity and (c) water in each year since 1997. | | (169919) | 263
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the budget allocated for Food for Britain has been in each year since its creation. | | (169935) | 264
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what has been the total level of expenditure on his Department's market transformation programme since its inception. | | (169936) | 265
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many beaches were awarded blue flag status in each of the last three years. | | (169852) | 266
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many new developments went ahead against Environment Agency advice in 2006-07. | | (169853) | 267
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will rationalise the structure of those bodies responsible for surface water. | | (169854) | 268
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Oldham West and Royton of 12th November 2007, Official Report, column 12W, on climate change, if he will clarify the information given in the tables; and if he will make a statement. | | (170116) | 269
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many organic farmers there were in each county in the East of England in each year since 1997. | | (169968) | 270
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has spent on accommodation for officials in Suffolk since the outbreak of avian influenza at Park Farm in Redgrave; and for (a) how many officials and (b) how long such accommodation was provided. | | (170125) | 271
| Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what average level of annual subsidy from the public purse per hectare for growing (a) wheat, (b) barley, (c) potatoes and (d) miscanthus grass was in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (170198) | 272
N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was spent on accommodation for his Department's officials at Ickworth Hotel, per room, during the recent visit in connection with the avian influenza outbreak in Suffolk; for how long officials stayed in the hotel; and how many officials stayed there. | | (169409) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 273
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170166) | 274
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the political situation in Somalia, with particular regard to the length of time Ethiopian forces are expected to remain there. | | (170101) | 275
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of the application of Sharia law to (a) Christians and (b) foreigners in Sudan. | | (170102) | 276
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170253) | 277
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170234) | 278
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the (a) level of corruption, (b) human rights situation and (c) government policy on homosexuality in Cuba. | | (169818) | 279
N | Mr John MacDougall (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the political situation in Pakistan. | | (169580) | 280
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent bilateral contacts he has had with the Foreign Minister of Germany. | | (170268) | 281
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will urge the European Union to raise the human rights situation of Dalits during the next round of the ad hoc EU-India human rights dialogue; and if he will make a statement. | | (164695) | 282
N | Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance the Government (a) has offered and (b) plans to offer to the UN-African Union force in Darfur, Sudan. | | (169199) | 283
N | Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary General of the UN on the situation in Darfur. | | (169200) | 284
N | Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with colleagues in (a) African countries and (b) non-African countries to encourage them to send transport and light support helicopters to the African Union-UN force in Darfur, Sudan. | | (169201) | 285
N | Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Sudan on the establishment, funding, staffing and equipping of the UN-African Union force in Darfur, Sudan. | | (169205) | 286
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to bring forward legislation to regulate the priavate military and security company industry; and if he will make a statement. | | (169977) | 287
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what rules govern the use of force by private military security companies employed by the Government; whether these rules are standardised for all Government contracts or are variable on a case-by-case basis; and if he will make a statement. | | (169978) | 288
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 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. | | (169979) | 289
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when each electronic database held by his Department containing personal information on members of the general public was first created. | | (169980) | 290
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many security breaches regarding access to personal data have occurred within his Department in each year since 1997. | | (169981) | 291
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff have access to electronic databases which contain personal information on members of the general public in his Department, broken down by grade. | | (169982) | 292
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times databases held by his Department containing personal information on members of the general public have been accessed in each month for the last five years. | | (169983) | 293
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many requests his Department has received in each year since 1997 from the National Audit Office for access to databases containing personal information on members of the general public. | | (169984) | 294
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what provisions 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) for unauthorised purposes. | | (169985) | 295
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will appoint a UK Honorary Consul to Gabon in order to (a) represent UK interests and (b) provide consular services. | | (169856) | 296
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking in co-operation with its international partners to ensure that all rebel group leaders in Darfur attend the next set of peace progress negotiations. | | (169902) | 297
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions on security and long-term stability took place at the recent meeting in Washington of the Great Lakes Contact Group. | | (169903) | 298
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking in co-operation with its EU partners to prevent an escalation of conflict in the Great Lakes region of the Democratic Republic of Congo following the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary meeting earlier this month. | | (169904) | 299
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the security situation in the North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo; and if he will make a statement. | | (169905) | 300
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd November 2007, Official Report, column 1035W, on Africa: peacekeeping operations, when the UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations will complete its pre-deployment assessment for the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission to Darfur. | | (169909) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 301
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effects of different entitlements to Tarceva of patients in different parts of the UK on levels of care of patients in England and costs associated with that care; and if he will make a statement. | | (169521) | 302
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he issues to local authorities on support for adults with an autism spectrum disorder. | | (169622) | 303
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many emergency readmissions faced delayed discharge for each quarter since 2002 for which figures are available; and how many emergency readmissions there were in each quarter since 2002, broken down by age. | | (169941) | 304
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the consultation on the level of Personal Expenses Allowance contained within the Charging for Residential Accommodation Guide consultation 2008 will follow Cabinet Office guidance regarding a minimum consultation period of 12 weeks; on what date the consultation period will commence; and if he will make a statement. | | (169942) | 305
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, over what period the consultation on the level of Personal Expenses Allowance contained within the Charging for Residential Accommodation Guide consultation 2008 will occur; and on what date the consultation period will commence. | | (170028) | 306
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effect practice-based commissioning for dermatology services is expected to have on equity of access for treatment for primary care patients. | | (170029) | 307
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170167) | 308
N | Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the extent of private companies' co-operation with general practitioners on service configuration. | | (169196) | 309
N | Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the engagement of general practitioners in private healthcare facilities; and if he will make a statement. | | (169197) | 310
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will consider the merits of a mass screening programme for aneurysm of the abdominal aorta in males over the age of 50 years; what estimate he has made of the number of deaths per year in the UK caused by this condition; and if he will estimate what the cost of such a screening programme would be. | | (170204) | 311
