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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 28 January 2008
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 28 January 2008
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 28 January 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 Monday 28 January of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 28 January see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each year since establishment. | | (182987) | 2
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many Ministerial residences were available to his Department's Ministers and those of its predecessors in each of the last 10 years. | | (183188) | 3
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies since its inception; and what the total cost of those contracts has been to date. | | (183195) | 4
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what proposals were put forward by the United Kingdom for inclusion in the European Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan being developed by the European Commission; which proposals were subsequently included in the SET Plan; and what steps the United Kingdom intends to take to help remove institutional barriers to the take up of new energy technologies. | | (183043) | 5
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer of 21st January 2008, Official Report, column 1632W, on nuclear power stations: construction, how much funding will be provided to enable hard to reach groups to participate in a public inquiry into an application to build a nuclear power plant; what criteria will be used to assess eligibility for such funding; and what is the maximum value of funding which will be available for any individual inquiry. | | (183065) | 6
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what his most recent estimate is of the number of households in (a) Cheltenham and (b) each of the Gloucestershire constituencies which were in fuel poverty in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. | | (183015) | 7
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what his most recent estimate is of the revenue received from customers telephoning on telephone numbers beginning 08 by (a) Royal Mail and (b) Consumer Direct in the last five financial years. | | (183044) | 8
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what contribution his Department will make to the funding of programmes run by (a) Business Link and (b) the Manufacturing Advisory Service for the provision of advice on resources efficiency to businesses in 2008-09. | | (178615) | 9
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether any commercial export contracts were agreed (a) during and (b) as a result of the Prime Minister's recent visit to Beijing. | | (182692) | 10
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what funds in the form of (a) revenue payments, (b) capital grants and (c) supported borrowing for which his Department is responsible have been made available to (i) Kent County Council, (ii) Thanet District Council and (iii) Dover District Council in 2007-08. | | (183058) | 11
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179010) | 12
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will make it his policy to ensure that Government funding to support furniture manufacturing industry and its supply chain is more effective for the industry across all geographical regions. | | (183017) | 13
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many planning applications have been refused as a result of mobile telephone operators not being able to demonstrate that they have fully considered all options for the proposed new base station. | | (183075) | 14
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of current planning procedures in ensuring mobile telephone operators demonstrate that they have fully considered all options for a proposed new base station. | | (183076) | 15
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what proportion of renewable energy in England came from landfill and bio-sewage gas in 2006-07. | | (183284) | 16
| Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many people were employed in the engineering sector in 2007. | | (182946) | 17
| Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the average proportion of turnover invested in research and development by UK companies in the computer games development sector. | | (182948) | 18
| Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the market share of UK computer games developers in (a) the UK, (b) the US and (c) Europe in 2006-07. | | (182949) | 19
| Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the contribution of the engineering industry to the economy in 2007. | | (182950) | 20
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will bring forward proposals to set minimum volumes of copper and other specified metals which scrap metal merchants may purchase in a single transaction; and what assessment he has made of the likely effect of such a regime upon thefts of small quantities of those metals. | | (183037) | 21
N | Dr Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what proportion of export credit outstanding at the end of financial year 2004-05 for Nigeria was for military goods. | | (180895) | 22
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many homes in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) the East Midlands and (d) North West Leicestershire were not connected to the natural gas supply at the most recent date for which figures are available; and what the average number was by parliamentary constituency in (i) the UK and (ii) England. | | (182804) | 23
N | Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the savings to Post Office Ltd arising from the closure of 2500 post offices in the first three years after the closures have taken place. | | (182454) | 24
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what minimum number of rural post office branches would be required to ensure that 95 per cent. of the total rural population lived within three miles of a post office branch; and how many post office branches classified as rural there were at the end of financial year 2006-07. | | (182452) | 25
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what minimum number of post office branches would be required to ensure that 99 per cent. of the UK population is within three miles and 90 per cent. of the population are within one mile of their nearest post office outlet. | | (182453) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 26
| Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the economic contribution of migrants to the UK economy by (a) economic sector and (b) age cohort in each of the last five years. | | (178719) | 27
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (183003) | 28
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183200) | 29
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what income the Crown Estate derived from wind powered electricity generating installations situated offshore in each financial year since 2001-02. | | (178653) | 30
| Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many companies in the construction sector have been fined since the introduction of the new construction industry scheme for wrongly stating the employment status of a member of their workforce; and how many workers were given the wrong status by each such company. | | (178591) | 31
| Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many construction companies have been fined for the late returns of their construction industry scheme contractor monthly returns; and how many companies have had warning notices issued for the same breach. | | (178592) | 32
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of tax credit awards are currently experiencing technical difficulties having been unresolved for six months or more; and what plans he has to resolve such difficulties. | | (183051) | 33
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many deaths where the underlying cause was alcohol-related were recorded in the London Borough of Bexley in each year since 1997. | | (178670) | 34
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, at which points of entry interviews are conducted as part of the international passenger survey. | | (178678) | 35
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of inbound (a) flights, (b) ferries, (c) coaches and (d) trains arrived at points of entry where the international passenger survey is conducted in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (178681) | 36
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families in North Devon were in receipt of (a) child tax credit and (b) working tax credit in each year since 1997. | | (183081) | 37
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his most recent estimate is of the revenue received from customers telephoning on telephone numbers beginning 08 by HM Revenue and Customs in the last five financial years. | | (183042) | 38
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (180075) | 39
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8th January 2008, Official Report, column 509W, on Valuation Office: Rightmove, what the timetable is for HM Revenue and Customs, on behalf of the Valuation Office Agency, to decide whether or not to exercise its option to extend the contract with Rightmove for a further 12 months. | | (178657) | 40
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8th January 2008, Official Report, column 509W, on Valuation Office: Rightmove, if he will make it his policy not to extend the contract for a further 12 months. | | (178658) | 41
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8th January 2008, Official Report, column 509W, on Valuation Office: video recordings, if he will place in the Library copies of the internal staff videos (a) Message from CLG client September 2005 and (b) New Year Message-Tuesday 16th January 2007. | | (178659) | 42
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14th January 2008, Official Report, column 906W, on stamp duties, how many homes claimed the tax relief for zero carbon homes from 1st December 2007 to date, according to HM Revenue and Customs records. | | (183157) | 43
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horshan of 7th January 2008, Official Report, column 332W, on Government departments: property, what the address was of each empty property listed in the Answer, according to records held in the e-PIMS database. | | (183217) | 44
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of HM Treasury's 2002 document, Plastic Bag Tax Assessment. | | (183220) | 45
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Property Information Systems Common Exchange Standard XML schema includes provision for the inclusion of the Valuation Office Agency's Unique Address Reference Number. | | (183262) | 46
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Valuation Office Agency's membership of the Property Information Systems Common Exchange Standard cost in the most recent financial year for which figures are available. | | (183263) | 47
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what records the Valuation Office Agency collects on conservatories and their floor-area for the purposes of council tax valuations and revaluations. | | (183264) | 48
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what use the Valuation Office Agency is planning to make of the Property Information Systems Common Exchange standard in relation to (a) the transfer of data on domestic properties and (b) residential valuations including the automated valuation model. | | (183265) | 49
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress has been made by his investigation into whether employees' parking spaces should be considered as a benefit in kind for taxation purposes. | | (183266) | 50
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Valuation Office Agency has spent in relation to its automated valuation model on (a) consultancy, (b) payments to CapGemini including those indirectly to CLT, (c) hardware, (d) staffing and (e) other costs since September 2005. | | (183267) | 51
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the data that the Valuation Office Agency collects from Rightmove.co.uk using the market comparable reporting tool includes data derived from the Rightmove automated valuation model database. | | (183268) | 52
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what payments his Department and its agencies has made to Itis Holdings in the last 36 months. | | (183269) | 53
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Revenue and Customs, on behalf of the Valuation Office Agency, intends to exercise its option to extend its contract for a further 12 months with Rightmove.co.uk Plc when the current 34 month contract period expires in March 2008; and if he will make it his policy to terminate the contract at the end of the 34 month period. | | (183270) | 54
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse has been to date of the contract between HM Revenue and Customs, on behalf of the Valuation Office Agency, and Rightmove.co.uk Plc. | | (183271) | 55
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Valuation Office Agency has access to Natural England's MAGIC database. | | (183272) | 56
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the presentation made and handouts produced by the representative of the Valuation Office Agency entitled, Towards modernisation in property tax systems: the British experience, during the International Seminar on Property Taxation in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil on 22nd November 2007; and what the cost to the public purse of attendance at this seminar was. | | (183273) | 57
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the landfill tax escalator is revenue-neutral in relation to local authorities. | | (183274) | 58
