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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Tuesday 14 October 2008
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Tuesday 14 October 2008
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 14 October 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 Tuesday 14 October of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Tuesday 14 October see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps have been taken to encourage bids from the creative industries for Enterprise Capital Funds. | | (227172) | 2
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps UK Trade and Investment has taken to enhance the international competitive position of the UK's creative industries. | | (227181) | 3
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will publish UK Trade and Investment's five year strategy to enhance the international competitive position in the UK's creative industries. | | (227215) | 4
N | Mr Ian Taylor (Esher & Walton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to publish a list of items embargoed for export and black-listed end users. | | (226768) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 5
N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg & Goole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether all UK charities who had deposits with Kaupthing, Singer and Friedlander Bank will have those deposits fully protected by the Government. | | (226826) | 6
N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg & Goole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether deposits by (a) North Lincolnshire Council and (b) other local authorities in failed overseas banks will be fully protected by the Government. | | (226827) | 7
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3rd July 2008, Official Report, columns 1017-8W, on the Office of Government Commerce: Zanzibar, how much his Department spent on (a) the development and (b) the implementation across Government of the Zanzibar eProcurement Service, in each of the last four years. | | (227155) | 8
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the savings achieved for the use of the Zanzibar eProcurement Service across public sector bodies and Government departments in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08; and what savings are predicted for (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10 and (iii) 2010-11. | | (227156) | 9
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which organisations have signed memoranda of understanding to implement the Zanzibar eProcurement Service. | | (227157) | 10
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what initiatives, procedures or training programmes his Department has to ensure the take up of the Zanzibar eProcurement Service by public sector bodies and government departments. | | (227158) | 11
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many forged documents were confiscated at the UK's borders by HM Revenue and Customs in 2007-08. | | (227216) | 12
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Government's factual paper on the Barnett formula will be published. | | (226929) | 13
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many individuals in Northern Ireland pay more income tax than before following the abolition of the 10 pence band as modified by the changes announced on 13th May 2008. | | (227222) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 14
N | Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether academies may pay teachers more than analogous salaries paid by neighbouring community schools. | | (225165) | 15
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Yeovil of 6th October 2008, Official Report, column 524W, on young people: unemployment, how many and what proportion of individuals in each category have not been in education, employment or training for (a) up to six months, (b) between six and 12 months, (c) between 12 and 24 months and (d) over 24 months. | | (227159) | 16
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of school responses to the questions on e-safety in Ofsted's 2008 Self Evaluation Form. | | (227188) | 17
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of the snapshot report of school responses to question 4b of the self evaluation form provided to his Department by Ofsted. | | (227189) | 18
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools use accredited filtering services on internet software. | | (227190) | 19
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools have acceptable use policies for ICT; and how often schools are advised by his Department to review these guidelines. | | (227191) | 20
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what (a) training and (b) information on e-safety is provided to new teachers. | | (227192) | 21
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he expects the UK Council for Child Internet Safety to develop advice on child internet safety accessible to parents and children via the DirectGov information network, as recommended in the Byron Review. | | (227193) | 22
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans he has to develop a public information and awareness campaign on child internet safety. | | (227194) | 23
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much the Government spent on child internet safety campaigns in each of the last three years; and how much he expects to be spent in 2008-09. | | (227195) | 24
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, by what date he expects the UK Council for Child Internet Safety to have agreed a kitemarking system for parental control computer software. | | (227196) | 25
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what progress has been made in appointing an advisory group to the UK Council for Child Internet Safety; and if he will make a statement. | | (227197) | 26
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the cost of establishing the UK Council for Child Internet Safety has been; how much he expects it to cost in 2008-09; and how much of the funding will come from (a) industry, (b) his Department, (c) the Home Office and (d) the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. | | (227198) | 27
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many full-time equivalent employees work in the secretariat of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety; and from which Government departments secretariat staff are drawn. | | (227199) | 28
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will make it his policy to place in the Library copies of the minutes from each of the meetings held by the UK Council for Child Internet Safety. | | (227200) | 29
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, on what dates the UK Council for Child Internet Safety has met; when it next plans to meet; and how often he expects the council to meet. | | (227201) | 30