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Government expects to publish its comprehensive end-of-life care strategy; and what the timescale is for the doubling of funding for palliative care. | | (170205) | 312
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reports he has received on the cleanliness of ambulances; and whether he plans to take steps to improve cleaning of ambulances. | | (169727) | 313
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Government has allocated to research into macular disease since 1997. | | (170094) | 314
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Government has allocated to research into asthma since 1997. | | (170095) | 315
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Government has allocated to research into meningitis since 1997. | | (170096) | 316
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people in the UK who had HIV (a) at the latest date for which figures are available and (b) in each of the previous five years. | | (169515) | 317
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with his European counterparts on plans to increase the awareness of young people of the risk of catching HIV. | | (169516) | 318
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the UK died from AIDS in each of the last five years; and how many in each year were under the age of 25 years. | | (169517) | 319
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the UK under the age of 25 years were diagnosed with HIV in each of the last five years. | | (169518) | 320
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170252) | 321
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to announce the cancer reform strategy. | | (169821) | 322
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to announce the new stroke strategy. | | (170009) | 323
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170233) | 324
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will draw up national guidelines on the provision of services for people with autism. | | (169830) | 325
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the potential numbers of (a) serving and (b) veteran services personnel who (i) are eligible for and (ii) have received priority for treatment in the NHS in each of the last three years. | | (170210) | 326
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the 10 primary care trusts with the highest concentration of serving and veteran service personnel within their area. | | (170211) | 327
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effects on the (a) 10 primary care trusts with the highest concentrations of serving and veteran service personnel and (b) the NHS of the decision to give priority treatment to serving and veteran service personnel. | | (170213) | 328
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ask the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to review its guidance on the (a) clinical assessment, (b) diagnosis and (c) management of myalgic encephalopathy, chronic fatigue syndrome. | | (170260) | 329
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 22nd November 2007, Official Report, column 145WS, on primary care trusts (revenue allocations) what the terms of reference are of the review of the formula in support of revenue allocations. | | (169952) | 330
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 27th November 2007, on mental health and employment: meeting the challenge, what funding beyond that in existing plans will be provided for support for people with mental health conditions to find and stay in work. | | (169957) | 331
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 27th November 2007, on mental health and employment: meeting the challenge, when he expects to establish a mental health forum. | | (169958) | 332
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21st November 2007, Official Report, column 996W, on doctors:training, how many registrar group doctors he expects will apply for the 8,000 advertised training places, broken down into (a) UK nationals, (b) other EEA nationals and (c) non-EEA nationals. | | (169857) | 333
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21st November 2007, Official Report, column 1002W, on the Independent Reconfiguration Panel, if he will list the members of the panel, stating in each case whether they are a (a) clinical, (b) managerial and (c) lay representative. | | (169859) | 334
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21st November 2007, Official Report, column 1002W, on the Independent Reconfiguration Panel, on what dates the annual review meetings between the Panel and senior representatives from his Department were held; and if he will place copies of the (a) agenda and (b) minutes of each of these meetings in the Library. | | (169860) | 335
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21st November 2007, Official Report, column 1002W, on the Independent Reconfiguration Panel, what the value of the contract between the Panel and the Central Office of Information for media work was in each financial year since the Panel was established. | | (169861) | 336
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 611W, on NHS Direct, what the date was of each quarterly performance review meeting in the past two years; and if he will place copies of the (a) agenda and (b) minutes of such meetings in the Library. | | (169866) | 337
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15th November 2007, Official Report, column 377WA, on Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body, if he will place in the Library a copy of the value for money delivery plan that his Department prepared as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review. | | (169867) | 338
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15th November 2007, Official Report, column 377WA, on Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body, what the assumptions were behind his Department's central estimate of NHS cost pressures; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the underlying data. | | (169868) | 339
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14th November 2007, Official Report, column 286WA, on the Healthcare Commission, what arrangements the Healthcare Commission has for categorising complaints. | | (169869) | 340
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14th November 2007, Official Report, column 286WA, on the Healthcare Commission, how many second stage complaints were upheld in each year. | | (169870) | 341
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 615WA, on NHS finance, for what reason additional cash limits were given to NHS trusts in 2006-07. | | (169871) | 342
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 615WA, on NHS finance, which cash limit deductions were applied to NHS trusts in 2006-07, broken down by trust. | | (169872) | 343
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14th November 2007, Official Report, column 288WA, on the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, if he will list all the citizen and patient representatives who have sat on the board of the Institute and, previously, the NHS Modernisation Agency, stating for each the (a) start date and (b) end date of their period for service. | | (169873) | 344
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14th November 2007, Official Report, column 289WA, on nurses: prescriptions, how many prescriptions have been issued by (a) nurse independent prescribers, (b) community practitioner nurse prescribers and (c) doctors in each of the past 12 months for which figures are available. | | (169874) | 345
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 611WA, on NHS Direct, what the (a) date and (b) subject was of each ad hoc meeting held in the past 12 months. | | (169875) | 346
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 612WA, on NHS Direct, how many (a) health advisers and (b) nurse advisers were employed at NHS Direct in each month. | | (169876) | 347
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Written Ministerial Statement of 22nd November 2007, Official Report, column 145WS, on primary care trusts (revenue allocations), for what reason the extension has been granted; what steps he has taken to allow primary care trusts to enter into three year agreements with local partners; and what assessment he has made of any risks primary care trusts may incur as a result of the delay in their funding settlement. | | (169877) | 348
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 600W, on general practitioners, how many of the 100 new practices will be delivered in each of the primary care trusts identified. | | (169878) | 349
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 600W, on general practitioners, by what date he expects the discussions on timescales to be completed. | | (169879) | 350
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 600W, on general practitioners, what guidance he has issued to primary care trusts to ensure that they procure innovative solutions and models of provision that will contribute to improvements in access and outcomes for patients. | | (169880) | 351
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has budgeted for the costs associated with the new measures in the Flu Pandemic Plan in each financial year from 2007-08 to 2010-11, broken down by (a) resource and (b) capital expenditure. | | (169945) | 352
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements his Department has to replenish its stocks of Tamiflu as existing stocks expire; what estimate he has made of the cost of stock replenishment; and how such costs will appear in his Department's resource accounts. | | (169953) | 353