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will consider introducing performance measures for HM Revenue and Customs officers on proactive engagement with enforcement officers implementing the National Licensing Scheme for Houses in Multiple Occupation. | | (182459) | 59
N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he held with the (a) British Banking Association, (b) Building Societies Association and (c) Council of Mortgage Licences on safeguarding data provided under the Supply of Information (Register of Deaths) Regulations 2007 to prevent its use for fraudulent purposes. | | (180898) | 60
N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to inform the public about the disclosure of death registration data under the Supply of Information (Register of Deaths) Regulations 2007. | | (180899) | 61
N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what safeguards he has put in place to ensure that death registration data disclosed under the Supply of Information (Register of Deaths) Regulations 2007 will not be available to those not entitled to it. | | (180900) | 62
N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has held with the devolved administrations on the Supply of Information (Register of Deaths) Regulations 2007. | | (180901) | 63
N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether written Ministerial approval is required to authorise the release of death registration data under the terms of the Supply of Information (Register of Deaths) Regulations 2007. | | (180902) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 64
N | Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the percentage of A-Level biology students who (a) will and (b) will not have the opportunity to participate in a course related field trip in the school year ending 2008. | | (182869) | 65
N | Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the percentage of A-Level biology students who will have the opportunity to participate in a half-day field trip in the school year ending 2008. | | (182870) | 66
N | Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the percentage of GCSE students who (a) will have the opportunity to participate in a course related field trip in the school year ending 2008 and (b) had the opportunity in the school year ending in (i) 2007 and (ii) 2006. | | (182872) | 67
| Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many institutions have brought together training for Early Years Professional Status and Qualified Teacher Status and awarded both concurrently. | | (178671) | 68
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each year since establishment. | | (182990) | 69
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many Ministerial residences were available to his Department's Ministers and those of its predecessors in each of the last 10 years. | | (183187) | 70
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies since its inception; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183192) | 71
| John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many reported cases of bullying there were in each school in Easington constituency in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007. | | (183027) | 72
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many apprenticeship placements are planned in each year to 2010, broken down by parliamentary constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (183172) | 73
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department has taken to encourage sharing good practice in the provision of transport for young people since his Department published, Youth matters: next steps, in March 2006; and if he will make a statement. | | (183173) | 74
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what expenditure his Department has incurred in countering social exclusion among young people (a) who have a disability, (b) who are lesbian, gay and bisexual, (c) from minority ethnic groups and (d) from rural areas; and if he will make a statement. | | (183174) | 75
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to his Answer of 21st January 2008 to Question 177817, on modern languages, if he will list the mainstream secondary schools that have not entered students for a GCSE modern language in each of the last three years. | | (182126) | 76
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will publish the findings of the pilot stage tests in English and mathematics taken by 40,000 pupils in December 2007. | | (182455) | 77
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 16th January 2008, Official Report, columns 1269-70W, on education, what the names are of the four unregistered settings referred to in the Answer. | | (182608) | 78
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 16th January 2008, Official Report, column 1271W, on GCE A-levels, what types of schools are in the category of other schools. | | (182609) | 79
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils with statements of special educational need are recorded as attending (a) maintained special schools, (b) maintained mainstream schools and (c) other educational settings broken down by category of special educational need. | | (178585) | 80
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils in (a) maintained and (b) independent schools have a diagnosis of autism. | | (178672) | 81
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils with autism attend (a) maintained special schools, (b) maintained mainstream schools and (c) other educational settings, broken down by category of special need. | | (178673) | 82
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what research his Department has commissioned on effective teaching for deaf and hearing impaired pupils in the last 10 years. | | (178674) | 83
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many statements of special educational need were issued in respect of children (a) with autism and (b) recorded as deaf and having impaired hearing in each year for which figures are available. | | (178675) | 84
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of deaf and hearing-impaired pupils are recorded as having (a) special educational needs with a statement, (b) special educational needs without a statement and (c) no special educational needs. | | (183286) | 85
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) maintained and (b) independent schools for deaf and hearing-impaired pupils there were in each year since 1997; and how many places were provided in each category in each such year. | | (183287) | 86
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what guidance his Department gives to local authorities on the placement of deaf and hearing-impaired children. | | (183288) | 87
| Mr David Heath (Somerton & Frome): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what guidance his Department has given to schools on contingency planning for firearms incidents on school premises. | | (178664) | 88
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what funds in the form of (a) revenue payments, (b) capital grants and (c) supported borrowing for which his Department is responsible have been made available to (i) Kent County Council, (ii) Thanet District Council and (iii) Dover District Council in 2007-08. | | (183060) | 89
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much money will be made available to Kent County Council through the Building Schools for the Future programme; over what period is it to be spent; and what criteria have been set for the way it is to be used. | | (183064) | 90
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 17th January 2008, Official Report, columns 1405-6W, on private sector, for each of the two formal investigations referred to, which private sector organisations were concerned; what the result of the investigation was; what the start and end date of the investigation was; and if he will make a statement. | | (182074) | 91
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179008) | 92
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether there is an obligation to obtain parental consent before providing a (a) child and (b) young person with a body piercing in a commercial setting. | | (178634) | 93
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many identifiable outbreaks of infection were reported by schools in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what the infection was in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (183175) | 94
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what options other than closing schools are available to local education authorities to address an excess of school places. | | (182806) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 95
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what percentage of the Cabinet Office's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (182991) | 96
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many Ministerial residences were available to Cabinet Office Ministers in each of the last 10 years. | | (183186) | 97
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183194) | 98
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179007) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 99
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to bring forward a new statutory definition of homelessness as proposed in the Housing Act 2004; and if she will make a statement. | | (183178) | 100
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what percentage of her Department's expenditure was on advertising in each year since establishment. | | (182989) | 101
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many Ministerial residences were available to her Department's Ministers in each of the last 10 years. | | (183185) | 102
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many external contracts her Department held with public relations companies since its inception; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183191) | 103
| Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local government enforcement orders on planning issues have been successfully enforced since 1996. | | (183091) | 104
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what visits the Minister for London has made to Hammersmith and Fulham in her capacity as such. | | (183016) | 105
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations she has received on Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service funding for 2008-09. | | (183087) | 106
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will assess the impact of changes to fire-fighters' pensions on Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service as compared to other fire services. | | (183088) | 107
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will assess the impact of the proposed grant settlement for Devon and Somerset Fire Service for 2008-09 on fire service cover and public safety in Ilfracombe. | | (183089) | 108
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects to publish the terms of reference for the boundary committee review of local government structures in Devon; and when she expects the review to be completed. | | (183090) | 109
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has for consultation between the proposed infrastructure planning commission and the proposed marine management organisation on the licensing of offshore wind farms producing over 100MW of power. | | (178587) | 110
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions her Department has had with officials from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on (a) marine spatial planning and (b) planning for major infrastructure developments in the marine environment. | | (178590) | 111
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funds in the form of (a) revenue payments, (b) capital grants and (c) supported borrowing for which her Department is responsible have been made available to (i) Kent County Council, (ii) Thanet District Council and (iii) Dover District Council in 2007-08. | | (183061) | 112
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much total funding via (a) Revenue Support, (b) Capital Grant and (c) Supported Borrowing was provided from all central government departments to (i) Kent County Council, (ii) Thanet District Council and (iii) Dover District Council in each year since 1992. | | (183093) | 113
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the costs incurred by each shire county on publicity in each year since 2005-06. | | (183094) | 114
| Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the revenue support grant for Derbyshire councils has been in each of the last eight years. | | (178593) | 115
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) her Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179009) | 116
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what account is taken of the competency of the practitioner in local authority licensing of the providers of tattoos and body piercing. | | (178635) | 117
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of local authority regimes for the licensing of tattooing or skin piercing premises, with particular regard to the revocation of licences held by businesses that have closed. | | (178637) | 118
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many licenses for tattooing or skin premises have been revoked by a local authority in each year between 2000 and 2005; and if she will make a statement. | | (178639) | 119
N | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, from which local authorities making proposals for future unitary structure was further information sought by her Department to assist with assessment in advance of the Government statement on 27th March 2007; if she will place in the Library the (a) questions that were presented to each local authority and (b) their responses; and if she will make a statement. | | (182428) | 120
