THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER
Questions for Oral Answer Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change *1
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): What assessment he has made of the effect of the current economic climate on investment in new electricity generation plants. | | (235267) | *2
| Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): What recent assessment he has made of the progress towards achieving the Government's target for carbon dioxide emissions reduction by 2050. | | (235268) | *3
| Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): What recent discussions his Department has had with energy companies on the energy market; and if he will make a statement. | | (235269) | *4
| Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): What his most recent estimate is of the proportion of UK greenhouse gas emissions attributable to the road transport sector. | | (235270) | *5
| Mr Mark Hendrick (Preston): What his policy is on the use of nuclear energy. | | (235271) | *6
| Mr James Plaskitt (Warwick & Leamington): What steps he is taking to ensure gas and electricity prices are affordable. | | (235272) | *7
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): What steps he is taking to promote the development of clean coal technology. | | (235273) | *8
| John Robertson (Glasgow North West): What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in driving reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases; and if he will make a statement. | | (235274) | *9
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): What plans he has for future numbers of clean coal power stations. | | (235275) | *10
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): What recent representations he has received on the number of people living in fuel poverty in North West Leicestershire; and if he will make a statement. | | (235276) | *11
| Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): What the timetable is for awarding the contract for the carbon capture and storage demonstration plant; and if he will make a statement. | | (235277) | *12
| Mr Andrew Mackay (Bracknell): What the current capacity of UK gas storage facilities is; and if he will make a statement. | | (235278) | *13
| Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): What discussions he has had with colleagues in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's assessment of the effects of meat and dairy consumption on greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. | | (235279) | *14
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): What his policy is on the use of weapons grade fissile material in civil nuclear reactors. | | (235280) | *15
| Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire North): What recent representations he has received on the construction of nuclear power facilities and electricity generation by such facilities; and if he will make a statement. | | (235281) | *16
| Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): What discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on Ofgem's recent report on the energy market. | | (235282) | *17
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): What mechanisms are in place to ensure the continuation of supply to a customer in circumstances where an energy company fails. | | (235283) | *18
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): What progress has been made on the Severn Tidal Power Feasibility Study; and if he will make a statement. | | (235284) | *19
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): What schemes the Government operates to promote energy efficiency; and if he will make a statement. | | (235285) | *20
| Mr John Grogan (Selby): What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of community energy saving schemes; and if he will make a statement. | | (235286) | At 11.05 a.m. Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question. *1
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. | | (235287) | *2
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): | | (235288) | *3
| Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): | | (235289) | *4
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): | | (235290) | *5
| Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): | | (235291) | *6
| Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): | | (235292) | *7
| Mr Andrew Mackay (Bracknell): | | (235293) | *8
| Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin & Harpenden): | | (235294) | At 11.15 a.m. Oral Questions to the Leader of the House and the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission *1
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask the Leader of the House, if she will bring forward proposals for select committees to conduct more of their business in public. | | (235257) | *2
| Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the Leader of the House, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the House's procedures for scrutinising secondary legislation; and if she will make a statement. | | (235258) | *3
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Leader of the House, if she will bring forward proposals to reduce to three days the notice period for tabling of oral Questions to the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales. | | (235259) | *4
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Leader of the House, if she will take steps to ensure that Ministers' answers to hon. Members include pertinent information otherwise available to the public; and if she will make a statement. | | (235260) | *5
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Leader of the House, if she will hold discussions with Ministerial colleagues on their practices in answering written parliamentary Questions. | | (235261) | *6
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Leader of the House, what factors she takes into account when making decisions about the timetable for the business of the House. | | (235262) | *7
| Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Leader of the House, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the procedures of the House for handling secondary legislation. | | (235263) | *8
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Leader of the House, what recent representations she has received on the number of Government Bills introduced in the current parliamentary Session that will be carried over into the next Session; and if she will make a statement. | | (235264) | *9
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will ensure that tap water is available to hon. Members and others in committee rooms. | | (235265) | *10
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Leader of the House, what discussions she has had, with reference to her responsibility for the Government's legislative programme, on which Minister will have lead responsibility in the House for the Equality Bill; and if she will make a statement. | | (235266) |
Questions for Written Answer
Notices given on Friday 31 October 1
N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of students in each local education authority area (a) were eligible for free school meals, (b) had a statement of special educational needs and (c) were on School Action Plus in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (233331) |
Notices given on Monday 3 November 1
N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people (a) had access to and (b) were registered with an NHS dentist immediately prior to the introduction of the new NHS dental contract in (i) Suffolk and (ii) South Suffolk. | | (233657) | 2
N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of NHS dental services for new patients in (a) Suffolk and (b) South Suffolk. | | (233658) | 3
N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's most recent estimate is of the number of NHS dentists in (a) Suffolk and (b) South Suffolk. | | (233680) | 4
N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's most recent estimate is of the number of people registered with NHS dentists in (a) Suffolk and (b) South Suffolk. | | (233681) |
Notices given on Tuesday 4 November 1
N | Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress the Government has made in appointing a new Chair of the Committee on Climate Change; and when he expects an appointment to be announced. | | (234281) |
Notices given on Thursday 6 November 1
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15th October 2008, Official Report, column 1410W, on non-domestic rates: ports, with which port tenants (a) she and (b) her officials have had discussions since May 2006. | | (235126) | 2
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15th October 2008, Official Report, column 1410W, on non-domestic rates: ports, (a) which port operators and (b) how many port tenants were advised of the review of ports in May 2006. | | (235127) | 3
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what agreements his Department has with the government of Morocco on training facilities; and whether any facilities included in the agreement are in the Western Sahara. | | (235119) | 4
N | Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge & Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will list in descending order of magnitude the percentage contribution that each county, including the UK, is making to global carbon dioxide emissions. | | (234973) | 5
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the US lease on the use of part of Diego Garcia for a military base is due for renewal; and what his policy is on whether the lease should be renewed. | | (235120) | 6
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has held with the Chagos islanders on their wish to return to the Chagos Islands. | | (235121) | 7
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost has been to his Department of contesting legal action brought by Chagos islanders seeking to return to the Chagos Islands in each year since 1999-2000. | | (235122) | 8
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what monitoring his Department is undertaking of the operation of the EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement in respect of fish taken from the waters off the Western Sahara. | | (235123) | 9
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has held with the UN on the proposed referendum of the Saharawi people on the future status of the Western Sahara. | | (235125) | 10
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps the Government has taken to reduce levels of alcoholism. | | (234791) | 12
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken to encourage the development of innovative technology to prevent crime; and what steps it intends to take. | | (234890) | 13
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken to improve internet safety. | | (234891) | 14
N | Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge & Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what publications have been made available to the general public setting out the statutory police complaint procedure; by whom these publications have been published; and if she will place copies of each publication in the Library. | | (234974) | 15
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department has spent on aid to Saharawi refugees in Algeria in each of the last three years; and how much is planned to be spent in 2009-10. | | (235124) | 16
N | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to ensure that the Land Registry launches a proper public consultation before the destruction of any original documents and deeds. | | (234789) | 17
N | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Land Registry has spent on consulting the public on its plans to destroy original deeds and documents in the last two years. | | (234790) | 18
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of capacity in the certification process for the fitting of Mode S Transponders. | | (234970) | 19
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the availability of Mode S Transponders on the market. | | (234972) |
Notices given on Monday 10 November 1
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent steps the Government has taken to reduce alcohol addiction amongst teenagers. | | (234792) | 2
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what equipment on the military list has been sold or transferred to (a) the Democratic Republic of Congo and (b) Rwanda in each of the last three years. | | (235358) | 3
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 20th October 2008, Official Report, column 137-8W, on credit, if he will list those meetings with respect to which he thinks it is appropriate to release details; if he will place copies in the Library of the (a) agenda, (b) list of attendees and (c) minutes of each such meeting; and what criteria he applies in determining whether it is appropriate to release such details. | | (235538) | 6
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what reasons the National Director of Early Years Strategy, Ruth Pimentel, has given for resigning her position. | | (235371) | 7
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what programmes provide funding to schools to deal with (a) behaviour and (b) inclusion matters; and how much funding is available under each programme in 2008-09. | | (235364) | 8