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects his Department to have increased its stock of antivirals to the levels where it has sufficient for at least 50 per cent. of the population in the event of pandemic influenza. | | (169954) | 354
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the date was on which each renegotiation of his Department's Connecting for Health contracts was completed; and what the additional costs were arising out of each renegotiation. | | (169955) | 355
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what indicators his Department used to determine comparative levels of GP provision in primary care trusts. | | (169956) | 356
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff in the NHS have been subject to disciplinary proceedings for mishandling patient data in each of the past five years. | | (170179) | 357
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of (a) the business case that his Department provided to HM Treasury in 2002 on the new contract for consultants and (b) HM Treasury's response to the business case. | | (170180) | 358
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his (a) highest and (b) lowest estimate is of the likely NHS surplus in 2007-08. | | (170181) | 359
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will provide a breakdown of the £140 million his Department was allocated in the Comprehensive Spending Review to reduce clostridium difficile infections by (a) financial year and (b) anti-infection measure on which this money will be spent. | | (170182) | 360
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will provide a breakdown of the £130 million his Department was allocated in the Comprehensive Spending Review for the introduction of MRSA screening for all patients, increased powers for matrons and tougher regulation on infection control by (a) financial year and (b) anti-infection measure on which this money will be spent. | | (170183) | 361
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department gave to strategic health authorities to help them decide how much they should allocate for deep cleaning in 2007-08. | | (170184) | 362
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, from which part of strategic health authority budgets the money for deep cleaning announced on 21st November 2007 has been taken. | | (170185) | 363
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason his Department has (a) made a commitment to screen patients for MRSA on admission to hospital, and (b) not made a commitment to screen patients for healthcare associated infections other than MRSA. | | (170186) | 364
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by what date strategic health authorities will be expected to report progress across their regions on deep cleaning to his Department. | | (170187) | 365
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by what date trusts will have to submit detailed deep cleaning plans, including costs, to their primary care trusts and strategic health authorities. | | (170188) | 366
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons the estimated outturn for NHS resource spending in 2007-08 on page 176 of HM Treasury's 2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review is almost £1 billion higher than the baseline for resource spending that the NHS has been set for 2007-08 on page 207 of the document. | | (170189) | 367
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on which dates the monthly meetings held between the 13 trusts that will be early achievers of his Department's 18-week target were held; and if he will place copies of the (a) agenda and (b) minutes of each meeting in the Library. | | (170190) | 368
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much additional funding his Department has provided for NHS communicators to support the End waiting, change lives campaign, broken down by financial year. | | (170191) | 369
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much is being spent in the End Waiting, Change Lives campaign on (a) button badges, (b) lapel badges, (c) stickers, (d) campaign packs and (e) patient leaflets; and what volume of each item is being produced. | | (170192) | 370
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost was of creating his Department's End Waiting, Change Lives brand, broken down by (a) internal and (b) external consultancy costs. | | (170193) | 371
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what he expects the cost of his Department's End Waiting, Change Lives campaign to have been by the end of 2008. | | (170194) | 372
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to manage the risk to the NHS of the drop in its funding growth rate from 2008-09. | | (170195) | 373
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists offer (a) only private practice treatment and (b) NHS treatment in each primary care trust in England. | | (170261) | 374
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what benchmarking is used by his Department to establish comparative levels of usage of antibiotics in hospitals across the NHS; and if he will make a statement. | | (170262) | 375
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he (a) has taken and (b) intends to take by (i) 2012 and (ii) 2020 in relation to adaptation to the effects of climate change as they affect his Departmental responsibilities; and if he will make a statement. | | (164696) | 376
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the NHS Business Services Authority's priority projects for 2008-09. | | (170032) | 377
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress the Information Centre for Health and Social Care has made in its project supporting the patient choice agenda, as stated on the Our Priorities for 2007-08 section of its website; what outcome measures which can be used to support choice have been identified; and if he will make a statement. | | (170033) | 378
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what items of information are available through the Information Centre for Health and Social Care's catalogue; whether each item of information is available to (a) the NHS, (b) other interested parties and (c) the public; what (i) additions and (ii) deletions from the catalogue he anticipates taking place over the next 12 months; what changes in the availability of access to information contained in the catalogue he anticipates taking place over the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (170034) | 379
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions (a) the Information Centre for Health and Social Care and (b) the NHS Business Services Authority has had with (i) the British Medical Association, (ii) the Royal College of Nursing and (iii) other interested parties on data collection in each month since June 2007; what the content was of these discussions; and if he will make a statement. | | (170035) | 380
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he intends to publish Patient Environment Action Team scores for 2007. | | (170054) | 381
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many adverse events relating to malnutrition have been reported in the NHS between (a) October 2005 and September 2006 and (b) October 2006 and September 2007. | | (170055) | 382
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the level of pre-hospital admission nutritional support offered by the NHS to those patients with a clinical need. | | (170056) | 383
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he intends the Care Quality Commission to have powers to impose administrative fines on those healthcare providers which do not meet the current Healthcare Commission's requirements for core standards (a) C15a and (b) C15b. | | (170057) | 384
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he intends to provide any incentives to (a) GPs, (b) district nurses and (c) other professionals in primary care settings to provide nutritional screening for older people in line with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) guidelines, as referred to on page 35 of his Department's document, Improving Nutritional Care; and for what reasons he does not expect (i) GPs, (ii) district nurses and (iii) other professionals in primary care settings to provide nutritional screening for adults of all ages. | | (170058) | 385
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who the members of his Department's Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board are. | | (170059) | 386
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he intends the (a) health and (b) social care regulators to begin looking for evidence of nutritional screening in their assessments of local services as stated on page 28 of his Department's document, Improving Nutritional Care; what they will use as evidence of nutritional screening; whether they intend to publicly identify those organisations that do not have evidence of nutritional screening; whether any other penalties will be available to the regulators to impose on those local services which do not have evidence of nutritional screening; and if he will make a statement. | | (170060) | 387
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in what ways his Department will (a) support and (b) widely promote the Council of Europe Alliance (UK)'s 10 key characteristics of good nutritional care in hospitals, as stated on page 26 of his Department's document, Improving Nutritional Care. | | (170061) | 388
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will provide the evidential basis for the statement that nutritional screening is begining to be implemented in hospitals and care homes, as stated on page 22 of his Department's document, Improving Nutritional Care. | | (170062) | 389