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 18th December 2007, Official Report, column 1332W, on local government finance, what the average assumed collection rate of (a) the business rate and (b) council tax of each type of billing authority is for the purposes of allocating formula grant. | | (178618) | 121
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many village halls and community centres were recorded on the Valuation Office Agency's ratings list in England in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (178619) | 122
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21st January 2008, to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield, Official Report, columns 1527-8W, on housing, how many domestic dwellings were on the valuation list in each year since the establishment of council tax. | | (178620) | 123
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon Member for Leicester South, of 15th January 2008, Official Report, columns 1168-9W, on regional planning and development: East Midlands, if she will state which hon. and right hon. Members made formal submissions to the consultations on regional spatial strategies other than that relating to the East Midlands. | | (178621) | 124
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15th January 2008, Official Report, column 778W, on the Health and Safety Executive, if she will place in the Library copies of the correspondence between the Health and Safety Executive and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister relating to the water heaters of the type involved in the fatalities in 2002 and 2007. | | (178622) | 125
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15th January 2008, Official Report, column 778W, on the Health and Safety Executive, for what reasons the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister did not communicate the warnings of the Health and Safety Executive in relation to certain water heaters to social landlords and private householders following the 2002 fatality. | | (178623) | 126
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15th January 2008, Official Report, column 788W, on the Health and Safety Executive, if she will issue guidance to social landlords on the risks arising from the type of water heater involved in the death of Rhianna Hardie. | | (178624) | 127
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15th January 2008, Official Report, column 788W, on the Health and Safety Executive, what estimate her Department has made of the number of homes in the country with water heaters of the kind involved in the death of Rhianna Hardie. | | (178625) | 128
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance has been given to local authorities on the use of local authority resources and facilities to engage in political campaigning by employees of the local authority. | | (178626) | 129
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many branded plastic bags (a) her Department, (b) the Audit Commission, (c) the Housing Corporation and (d) the Standards Board for England have procured in the last 24 months; and at what cost. | | (178655) | 130
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford, of 15th January 2008, Official Report, column 1169W, on the UK Location Strategy, if she will place in the Library a copy of the UK Location Strategy submitted to Ministers by the Geographic Information Panel. | | (178656) | 131
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effect of the Statistical Note on Land Use Change of January 1985 on (a) planning policy and (b) planning decisions in relation to brownfield land. | | (178660) | 132
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the business case for FireControl. | | (178661) | 133
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what data the Valuation Office Agency collects for council tax valuation and revaluation purposes on (a) off-street parking space, (b) the number of parking spaces and (c) the amount of garage space associated residential property. | | (178686) | 134
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18th December 2007, Official Report, column 1299W, on Audit Commission: fees and charges, what estimate she has made of the audit fees for 2008-09 in (a) absolute terms and (b) as a percentage of those costs in 2007-08 for (i) a district council, (ii) a London borough, (iii) a unitary council, (iv) a metropolitan council and (v) a county council. | | (178687) | 135
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21st January 2008, Official Report, column 1526W, on home information packs, if she will place in the Library copies of those pages of the Lenders' Handbook which list the mortgage lenders' policies on the acceptance of personal searches. | | (178693) | 136
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15th January 2008, Official Report, column 773, on London Development Agency/Mayor of London, if she will bring forward proposals for a statutory code of conduct for the Mayor of London's political advisers. | | (178702) | 137
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what definition she uses of predictors of beaconicity; and if she will make a statement. | | (182953) | 138
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her Department's definition of green space is for (a) mapping and (b) planning purposes. | | (183020) | 139
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 18th December 2007, Official Report, column 1312W, on departmental pay, whether any staff in the home information pack division have received a bonus. | | (183021) | 140
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18th December 2007, Official Report, column 1342W, on public bodies: internet, what each XML schema in use by her Department is. | | (183025) | 141
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what work the (a) District Auditor and (b) Audit Commission have undertaken on recent claims of impropriety in the allocation of grants by the London Development Agency and the Greater London Authority. | | (183092) | 142
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 12th December 2007, Official Report, column 685W, on wardens, what central funding has been provided to fund neighbourhood warden schemes, further to the pledge in the Respect Action Plan. | | (183158) | 143
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 12th December 2007, Official Report, column 685W, on wardens, what warden schemes are funded by local area agreements according to records held by the Government Offices for the Regions. | | (183159) | 144
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what adjustments in cash terms have been made to the collection funds of each billing authority in England as a result of successful council tax appeals by the householder in (a) 2006-07 and (b) so far in 2007-08. | | (183212) | 145
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the annual cost is of her Department's membership of the Property Information Systems Common Exchange Standard; and for what purpose it is a member. | | (183213) | 146
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the Valuation Office Agency's definition is of an outbuilding for (a) council tax valuation and (b) business rate valuation purposes. | | (183214) | 147
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many social landlords have not signed up to the Respect Standard for Housing Management. | | (183215) | 148
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local billing authorities in England now transfer property information via the Valuebill interface to the Valuation Office Agency. | | (183216) | 149
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of first-time buyers in England took out mortgages of 100 per cent. or more of the purchase price of the property in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (183221) | 150
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many council tax appeals relating to England have been considered in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08 to date by the Valuation Tribunal Service; what proportion and how many resulted in a lower council tax banding for the householder. | | (183222) | 151
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library copies of the minutes of the Valuation Office Agency's Council Tax Revaluation Programme Board for the CTR2007 project. | | (183223) | 152
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what definition of an empty home is used in relation to (a) council tax, (b) Empty Dwelling Management Orders and (c) for her Department's statistical purposes. | | (183224) | 153
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Local Government Ombudsman can deal with complaints of maladministration by (a) the London Development Agency and (b) the Greater London Authority. | | (183236) | 154
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the district auditor has oversight over the (a) London Development Agency and (b) Greater London Authority. | | (183237) | 155
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether there is a code of conduct for the Mayor of London's political advisers. | | (183238) | 156
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps are being taken to (a) implement and (b) promote community calls to action by local authorities introduced under the Police and Justice Act 2006. | | (183239) | 157
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what action the Office of the Deputy Prime Mininster took in 2002 following representations from the Health and Safety Executive on the threat of scalding water leaks from water tanks, following an incident in Penzance. | | (183240) | 158
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of trends in the demand for authorised traveller sites from migrant travellers from (a) Romania and (b) the Republic of Ireland. | | (183241) | 159
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reason the recent draft statutory instruments on local government restructuring were replaced with new ones in substitution; and what changes were made between the two versions. | | (183242) | 160
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what interim information her Department has received from Ipsos-MORI on the home information pack trials. | | (183243) | 161
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effect on costs for local authorities of the Audit Commission's new fees structure; and what funding her Department will be giving to local authorities under the new burdens principle in relation to Audit Commission fees. | | (183244) | 162
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many separate items of data local authorities are required to collect for the compilation of the national indicator set. | | (183245) | 163
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the contractual deadline is for Ipsos-MORI to provide her Department with its research into the home information pack trials; and when she plans to publish this research. | | (183246) | 164
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much she has allocated to the Centre for Spatial Economic Research for 2007-08. | | (183247) | 165
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the proposed national policy statements will over-ride provisions on existing planning policy (a) guidance note/Planning Policy (b) Statement. | | (183248) | 166
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether public requests to order disposal can be applied to land owned by (a) Government departments and their agencies, (b) the Crown Estate, (c) regional development agencies, (d) English Partnerships and (e) the British Rail Residual Body. | | (183249) | 167
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the administrative costs of the Government offices for the Regions were in England in (a) 1996-97 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (183250) | 168
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many housing association tenants there are in England; how many have the (a) full and (b) preserved right to buy; and how many are likely to qualify for the right to acquire scheme. | | (183251) | 169
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which organisation is the custodian of Valuebill schemas; and whether she has plans to review the arrangement. | | (183252) | 170
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the (a) Brian Pomery review of shared equity and (b) evaluation of social homebuy scheme research completed in December 2007. | | (183253) | 171
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether empty Government premises will be liable for empty property business rates from April 2008. | | (183254) | 172
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much gross income, in cash terms, was raised from sales, fees and charges, by local authorities in England, in each year since 1997-98. | | (183255) | 173
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the gross expenditure of each regional assembly in England outside London was in the last year for which figures are available. | | (183256) | 174
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will (a) direct or (b) encourage local planning authorities to revise local plan policies on parking standards in light of the changes on parking standards in Planning Policy Statement 3 and the repeal of Planning Policy Guidance 3. | | (183257) | 175
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the total cost of the home information pack area trials has been to date, broken down by main budget heading. | | (183258) | 176
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many home sellers took part in each home information pack area trial. | | (183259) | 177