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the turnover rate among pupils was in each secondary school serving the population of a principal seaside town in England in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (235545) | 9
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when he plans to answer Question 231272 tabled on 23rd October 2008, on assistant regional ministers; and what the reasons are for the time taken to respond. | | (235634) | 10
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) formal and (b) informal volunteers in England and Wales in each of the last 15 years. | | (235567) | 11
N | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which organisations are being paid to facilitate work for her Department on (a) council housing, (b) the review of council housing finance and (c) the housing reform green paper; and how much each organisation is being paid. | | (235505) | 12
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Government has to revise its guidance on prizes and stakes on slot machines. | | (235649) | 14
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to revise his guidance on split premises and adult gaming centres. | | (235651) | 15
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what criteria the National Sports Foundation require to be met for them to guarantee matched funding for projects for more than one year. | | (235472) | 16
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answers of 3rd September 2007, Official Report, column 1632W and 6th November 2008, Official Report, columns 677-8W, when the decision was taken to extend the service life of the Type 22 and Type 23 Frigates; how much such an extension to their service lives will cost; and if he will make a statement. | | (235645) | 17
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Future Surface Combatant programme is expected to go through the initial gate phase; and when the first vessel is expected to enter service with the Royal Navy. | | (235648) | 18
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average income was of farms in (a) Ribble Valley, (b) Lancashire and (c) England in each of the last 10 years. | | (235510) | 19
N | Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of measures it has taken to prevent sheep rustling in the last five years. | | (235365) | 20
N | Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on (a) electricity and (b) heating in each month of each of the last five years. | | (235366) | 21
N | John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made in conducting noise mapping of the M40 at Milton Common in Oxfordshire in accordance with the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006; what consultations he has held on this matter; and when new noise levels will be set. | | (235639) | 22
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps have been taken by the Government to give effect to UN General Assembly Resolution 1723 (XVI), with specific reference to the right to self-determination. | | (235569) | 23
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to establish the whereabouts and health of the Panchen Lama; and if he will press for his release. | | (235570) | 24
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the positive outcomes for the Tibetans which have emerged from the UK-China Human Rights Dialogue since 2003. | | (235571) | 25
N | Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he will respond to the letter of 25th September from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on Ms Lucinda Lavelle, transferred to his Department by the Prime Minister. | | (235592) | 26
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of reports by UN officials of the involvement of Angolan troops in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. | | (235359) | 27
N | Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1236W, on departmental pay, whether Mr R Channing-Wheeler is still receiving £8,400 a month towards the cost of his accommodation. | | (235647) | 28
N | Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Romsey of 9th January 2008, Official Report, columns 594-5W, on influenza, what progress he has made towards the delivery of the initial phase of the National Flu Line Service by the end of 2008; what steps comprise the initial phase of implementation; what other phases of implementation are required for the service to become operational; and if he will make a statement. | | (235506) | 29
N | Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) salary and (b) other remuneration was paid to guest speakers at internal training events within his Department in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (235640) | 30
N | Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) salary and (b) other remuneration was paid to guest speakers at each event organised by his Department for training of press officers in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (235641) | 31
N | Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what events were organised by his Department for the training of press officers in the last year; and what funds were allocated for each event. | | (235642) | 32
N | Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on training for press officers in his Department in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (235643) | 33
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received on administering BCG vaccines to children in education but not resident in high tuberculosis incidence areas in the last 12 months; how many of these supported such an extension to the BCG vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (235548) | 34
N | Mr David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many days after arrest the evidence used to prosecute was available for all people convicted of offences under anti-terrorism legislation, who were held for more than 14 days before charge in the last three years. | | (235536) | 35
N | Mr David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people suspected of offences under anti-terrorism legislation were held for more than 14 days before being charged in the last three years. | | (235537) | 36
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of (a) issuing and (b) producing passports in each of the last eight years has been; and what estimate has been made of the cost of (i) issuing and (ii) producing passports for each of the next eight years. | | (235511) | 37
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports have been issued in each of the last eight years; and what estimate has been made of the number of passports that will be issued in each of the next eight years. | | (235512) | 38
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which of the separate pieces of information set out in Schedule 1 of the Identity Cards Act 2006 will be retained from foreign nationals applying for identity cards from November 2008. | | (235513) | 39
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which database will store the personal data from foreign nationals applying for identity cards from November 2008. | | (235514) | 40
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the fee revenue from passports has been in each of the last eight years. | | (235515) | 41
N | Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will respond to the letter of 24th September from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs F Khan. | | (235588) | 42
N | Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will respond to the letter of 29th September from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Z Mohiny. | | (235589) | 43
N | Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will respond to the letter of 30th September from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs Zara Gulshav. | | (235590) | 44
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission has made of the effects of the new visitors reception and security entrance at Cromwell Green on the number of hon. Member-sponsored tours of the House. | | (235507) | 45
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, how much income has been generated from visitors to the House during the summer openings in each of the last three years; and what the cost to the House was of operating summer opening in each year. | | (235508) | 46
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the average hourly pay rates are for (a) Blue Badge Guides employed during the summer openings and (b) guides employed directly by the House; and what the reasons are for any differences. | | (235509) | 47
N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the value of student loan debt is that was previously sold off to banks, and is now held by the Bank of England. | | (235360) | 48
N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what proportion of Questions for written answer tabled to his Department in each month of the current parliamentary Session were answered within (a) one week, (b) one fortnight and (c) one month. | | (235361) | 49
N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what plans the Government has to provide additional financial support to students undertaking voluntary work. | | (235362) | 50
N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much has been collected by universities in tuition fees in each year since such fees were introduced. | | (235363) | 51
N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what proportion of payments by the Learning and Skills Council were made within 30 days of the receipt of the invoice in the last period for which figures are available. | | (235367) | 52
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) complaints and (b) other representations he has received on the operation of the Office of the Public Guardian from (i) members of the public and (ii) solicitors in the last 12 months. | | (235540) | 53
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the performance of the Office of the Public Guardian in offering services to members of the public. | | (235541) | 54
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to collect and publish data on the number of forced sales of people's homes approved by the courts; and if he will make a statement. | | (235644) | 56
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Solicitor General, how many of the 125 prosecutions under Operation Pentameter II have resulted in convictions; and what sentences were issued. | | (235542) | 57
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Solicitor General, with reference to the 125 prosecutions made under Operation Pentameter II, how many defendants received legal aid; and how much funding from the public purse has been made available for such legal aid. | | (235543) | 58
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Solicitor General, pursuant to the Answer of 6th November 2008, Official Report, columns 351-2W, on human trafficking, to which trafficking statistics her Answer refers; and if she will place in the Library a copy of the statistics. | | (235568) | 59
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Solicitor General, pursuant to the Answer of 6th November 2008, Official Report, column 351, for what reasons 403 of the 528 persons arrested under Operation Pentameter 2 were not prosecuted. | | (235646) | 60
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many properties the Highways Agency has acquired through compulsory purchase in each year since 1995; and what percentage of such properties have subsequently been (a) demolished and a road scheme progressed, (b) demolished without a road scheme being progressed, (c) resold and (d) retained. | | (235572) | 61
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the proposed reduction in funding to Network Rail in respect of its engineering possessions strategy, advocated by the Office of Rail Regulation, and his policy of driving Network Rail towards a 24 hour, seven days a week service. | | (235573) | 62
N | Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Longdendale bypass public inquiry commenced; for how many days the inquiry has sat; and what the estimated cost is of the Longdendale bypass public inquiry process. | | (235593) | 63
N | Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road haulage operators were trading in each of the last five years for which figures were available. | | (235596) | 64
N | Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road haulage companies entered receivership in 2007 and how many have done so in 2008 to date. | | (235597) | 65
N | John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding has been allocated by his Department and the Highways Agency for noise barrier improvements on the M40 at Milton Common. | | (235368) | 66
N | John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consultation arrangements will be made with regard to the Highways Agency's report into its estimates of the cost of noise barrier improvements on the M40 at Milton Common; and whether the data used in the production of the report will be published. | | (235369) | 67
N | John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Highways Agency will publish the report requested in March 2008 by the Department of Transport on the Agency's estimates for noise barrier improvements on the M40 at Milton Common. | | (235370) | 68