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the evidential basis is for the statement on page 19 of his Department's document, Improving Nutritional Care, that hospital food is now better than at any time since measurement began; in what ways the quality of hospital food is measured; when measurement began; and if he will list the results of these measurements for each year since measurement began. | | (170063) | 390
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria are used by the Healthcare Commission for assessing adherence to core standards on food and nutritional care, as described on page 18 of his Department's document, Improving Nutritional Care; and in what ways these criteria are new. | | (170064) | 391
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date the inter-agency round table group met to raise issues around training, as described on page 17 of his Department's document, Improving Nutritional Care; what issues were raised; whether further meetings of the inter-agency round table group are planned; which agencies are represented on the round table group; and if he will make a statement. | | (170065) | 392
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in what ways his Department has supported BAPEN's screening initiative, as referred to on page 14 of his Department's document, Improving Nutritional Care. | | (170066) | 393
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which organisations are developing the online training session on nutritional care and assistance with eating referred to on page 4 of his Department's document, Improving Nutritional Care; how the training session will be made available to (a) NHS and (b) social care staff; whether he intends to make the training session available to those health professionals who work outside the NHS and social care services; what topics he intends the online training session to cover; what the cost to the public purse will be of its development; and if he will make a statement. | | (170067) | 394
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons the Commercial Directorate's latest consultation on reimbursement for stoma and incontinence products and services under Part IX of the Drug Tariff omits reference to four of the seven objectives originally set for the review covering fair prices for the NHS and reasonable returns for suppliers, facilitating the introduction of innovative solutions, maintaining local choice in the provision of services and keeping administration to the necessary minimum; and how performance against all the review's objectives will be measured. | | (170068) | 395
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the Information Centre for Health and Social Care's priority projects are for 2008-09. | | (170071) | 396
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what dates since January 2007 his Department has had discussions with the Prescription Pricing Division of the NHS Business Services Authority; and what the content was of such discussions. | | (170072) | 397
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what policies his has Department for making data collected by the NHS available to the pharmaceutical industry; what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of these policies; and if he will make a statement. | | (170073) | 398
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the titles of all items of guidance (a) the Information Centre for Health and Social Care and (b) the NHS Business Services Authority has issued to its staff on the handling of personally-identifiable data; if he will place copies of these items of guidance in the Library; and if he will make a statement. | | (170074) | 399
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment the (a) Information Centre for Health and Social Care and (b) NHS Business Services Authority has made of the security of the personally-identifiable data it collects. | | (170075) | 400
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress the Information Centre for Health and Social Care has made in its project analysing patterns of prescribing and compliance with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines, as stated on the Our Priorities for 2007-08 section of the Information Centre's website; whether the Information Centre provides a (a) data and (b) analytical service to any bodies other than NICE on prescribing behaviours; whether data on prescribing behaviours are made available at (i) doctor, (ii) practice and (iii) primary care trust level; whether the Information Centre has extended its data and analytical service to information on dispensing; what plans the Information Centre has to increase the (A) scope of and (B) availability of access to data on prescribing; and if he will make a statement. | | (170076) | 401
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether nutritional screening equipment for use in the NHS is purchased through the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency. | | (170077) | 402
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in establishing a nationally-agreed standard malnutrition screening tool, as stated in section 5.0 of the National Patient Safety Agency's Nutritional Screening: Structured Investigation Project. | | (170078) | 403
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure patients are aware of nutritional screening so that they can ask for an assessment, as recommended in section 4.4 of the National Patient Safety Agency's Nutritional Screening: Structured Investigation Project. | | (170079) | 404
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department has received from (a) NHS staff, (b) social care staff and (c) other interested parties on the (i) availability and (ii) suitability of weighing scales to assess patients for risk of malnutrition in the last year; what the content was of these representations; and if he will make a statement. | | (170080) | 405
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the National Patient Safety Agency's Patient Environment Action Team scores for 2007 incorporated an assessment of the extent to which nutritional screening is undertaken in hospitals as part of its work on hospital food. | | (170081) | 406
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on its review of health informatics; with which (a) individuals and (b) organisations his Department has had discussions for the purposes of contributing to the review; what the content was of these discussions, when he intends to publish the results of the review; whether he intends to consult on any recommendations contained in the review; what interim findings have emerged from the review to date; and if he will make a statement. | | (170093) | 407
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2007, Official Report, column 1244W, on patients: nutrition, what the barriers to nutritional screening in hospitals identified in the two workshops hosted by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) were; in what ways the NPSA asked patients for their views on nutritional care in hospitals; what views were expressed by patients; and if he will provide a breakdown of the committed expenditure provided in the Answer by major cost area. | | (170114) | 408
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs there were in (a) Uxbridge constituency, (b) Hillingdon Primary Care Trust and (c) Greater London in each year since 1997. | | (169676) | 409
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of people were registered with an NHS dentist in each year since 1997. | | (169677) | 410
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) 18 to 65 year olds and (b) under 18 year olds were registered for NHS dental treatment in (i) Uxbridge constituency, (ii) Hillingdon Primary Care Trust and (iii) Greater London in each year since 1997. | | (169678) | 411
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many bed spaces there were on average at Hillingdon Hospital in each year since 1997. | | (169679) | 412
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of (a) MRSA and (b) clostridium difficile were recorded in the Hillingdon Primary Care Trust in each year since 1997. | | (169683) | 413
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many practice nurses there were in (a) Uxbridge constituency, (b) the London Borough of Hillingdon and (c) England in each year since 1997. | | (169691) | 414
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how often Hillingdon Hospital is expected to receive a deep clean; and when the first such clean will take place. | | (169692) | 415
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital beds there were in each primary care trust area in the East of England in each year since 1997. | | (170127) | 416
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS operations were cancelled in each primary care trust in the East of England as a result of (a) administrative errors, (b) shortages of beds, (c) outbreaks of MRSA or other hospital-acquired infections, (d) unavailability of correct or clean equipment and (e) missing notes in each year since 1997. | | (170128) | 417
| Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors were relocated away from the Chase Farm Hospital site by Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Trust in each of the last 10 years. | | (169689) | 418
| Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were seen by GP services, excluding out of hours services in (a) Enfield and (b) Enfield North constituency in each of the last 10 years. | | (169690) | 419
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the percentage of producers of processed foods that are providing consumers with information on (a) ingredients, (b) food values and (c) traffic light indicators for sugar, salt and fat content; and if he will make a statement. | | (170106) | 420