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance she has given to local authorities on the (a) terms and (b) rates at which council property should be lent, rented or leased to (i) trades unions and (ii) other external organisations or individuals. | | (183260) | 178
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Homes and Communities Agency is planned to have powers to (a) remove Green Belt planning protection and (b) approve planning applications for development on Green Belt land. | | (183261) | 179
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what feedback she has received from enforcement authorities on the implementation of the National Licensing Scheme for Houses in Multiple Occupation. | | (182458) | 180
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will discuss with the Home Secretary the creation of a central record of offences committed under the National Licensing Scheme for houses in multiple occupation; and if she will make a statement. | | (182462) | 181
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the total cost to the public purse incurred by (a) the Valuation Office Agency and (b) the Manchester North Valuation Tribunal was in relation to the High Court case held on 18th December 2007 in relation to traffic noise on the M61. | | (183032) | 182
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what basis the Valuation Office Agency decided to contest the council tax valuation decision made by Manchester North Valuation Tribunal in relation to traffic noise on the M61. | | (183033) | 183
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what decision-making powers the draft Marine Bill will give to the Marine Management Organisation on major infrastructure planning in the marine environment. | | (181606) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 184
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (182992) | 185
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many Ministerial residences were available to his Department's Ministers in each of the last 10 years. | | (183184) | 186
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183197) | 187
N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 15th January 2008, Official Report, column 1167, on planning permission: playing fields, if he will break down the planning applications considered by Sport England by parliamentary constituency. | | (182698) | 188
N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 15th January 2008, Official Report, column 1167, on planning permission: playing fields, what the reasons were for the figures for 2005-06 not being published in 2007 as referred to in his Answer of 9th July 2007, Official Report, column 1296 on playing fields; and when he expects the figures to be published for (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07. | | (182699) | 189
N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress has been made towards his Department's public service agreement target to increase the take-up of cultural and sporting opportunities by adults and young people aged 16 and above from priority groups; and what steps he has taken to ensure this target is met. | | (182700) | 190
N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to his Department's press release of 22nd January 2008, what his Department's estimate is of the proportion of the total population that participated in artistic activities in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (182701) | 191
N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 15th January 2008, Official Report, column 1167, on planning permission: playing fields, whether his Department still collects information on the number of planning applications approved each year affecting sites which either were too small or of the wrong shape to accommodate a playing pitch as currently defined as referred to in the Answer of 1st November 2006, Official Report, column 421, on playing fields. | | (182805) | 192
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what payment is being made to Fast Track for the contract to help raise £100 million pounds from the private sector to help fund athletes in the run up to the 2012 Olympics in London. | | (183120) | 193
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of whether the BBC's Delivering Creative Future programme will enable the BBC to meet its public service obligations. | | (183014) | 194
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the (a) subject and (b) cost was of each research contract his Department has commissioned since 1997. | | (182800) | 195
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has paid the consultants TBR to conduct the arts survey announced on 22nd January. | | (182801) | 196
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the level of public awareness and recognition of (a) the television licence fee and (b) the services paid for by the licence fee. | | (182802) | 197
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funds in the form of (a) revenue payments, (b) capital grants and (c) supported borrowing for which his Department is responsible have been made available to (i) Kent County Council, (ii) Thanet District Council and (iii) Dover District Council in 2007-08. | | (183055) | 198
| Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on the progress of his Department's review of the impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on travelling circuses. | | (183112) | 199
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many 0845 or similar telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179013) | 200
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, from which budget headings of (a) his Department and (b) UK Sport the £2.8 million UK contribution to the International Inspiration programme will come; and if he will make a statement. | | (182683) | 201
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will change the name of the Television Licensing Fee to the BBC Licensing Fee. | | (182952) | 202
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) people and (b) under 18 year olds have participated in the Bryan Review of the effects of video games to date; what percentage of the population this represents; how many people he expects to participate in the Review in total; when he expects the Review to be published; and what plans for further research on the effects of violent video games on (i) adults and (ii) children his Department has. | | (178684) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 203
N | Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons his Department transferred 50 acres of land at East Blockhouse, Angle, Pembrokeshire to QinetiQ on 27th March 2002; how much was received by his Department for the land; and what covenants (a) existed and (b) were placed on the land at the time of the transfer. | | (181865) | 204
N | Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of his Department's compliance with the Crichel Down rules in the disposal of 50 acres of land at East Blockhouse, Augle, Pembrokeshire on 27th March 2002. | | (181866) | 205
N | Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether a defence contractor to which his Department's land has been transferred to is subject to the Crichel Down guidance when disposing of that land. | | (181867) | 206
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent steps his Department has taken on the (a) safety of and (b) support for Iraqi interpreters working with British forces in Iraq. | | (183062) | 207
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (182993) | 208
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Ministerial residences were available to his Department's Ministers in each of the last 10 years. | | (183183) | 209
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183198) | 210
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there are any plans to gift (a) Mastiffs, (b) Warriors, (c) Scimitars, (d) Boxers and (e) other armoured vehicles to Iraqi forces. | | (183078) | 211
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, the estimated total cost has been of equipment gifted to the Iraqi forces in each year since 2003. | | (183079) | 212
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military helicopters were leased commercially by his Department in each year since 1997; what types of helicopters were leased; and what the cost of leasing was in each year. | | (183082) | 213
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what measures are in place to track and monitor the final destination of gifted arms and equipment in Iraq. | | (183083) | 214
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the projected in-service date was for the A400m aircraft in each year since 1997. | | (183128) | 215
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the in-service date is for the A400m. | | (183129) | 216
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what training medical locums serving in Afghanistan received to prepare for operations. | | (183130) | 217
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what level of protection is provided to medical locums serving in Afghanistan. | | (183131) | 218
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of medical locums serving in Afghanistan have prior military experience. | | (183132) | 219
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress is being made in recruitment to fill manning shortfalls in the Defence Medical Service. | | (183133) | 220
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the target is for recruitment of infantry soldiers over the next 12 months. | | (183134) | 221
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many attacks have been made on British forces stationed at Basra airbase in each of the last 12 months. | | (183135) | 222
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average number of daily attacks against Basra airbase was in the last three months, broken down by day of the week. | | (183136) | 223
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what type of munitions are being used against British forces stationed at Basra airbase. | | (183137) | 224
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Commonwealth citizens were recruited to the British Army in the last 12 months, broken down by nationality. | | (183149) | 225
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel in the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air Force are involved in recruitment; and whether these figures meet the manning requirement. | | (183150) | 226
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the re-scheduling of work at Aldershot military barracks for the British Olympic shooting team will effect the timescale for work to be carried out on other units and barracks. | | (183161) | 227
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who will pay for the (a) guarding, (b) security and (c) administration of the British Olympic team at Aldershot barracks; and what the estimated cost is. | | (183162) | 228
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179198) | 229
N | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 21st January 2008, Official Report, column 1195, on educational support, when the service indicator was introduced into the annual school census; and if he will make a statement. | | (182427) | 230
N | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which units have been deployed to (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan over the last 12 months with full-strength bearing; and how many troops were deployed. | | [R] (182606) | 231
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the merits of the provision of laser eye surgery for personnel with visual defects to improve their operational effectiveness. | | (183121) | 232
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received from organisations and individuals on the provision of laser eye surgery for personnel with visual defects to improve their operational effectiveness. | | (183122) | 233
N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of those individuals who had their personal details lost as a result of the theft in Edgbaston on 9th January of an MoD computer from the vehicle of a Royal Navy Officer are domiciled in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales, (c) Northern Ireland, (d) England and (e) elsewhere. | | (182396) | 234
N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Statement of 22nd January 2008, Official Report, column 1225, on MoD (data loss), when and by what means his Department informed (a) the Prime Minister, (b) other Departments, (c) West Midlands police, (d) Ministry of Defence police and (e) the devolved administrations of the theft of the computer on 9th January. | | (182397) | 235
N | Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the current annual operating cost is of the Trident submarine fleet and missiles. | | (182398) | 236
N | Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the current annual operating cost is of the UK's nuclear warhead programme. | | (182399) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 237
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each year since establishment. | | (182988) | 238
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Ministerial residences were available to his Department's Ministers and those of its predecessors in each of the last 10 years. | | (183189) | 239
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183201) | 240
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what response he has made to the EU Commission report on the tracing of Brazilian beef imports; and what assessment he has made of the traceability of such imports into the UK. | | (178720) | 241
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make a statement on the current and proposed budget of the Environment Agency with regard to planned expenditure in (a) capital and (b) revenue schemes. | | (183047) | 242