N | Mr Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has received a response from the Scottish Executive to its consultation on the Welfare Reform Green Paper. | | (235539) | 69
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to answer Question 228497, on carers, tabled on 15th October 2008. | | (235622) | 70
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20th October 2008, Official Report, column 1202W, on unemployment benefits, what his Department's forecast was for expenditure on incapacity benefit in each of the next five years had the employment and support allowance not been introduced. | | (235623) | 71
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to answer Question 228496, on carers, tabled on 15th October 2008. | | (235624) | 72
N | Mr Terry Rooney (Bradford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons leaflet D49 on bereavement benefits has been withdrawn; and what plans he has to publish a replacement for it. | | (235471) | 73
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the working age population in each principal seaside town in England and Wales have claimed (a) incapacity benefit, (b) lone parent benefit and (c) jobseeker's allowance in each of the last five years. | | (235547) | 74
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects the joint report his Department has produced with the Treasury on housing benefit to be published. | | (235566) | 75
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of travel warrants issued to his Department's customers was in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will estimate the savings which would have accrued to the public purse if all such travel warrants had been issued early enough to benefit from lower fares available in advance. | | (235595) |
Notices given on Tuesday 11 November 1
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) highest and (b) lowest level is for education, skills and training average achievement at lower super output level in each of the principal seaside towns in England and Wales in descending order, giving the name of the lower super output area affected. | | [Transferred] (235544) | 2
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) current and (b) previous ranking is of each of the lowest ranked lower super output areas in each field of multiple deprivation in each of the principal seaside towns in England and Wales, giving the name of each of the ward areas affected. | | [Transferred] (235546) | 3
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to reclassify lap-dancing clubs as sex encounter establishments. | | [Transferred] (235650) | 4
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many projects were supported by the small firms loan guarantee scheme in each nation and region in each year from 2003-04 to 2007-08; what the monetary value of the support was in each case; and what proportion of the total annual support it represented. | | (235831) | 5
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many people received no more than the national minimum wage in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency in each year since its introduction. | | (235999) | 6
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many and what proportion of businesses in (a) the North East and (b) each parliamentary constituency in the North East are small businesses. | | (235901) | 7
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps are being taken to tackle the trade in counterfeit goods on internet auction sites. | | (235829) | 8
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the monetary value of trade between Montserrat and the UK was in each of the last five years. | | (236105) | 9
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps the Government has taken to encourage trade between Montserrat and the UK. | | (236106) | 10
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the budget of the Regional Development Agency National Secretariat is for 2008-09. | | (236080) | 11
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much the Regional Development Agency National Secretariat has spent on (a) external public relations or marketing companies or consultants and (b) external public affairs companies or consultants in the last period for which figures are available. | | (236083) | 12
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what discussions the Secretary of State has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on his response to the Review of Sub-National Economics Development and Regeneration. | | (236101) | 13
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many post office branches were closed in the SS8 and SS7 post code areas between 1987 and 1997. | | (236043) | 14
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the effect of the provisions of EU Directive 2006/49/EC in relation to mark to market, with particular reference to annex VII. | | (235939) | 15
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects funds to be released from the Kaupthing, Singer and Friedlander Bank. | | (236227) | 16
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with (a) the Isle of Man authorities and (b) the Kaupthing, Singer and Friedlander Bank (Isle of Man) on the bank releasing the funds held within it. | | (236228) | 17
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the financial services compensation scheme levies on the building society sector. | | (236158) | 18
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level of exposure of each local authority to Icelandic banks is. | | (236219) | 19
| Mr Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what level of debt banks on which public money has been spent have in connection with their involvement in the leveraged buyout of professional football clubs. | | (236047) | 20
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3rd March 2008, Official Report, column 2184W, on Government Departments: property, what the current total area of actual vacant space is, aggregated to include sensitive and non-sensitive records in a non-identifiable manner, recorded on the e-PIMS database. | | (235856) | 21
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3rd March 2008, Official Report, column 2184W, on Government Departments: property, if he will place in the Library a list of the names and addresses of the current non-sensitive vacant space recorded on the e-PIMS database and the area vacant for each address. | | (235857) | 22
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 21st April 2008, Official Report, column 1669W, on council tax: valuation, if he will place in the Library a copy of the written or electronic guidance provided to Valuation Office Agency staff on using the Agency's council tax banding support tool. | | (235859) | 23
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 18th June 2008, Official Report, column 988W, on housing: valuation, when the boundaries of the localities were last amended or updated. | | (235867) | 24
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 18th June 2008, Official Report, column 988W, on housing: valuation, if he will place in the Library a hard or electronic copy of the maps and boundaries of each locality within the billing authority of Bromley. | | (235868) | 25
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 22nd July 2008, Official Report, column 1393W, on housing: valuation, for what reason the numerical co-efficient values used by the Valuation Office Agency are commercially confidential. | | (235875) | 26
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 22nd July 2008, Official Report, column 1393W, on housing: valuation, when the numerical co-efficient values were last amended or updated. | | (235876) | 27
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6th November 2008, Official Report, column 684W, on Valuation Office: Databases, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance given to staff on how the database alignment exercise should be conducted. | | (236020) | 28
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6th November 2008, Official Report, column 684W, on Valuation Office: Databases, whether the database alignment exercise is being conducted with the support of external consultants. | | (236021) | 29
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 27th October 2008, Official Report, columns 778-80W, on departmental ICT, what IT projects (a) HM Revenue and Customs and (b) the Valuation Office Agency are undertaking; and what the most recent estimate is of (i) the cost and (ii) the completion date of each. | | (236024) | 30
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 27th October 2008, Official Report, columns 778-80W, on departmental ICT, for what reasons (a) HM Revenue and Customs and (b) the Valuation Office Agency were not listed in the answer. | | (236025) | 31
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 4th November 2008, Official Report, column 314W, on the Valuation Office, whether the specifications will include the use of geo-data to support the operation of the council tax automated valuation model. | | (236029) | 32
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 4th November 2008, Official Report, column 314W, on the Valuation Office, what the go live date is for the geographical information system; and whether it will cover (a) England and (b) England and Wales. | | (236030) | 33
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 4th November 2008, Official Report, column 314W, on the Valuation Office, which four companies were invited to tender; and what criteria were used in the decision to unite those companies. | | (236031) | 34
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 4th November 2008, Official Report, column 314W, on the Valuation Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the invitation to tender with commercially sensitive elements redacted. | | (236032) | 35
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 4th November 2008, Official Report, column 313W, on the Valuation Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the report on investigative work to assess the market coverage and support the Agency's aims. | | (236034) | 36
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6th November 2008, Official Report, column 682W, on housing: valuation, if he will place in the Library a list of locality reference numbers, ranked in order of value significance by valuation area, for valuation areas in England outside London. | | (236037) | 37
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the budget for the (a) Council of Regional Ministers and (b) Regional Economic Council is in their first year of operation. | | (236081) | 38
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what changes have been made to the threshold for the amount of redundancy pay that is tax-free since 1997; and what the current threshold is. | | (236084) | 39
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance his Department has provided to public authorities on the safety of placing deposits in Italian banks. | | (236086) | 40
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the effect (a) rates of inflation, (b) the banking situation and (c) the increase in Government borrowing have had on Public Works Loan Board interest rates. | | (236087) | 41
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Valuation Office Agency has access to an electronic tendering system. | | (236091) | 42
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the effect of the current financial situation on the viability of local authority private finance initiative projects. | | (236094) | 43
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consideration has been given to including local authority representatives on the Regional Economic Council. | | (236104) | 44
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of unrecovered local authority deposits in the former Bank of Credit and Commerce International. | | (236130) | 45
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made made of the (a) safety, (b) risk profile and (c) security of deposits made by local authorities in Irish-owned banks operating in the Republic of Ireland. | | (236131) | 46
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the effect of the introduction of empty property business rates on the attractiveness to overseas investors of real estate investment trusts. | | (236145) | 47
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Valuation Office Agency, or HM Revenue and Customs on its behalf, will make to rightmove.co.uk plc in respect of 2008-09. | | (236183) | 48
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many domestic dwellings in England are marked with a property details activity code of (a) 30, (b) 60 and (c) 70 according to the Valuation Office Agency's records. | | (236184) | 49
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many individuals with an annual income of (a) between £30,000 and £40,000, (b) between £40,000 and £50,000, (c) between £50,000 and £60,000 and (d) over £60,000 received tax credits in each year since the introduction of tax credits; and if he will make a statement. | | (235884) | 50