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the evidential basis is for his Department's statement that higher national key stage test results are not a result of teaching to the test, as stated on page 3 of the Government response to the Third Report of the Children, Schools and Families Committee, HC 1003; and if he will make a statement. | | (227210) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 31
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which Minister is responsible for the delivery of the workplan of the Inter-departmental Migration Task Force. | | (227221) | 32
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what new resources are being made available to the UK Statistics Authority to undertake the workplan it has recommended as described by the Inter-departmental Migration Task Force in order to improve the migration estimates. | | (227233) | 33
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what consultation by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) undertook with Government departments before the ONS's revised methodology for allocating international migrants to regions and local authority areas was published on 24th April 2007. | | (227234) | 34
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many women under the age of 25 years were diagnosed with cervical cancer in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (227232) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 35
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her most recent estimate is of (a) the cost of providing a social rented unit and (b) the average public subsidy in the form of grant for such a unit in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (226932) | 36
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) non-UK EU national-headed households and (b) A8 national-headed households in social housing in (i) the most recent period for which figures are available and (ii) each year since such figures became available; and what proportion this represented of housing stock in each year. | | (226933) | 37
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of foreign national-headed households in social housing in (a) the most recent period for which figures are available and (b) each year since such figures became available; and what proportion this represented of housing stock in each year. | | (226934) | 38
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many foreign nationals obtained a tenancy without holding an existing social housing tenancy in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (226935) | 39
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new (a) local authority social lettings and (b) registered social landlord lettings were made to foreign nationals from (i) EU member states and (ii) non-EU states in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (226936) | 40
N | Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which parliamentary constituencies the Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber has visited in her capacity as Minister for the region in the last 12 months. | | (226931) | 41
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assistance her Department is giving to those local authorities that have deposited funds with Icelandic banks. | | (227060) | 42
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have invested in Icelandic banks. | | (227061) | 43
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what role her Department is playing in providing help and support to those local authorities that have invested in Icelandic banks. | | (227062) | 44
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what account she has taken of concerns raised by local authorities about the ability of the new Children's Social Services formula, used in the 2008-11 local government funding settlement, to assess accurately the complex needs of children in urban areas. | | (227235) | 45
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the Bassetlaw Council's expenditure of local government business growth initiative money on job evaluation. | | (226773) | 46
N | Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether responses to the South East Plan consultation sent to her Department, rather than the Government Office for the South East, will be considered as part of the South East Plan consultation process. | | (227125) | 47
N | Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many responses to the South East Plan consultation have been received by (a) the Government Office for the South East and (b) her Department. | | (227126) | 48
N | Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the percentage change in fees for examination by the Architects Registration Board or its committee under section 4(2) for equivalence to a prescribed qualification is between those established for 2008 and those to be charged in 2009. | | (226329) | 49
N | Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people were employed by the Architects Registration Board in each year since its establishment. | | (226649) | 50
N | Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the annual running costs of the Architects Registration Board were in each year since its establishment in 2007-08 prices. | | (226650) | 51
N | Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the expected cost is of the ongoing refurbishment of the headquarters of the Architects Registration Board. | | (226651) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 52
N | Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance his Department has issued on the subtitling of films in cinemas for the benefit of people who are deaf including those shown out of school hours for children who are deaf. | | (226825) | 53
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he expects the modernisation review of England's public library service to report. | | (227171) | 54
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to better champion London's creative festivals. | | (227182) | 55
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which locations have been selected to host mixed media centres as set out in the cross-departmental report, New Talents for the New Economy. | | (227183) | 56
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what stage has been reached in negotiations between the UK Film Council, the Arts Council and the Humanities Research Council on developing mixed media centres. | | (227184) | 57
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Arts Council has taken to implement the objectives of the Creative Economy Programme. | | (227185) | 58
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has commissioned research on the extent to which further education institutions are equipping students with the skills needed to help them make a contribution to the creative economy. | | (227186) | 59
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in his Department were employed to work on heritage issues in each year since 1997. | | (227202) | 60