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Environment Agency spent on flood protection measures in the lower Severn area in 2006-07; how much it is spending in 2007-08; and how much it intends to spend in 2008-09. | | (183048) | 243
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Environment Agency on the flood defence grant-in-aid budget for the next three financial years for (a) Ribble Valley constituency and (b) the Lancashire County Council area; and if he will make a statement. | | (182691) | 244
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much he has allocated to the Environment Agency via the flood defence grant in aid for the Lancashire area for each of the next three financial years for (a) capital and (b) revenue expenditure; and if he will make a statement. | | (182695) | 245
N | Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidelines on managing flood risk his Department has issued to (a) local education authorities, (b) local authority social services departments, (c) the Highways Agency, (d) Network Rail and (e) utilities companies. | | (182933) | 246
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures are planned to enable marine stakeholders to be consulted in licensing decisions for offshore wind farms generating over 100MW of power. | | (178588) | 247
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has for the responsibilities of the proposed marine managment organisation in relation to integrated marine spatial planning on offshore wind farms. | | (178589) | 248
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions have taken place under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 in each year since its introduction. | | (178598) | 249
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has provided to the (a) Business Resource Efficiency and Waste programme and (b) Envirowise programme in each of the last three years; how much funding is proposed to be allocated for each programme over the next three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (178611) | 250
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the (a) Business Resource Efficiency and Waste and (b) Envirowise programmes in helping industry improve resource efficiency. | | (178612) | 251
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funds in the form of (a) revenue payments, (b) capital grants and (c) supported borrowing for which his Department is responsible have been made available to (i) Kent County Council, (ii) Thanet District Council and (iii) Dover District Council in 2007-08. | | (183056) | 252
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179199) | 253
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place the Environment Agency's flood mapping data in the public domain for use without charge. | | (178688) | 254
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17th January 2008, Official Report, columns1393-4W, on waste disposal: fees and charges, if he will place in the Library a copy of the separate study with information on larger households referred to in the Answer. | | (178689) | 255
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21st January 2008, Official Report, column1498W, on Waste Information Services Ltd: finance, for what purpose WRAP made payments to Waste Information Services Ltd; and what services were provided by that company. | | (178690) | 256
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14th January 2008, Official Report, column 1497W, on waste disposal: fees and charges, what action is proposed in relation to householders who do not pay the charges for waste collection. | | (178691) | 257
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17th January 2008, Official Report, column 1390W, on carbon emissions, how many tonnes were carbon offset in 2006-07 by each individual public authority participating in the Offsetting Fund. | | (178692) | 258
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17th January 2008, Official Report, column 1390W, on departmental marketing, whether the plastic bags purchased by his Department are biodegradable. | | (183154) | 259
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21st January 2008, Official Report, column 1493W, on floods, on which regional boundaries the (a) regional flood defence committees and (b) regional flood risk appraisals are based. | | (183155) | 260
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9th January 2008, Official Report, column 522W, on Home Information Packs, if he will place in the Library copies of each of the written representations made by the Environment Agency. | | (183156) | 261
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14th January 2008, Official Report, column 868W, on waste disposal: domestic waste, if he will place in the Library a copy of the 2006 DEFRA research reports into (a) bonfire smoke complaints and (b) emissions of dioxins. | | (183160) | 262
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the planned timetable is for the (a) running and (b) evaluation of waste charging pilots. | | (183275) | 263
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which councils already operate reward-only incentive schemes to encourage recycling. | | (183276) | 264
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, over what period revenue neutrality in relation to charges for the collection of household rubbish will be calculated. | | (183277) | 265
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether a waste collection authority will be able to participate in a household waste charging pilot scheme where the waste disposal authority does not wish to. | | (183278) | 266
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the likely maximum amount to be charged per year under proposals for a household waste charging scheme; what powers he plans to take to cap the charge; and at what level. | | (183279) | 267
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, over what period he plans to allocate central funding for the pilot schemes for charges for the collection of household waste. | | (183280) | 268
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate (a) he and (b) the Environment Agency has made of trends in the rat population and significant rat infestations over the last three years. | | (183281) | 269
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of the revenue from the landfill tax was distributed as grants to relevant organisations in the last year for which figures are available. | | (183282) | 270
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund has awarded to offsetting or renewable energy projects in the UK in each year since inception. | | (183283) | 271
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research and opinion polling his Department has commissioned on introducing variable charging for household waste in the last 12 months. | | (183285) | 272
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was paid by the Single Farm Payments Scheme to those individuals on the Scheme who received £150,000 or more in each year for which figures are available. | | (182934) | 273
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many individuals received £150,000 or more from the Single Farm Payments Scheme in each year for which figures are available. | | (182935) | 274
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to introduce a badger cull in those area in Devon most affected by Bovine TB. | | (182076) | 275
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he will set up the Rural Housing Challenge Fund through the Housing Corporation to build public housing in rural areas of South West England; and if he will make a statement. | | (182077) | 276
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what role the Marine Management Organisation will have in delivering government commitments on (a) the ecosystem approach, (b) sustainable development and (c) the protection of biodiversity in the marine environment. | | (181508) | 277
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will set out his objectives for the Marine Management Organisation in advance of the publication of the draft Marine Bill. | | (181573) | 278
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will establish the Marine Management Organisation prior to the development of a marine policy statement. | | (181574) | 279
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what powers will be included in the draft Marine Bill for the Marine Management Organisation to reject plans for offshore wind farms producing over 100MW on the grounds of a negative environmental impact. | | (181605) | 280
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of trends in the numbers of badgers in the UK over the last 10 years; how many badger culls have taken place in this period; and what steps he is taking to protect badgers in Leicestershire. | | (178683) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 281
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, further to the decision of the Information Tribunal dated 22nd January 2008, when he plans to make public a copy of the Williams draft dossier; and in what format the document will be made available. | | (182538) | 282
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, further to the decision of the Information Tribunal dated 22nd January 2008, paragraph 22 (iv), which two individuals annotated the Williams draft; and what status these contributions had within the drafting process. | | (182693) | 283
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (182994) | 284
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183168) | 285
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Ministerial residences were available to his Department's Ministers in each of the last 10 years. | | (183180) | 286
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Uzbekistan; and if he will make a statement. | | (178652) | 287
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has made to the Iranian Government on the unlawful imprisonment of three Baha'is at the Iranian Ministry of Information on 19th November 2007. | | (183225) | 288
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government has taken to address the humanitarian situation in Gaza. | | (182928) | 289
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions have taken place between the Government and the Israeli government on the situation in Gaza. | | (182929) | 290
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty; and if he will make a statement. | | (178586) | 291
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14th January 2008, Official Report, column 852W, on the departmental internet, what the grade is of the locally engaged commercial officer who works on the blogging platform. | | (182807) | 292
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has intelligence that Iraq sought to procure uranium from Niger that it still believes to be accurate and that was unknown to the US at the time that the US expressed reservations on the Government's September 2002 Iraq dossier, further to paragraph 93 of the Intelligence and Security Committee Report, Cm 5972, of September 2003. | | (183226) | 293
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether both the Government's June 2002 and September 2002 sources of intelligence that Iraq sought to purchase uranium from Africa, referred to in paragraph 89 of the Intelligence and Security Committee Report, Cm 5972, of September 2003, were either passed to or discussed with the International Atomic Energy Agency the information they had on that issue. | | (183227) | 294
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179200) | 295
N | Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to support the signature of a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Serbia at the forthcoming General Affairs and External Relations Council on 28th to 29th January; whether his support for the signature of this agreement is contingent on Serbia meeting its obligations to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; and if he will make a statement. | | (182702) | 296
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of India on the treatment of Christians in Orissa; and if he will make a statement. | | (183077) | 297
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which wildlife species in Her Majesty's Overseas Territories exist solely in captivity. | | (183031) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 298
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his statement of 23rd January 2008, Official Report, column 1499, on obesity, how healthy towns will be selected; and what process towns will have to follow to apply for designation as healthy towns. | | (182951) | 299
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients died as a result of (a) MRSA and (b) c.difficile in each year since 1997. | | (183141) | 300
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (182995) | 301
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183166) | 302
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Ministerial residences were available to his Department's Ministers in each of the last 10 years. | | (183181) | 303
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what clinical advice was sought by his Commercial Directorate in drawing up their proposals for urology and stoma products and services. | | (183116) | 304
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Commercial Directorate has had on their proposals for urology and stoma products and services with officials in the Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. | | (183117) | 305
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who use urology or stoma products. | | (183118) | 306
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will seek a regulatory impact assessment before he makes final decisions concerning his Department's Commercial Directorate proposals in respect of urology and stoma services. | | (183119) | 307