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been claimed in tax credits (a) in total and (b) on average from individuals with an annual income of (i) between £30,000 and £40,000, (ii) between £40,000 and £50,000, (iii) between £50,000 and £60,000 and (iv) over £60,000 in each year since the introduction of tax credits; and if he will make a statement. | | (235885) | 51
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many unfilled secondary school places there were in (a) Wellingborough constituency and (b) England on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (235938) | 52
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that schools provide appropriate support for children diagnosed with diabetes; and if he will make a statement. | | (235891) | 53
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department has allocated for expenditure on support for children diagnosed with diabetes in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (235894) | 54
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many head teachers were suspended from (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special schools in each local authority for each of the last three years. | | (235962) | 55
| Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he has taken to implement part 3.11 of the Ten Year Youth Strategy to increase participation in activities among disabled young people. | | (235964) | 56
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children in Houghton and Washington East constituency took up free nursery places in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (235902) | 57
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the amount (a) central government, (b) local government and (c) schools have spent to enable schools in England to comply with (i) equal pay legislation and (ii) the local government Single Status Agreement. | | (236160) | 58
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools in England have completed a job evaluation process for the purpose of compliance with (a) equal pay legislation and (b) the local government single status agreement; and what estimate he has made of the cost of such compliance to date. | | (236161) | 59
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) distribution of the budget allocation for the delivery of the childcare free entitlement. | | (235895) | 60
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the steps which need to be taken in order to facilitate the taking into account of relevant offences committed overseas when individuals put themselves forward to be monitored under procedures established under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. | | (235896) | 61
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what original estimate was made of the costs of implementing the provisions of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006; and what his most recent estimate is of such costs. | | (235897) | 62
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what funding his Department has given to the School Food Trust in each year since its establishment; and what control he exercises over the way in which such funds are used. | | (235960) | 63
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children under the age of (a) five, (b) 10 and (c) 15 years were (i) suspended and (ii) permanently excluded from state schools in Leicestershire in (A) 2007 and (B) 1997. | | (235825) | 64
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children under the age of (a) five, (b) 10 and (c) 15 years were suspended from state schools in Leicestershire for (i) attacking another pupil or teacher, (ii) having drunk alcohol at or before school or having alcohol with them and (iii) carrying an offensive weapon in (A) 1997 and (B) 2007. | | (235826) | 65
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children under the age of (a) five, (b) 10 and (c) 15 years were permanently excluded from state schools in Leicestershire for carrying an offensive weapon in (i) 2007 and (ii) 1997. | | (235827) | 66
| Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what, on the basis of the most recent population projections, is the level of immigration at which the population of the UK would remain below 70 million on unchanged assumptions about birth rates and mortality. | | (236159) | 67
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what further steps he plans to take to ensure that social enterprises compete for Government contracts on the same basis as other bidders. | | (236224) | 68
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many Government contracts have been awarded to social enterprises in each of the last three years, broken down by Department. | | (236225) | 69
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6th November 2008, Official Report, column 736W, on Dorneywood, what the specific dates were of each of the official engagements which involved a stay at Dorneywood by the (a) Leader of the House of Lords and (b) House of Commons Chief Whip. | | (236016) | 70
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6th November 2008, Official Report, column 736W, on Dorneywood, what the purpose was of each of the official engagements. | | (236017) | 71
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many excess winter deaths of people with (a) terminal illnesses and (b) disabilities there were in each of the last five years. | | (235926) | 72
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans her Department has to address the effects on local communities of large numbers of students taking up residence in their area. | | (235974) | 73
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the merits of increasing the (a) proportion and (b) number of social and intermediate market housing units in the annual house building targets in each region in the light of recent changes in the housing market. | | (235975) | 74
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether she has assessed the merits of revising her targets for the creation of new (a) social and (b) intermediate market housing in the light of recent changes in the housing market and house building sectors. | | (235976) | 75
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effect of changes in the (a) market for housing, (b) availability of mortgage finance and (c) projected house completion rates on her Department's (i) targets for annual house building and (ii) estimates of housing used in each Government region. | | (235977) | 76
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what contingency plans she has should the South West fire control room not become operational. | | (235978) | 77
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department originally budgeted for the creation of the South West regional fire control room; what its current anticipated cost is; and what estimate her Department has made of future savings which will be made from the regional fire control room project in the South West. | | (235979) | 78
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the existing county fire brigade control rooms in the south west will have any function when the south west regional fire control room is fully operational. | | (235980) | 79
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what date she expects the south west regional fire control room to become fully operational. | | (235981) | 80
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has made available to fire authorities on the operational safety of firefighters in the last three years; and if she will make a statement. | | (235824) | 81
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what contingency plans are in place in the event of a firefighters strike; and whether her Department is responsible for implementing those plans. | | (236000) | 82
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance she has issued to (a) local authorities and (b) regional development agencies on increasing contracts with social enterprises. | | (236226) | 83
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many domestic fires were caused by (a) cigarettes and (b) candles in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (235793) | 84
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the advertising campaign Put it out, right out, has cost. | | (235794) | 85
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the advertising campaign Push the Button has cost. | | (235795) | 86
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been damaged by fire resulting from (a) accidents and (b) arson in the last 12 months. | | (235796) | 87
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent steps have been taken to reduce the numbers of accident-related fire deaths. | | (235797) | 88
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent steps have been taken to reduce the incidence of arson. | | (235798) | 89
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent steps have been taken to strengthen flood protection measures in Essex. | | (235799) | 90
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department takes to consult representatives of the historic counties when taking decisions on unitary authorities. | | (235800) | 91
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what meetings she has held with the Historic Counties Association in the last 12 months; and what matters were discussed. | | (235801) | 92
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether any consideration has been given to encouraging residents living in inner London to move to new homes to be built as part of the Thames Gateway project. | | (235804) | 93
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many of the new homes to be built as part of the Thames Gateway project she expects to be affordable homes; and what assessment she has made of the effect of the current economic climate on that estimate. | | (235805) | 94
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new homes will be built as part of the Thames Gateway project; and what estimate she has made of the average cost of building such homes. | | (235806) | 95
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many small businesses she expects to benefit from the Thames Gateway project. | | (235807) | 96
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new jobs she expects to be created as part of the Thames Gateway project. | | (235808) | 97
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent steps have been taken to ensure that the Thames Gateway project meets its target of becoming an eco-region. | | (235809) | 98
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many acres of community recreational space are planned as part of the Thames Gateway project. | | (235810) | 99
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on consultants' fees for work on eco-towns in the last 12 months. | | (235811) | 100
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions she has had on the establishment of eco-towns. | | (236042) | 101
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what powers local authorities have to hire bailiffs to collect unpaid (a) council tax, (b) council housing rent and (c) parking fines. | | (235833) | 102
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the average change in rate of return on local authority investments resulting from investment strategies prompted by the collapse of Icelandic banks in 2009-10. | | (235834) | 103
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the length of time it will take for local authorities to recover assets deposited in Icelandic banks. | | (235835) | 104
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the aggregate loss incurred by local authorities as a result of a reduction in interest earned upon unreturned deposits held by Icelandic banks. | | (235836) | 105
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether local authorities may invest in government-guaranteed bank bonds. | | (235837) | 106
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether implementation of a (a) Nottingham workplace parking tax and (b) Greater Manchester congestion charge would count as a material change of circumstances for the purposes of calculating the rateable value of business premises within the charging zone. | | (235838) | 107
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what statistics (a) her Department and (b) its agencies collect on the number of demolitions of non-domestic dwellings taking place. | | (235839) | 108
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1284W, on non-domestic rates: valuation, whether (a) hard copy and (b) electronic maps exist of the boundaries of each sub-location. | | (235849) | 109
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1284W, on non-domestic rates: valuation, whether each sub-location is ranked according to its value. | | (235850) | 110
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3rd November 2008, Official Report, column 116W, on business: tax allowance, what funding has been given to local authorities to assist them in promoting and raising awareness of small business rate relief. | | (235854) | 111
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1264W, on Firebuy Ltd, what the (a) running costs and (b) business-generated income have been of Firebuy Ltd in the year to date. | | (235855) | 112