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which supermarkets use traffic light indicators as guidance for consumers on the sugar, salt and fat content of processed foods. | | (170107) | 421
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the food industry on the relationship between provision of information on sugar, salt and fat content of processed foods and individuals' ability to manage diabetes, heart disease, stroke, obesity and other chronic medical conditions; and if he will make a statement. | | (170108) | 422
| Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that the 34 million disposable respirators and 350 million surgical face masks he is purchasing are bought from companies in the UK. | | (170200) | 423
| Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, where the advanced supply vaccines recently announced will be manufactured. | | (170201) | 424
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been paid in direct payments under the Fair Access to Care Services scheme in the last 12 months, broken down by local authority area; how much of this has not been spent; and if he will make a statement. | | (169738) | 425
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how often local authorities are required to carry out a review into the distribution of direct payments under the Fair Access to Care Services scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (169739) | 426
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which local authorities have carried out a review into the distribution of direct payments under the Fair Access to Care Services scheme in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (169740) | 427
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to make (a) agendas and (b) other papers of each Government Professional Health Reform Implementation Programme work stream meeting available on his Department's website in advance of each such meeting. | | (169775) | 428
N | Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in what year the 40 pence per mile payment was introduced for NHS clinical staff who use their own cars for patient visits; and if he will increase this payment. | | (169522) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 429
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of (a) the compatibility of the software used in the National Firearms Licensing Management System with the software used in the National Firearms Register on the Police National Computer and (b) the interface between the two systems; and if she will make a statement. | | (170024) | 430
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was by the Criminal Records Bureau to process a records check in 2007, broken down by police force area. | | (170025) | 431
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will introduce regulations to restrict the sale, re-sale and importation of samurai swords; and if she will make a statement. | | (170026) | 432
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 16th October 2007, Official Report, column 983W, on stop and search, for what reasons data on individuals stopped and searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 is not collected by (a) gender and (b) age. | | (168642) | 433
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of religious hate crime were recorded in each police force area in each of the last five years. | | (168643) | 434
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many electronic databases within her Department contain (a) names, (b) addresses, (c) bank details and (d) other personal information on members of the public. | | (169718) | 435
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when each electronic database in her Department containing personal information on members of the public was first created. | | (169719) | 436
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many security breaches relating to access to personal data occurred within her Department in each year since 1997. | | (169720) | 437
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff of each grade have access to electronic databases in her Department which contain personal information on members of the public. | | (169721) | 438
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times databases in her Department containing personal information on members of the public have been accessed in each month of the last five years. | | (169722) | 439
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times databases in her Department containing personal information on members of the public have been transferred (a) physically and (b) electronically in each year since 1997. | | (169723) | 440
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests her Department has received from the National Audit Office for access to its databases containing personal information on members of the public in each year since 1997. | | (169724) | 441
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions her Department has in place to ensure that its databases containing personal information on members of the public are not accessed (a) by unauthorised staff and (b) for unauthorised purposes. | | (169725) | 442
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which companies are under contract to her Department to provide mail services. | | (170168) | 443
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to publish the results of her Department's monitoring and evaluation exercise in relation to the neighbourhood policing programme across England and Wales. | | (170015) | 444
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the outcomes of Operation Pentameter (a) 1 and (b) 2 were in relation to trafficking. | | (170218) | 445
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which groups, public bodies and organisations have submitted reports to the Migration Impacts Forum. | | (169693) | 446
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what remuneration was received by Lord Carlile of Berriew QC for his role of independent reviewer of terrorism legislation in each year since his appointment. | | (169694) | 447
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her most recent estimate is of the cost to her Department associated with reorganising her Department and creating the Ministry of Justice. | | (169695) | 448
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in her Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170251) | 449
N | Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which requirements of the European Convention against Trafficking in Human Beings require amendments to UK (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation; when the Government plans to bring forward such amendments; and if she will make a statement. | | (169562) | 450
N | Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to publish the Gateway review on identity cards carried out by the Office of Government Commerce; and if she will make a statement. | | (169582) | 451
N | Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to reply to the hon. Member for Ashford as referred to in the Answer of 30th October 2007, Official Report, column 1284W, on Members: written questions. | | (169631) | 452
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-EU nationals she has been unable to deport since October 2000 due to (a) UK courts finding a real risk of them suffering treatment contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights on their return and (b) her Department accepting that any such deportation would be in breach of Article 3 rights. | | (169770) | 453
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining her Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170232) | 454
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children under the age of five years who went missing in the UK and are still unaccounted for went missing in each year since 2000. | | (169708) | 455
| Sir Peter Soulsby (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expenditure her Department incurred in advertising, marketing and promoting the 101 telephone line in Leicester; how many calls to the line resulted in prosecutions for (a) anti-social behaviour and (b) other criminal offences; on what date the decision was taken to withdraw funding for the line; and on what date this decision was communicated to Leicester City Council. | | (170138) | 456
| Sir Peter Soulsby (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received from Leicester City Council in the last 12 months on funding of the 101 telephone line. | | (170197) | 457
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last met the Director of Public Prosecutions to discuss counter-terrorism policy; and what discussions she has had with the Director of Public Prosecutions on revising counter-terrorism legislation. | | (169702) | 458
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employers were fined in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007 for knowingly employing an illegal immigrant. | | (169703) | 459
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what procedures her Department investigates whether an employer is aware that an employee does not have the right to work in Britain. | | (169704) | 460
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much revenue was received in fines from employers who knowingly gave a job to an illegal immigrant in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007. | | (169705) | 461
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual budget is for investigations into employers who give jobs to illegal immigrants. | | (169706) | 462