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to prevent those under the age of 18 years purchasing cigarettes from vending machines. | | (178651) | 308
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many elective inpatients were treated at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183108) | 309
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many day cases were treated at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183109) | 310
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reference cost for elective inpatients treated at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust was in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183110) | 311
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost of treating an elective inpatient at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust was in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183111) | 312
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost of treating an emergency inpatient at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust was in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183113) | 313
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reference cost for day-cases treated at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust was in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183114) | 314
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost of treating a day case at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust was in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183115) | 315
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reference cost for elective-care treatment was at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183123) | 316
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost of treating an elective-care patient at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust was in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183124) | 317
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many elective-care patients were treated at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183125) | 318
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reference cost was for follow-up out-patients treated at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183126) | 319
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost of treating a follow-up patient was at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183144) | 320
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many follow-up patient appointments there were at was (a) Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183145) | 321
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reference cost for out-patients treated at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust was in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183146) | 322
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost of treating an out-patient at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust was in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183147) | 323
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many out-patients were treated at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183148) | 324
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many emergency inpatients were treated at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183176) | 325
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reference cost was for emergency inpatients treated at (a) Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, (c) Lewisham Hospitals NHS Trust and (d) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (183177) | 326
| John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many community nurses were based in Easington constituency in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007. | | (183028) | 327
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken to improve emergency ambulance services in North Devon. | | (183084) | 328
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients in North Devon are waiting for treatment; and how many there were in each month since January 2003. | | (183085) | 329
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) hospital doctors, (b) nurses, (c) GPs, (d) GP practice nurses, (e) nurse practitioners, (f) modern matrons, (g) community matrons and (h) NHS managers were employed by the NHS in North Devon in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (183086) | 330
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the provisions of the Mental Health Act 2007 on independent mental health advocacy will be implemented. | | (183228) | 331
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what interim safeguards plans to put in place for people detained in hospital or placed under supervised community treatment if the provisions in the Mental Health Act 2007 regarding independent mental health advocacy are implemented after the implementation of other provisions in the Act. | | (183229) | 332
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding has been allocated in each of the next three years to the implementation and delivery of independent mental health advocacy under the Mental Health Act 2007. | | (183230) | 333
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what work is (a) underway and (b) planned to create good practice guidance for the delivery of independent mental health advocacy to people on supervised community treatment under the Mental Health Act 2007. | | (183231) | 334
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures are (a) being developed and (b) in place for the commissioning of independent mental health advocacy. | | (183232) | 335
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funds in the form of (a) revenue payments, (b) capital grants and (c) supported borrowing for which his Department is responsible have been made available to (i) Kent County Council, (ii) Thanet District Council and (iii) Dover District Council in 2007-08. | | (183059) | 336
| Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken to protect rural GP practices from closure following the establishment of super surgeries. | | (178596) | 337
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department, (b) the NHS and (c) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179201) | 338
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has given to NHS mental health trusts on the use of mixed sex wards. | | (178666) | 339
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many sexual assaults have taken place in NHS mental health accommodation in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (178667) | 340
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued on privacy and dignity of patients in NHS mental health accommodation. | | (178668) | 341
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to establish a system of registration for tattooing and piercing facilities. | | (178633) | 342
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) accident and emergency admissions and (b) GP appointments arising from poorly performed or unhygenic tattooing and body piercing in each of the last three years. | | (178636) | 343
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has provided to local authorities on the licensing of the provision of botox treatments. | | (178638) | 344
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of directions given in respect of reusable needles under the Department of Health's model by-laws issued in September 2007. | | (183074) | 345
N | Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the percentage increase of cystic fibrosis patients over the next (a) one, (b) five and (c) 10 years. | | (182311) | 346
N | Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in each of the last five years. | | (182312) | 347
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the savings made by the Commercial Directorate since it was established. | | (182936) | 348
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the costs of running the Commercial Directorate since it was established. | | (182937) | 349
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the Ernst and Young report on collaborative procurement hubs to be published. | | (182938) | 350
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on what progress has been made with the Choosing Health White Paper including the delivery of alternative routes and the expansion of choice available to smokers. | | (183151) | 351
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received asking for the Easyway to Stop Smoking programme to be assessed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence; and if he will make a statement. | | (183152) | 352
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reasons are for the time taken to produce National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance on smoking cessation techniques; and if he will make a statement. | | (183153) | 353
| Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgeries there are in (a) Enfield North constituency and (b) Enfield Borough. | | (178676) | 354
| Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgeries are open out of hours in (a) Enfield North constituency and (b) Enfield Borough. | | (178677) | 355
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure Local Involvement Networks (LINks) members are provided with indemnity by his Department in respect of their reasonable activities on behalf of a LINk. | | (183011) | 356
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to ensure that Local Involvement Networks (LINks) members are paid reasonable expenses by the host body when they undertake activities on behalf of a LINk. | | (183012) | 357
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of (a) primary care trusts and (b) strategic health authorities on the funding of homeopathic treatments on the NHS. | | (182605) | 358
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent submissions he has received on the withdrawal of funding from complementary and alternative treatments by (a) NHS trusts and (b) primary care trusts. | | (182607) | 359
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent guidance his Department has provided to (a) primary care trusts and (b) NHS trusts on the provision of funding for homeopathic treatments. | | (182939) | 360
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements are in place on a (a) national, (b) regional and (c) local scale to share information on available hospital beds in circumstances of significant emergencies. | | (178721) | 361
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements are in place for informing hospital staff of the availability of hospital beds in other hospitals. | | (178722) | 362
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many practising neurosurgeons there are in England. | | (178723) | 363
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many neurosurgeons on average are on call each morning after midnight in England. | | (178724) | 364
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff in a typical hospital are tasked with finding overflow hospital beds in other facilities. | | (178725) | 365
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many neurosurgeons qualified in each of the past 10 years | | (178726) | 366
N | Mr Robert N. Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) hospitals and (b) other NHS units have closed since 1997; what the cost of these closures has been; and how much has been received from the sale of goods and equipment following such closures. | | (181879) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 367
N | Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will answer Question 172525 tabled by the hon. Member for Southend West on 4th December 2007; what the reason is for the time taken to answer; and if she will make a statement. | | (182610) | 368
| Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many criminals of foreign nationality who (a) were apprehended and (b) served their sentences in the UK were deported to their country of origin in each of the last five years. | | (178718) | 369
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of her Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (182996) | 370
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many external contracts her Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183165) | 371
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ministerial residences were available to her Department's Ministers in each of the last 10 years. | | (183182) | 372
| John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were arrested and prosecuted for the carrying and use of a knife in the Durham police authority area in 2007. | | (183029) | 373
| John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money was received by the Durham Police Force from confiscation of the proceeds of crime in 2007; and if she will make a statement. | | (183030) | 374
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10th October 2007, Official Report, column 644W, on police stations, and with reference to the Answer of 4th September 2006, Official Report, column 1888W, on police, for what reason she is unable to provide updated figures for the number of police stations operational in each force area in 2006. | | (178610) | 375
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many criminal offences related to the misappropriation of proofs of identity have been (a) reported and (b) brought to trial in each of the last five years; in how many such prosecutions convictions were achieved; and what information has been collated on the number of victims of such crimes from answers to the new questions incorporated into the British crime survey in 2005 on such matters. | | (178629) | 376