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1258W, on council tax, if she will place in the Library a copy of the Audit Commission guidance to local authority fraud investigators on how to follow up potential frauds and other anomalies. | | (235860) | 113
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6th November 2008, Official Report, column 628W, on housing: valuation, if she will place in the Library information that identifies the geographical extent of each locality for the valuation office area of Hammersmith and Fulham. | | (235861) | 114
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1279W, on local government finance, which (a) district councils, (b) metropolitan councils, (c) unitary council and (d) London boroughs will receive the lowest possible increase in grant from her Department in 2008-09. | | (235862) | 115
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1291W, whether the proposed Green Belt amendments involve the removal or weakening of Green Belt protection. | | (235863) | 116
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon Member for Oxford East of 4th November 2008, Official Report, column 343W, on local authorities: bank services, if she will place in the Library the advice to local authorities from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance. | | (235865) | 117
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1277W, on local authorities, what her Department's definition is of (a) a rural and (b) an urban local authority for local government formula grant purposes. | | (235866) | 118
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 22nd July 2008, Official Report, column 1400W, on housing: valuation, how many localities have been given a name in addition to a unique reference number. | | (235869) | 119
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 3rd November 2008, Official Report, column 119-120W, and to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 6th October 2008, Official Report, column 303W, on departmental procurement, if she will list all payments made to each of the individual organisations listed in the Table placed in the Library during the period which the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister existed as a government department. | | (235870) | 120
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) purpose and (b) specification of her Department's Government Offices National Indicator Analysis Tool scoping project is. | | (235874) | 121
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the policy basis was on which the NUTS 2 territorial groupings were used for the distribution of the new round of funding from the Local Authority Business Growth Incentive Scheme. | | (235928) | 122
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has provided to local authorities on whether adults who smoke may be eligible to become foster parents. | | (235930) | 123
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many unsold houses have been bought by the Government for affordable housing under its recent £200 million scheme. | | (235931) | 124
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to extend the transitional arrangements for home information packs beyond 31st December 2008. | | (235932) | 125
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of (a) the number of firms that have taken-up small business rate relief and (b) the reduction in business rate revenue attributable to the relief in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (235970) | 126
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate she has made of the take-up rate of small business rate relief. | | (235971) | 127
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 27th October 2008, Official Report, column 718W, on equality and diversity partnerships, what funding the regional assemblies have given to regional equality and diversity partnerships in the last period for which figures are available. | | (236014) | 128
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3rd November 2008, Official Report, column 125W, on housing: regeneration, for what reasons the Government Office was found not to have complied with the Europe Commission's regulations. | | (236015) | 129
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3rd November 2008, Official Report, column 122W, on eco-towns, how much funding has been (a) provided to date and (b) allocated for future financial years to Shelter in relation to work on eco-towns. | | (236018) | 130
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3rd November 2008, Official Report, column 122W, on eco-towns, on what grounds her Department decided to give funding to Shelter; and whether the decision to provide such funding was made by a Minister. | | (236019) | 131
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6th November 2008, Official Report, column 684W, on Valuation Office: Databases, what the budget is in 2008-09 for the database alignment exercise; and whether the budget includes payments to Ordnance Survey. | | (236022) | 132
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam of 6th November 2008, Official Report, column 724W, on Local Authorities: Bank Services, which local authorities had borrowed funds from Icelandic bank accounts under prudential borrowing arrangements. | | (236023) | 133
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1284W, on small business rates: tax allowances, if she will place a copy of the business rates information letter dated 19th September 2008 in the Library. | | (236026) | 134
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1256W, on Business Links: Finance, if she will name each of the projects that are under investigation for potential financial irregularities. | | (236027) | 135
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1256W, on Business Links: Finance, what the timetable is for the investigation of the financial irregularities in the Business Link projects funded under the Interreg programme. | | (236028) | 136
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1284W, on non-domestic rates: valuation, how many sub-locations there are in each billing authority area in England. | | (236033) | 137
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1260W, on departmental contracts, if she will list the names of the 111 tenders that have gone through the invitations to tender system and the projects with which the tenders were associated. | | (236038) | 138
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1260W, on departmental assets, what timetable she has set for her Department's information asset register to be made available on the Inforoute website. | | (236039) | 139
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what (a) suppliers and (b) contractors have provided goods or services in relation to the FireControl programme. | | (236082) | 140
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate the Audit Commission has made under the National Fraud Initiative of the (a) level and (b) number of fraudulent claims of council tax discounts. | | (236085) | 141
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding the Empty Homes Agency received from (a) her Department and (b) its agencies in each of the last three years. | | (236088) | 142
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for how many permanent domestic dwellings construction was started in England in each year since 1979. | | (236089) | 143
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the timetable for elections to each of the new unitary authorities is. | | (236090) | 144
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what procedure small firms will have to follow to claim the proposed exemption from supplementary business rates. | | (236092) | 145
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what targets her Department adopted for take-up rates of (a) shared ownership and (b) shared equity products. | | (236093) | 146
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the Planning Inspectorate is expected to start charging for appeals; and what estimate has been made of the Inspectorate's likely revenue from such charges in their first full year. | | (236095) | 147
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the reasons are for the time taken to publish the Government's response to the Review of Sub-National Economic Development and Regeneration. | | (236096) | 148
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to bring forward legislation to implement the content of the Government's response to the Review of Sub-National Economic Development and Regeneration. | | (236098) | 149
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects to publish a response to the Review of Sub-National Economic Development and Regeneration. | | (236100) | 150
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many gross hectares of Green Belt, excluding additions to Green Belt, have been developed in each year since 1996 for which figures are available, broken down by region. | | (236102) | 151
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department's predecessor made of the amount of unrecovered deposits by local authorities in the former Bank of Credit and Commerce International, expressed as a proportion of all local authority deposits in 1991-92. | | (236129) | 152
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will implement the recommendations made in respect of her Department by the Information Commissioner in its Practice Recommendation, reference FPR0189170. | | (236132) | 153
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether dwellings built on windfall sites may be counted towards house-building targets required from a local authority under a regional spatial strategy. | | (236142) | 154
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether a home information pack is required to be produced for the sale of a houseboat. | | (236143) | 155
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Valuation Office Agency will use the property information held by the Rent Service for its valuation functions once the Rent Service is integrated into the Valuation Office Agency. | | (236144) | 156
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3rd November 2008, Official Report, columns 124-5W, on housing: low incomes, what data her Department and its predecessors have transferred to the Valuation Office Agency from the National Register of Social Housing. | | (236146) | 157
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1284W, on non-domestic rates: valuation, what criteria have been used to identify the boundaries of each sub-location. | | (236147) | 158
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3rd November 2008, Official Report, columns 124-54W, on housing: low incomes, and with reference to the December 2004 letter to local authority directors of housing from the office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Divisional Head of Housing Data and Statistics, how many local authorities provided data to the Valuation Office Agency to assist with the council tax revaluation (a) directly and (b) via her Department's predecessor. | | (236149) | 159
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3rd November 2008, Official Report, columns 124-54W, on housing: low incomes, and with reference to the December 2004 letter to local authority directors of housing from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Divisional Head of Housing Data and Statistics, which property attributes ands fields were requested by the Valuation Office Agency; and which were (a) top priority and (b) mandatory. | | (236152) | 160
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for how many residential dwellings in England and Wales the Valuation Office Agency has access to property data through its interface with rightmove.co.uk. | | (236175) | 161
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the proportion of records relating to private (a) sales and (b) rental transactions in England which are accessible each year to the Valuation Office Agency through its interface with rightmove.co.uk. | | (236177) | 162
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the timetable for the designation of regional development agencies as regional planning bodies is; and whether additional legislation will be required to effect this change. | | (236178) | 163
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have introduced business improvement districts. | | (236182) | 164
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects the Robert Tym Partnership to present its report on council tax and empty properties to her Department. | | (236190) | 165
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussion his Department has had with the BBC Trust on its public value inquiry test of proposals by the BBC to establish local news websites and a local news video network; and if he will make a statement. | | (235879) | 166
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) competitiveness and (b) diversity of the local and regional media industry; and if he will make a statement. | | (235880) | 167
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the future expansion of the local and regional media industry; and if he will make a statement. | | (235881) | 168
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the compatibility with the BBC Charter of BBC proposals to establish local news websites and a local news video network; and if he will make a statement. | | (235933) | 169