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was spent by the Royal Parks Agency on employing press and communications officers in each of the last five years. | | (227204) | 61
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was spent by the National Heritage Memorial Fund on employing press and communications officers in each of the last five years. | | (227205) | 62
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was spent by the Churches Conservation Trust on employing press and communications officers in each of the last five years. | | (227206) | 63
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was spent by (a) the National Gallery, (b) the Tate, (c) the Science Museum, (d) the Science Museum Manchester and (e) the Museum of London on employing press and communications officers in each of the last five years. | | (227207) | 64
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 8th October 2008, Official Report, columns 696-97W, on cultural heritage: pay, how much his Department spent on salaries for staff working on heritage in each year since 1997 (a) in 2007-08 prices and (b) as a percentage of total expenditure on staff salaries by his Department. | | (227208) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 65
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department's ration packs cost on average. | | (226766) | 66
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many press and communications officers are employed by (a) his Department, (b) its non-departmental public bodies and (c) its agencies. | | (227229) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 67
N | Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which Cabinet committees and sub-committees he attends. | | (227124) | 68
N | Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will instruct the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to release the full unredacted version of the macro-economic study of United Kingdom plutonium and uranium stocks and options for future management. | | (226939) | 69
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many tonnes of coal were produced in the UK in each of the last five years. | | (227166) | 70
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many people were employed in the UK coal industry in each of the last five years. | | (227167) | 71
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many tonnes of coal reserves exist in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK. | | (227168) | 72
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what percentage of UK electricity was generated from (a) coal, (b) nuclear power, (c) renewable sources and (d) gas in each of the last five years. | | (227169) | 73
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the likely extent of use of clean coal in the UK in the future; and if he will make a statement. | | (227170) | 74
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many press and communications officers are employed by (a) his Department, (b) its non-departmental public bodies and (c) its agencies. | | (227228) | 75
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how long he expects the work evaluation of smart meters to take; who is conducting the evaluation; and when he expects to take the next steps towards wider installation of smart meters. | | (226943) | 76
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much was claimed under the Coal Miners' Compensation Scheme by (a) former miners and (b) former miners' families in Scotland in each of the last three years. | | (226763) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 77
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29th September 2008, Official Report, columns 2421-2W, on non-departmental public bodies, what is the net change is in the (a) amount and (b) percentage of (i) resource, (ii) capital and (iii) total budgets for each of his Department's executive agencies and sponsored bodies from 2008-09 to 2009-10 in (A) cash and (B) real terms; and what savings were achieved in each spending area of each such organisation in that period. | | (226942) | 78
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what are the most recent test results on the toxicity of incinerator bottom ash to have been made public. | | (225225) | 79
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what toxicity tests his Department requires to be undertaken of landfill disposal of non-hazardous waste. | | (225226) | 80
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the study undertaken by the Environmental Services Association with the support of the Environment Agency on H14 ecotoxicity testing of incinerator bottom ash. | | (225227) | 81
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department uses when formulating guidance for the public and local authorities about the assessment of safety of incinerator bottom ash. | | (225228) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 82
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 7th October 2008, Official Report, column 607W, on Russia: missiles, what discussions he has had with his (a) European and (b) NATO counterparts on the test-firing by Russia of the RS-12M Topol missile on 27th August 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (227227) | 83
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of claims that Rwandan troops are continuing to operate within the Democratic Republic of Congo. | | (226930) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 84
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Richmond Park of 22nd April 2008, Official Report, column 1993W, on the mentally ill: children, if he will make it his policy to collect data on the number of children diagnosed with a mental health disorder. | | (227063) | 85
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7th July, Official Report, column 1137, on disabled people (budgets), what the publication date will be for the evaluation report of the Individual Budgets pilots. | | (227064) | 86
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase the number of speech and language therapists working in the public service in (a) Greater London and (b) England. | | (227237) | 87
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the estimated cost was of treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in each primary care trust in England in the last period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (226107) | 88
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the evidential basis is of the estimate that 15 per cent. of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease will also have asthma, as stated in the Quality and Outcomes Framework guidance for the GMS contract for 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (226108) | 89
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the waiting time for pulmonary rehabilitation was in each primary care trust in England in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (226109) | 90