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on policing per head of the population in each police force in England and Wales in each year since 1997. | | (183034) | 377
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people residing in the UK illegally were convicted of a criminal offence in each year since 2002. | | (183035) | 378
| David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases involving foreign prisoners claiming to have been wrongfully detained at the end of their sentence have been brought in the last five years; and what the outcome has been of each of those cases in which legal proceedings are no longer active. | | (183036) | 379
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was allocated to this year's budget for police pay as a percentage increase on last year's figures, broken down by police authority. | | (183052) | 380
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in each police force are aged (a) under 25, (b) between 25 and 34, (c) between 35 and 44, (d) between 45 and 54, (e) between 55 and 59 and (f) over 60. | | (183053) | 381
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provision her Department has planned for the Border and Immigration Agency to manage any increase in demands on its services arising from the Olympic Games in 2012. | | (178662) | 382
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of illegal immigrants removed from the United Kingdom were removed having not passed immigration control. | | (178663) | 383
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals who were handed down a community sentence were removed from the United Kingdom by (a) deportation and (b) administrative removal in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (178679) | 384
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of likely changes in its (a) expenditure on and (b) revenue from immigration arising from the hosting of the 2012 Olympic Games. | | (178680) | 385
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) removals following a deportation order and (b) administrative removals there were from the United Kingdom in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (178682) | 386
N | Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals resident in the United Kingdom the Government expects to be required to hold a biometric immigration document by (a) January 2009, (b) January 2010 and (c) January 2011. | | (181604) | 387
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the percentage of the world's population who would require a visa to enter the United Kingdom. | | (183007) | 388
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of those listed as being removed from the UK in 2006 were removed at a port; and if she will make a statement. | | (183008) | 389
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police stations (a) opened and (b) closed in London in each of the last five years, broken down by borough. | | (178641) | 390
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what police station closures are currently planned in each London borough. | | (183019) | 391
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what areas she has designated as knife crime hot spots. | | (183009) | 392
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her most recent estimate is of the revenue received from customers phoning on telephone numbers beginning 08 by police forces in the last five financial years. | | (183045) | 393
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funds in the form of (a) revenue payments, (b) capital grants and (c) supported borrowing for which her Department is responsible have been made available to (i) Kent County Council, (ii) Thanet District Council and (iii) Dover District Council in 2007-08. | | (183054) | 394
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) her Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179202) | 395
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the merits of the provision of laser eye surgery for personnel within her responsibilities with visual defects to improve their operational effectiveness. | | (183205) | 396
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what legislation determines whether a suspect may be questioned by police following charge; and if she will make a statement. | | (182463) | 397
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce measures to ensure that all passport details of unaccompanied children travelling on flights from China and Vietnam are sent to the Immigration Office of the UK airport prior to the aircraft's arrival; and if she will make a statement. | | (182075) | 398
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on supermarkets which sell alcoholic liquor and their obligations under the implementation of alcohol action zones; and if she will make a statement. | | (181575) | 399
N | Mr Robert N. Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to expedite the processing of visa applications for those wishing to attend the 2012 Olympic Games; and what additional resources she estimates will be required to deal with the expected rise in the number of applications. | | (181878) | 400
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average response time to 999 calls was for the fire services in each year since 1997, broken down by each local authority; and if she will make a statement. | | (178602) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 401
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what percentage of the Commission's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (182997) | 402
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what organisational changes have occurred in the Department of Finance and Administration in the last 20 years in (a) function, (b) workload and (c) use by hon. Members and required contact with hon. Members. | | (183013) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 403
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what his latest estimate is of the percentage of 16 to 18 year olds in work-based learning, including apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships in (a) England, (b) the Leeds metropolitan district area and (c) Leeds West constituency. | | (183127) | 404
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what his latest estimate is of the percentage of 16 to 18 year olds not in education or training in (a) England, (b) Leeds metropolitan district area and (c) Leeds West constituency. | | (183143) | 405
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each year since establishment. | | (182986) | 406
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many external contracts his Department has held with public relations companies since its inception; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183190) | 407
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what funds in the form of (a) revenue payments, (b) capital grants and (c) supported borrowing for which his Department is responsible have been made available to (i) Kent County Council, (ii) Thanet District Council and (iii) Dover District Council in 2007-08. | | (183057) | 408
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179377) | 409
| Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what estimate he has made of the proportion of employees in the computer game development sector that have a qualification at degree level or vocational equivalent. | | (182947) | 410
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many colleges in England are approved to provide education for overseas students; how many such colleges have been inspected in the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (183206) | 411
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which colleges in England have been removed from the approved list for providing education to overseas students in the last five years; how many of those have received students with visas during the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (183207) | 412
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what penalties would be imposed on a college approved to provide education for overseas students found to be falsifying information to retain its approved status; how many such penalties have been issued in the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (183211) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 413
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much development aid his Department will provide to China in each of the next three years. | | (183038) | 414
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (182998) | 415
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183164) | 416
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179376) | 417
| Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions he has had with international counterparts on efforts to address HIV/AIDS. | | (178685) | 418
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what currency transactions over the value of £25,000 have been made by his Department where pounds sterling were changed into local currency in Uganda in the last six months. | | (178630) | 419
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what currency transactions over the value of £25,000 were made by his Department where pounds sterling were changed into local currency in Ethiopia between 1st January and 30th June 2007. | | (178631) | 420
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what currency transactions over the value of £25,000 have been made by his Department where pounds sterling were changed into local currency in Mozambique in the last six months. | | (178632) | 421
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what currency exchanges over the value of £25,000 from sterling to the local currency in Ghana have been made by his Department in the last six months. | | (183209) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 422
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each year since establishment. | | (182985) | 423
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183163) | 424
N | Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of those bailed for indictable offences were foreign nationals in the last year for which data is available. | | (182803) | 425
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much revenue has been raised by (a) Lancashire County Council, (b) Ribble Valley Borough Council, (c) Preston City Council, (d) Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, (e) South Ribble Borough Council and (f) Lancashire constabulary from speed camera fines in each of the last five years. | | (182688) | 426
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drivers were prosecuted for (a) speeding and (b) speed-related offences in each region of England in each of the last five years. | | (182689) | 427
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines from speed cameras were (a) unpaid and (b) overdue in Lancashire County Council area at the most recent date for which figures were available. | | (182690) | 428
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department first received a recommendation that C-NOMIS be cancelled from staff working on the project. | | (181868) | 429
| Mr David Heath (Somerton & Frome): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to introduce a long service medal for prison officers in addition to the Director General's long service award. | | (178597) | 430
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (179375) | 431
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations he has received on the report of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on voter registration in the UK. | | (183022) | 432
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) highest, (b) lowest and (c) average fine imposed has been for those found guilty of breaking the National Licensing Scheme for Houses in Multiple Occupation laws. | | (182460) | 433
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful prosecutions there have been under the new National Licensing Scheme for Houses in Multiple Occupation in each local authority area. | | (182461) | 434
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) terms of reference and (b) timescale he is proposing for a Speakers Conference on democratic engagement. | | (183169) | 435
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of probation recalls to prison were for serious offences in each month since 2000; and if he will make a statement. | | (182684) | 436
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many probation recalls to prison were there in each month since 2000; and if he will make a statement. | | (182685) | 437
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of the prison population were being detained as a result of probation recall in (a) May and (b) November in each year since 2000; and if he will make a statement. | | (182686) | 438
N | Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison recalls there were in each year since 2000; how many in each year were due to (a) breaches of licence and (b) committal of further offences; and if he will make a statement. | | (182687) | 439
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inmates (a) escaped and (b) absconded from each open prison in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (183010) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 440
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (182999) | 441
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183193) | 442
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many persons have been charged in connection with the incident in which two young men were publicly paraded with placards on the Shankill Road, Belfast, on 11th January 2008. | | (183026) | 443
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by his Department for public access to services. | | (179373) | 444