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to help develop local and regional media industries; and if he will make a statement. | | (235934) | 170
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the success of the local and regional media industries; and if he will make a statement. | | (235935) | 171
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been spent on consultancy fees in respect of (a) Old Sarum Castle and (b) Wardour Castle by (i) his Department and (ii) English Heritage in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (235966) | 172
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) income has been received and (b) expenditure has been incurred by English Heritage in respect of (i) Old Sarum Castle and (ii) Wardour Castle since 1996. | | (235967) | 173
| Mr Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to (a) regulate the debt of professional football clubs and (b) regulate the ownership of professional football clubs, with particular reference to foreign ownership. | | (235992) | 174
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 817W, on the Government Art Collection, what the eight missing works of art are; when each was recorded as missing; what the monetary value of each is estimated to be; and how much has been spent to date on their recovery. | | (235993) | 175
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 817W, on the Government Art Collection, for what reason his Department's website lists only two works of art as missing; and when the relevant page of the website was last updated. | | (235994) | 176
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many representations his Department has received from local authorities on the financial effects of proposals for free swimming for over-60s. | | (236180) | 177
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what powers the Television Licensing Authority has to instruct bailiffs to collect unpaid television licence fees. | | (236181) | 178
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department paid to consultants and external assistants in the last period for which figures are available. | | (236006) | 179
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many former members of the (a) Army, (b) Royal Air Force and (c) Royal Navy now work in civilian roles in his Department's (i) Main Building Whitehall and (ii) other locations. | | (236007) | 180
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many energy saving lightbulbs his Department has used in each year since 1997. | | (236008) | 181
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on public relations activities in each year since 1997. | | (236009) | 182
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the topic headings are for course work on (a) the law of armed conflict and (b) the requirements of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights as taught during Phase (i) 1 and (ii) 2 training for service personnel; what course time is allocated to this aspect of training; how trainee achievement is measured; and what is the minimum standard required in order for an individual to complete that phase of treatment. | | (236154) | 183
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions the Royal Military Police have activated a Home Office Large Major Enquiry System Major Incident Room since Her Majesty's Inspectorate's recommendation of April 2006. | | (236155) | 184
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the main features of the Royal Military Police major crime case review policy published in the Provost Manual in October 2006 are; and if he will place a copy of the policy in the Library. | | (236156) | 185
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many fatal incidents were investigated by the Royal Military Police Special Investigation Branch in each overseas theatre of operations since Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary's inspection of August 2006; and what the outcome of each investigation was. | | (236157) | 186
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will tabulate how many episodes of (a) suicide, (b) attempted suicide and (c) self-harm have been recorded and subject to significant event analysis in primary care since the circulation of Policy Letter 62/03 by the Director General of Army Medical Services, broken down by episodes recorded in (i) the UK, (ii) Iraq, (iii) Afghanistan and (iv) other overseas. | | (236162) | 187
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps are taken in cases of death where a significant event analysis in primary care has been completed according to instructions outlined in Director General of Army Medical Services Policy Letter 62/03 to make that analysis available to (a) the commanding officer of the deceased, (b) the service inquiry and (c) HM Coroner. | | (236163) | 188
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria govern the selection of Adjutant General Administrative Instruction documents to be made available on the Ministry of Defence website. | | (236164) | 189
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of AGAI 110 on suicide vulnerability risk management. | | (236165) | 190
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what items are listed in the psychological checklist drawn up by the Army Suicide Prevention Group following the recommendation of the Walton report; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the list. | | (236168) | 191
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date the decision was made that the Directorate of Army Personnel Strategy Science should attend the scene of all sudden deaths on the military estate; how many incident sites the Directorate has attended in each year since that decision; and in what form and to what bodiee the Directorate reports its findings. | | (236169) | 192
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many revisions have been made to the Royal Military Police document Guidelines for Commanding Officers following an Incident of Self Harm since 2003; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent version of these guidelines. | | (236170) | 193
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many case histories the Army Suicide Prevention Group has considered in each year since its inception; and what reports the Group has produced. | | (236171) | 194
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what principal recommendations were made as a result of the qualitative research conducted by the Directorate of Army Personnel Strategy in 1999 at the request of the Army Suicide Prevention Group to develop organisational responses to suicides in the Army; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report. | | (236172) | 195
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date the Army Suicide Prevention Group examined the papers relating to the death of Lance Corporal Derek McGregor in Catterick barracks in 2003; and what recommendations the Group made following this examination. | | (236173) | 196
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps have been taken at the Duchess of Kent Psychiatric Hospital to ensure that medical staff are trained in the procedures to be employed following an assessment that military personnel about to be discharged back to barracks may be at risk of self-harm. | | (236185) | 197
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, at what rank the military chain of command receives information from the Army Medical Service chain of command communicating confidential medical information on service personnel considered at risk of self-harm. | | (236186) | 198
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what teaching materials are available in each service on awareness and prevention of suicide and self-harm; and what steps he plans to take to reduce the stigma attached to help-seeking for trauma and other forms of psychological distress. | | (236187) | 199
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) pilots and (b) ground crew of each trade are deployed in support of Harrier aircraft in Afghanistan. | | (235982) | 200
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) air crew and (b) ground crew personnel will be deployed in support of the Tornado aircraft due to replace Harriers in Afghanistan. | | (235983) | 201
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much has been spent on urgent operational requirements for the Harrier force in Afghanistan. | | (236001) | 202
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Harriet force has been deployed continuously on operations since the start of Operation Telic. | | (236002) | 203
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what effect the participation of Harriers on Operation Herrick has had on their out-of-service date. | | (236003) | 204
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many hours per week on average Harriers have flown (a) on Operation Herrick and (b) on peace time training in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (236004) | 205
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Tornado aircraft would be required to undertake the close air support being provided by Harriers in Afghanistan. | | (236005) | 206
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how UK armed forces plan to contribute to NATO's anti-narcotics strategy in Helmand province. | | (236112) | 207
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many surveillance cameras have been deployed by HM armed forces in Iraq since the beginning of 2008. | | (236114) | 208
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on proposals for a troop surge in Afghanistan. | | (235813) | 209
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to promote the (a) development and (b) use of washing powder that utilises cold water as an energy-saving measure. | | (235818) | 210
| Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much has been paid to Eaga plc for delivery of Warm Front grants to households in each of the last five years. | | (235968) | 211
| Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households have received a boiler replacement grant through the Warm Front scheme in (a) Bolton and (b) England. | | (235969) | 212
| Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many Warm Front grant contracts have been awarded to installers (a) owned by and (b) connected to Eaga plc. | | (235995) | 213
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many homes in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency have received home insulation through the Warm Front scheme. | | (235998) | 214
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many people have received a Warm Front Scheme grant in (a) Houghton and Washington East constituency, (b) Sunderland, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since its inception. | | (235903) | 215
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on research into reducing methane emissions from cattle in each of the last five years. | | (236153) | 216
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the National Farmers Retail and Markets Association. | | (236220) | 217
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with UK members of the European Parliament on Commission proposals for new regulations on pesticides. | | (236221) | 218
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the decision to set up the Bovine TB Eradication Group was taken; and when the groups title was agreed. | | (236222) | 219
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his policy is on the use of rodenators to control badgers. | | (236223) | 220
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much waste was recycled by each local authority in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in each of the last five years. | | (235951) | 221
| Mr Elliot Morley (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of proposals under the CAP Health Check to remove cross-compliance rules which allow for a reduction in payments for claimants who permit their land to be used for illegal poisoning of birds of prey. | | (235937) | 222
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice he has given to local authorities on (a) the collection of waste material for recycling and (b) the storage of such material; and if he will make a statement. | | (235821) | 223
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many expressions of interest have so far been received from local authorities wishing to participate in pilots for waste incentive schemes. | | (235840) | 224
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what annual volume and proportion of household recycling was deposited in landfill at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (235841) | 225
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 4th November 2008, Official Report, column 401W, on waste disposal: council tax, whether the charges levied through waste incentive pilot schemes will be classified as a form of taxation for the purposes of the national statistics. | | (235851) | 226
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 4th November 2008, Official Report, column 401W, on waste disposal: council tax, whether domestic properties with a (a) Class M and (b) Class N council tax exemption will be liable to pay the new charges for the collection of household waste being trialled in the waste incentive pilot areas. | | (235852) | 227