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases there were where an employer has been found to knowingly employ an illegal immigrant but was not fined in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007. | | (169707) | 463
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent since 1997 on information technology for police forces in Britain; and what UK computer networks exist to ensure that forces are aware of previous criminal activity of people they are investigating. | | (169843) | 464
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much is being spent on ensuring that the Police National Computer is fully updated. | | (169844) | 465
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures exist to ensure that all police records are updated on people (a) being held in custody and (b) wanted for arrest. | | (169845) | 466
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures exist to ensure that all police forces are aware of updated information on criminals (a) being held and (b) wanted for arrest. | | (169846) | 467
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Police National Computer will be fully updated with court records. | | (170023) | 468
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Iraqi and (b) Afghan nationals granted asylum in the UK have settled in (i) England, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales and (iv) Northern Ireland in each of the last six years. | | (169822) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 469
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the policy is on the temperature at which each working area of each building on the parliamentary estate for which the House of Commons Commission is responsible is maintained. | | (170257) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 470
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170169) | 471
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which universities in the UK have departments dedicated to Islamic studies. | | (169697) | 472
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many (a) companies and (b) organisations in Gloucestershire have signed the Skills Pledge. | | (170099) | 473
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many Train to Gain places have been made available in each district area in Gloucestershire. | | (170100) | 474
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170250) | 475
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170231) | 476
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many (a) foundation degrees and (b) apprenticeships were offered in subjects related to (i) construction and (ii) engineering by each institution in London in each of the last five years. | | (169812) | 477
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what Government funding for adult education courses there has been in each year since 1997 for which records are available, broken down by local authority in the East of England. | | (169966) | 478
| Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many apprentices were registered in each construction trade in the last year for which figures are available. | | (170202) | 479
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what activities were recently undertaken as part of Student Finance week; and what the cost was of each. | | (169728) | 480
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, 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. | | (169932) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 481
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170170) | 482
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress has been made by the International Finance Facility on immunisation bonds; and if he will make a statement. | | (170016) | 483
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his most recent estimate is of the percentage of Palestinians (a) in the West Bank and (b) in the Gaza Strip (i) living below the poverty line and (ii) unemployed; and what assessment he has made of the impact of his policies on their situation. | | (170017) | 484
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170249) | 485
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding his Department provided directly to non-governmental organisations in the first phase response to humanitarian emergencies following (a) the earthquake in Peru, (b) the floods in India and (c) the cyclone in Bangladesh. | | (169771) | 486
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of funding for the (a) first and (b) second phase of the humanitarian response to the cyclone in Bangladesh was paid directly to non-governmental organisations. | | (169772) | 487
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) reviews, (b) consultations and (c) taskforces his Department is (i) responsible for and (ii) scheduled to initiate; on what date each (A) started and (B) is expected to be completed; and what the purpose is of each. | | (169858) | 488
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170230) | 489
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when the UK Search and Rescue Advisory Group met in 2007; and if he will place minutes of the meetings in the Library. | | (170258) | 490
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what guidelines have been developed by the UK Search and Rescue Advisory Group; and if he will place a copy of those guidelines in the Library. | | (170259) | 491
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he plans to publish the development effectiveness summaries for key multilateral partners on his Department's website. | | (169311) | 492
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what controls he has put in place to ensure that the allocation of £700 million aid to Uganda over the next 10 years is applied to (a) poverty reduction, (b) tackling corruption, (c) strengthening human rights and (d) other purposes for which it was intended. | | (170070) | 493
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in the North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo; and what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the provision of humanitarian assistance to the country following the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary meeting earlier this month. | | (169906) | 494
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how the Government is co-operating with its international partners to meet the financial shortfall in the 2007 Humanitarian Action Plan for the Democratic Republic of Congo. | | (169907) | 495
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer on 22nd November 2007, Official Report, column 1042W, on Somalia: international assistance, whether the Government will provide (a) financial and (b) logistical support for the French initiative to protect humanitarian supply ships sailing to Somalia from incidents of piracy. | | (169908) | 496
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much he allocated to support work with refugees from Tibet in each of the last five years. | | (169052) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 497
| Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) police cells and (b) custody suites in West Chelmsford constituency were occupied by prisoners remanded in custody by the courts in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (169768) | 498
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170171) | 499
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his most recent estimate is of the total cost of creating his Department. | | (169696) | 500
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) speeding and (b) dangerous driving offences were recorded in Gloucestershire in each year since 1979. | | (170097) | 501
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Crown courts there are; where each is located; and how many judges are attached to each court. | | (170098) | 502
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been raised from victims surcharge on fines payable in magistrates' courts since its introduction on 1st April. | | (169730) | 503
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who is responsible for (a) distributing and (b) administering the proceeds of the victims surcharge. | | (169731) | 504
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to whom in each parliamentary constituency the proceeds from victims surcharge has been distributed since 1st April. | | (169732) | 505
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170248) | 506
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the policy is of HM Prison Service on the employment of members of organisations it classes as racist. | | (169986) | 507
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which organisations HM Prison Service classes as racist. | | (169987) | 508
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170229) | 509
N | Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many acknowledged security breaches there have been of (a) LIBRA, (b) C-NOMIS, (c) ViSOR and (d) other IT systems controlled by his Department. | | (169628) | 510
N | Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released on end of custody licence who did not fit the criteria for release. | | (169629) | 511
N | Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of those released on end of custody licence between 29th June 2007 and 31st October 2007 had been convicted of domestic violence offences. | | (169630) | 512
N | Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people granted home detention curfew in the last 12 months were foreign nationals. | | (169632) | 513
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) receptions to and (b) releases from young offender institutions located (i) nationally and (ii) in London took place in each of the last five years. | | (169814) | 514