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was allocated to primary care trusts at the start of the financial year (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08; and how much was returned from primary care trusts to strategic health authorities at the end of each of those financial years. | | (226941) | 91
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria will be applied by academic health science centres to applications for Academic Foundation Trust status. | | (226011) | 92
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in the establishment of academic health science centres; and if he will make a statement. | | (226013) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 93
N | Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from what point in an airport (a) airline pilots and crew who are foreign nationals and (b) airside airport workers who are UK nationals will be required to carry an identity card. | | (226014) | 94
N | Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which sections of the UK Border Act relating to the deportation of foreign national prisoners (a) had and (b) had not been commenced on 30th September 2008; and the provisions of which sections are in active use. | | (226015) | 95
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many forged documents were confiscated at the UK's borders by (a) the UK Border Agency and (b) UK Visas in 2007-08. | | (227217) | 96
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces have submitted one or more briefing notes to the Migration Impact Forum since it was established. | | (227218) | 97
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10th September 2008, Official Report, column 1866W, on genetics: databases, what proportion of detected crimes in 2007-08 in which DNA evidence was available or played a part were crimes in which the offender had a prior conviction recorded on the Police National Computer. | | (227219) | 98
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10th September 2008, Official Report, columns 1767-8W, on genetics: databases, of the 14,000 offences linked to DNA profiles retained since 2001, how many were detected crimes in which an offender was brought to justice. | | (227220) | 99
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of respondents to each of the waves of the National Identity Scheme Tracking Research carried out to date said that they did not support the scheme because they were concerned that (a) it would be an infringement of personal freedom, (b) it would not work, (c) it is a waste of money, (d) personal data will be used without their permission and (e) it could be open to abuse. | | (227224) | 100
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of respondents to each of the waves of the National Identity Scheme Tracking Research carried out to date said they (a) agreed strongly or slightly and (b) disagreed strongly or slightly with the Government's plan to introduce the National Identity Scheme. | | (227225) | 101
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the next wave of National Identity Scheme Tracking Research will be carried out; and when he-she= expects the results of this research to be published. | | (227226) | 102
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces use the 50,000 volt taser stun gun; and how many times, in each case, the gun has been fired in the last two years for which figures are available. | | (226010) | 103
N | Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Manchester Central of 25th July 2008, on JT, reference M15977/8. | | (227123) | 104
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what rules apply to the funding by Government of security arrangements at conferences of political parties; and what sum the Government contributed to the security costs of (a) the 2008 Labour Party Conference in Manchester and (b) the 2008 Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, broken down by category of expenditure. | | (226940) | 105
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints of abuse of intrusive surveillance powers have been made against (a) local authorities and (b) central Government-controlled bodies in each of the last three years. | | (225229) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 106
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what progress has been made by the UK Intellectual Property Office in implementing a plan on intellectual property enforcement. | | (227176) | 107
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment he has made of the merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require internet service providers and rights holders to co-operate in taking action on illegal file sharing as discussed in the cross-departmental report, New Talents for the New Economy. | | (227177) | 108
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what progress has been made in establishing a knowledge transfer network for the creative industries. | | (227178) | 109
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, when he expects his Department to publish research quantifying the economic benefits of the creative industries. | | (227179) | 110
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what projects have been supported by the £3 million Innovators Growth Programme; and when he expects the programme to establish its first sector pilots. | | (227180) | 111
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, whether his Department has commissioned research on the extent to which further education institutions are equipping students with the skills needed to help them make a contribution to the creative economy. | | (227187) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 112
N | Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much the (a) recent redesign and (b) subsequent maintenance of his Department's website cost. | | (226110) | 113
N | Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what records his Department keeps on the (a) number and (b) demographics of people using its website. | | (226111) | 114
N | Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what forecasts his Department has made regarding the number of people using the Discovery Zone section of its website; and how it plans to monitor the usage of this section. | | (226112) | 115
N | Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on the DFID Alumni Association in each of the last three years, broken down by (a) staff costs, (b) website maintenance costs, (c) the cost of organised events and (d) other costs. | | (226113) | 116
N | Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much the (a) design and (b) maintenance of the Race Against Global Poverty section of his Department's website (i) has cost and (ii) is projected to cost. | | (226114) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 117
N | Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of sentence was for young offenders convicted for offences involving (a) violence against a person, (b) burglary, (c) robbery, (d) sexual offences and (e) illegal drugs where a custodial sentence was handed down in the financial year 2005-06. | | (226833) | 118