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent estimate he has made of the number of weapons held by each (a) Republican and (b) Loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement. | | (182456) | 445
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the fiscal deficit in Northern Ireland was in each of the last three years for which figures are available; what it is projected to be for the next three financial years; and if he will make a statement. | | (182457) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 446
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how much was spent on advertising relating to (a) bidding for and (b) hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 in each relevant year; and what percentage of the Government's budget in relation to the 2012 Olympic Games was spent on advertising. | | (183006) | 447
N | Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, if she will hold discussions with the Health and Safety Executive about on-site construction safety standards at the Olympic site in Stratford. | | (182018) | Questions to the Prime Minister 448
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Prime Minister, what percentage of No. 10 Downing Street's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (183000) | 449
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Prime Minister, how many external contracts his Office held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183196) | 450
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions he held with the Chinese Government on Burma on his recent trip to China. | | (183039) | 451
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions he held with the Chinese Government on Sudan on his recent trip to China. | | (183040) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 452
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (183001) | 453
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by his Department for public access to services. | | (179374) | Questions to the Solicitor General 454
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Solicitor General, what percentage of her Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (183002) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 455
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she has made of the average carbon dioxide emissions per person per journey from London to (a) Bristol, (b) Birmingham, (c) Newcastle and (d) Edinburgh by (i) air, (ii) rail, (iii) lorry and (iv) car. | | (182550) | 456
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with South Eastern Railway on the potential premium costs of using Javelin-operated high speed domestic services from Kent to St Pancras. | | (182551) | 457
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what date her Department expects the Javelin-operated high speed domestic services from Kent to St Pancras to be operational. | | (182552) | 458
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what percentage of her Department's expenditure was on advertising in each year since establishment. | | (182984) | 459
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many external contracts her Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183199) | 460
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration she has given to exemptions from the EU emissions trading scheme in circumstances where overall emissions from aircraft are lower than those of alternative forms of transport for comparable routes. | | (178654) | 461
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the effects of the proposed EU emissions trading scheme on regional airlines providing services to remote communities; and what steps she plans to take to prevent the scheme undermining the viability of such services. | | (178665) | 462
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures she intends to introduce to encourage more people to cycle. | | (182187) | 463
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to increase the safety of cyclists on roads. | | (182188) | 464
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to provide funding to complete the Sustrans network as part of the Government's cycling strategy. | | (183046) | 465
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many complaints she has received on the operation of the First Great Western franchise. | | (183049) | 466
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents have occurred involving a motor vehicle striking (a) rail infrastructure and (b) railway bridges; and if she will consider reclaiming the costs of repair from drivers in those instances where the cause of the accident was negligence. | | (183050) | 467
N | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) injuries and (b) deaths there were on roads in (i) West Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Constituency of St Ives, (ii) Cornwall and (iii) the UK in each of the last 10 years. | | (182696) | 468
N | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) injuries and (b) deaths were sustained in collisions with emergency services vehicles on roads in (i) West Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Constituency of St Ives, (ii) Cornwall and (iii) the UK in each of the last 10 years. | | (182697) | 469
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to take account of the implications of the accident involving flight BA038 in developing her policy on the expansion of Heathrow. | | (183018) | 470
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funds in the form of (a) revenue payments, (b) capital grants and (c) supported borrowing for which her Department is responsible have been made available to (i) Kent County Council, (ii) Thanet District Council and (iii) Dover District Council in 2007-08. | | (183063) | 471
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the PV squared formula is the recommended method for establishing whether a pedestrian crossing is required on a particular stretch of road. | | (182694) | 472
| Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to protect those using rural footpaths and trails from irresponsibly driven off-road vehicles. | | (178594) | 473
| Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to allocate adequate funding and support for the construction of a bypass route around the town of Ashbourne in West Derbyshire constituency. | | (178595) | 474
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) her Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (180076) | 475
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people have been successfully prosecuted in the latest 12 month period for which figures are available for stealing copper and other metal from the railway network; and if she will make a statement. | | (183023) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 476
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (183004) | 477
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by his Department for public access to services. | | (181603) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 478
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps are being taken by his Department to pay benefit claimants benefits not paid in 2006-07 due to (a) official and (b) customer error. | | (178599) | 479
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the time it will take to pay benefit claimants the benefits underpaid in 2006-07 due to (a) official and (b) customer error. | | (178600) | 480
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of benefit claimants who were underpaid benefits in 2006-07 due to (a) official and (b) customer error have now received their full benefit entitlement for that year. | | (178601) | 481
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the percentage change in money outstanding in support payments in cases being dealt with by the Child Support Agency was between (a) April 2006 and March 2007 and (b) each month between April 2006 and March 2007. | | (183208) | 482
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding has been available for community care grants nationally in each year since 1997. | | (183138) | 483
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Secretary of State will be respond to the social fund review; and if he will make a statement. | | (183139) | 484
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people leaving Armley Prison received a community care grant in each year since 1997. | | (183140) | 485
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the minimum income guarantee is for young people aged 16 to 18 living independently; and if he will make a statement. | | (183142) | 486
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of his Department's expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. | | (183005) | 487
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many external contracts his Department held with public relations companies in each of the last 10 years; and what the total cost of those contracts was. | | (183167) | 488
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many political appointments were made by his Department in each of the last 10 years. | | (183218) | 489
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the revenue received from customers telephoning on telephone numbers beginning with 08 by the Pension Service in the last five financial years. | | (183041) | 490
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in (a) Milton Keynes and (b) England and Wales receive an income of £217.80 per week or less. | | (178614) | 491
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in (a) Milton Keynes and (b) England and Wales have been subject to means-testing in each year since 2000. | | (178617) | 492
N | John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of the Provider Led Pathways to Work contract awarded to the Shaw Trust in Hampshire. | | (182930) | 493
N | John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department issues on recruitment, diversity and employee rights when awarding contracts to external providers for work for his Department. | | (182931) | 494
N | John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what monitoring systems are in place on diversity, equality and employee rights standards for departmental work awarded by contract to external providers. | | (182932) | 495
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. | | (181602) | 496
N | John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of paying the over 80s age-related allowance is expected to be in 2007-08. | | (180976) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 497
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what contribution his Department plans to make to the funding of programmes run by (a) Business Link and (b) the Manufacturing Advisory Service for the provision of advice on resources efficiency to businesses in 2008-09. | | [Transferred] (178616) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 498
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many workless households there were in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Bexley in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (178669) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 499
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Office has taken to provide (a) a network of refuge provision and (b) reintegration support for runaways under the age of 16 years since 2001; in how many local areas there is a named person to co-ordinate services for runaways; what progress has been made in reducing local variations in the provision of such services; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (183170) | 500
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of young runaways were interviewed to identify and tackle their reasons for running away in 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (183171) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 501
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what dates, in chronological order, the inquests into the deaths of (a) Sergeant Simon Hamilton-Jewell, (b) Corporal Russell Aston, (c) Corporal Paul Long, (d) Corporal Simon Miller, (e) Lance Corporal Benjamin Hyde, (f) Lance Corporal Thomas Keys, (g) Captain James Linton, (h) Captain David Jones, (i) Major Matthew Titchener, (j) Warrant Officer Colin Wall, (k) Corporal Dewi Pritchard, (l) Fusilier Russell Beeston, (m) Corporal Ian Plank, (n) Private Ryan Thomas, (o) Rifleman Vincent Windsor, (p) Sapper Robert Thomson, (q) Corporal Richard Ivell, (r) Private Christopher Rayment, (s) Private Marc Ferns, (t) Lance Corporal Paul Thomas, (u) Fusilier Stephen Jones, (v) Corporal Marc Taylor, (w) Private David Lawrence, (x) Private Kevin McHale, (y) Sergeant Stuart Gray, (z) Private Paul Lowe, (aa) Private Scott McArdle, (ab) Sergeant Paul Connelly, (ac) Flight Lieutenant Paul Pardoel, (ad) Major Matthew Bacon, (ae) Captain Ken Masters, (af) Sergeant Christian Hickey and (ag) Sergeant John Jones took place. | | [Transferred] (178694) | 502
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, upon what dates, in chronological order, the coroner's inquests upon the deaths of (a) Lance Corporal Barry Stephen, (b) Trooper David Jeffrey Clarke, (c) Staff Sergeant Chris Muir, (d) Lieutenant Alexander Tweedie and (e) Lance Corporal James McCue took place. | | [Transferred] (183210) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 503
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households in North Devon whose income is below 60 per cent. of median UK household income; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (183080) | 504
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many residents in Milton Keynes received pension credit in each year since its inception. | | [Transferred] (178613) |
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