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women are serving prison sentences for non-payment of the BBC licence fee. | | (170269) | 515
| Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations he has received on the conduct of the bailiffs, Phillips Ltd; and if he will make a statement. | | (169810) | 516
| Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many injuries were incurred by boys held in (a) Feltham, (b) Foston Hall, (c) Hindley and (d) Huntercombe Young Offender Institution as a result of control and restraint in each month in (i) 2006 and (ii) 2007; and if he will give details of each injury sustained. | | (169808) | 517
| Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many injuries were incurred by girls held in (a) Down View Young Offender Institution and (b) Eastwood Park Young Offender Institution as a result of control and restraint in each month in (i) 2006 and (ii) 2007; and if he will give details of each injury sustained. | | (169809) | 518
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide additional funding for the Youth Justice Board to increase the staff complement at Gladstone House Young Offender Institution. | | (169774) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 519
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170172) | 520
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170247) | 521
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170228) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 522
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington of 22nd November 2007, Official Report, columns 1034-5W, on Olympic Games 2012: training, how many of the 1,500 training places provided by the Local Employment and Training Framework for the Olympic Games are for (a) apprenticeships and (b) level (i) 1, (ii) 2, (iii) 3 and (iv) 4 qualifications. | | (169670) | Questions to the Prime Minister 523
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 577W, on Diego Garcia: USA, for what reasons he did not state whether he would ensure a Parliamentary debate before any decision is taken on the use of Diego Garcia by the US Administration. | | (169623) | 524
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answers of 19th November 2007, Official Report, columns 576-7W, on departmental accountability, for what reasons he did not provide the information requested in the Questions tabled. | | (169624) | 525
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answers of 19th November 2007, Official Report, column 577W, on (a) mass media and (b) departmental official engagements, for what reasons he did not provide the information requested in the Questions. | | (169625) | 526
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Prime Minister, when he last met the Director of Public Prosecutions to discuss counter-terrorism policy. | | (169701) | Questions to the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission 527
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, what assessment has been made of the efficacy of data protection practice to safeguard against the unauthorised release of data which has been adopted by Government departments and agencies when subject to audit by the National Audit Office. | | (170030) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 528
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170173) | 529
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in the Office of the Advocate General for Scotland in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170216) | 530
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170246) | 531
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170227) | Questions to the Solicitor General 532
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Solicitor General, which companies are under contract to the Law Officers' Departments to provide mail services. | | (170174) | 533
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Solicitor General, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been from the Law Officers' Departments in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (169901) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 534
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure that buses in all areas have smart-card readers when smart cards for nation-wide pensioners travel concessions are introduced. | | (169477) | 535
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions she has had with the Department for Communities and Local Government on the funding of the nationwide pensioner travel concessionary scheme in 2008; and if she will make a statement. | | (169513) | 536
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the cost to local authorities of introducing the nationwide pensioner concessionary travel scheme in 2008. | | (169514) | 537
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which companies are under contract to her Department to provide mail services. | | (170175) | 538
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she expects to be in a position to estimate public sector financial impacts of Metronet not fulfilling its contract on the London Underground; and what her policy is on the timetable for considering proposals on tackling such impacts. | | (170014) | 539
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in her Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170245) | 540
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining her Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated annual cost is of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines. | | (170226) | 541
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make a journey in a Desiro Class 450 train unit to assess the level of passenger comfort provided. | | (169825) | 542
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of cars in (a) England and (b) London which are in emissions bands (i) G, (ii) C-F and (iii) A-B. | | (169816) | 543
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the number of London households which are expected to buy a new car in the next 10 years, broken down by socio-economic group. | | (169817) | 544
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on aircraft noise (a) at Heathrow Airport and (b) in the surrounding London boroughs in each year since 1997. | | (169973) | 545
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there have been on the A14 in Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | (170135) | 546
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there have been on the A143 in (i) Suffolk and (ii) Great Barton; and how many involved drivers under the age of 21 years in each category since 1997. | | (170136) | 547
N | Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the number of collisions on motorways in the last 12 months that have involved heavy goods vehicles from mainland Europe where the vehicle has not had adaptations to wing mirrors for use on British roads. | | (169510) | 548
N | Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the safety of longer heavier vehicles (LHVs) on (a) motorways and (b) other roads in relation to road traffic incidents involving other road users; and what assessment she has made of the effect on safety of left-hand drive LHVs using British roads. | | (169511) | 549
N | Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the number of occasions on which emergency vehicles have used the hard shoulder for access to an incident on each of the motorways in the North West Region in the last 12 months. | | (169512) | 550
| Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people renewed their vehicle excise duty online in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007 to date. | | (170199) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 551
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170176) | 552
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170243) | 553
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated cost of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines is. | | (170224) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 554
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Highland ward of Merkinch received from the deprived areas fund in 2006-07; and how much it is estimated to receive in 2007-08. | | (169911) | 555
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) cost of administering, (b) number and (c) average success rate was of appeals against refusal of incapacity benefit in each of the last 10 years. | | (169912) | 556
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the flexible New Deal process outlined in In work, better off: next steps to full employment will accommodate the adult careers service recommended by Lord Leitch in his report, Prosperity for all in the global economy - world class skills. | | (169913) | 557
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will set out a timetable for the implementation of proposals made in, In work, better off: next steps to full employment document published in July 2007. | | (169914) | 558
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the possibility of allocating savings made from the annual management expenditure budget to the departmental expenditure limit; and if he will make a statement. | | (169915) | 559
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which groups of benefits claimants will be fast tracked to the gateway stage of flexible New Deal under the proposals outlined in, In work, better off: next steps to full employment. | | (169916) | 560
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether all strands of current New Deal programmes will be subsumed into flexible New Deal under the proposals outlined in, In work, better off: next steps to full employment. | | (169917) | 561