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 4th November 2008, Official Report, column 401W, on waste disposal: council tax, whether domestic properties with a Class V council tax exemption will be liable to pay the new charges for the collection of household waste being trialled in the waste incentive pilot areas. | | (235853) | 228
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department has issued on the co-mingling of commercial and domestic waste at the point of collection. | | (235929) | 229
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6th November 2008, Official Report, columns 654-6W, on domestic waste, what advice has been given to the local authorities by (a) his Department and (b) the Wate and Resources Action Programme on how to meet the targets to reduce residual household waste. | | (236035) | 230
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6th November 2008, Official Report, columns 654-6W, on domestic waste, what financial incentives will be available to or financial penalties imposed on local authorities if they meet or fail to meet the targets for reducing residual household waste. | | (236036) | 231
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 4th November 2008, Official Report, column 401W, on the Waste and Resources Action Programme, whether the awareness programme included discussions of issues relating to (a) alternative weekly collection, (b) household waste collection and (c) charging for the collection of household waste. | | (236040) | 232
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 27th October 2008, Official Report, column 610W, on departmental buildings, whether his Department is paying empty property business rates in relation to 1A Page Street. | | (236041) | 233
| Mr Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make plans to visit Australia to discuss UK-Australia relations. | | (235984) | 234
| Mr Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has for discussions with the Iranian government on its nuclear programme. | | (235985) | 235
| Mr Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Israeli government on its nuclear weapons. | | (235986) | 236
| Mr Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department has given to peace discussions between the Syrian and Israeli governments. | | (235987) | 237
| Mr Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the UK's role in the American missile defence programme is; and if he will make a statement. | | (235988) | 238
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many members of the Colombian armed forces received training from the British Army in each year since 2000. | | (235990) | 239
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 777W, on Colombia: armed forces, what training his Department has provided to individual soldiers attached to the 15th Mobile Brigade. | | (235991) | 240
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has received an offer from the government of Norway to mediate between the United Kingdom and Iceland in discussions regarding the Icelandic banking crisis. | | (236103) | 241
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to hold discussions with the governments of China and India on ways to curb carbon emissions and use more carbon friendly energy resources; and what plans he has to involve the incoming US administration in such discussions. | | (235812) | 242
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to hold discussions with the US President-Elect on (a) Iraq, (b) the current global economic turbulence and (c) the Iranian nuclear programme. | | (235814) | 243
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the Ministers who have visited the United States in the last 12 months on official business. | | (235815) | 244
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the incoming US administration on the situation of the Chagos Islanders from the British Indian Ocean Territory with a view to seeking a resolution to the situation to the satisfaction of the Chagosian people. | | (235816) | 245
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many tourists from the UK visited Montserrat in the last year for which figures are available. | | (236107) | 246
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the government of Montserrat on encouraging alternative industries to tourism in Montserrat. | | (236108) | 247
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to encourage tourists to visit Montserrat. | | (236109) | 248
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether there are any plans to develop the transport infrastructure of Montserrat. | | (236110) | 249
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what meetings he has had with representatives of the Montserrat government in the last six months. | | (236115) | 250
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 877W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, if he will place in the Library a copy of the detailed periodic assessment due to be completed by the end of 2008 when it has been completed. | | (236133) | 251
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 878W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, when the request to provide assistance to the review of American defence and security policy regarding engagement in the greater Middle East and central Asian area was received; and which part of the United States administration made the request. | | (236134) | 252
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 878W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, what the terms of reference for the review of American defence and security policy in the greater Middle East and central Asian area are; when it will be concluded; and whether a formal report will be published at the end of the process. | | (236135) | 253
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 878W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, if he will list the Government's objectives for the review of American defence and security policy in the greater Middle East and central Asian area; and if he will publish the Government's contribution. | | (236136) | 254
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 878W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, what the (a) names and (b) affiliations are of the 17 members of the UK team to contribute to the review of American defence and security policy in the greater Middle East and central Asian area. | | (236137) | 255
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 878W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, when he expects the UK team to begin its work on the American review of defence and security policy in the greater Middle East and central Asian area. | | (236138) | 256
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 878W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, what the projected cost of the UK's contribution to the American review of defence and security policy in the greater Middle East and central Asian area is. | | (236139) | 257
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 877W on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent periodic assessment. | | (236150) | 258
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 877W on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, when the formal review mechanism was introduced; and how many detailed periodic assessments have been completed under it. | | (236151) | 259
| Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list those statistics relating to (a) hospitals, (b) maternity units and (c) other health services in England about which information has been sought by means of Parliamentary Questions in the current session to which his Department has answered that such information is not collected centrally. | | (235898) | 260
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that primary care trusts provide appropriate support for children diagnosed with diabetes; and if he will make a statement. | | (235892) | 261
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has allocated for expenditure on support for children diagnosed with diabetes in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (235893) | 262
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were prescribed methadone in (a) the Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust area and (b) Stroud constituency in each of the last 10 years. | | (235961) | 263
| Stephen Hesford (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has undertaken to establish the long-term recovery levels of patients receiving private mental health care for the purposes of benchmarking. | | (235817) | 264
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many copies of his Department's, guidance and competencies for the provision of services using GPs with Special Interests: dermatology and skin surgery, have been printed; what the budget for distribution of the documents is; what criteria were used for the dissemination of the documents to (a) commissioners of services, (b) general practitioners and (c) other clinicians and health professionals; and if he will make a statement. | | (235882) | 265
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, to what extent the Food Standards Agency has implemented the provisions relating to (a) bottled and (b) tap water of the EU Drinking Water Directive to date; and if he will make a statement. | | (235788) | 266
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the health benefits of a significant reduction in the sugar content of soft drinks. | | (235819) | 267
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings officials of (a) his Department and (b) the Food Standards Agency have had with representatives of food and soft drink manufacturers to discuss and encourage the reduction of added sugar levels in food products in the last 12 months; what good practice case studies his Department has identified as suitable for promotion to manufacturers; and what steps he plans to take further to encourage manufacturers to make progress in reducing the calorific content of food products. | | (235820) | 268
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Food Standards Agency is taking to encourage major retailers to reduce the sugar content of their own brand food and beverage products. | | (235822) | 269
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information he holds on the number of children who have been estimated to be obese or seriously overweight in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and how many teenagers have been diagnosed with diabetes in each year. | | (235823) | 270
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what targets the Food Standards Agency has set for the substitution of extrinsic sugars by low calorie sweeteners in (a) food and (b) beverages; what progress has been made towards those targets; what assessment he has made of the public health benefits which will arise as a result of future progress towards those targets; and if he will make a statement. | | (235832) | 271
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3rd November 2008, Official Report, column 79W, on departmental non-departmental public bodies, if he will (a) calculate and (b) publish the cost to the public purse of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel. | | (235888) | 272
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has considered changing its 084 telephone numbers to 03 numbers in the National Health Service; and if he will make a statement. | | (236189) | 273
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason the Hearing Aid Council is to cease operation on 31st March 2010 rather than 31st March 2009; and what estimate he has made of the cost of a further year of operation. | | (235792) | 274
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department and its agencies has provided to local authorities on whether adults who smoke may be eligible to become foster parents. | | (235927) | 275
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered blind people there are, broken down by (a) region and (b) constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (235925) | 276
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of (a) the average length of time taken by the police in each London borough to provide information in support of applications for Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) clearance and (b) the average length of time for the completion of CRB clearance once police have been asked to provide this information in the last 12 months, broken down by London borough. | | (235873) | 277
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests and (b) convictions there were for criminal activity connected to (i) eco-terrorism and (ii) environmental activism in each year since 2001. | | (235997) | 278
| Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget of the Probation Service is in 2008-09; and what proportion of that budget is for the care and after care of young people in young offender institutions. | | (235972) | 279
| Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the re-offending rate (a) within six months and (b) within 12 months for young men on release from young offender institutions was in each of the last four years. | | (235973) | 280