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will reassess his Department's proposals to merge the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal with the Care Standards Tribunal and the Mental Health Review Tribunal in England; what assessment he has made of the likely effects of this merger on parents of children with special educational needs; and if he will make a statement. | | (227236) | 119
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which organisations provided media monitoring services to (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last three years; and what the total cost of each contract was. | | (227203) | 120
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many house repossessions were laid before the courts in each month in each of the last three years, broken down by (a) constituency and (b) region; and how many of these were approved by the court. | | (226937) | 121
N | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to respond to the consultation, Confidence and Confidentiality: Openness in family courts. | | (226770) | 122
N | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to review the law relating to the responsibility of a supplier of a toxic substance to a person when that person voluntarily takes the substance themselves with consequent harm in the light of the House of Lords judgement R v Kennedy. | | (226772) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 123
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what freephone 24-hour telephone lines exist for victims of rape and sexual assault in Northern Ireland. | | (227223) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 124
N | Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the additional greenhouse gas emissions that would result from an expanson of air traffic capacity at Stansted Airport. | | (226938) | 125
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what speed limit reviews his Department requires from local authorities before 2011; what guidance has been issued on how to conduct these reviews; and if he will make a statement. | | (226328) | 126
N | Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which train operators have requested a time extension for payments of the premia due under their franchise agreements in the last 12 months. | | (227127) | 127
N | Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which train operators have made late premia payments in the last 12 months. | | (227128) | 128
N | Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which train operators have requested a renegotiation of their franchise agreement in the last 12 months. | | (227129) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 129
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many women were victims of (a) rape, (b) domestic violence, (c) forced marriage, (d) sexual exploitation and (e) trafficking in each of the last three years, broken down by (i) parliamentary constituency and (ii) police force area. | | (227211) | 130
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many successful prosecutions for domestic violence against women have resulted in a prison sentence for the perpetrator in the last five years. | | (227212) | 131
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many prosecutions for domestic violence against women failed to come to court because the victim refused to give evidence in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (227213) | 132
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many complaints have been made to police forces about violence against women in the last five years, broken down by (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) police force. | | (227214) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 133
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a disability impact assessment was carried out on the tendering process for the Post Office Card Account contract. | | (226764) | 134
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what accessibility criteria were included in the tender for the Post Office card account contract. | | (226765) | 135
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people registered on the Workers Registration Scheme there have been in each London borough in each year since the new scheme was introduced in May 2004. | | (227230) | 136
N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the levels of fraud and error in the benefit system. | | (226233) | 137
N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people did not receive benefits to which they were entitled due to (a) fraud and (b) error in the benefit system in each of the last five years. | | (226234) | 138
N | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans next to review the limit set on the sum received by an individual from an occupational pension which may be taken into account in the calculation of that person's incapacity benefit entitlement. | | (226769) | 139
N | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average occupational pension payable in the UK was in 2007-08. | | (226771) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 140
N | Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the effects of changes in empty property business rates on the property market. | | [Question Unstarred] (226340) | 141
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to meet local authority leaders to discuss action to protect local authorities from the effects of the insolvency of Icelandic banks; and if she will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (227209) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 142
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which regional development agencies will pilot creative economy strategic frameworks; and when he expects the pilots to (a) begin and (b) end. | | [Transferred] (227173) | 143
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which regional development agencies have established regional beacons for the creative industries; and what the cost of doing so has been for each. | | [Transferred] (227174) | 144
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, by what date he expects to have developed the Menu for Local Infrastructure to be used by local authorities to attract creative industries to their area. | | [Transferred] (227175) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 145
N | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the EU proposals for free fruit provision in schools; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (226767) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 146
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was claimed in council tax benefits in each constituency in England in each of the last three years. | | [Transferred] (226762) |
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