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has any plans to exempt certain groups of lone parents from new requirements of conditionality outlined in, In work, better off: next steps to full employment. | | (169918) | 562
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the flexible New Deal programme proposed in In work, better off: next steps to full employment will affect the delivery of the city strategy in pathfinder areas. | | (170112) | 563
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to increase the involvement of private and voluntary sector organisations in the design and delivery stages of the city strategy. | | (170113) | 564
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients living overseas have had their state earnings related pension frozen; and how much it would cost to uprate those pensions (a) with and (b) without back payments. | | (169581) | 565
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. | | (170177) | 566
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. | | (170242) | 567
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that his Department provides references for the translators no longer being used by the Department. | | (169779) | 568
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department's and its agencies' corporate identity; and what the estimated cost of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines is. | | (170223) | 569
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to revise his guidance to lay decision-makers assessing claims for disability living allowance from sufferers of myalgic encephalopathy, chronic fatigue syndrome; and if he will make a statement. | | (170263) | 570
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent representations he has received from (a) myalgic encephalopathy, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) charities, (b) medical professionals and (c) individuals with ME/CFS on his Department's advice on claimants suffering from this illness. | | (170270) | 571
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what scientific studies underlie his Department's guidance on benefit applicants with myalgic encephalopathy, chronic fatigue syndrome. | | (170271) | 572
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 27th November 2007, Official Report, columns 27-30WS, on Mental health and employment, when he expects to publish a national strategy for mental health and work; and if he will make a statement. | | (169842) | 573
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 27th November 2007, Official Report, columns 27-30WS, on Mental health and employment, what the role is of the National Director of Health and Work. | | (169848) | 574
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the written Ministerial Statement of 27th November, Official Report, columns 27-30WS, on mental health and employment, what form a fitnote will take; and how a fitnote will differ from a sicknote. | | (169946) | 575
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the written Ministerial Statement of 27th November, Official Report, columns 27-30WS, on mental health and employment, what the terms of reference are of the review into improving the health and employment prospects of people of working age being undertaken by Dame Carol Black. | | (169947) | 576
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the written Ministerial Statement of 27th November, Official Report, columns 27-30WS, on mental health and employment, what the evidential basis is for his statement that substantial progress has been made in mental health and employment since 1997. | | (169948) | 577
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the written Ministerial Statement of 27th November, Official Report, columns 27-30WS, on mental health and employment, how much his Department has spent on mental health services (a) in total and (b) as a percentage of departmental expenditure in each year since 1997. | | (169949) | 578
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were in receipt of (a) incapacity benefit and (b) other out-of-work benefits as a result of mental health conditions in each year since 1997. | | (169950) | 579
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the written Ministerial Statement of 26th November 2007, Official Report, columns 6-8WS, on next steps to full employment, what his definition is of key out-of-work benefits. | | (169951) | 580
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 27th November 2007, Official Report, columns 27-30WS, on Mental health and employment, how many advice and support services for employers he will pilot; where each will be based; when he expects each to start; and if he will make a statement. | | (169959) | 581
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 27th November 2007, Official Report, column 27-30WS, on Mental health and employment, how many Pathways Advisory Service pilots there are; where each is based; and where subsequent pilots will be located. | | (169960) | 582
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of the projected impact of inflation on pensioners in each of the next three years. | | (170264) | 583
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what methodology the Government uses to calculate the impact of changes in the retail prices index on pensioners. | | (170265) | 584
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate the Government has made of the impact of changing (a) food, (b) utility and (c) transport prices on pensioners over each of the next three years. | | (170266) | 585
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of how the impact of inflation on pensioners' standard of life has compared with the impact on the average UK citizen's standard of life in each of the last three years; and what projections he has made for figures equivalent for each of the next three years. | | (170267) | 586
N | Mr Angus MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department pays per computer to EDS for professional services each month; and whether this sum includes call-out charges. | | (169209) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 587
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what successor programme has been negotiated between the government of Iraq and the International Monetary Fund; what the key features of this programme are; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (170255) | 588
N | Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value is of subordinated debt owed by Northern Rock to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement. | | [Question Unstarred] (169079) | 589
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many 16 to 24 year olds were not in employment, education or training in (a) the Uxbridge constituency, (b) each London borough and (c) England in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (169974) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 590
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will commission research into the underlying biomedical cause of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (170254) | 591
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many people aged (a) 16 and (b) 17 in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK were not in education, employment or training in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (169841) | 592
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many people aged 18 in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England have not been in education, employment or training in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (169970) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 593
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many dormant quarries have planning permission for mineral extraction in (a) the North West and (b) England. | | [Transferred] (169972) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 594
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27th November 2007, Official Report, column 141, on responsibility for rapairing damage to infrastructure from flooding, who is responsible for the maintenance of and repairs to the infrastructure of drains following the summer floods in 2007. | | [Transferred] (169851) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 595
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) reports of, (b) arrests for and (c) convictions for drug rape were made in London in each of the last 10 years. | | [Transferred] (169813) | 596
| Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firms were (a) charged and (b) convicted for employing illegal workers in 2006 in (i) England and Wales and (ii) the West Midlands. | | [Transferred] (170203) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 597
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the Government's response was to the European Commission's infringement letter indicating that the UK's data protection law was deficient and that data protection directive 95/46/EC had not been implemented; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (170207) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 598
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the main features are of the police services agreement for designated airports; what costs are expected to arise from it; and upon whom these costs will fall. | | [Transferred] (170206) | 599
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what percentage of the Government's Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation will come from exported sources by 2010; and what estimate she has made of the percentage of these fuels which will come from sustainable sources. | | [Transferred] (169937) |
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