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Newark of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 795W, on deportation, how many UK resident foreign nationals have been deported from the UK since 24th August 2005 on grounds of unacceptable behaviour. | | (235858) | 281
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many items of correspondence her Department has received on identity cards and the national identity database in the last two years; and how many expressed (a) support for and (b) opposition to the Government's policy. | | (235789) | 282
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many formal written requests her Department has received from persons expressing desire to apply early for an identity card. | | (235790) | 283
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase the quota of Montserratian people allowed to travel to the UK for health care in each year. | | (236111) | 284
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 5th November 2008, Official Report, column 616W, on telecommunications: database, whether one of the proposed options to be included in the consultation paper will be giving local authorities access to the database of communications. | | (235864) | 285
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1251W, on electronics surveillance: databases, whether local authorities will have access to mobile telephone geodata. | | (236140) | 286
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1251W, on electronics surveillance: databases, whether local authorities will have access to communications data retained by internet service providers. | | (236141) | 287
| Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fixed penalty notices were issued for offences committed on pedal cycles in each of the last three years, broken down by police force area. | | (236188) | 288
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much the Higher Education Funding Council for England spent (a) in England and (b) in the North West in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08 on initiatives to widen participation in higher education. | | (235916) | 289
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment has been made by his Department of the effectiveness of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's work with (a) regional higher education associations in the North West and (b) the North West Universities Association. | | (235917) | 290
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which institutions form part of the North West's lifelong learning network. | | (235918) | 291
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what discussions (a) he and (b) his officials have had with educational institutions in the North West on improving opportunities for vocational learners to enter higher education institutions. | | (235919) | 292
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Higher Education Funding Council for England on the effectiveness of prioritisation of skills funding at higher level through its Strategic Development Fund. | | (235920) | 293
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding his Department provided to the Chain Reaction conference on 17th to 18th November 2008. | | (236118) | 294
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will provide financial assistance to Montserrat to establish a network of abattoirs for the humane slaughter of animals. | | (236113) | 295
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's (a) chart of accounts and (b) resource account codes and usage descriptions for the financial years (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08. | | (235959) | 296
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent research his Department has carried out on the effect of fixed fees on the number of people who represent themselves in court proceedings. | | (235899) | 297
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what research his Department has carried out on the cost to the Court Service of litigants in person. | | (235900) | 298
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department will publish revised draft rules to replace the Secure Training Centre Rules (Amendment) Rules 2007. | | (235936) | 299
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) male and (b) female prisoners were treated for drug addiction in each year since 1997. | | (235952) | 300
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) male and (b) female prisoners entered prison needing treatment for drug addiction in each year since 1997. | | (235953) | 301
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inmates of young offender institutions were treated for drug addiction in each year since 1997. | | (235954) | 302
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) suicides, (b) deaths from natural causes and (c) suspicious deaths there were in prisons in each year since 1997. | | (235955) | 303
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were (a) suspended and (b) dismissed in each year since 1997. | | (235956) | 304
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were dismissed in connection with drug-related offences in each year since 1997. | | (235957) | 305
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) male and (b) female prisoners tested positive for drugs in each year since 1997. | | (235958) | 306
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many small claims for matters relating to the trade of counterfeit goods over the internet were reported in 2007. | | (235830) | 307
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Welsh Assembly Government on the implementation of the proposals on service users in the justice system made by Professor Michael Williams in his review on mental health services in Wales. | | (235989) | 308
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4th November 2008, Official Report, columns 315-7W, on marriage, how many orders under section 55 of the Family Law Act 1986 in relation to the validity of marriages were (a) granted and (b) denied in each of the last five years. | | (235877) | 309
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4th November 2008, Official Report, columns 315-7W, on marriage, how many orders for judicial separation under section 55 of the Family Law Act 1986 were (a) granted and (b) denied in each of the last five years. | | (235878) | 310
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the likely effect on voters turnout of the decision to hold the forthcoming English local elections and elections to the European Parliament on the same date. | | (235802) | 311
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the likely effect on public expenditure of the decision to hold the forthcoming English local elections and elections to the European Parliament on the same date; and what plans have been made regarding the use of any savings accruing from that decision. | | (235803) | 312
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what role the Valuation Office Agency is playing in the Land Registry's development of e-conveyancing. | | (236079) | 313
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 5th November 2008, Official Report, column 626W, on the Land Registry, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the level of take-up of commonhold in residential dwellings since 2002. | | (236148) | 314
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the latest timetable for the implementation of electronic conveyancing is; and how much his Department has allocated to support the scheme over each of the next three years. | | (236174) | 315
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many charging orders have been issued in each court area in each of the last five years. | | (236176) | 316
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Leader of the House, what estimate she has made of the annual cost of the proposed (a) regional select committees and (b) regional grand committees, including remuneration for commmittee chairs. | | (236179) | 317
| Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the total prison population in Northern Ireland is. | | (235791) | 318
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, which contractors have won landscaping contracts for the London 2012 Olympics; in which (a) country and (b) county each is based; and what proportion of landscaping work on the site has been awarded to each. | | (235921) | 319
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what (a) environmental and (b) other criteria were considered in deciding on the bids for landscaping contracts for the London 2012 Olympics. | | (235922) | 320
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when he plans to make an announcement on the details of an alternative to detention for children at Dungavel. | | (235996) | 321
| Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) men and (b) women aged between 17 and 21 were killed in road traffic accidents in (i) Gateshead and (ii) Sunderland in each of the last three years. | | (235965) | 322
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic collisions resulting in death or serious injury and involving one or more drivers with a recorded blood alcohol level of between 50 and 80 mg per 100 ml of blood were recorded in each of the last 10 years, broken down by police authority. | | (235828) | 323
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority has considered changing its 084 telephone numbers for the public to 03 numbers; and if he will make a statement. | | (236166) | 324
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which Government office regions have established regional transport boards. | | (236097) | 325
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to consult on the compliance with disability discrimination legislation of hackney carriages outside London. | | (236099) | 326
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints about the Child Support Agency were received by the Independent Case Examiner in each of the last three years; and how many cases accepted by the Examiner have taken (a) more than six months, (b) more than nine months and (c) 12 months or more to investigate a conclusion. | | (235889) | 327
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff were employed by the Independent Case Examiner in each of the last three years. | | (235890) | 328
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many residents of Romsey constituency (a) have a Post Office card account and (b) had a Post Office card account in each of the last five years. | | (235950) | 329
| Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many young people in (a) Gateshead and (b) Sunderland are registered as physically disabled. | | (235963) | 330
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with disabilities referred to the Shaw Trust by his Department's agencies have successfully entered (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in each of the last three years, expressed as a percentage of all referrals. | | (236215) | 331
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with disabilities referred to the Shaw Trust by his Department's agencies have successfully secured (a) full-time and (b) part-time jobs in the last six months. | | (236216) | 332
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the performance of (a) all designated New Deal providers and (b) the Shaw Trust against the objectives set for delivery of the New Deal. | | (236217) | 333
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints his Department and its agencies have received in respect of (a) all New Deal providers and (b) the Shaw Trust in each of the last three years. | | (236218) | 334
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has considered changing its 084 telephone advice lines to 03 numbers; and if he will make a statement. | | (236167) | 335
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what statistical releases and reports (a) his Department and (b) its agencies intend to publish in the next calendar year. | | (235883) | 336
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of jobseeker's allowance applications received by Jobcentre Plus were from people who had claimed jobseeker's allowance within the previous (a) three, (b) six and (c) 12 months of the claim being made in each quarter of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (235886) | 337
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many registered blind people receive the (a) low and (b) middle rate mobility component of the disability living allowance (i) in each (A) region and (B) constituency and (ii) nationwide. | | (235887) | 338
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what modelling his Department has carried out on different economic and labour market conditions in assessing the potential effect on (a) lone parents and (b) people claiming employment support allowance of changes in eligibility for income support; and if he will make a statement. | | (235923) | 339
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what modelling his Department has carried out on different economic and labour market conditions in assessing the (a) funding and (b) central employment estimates for the flexible new deal contracts; and if he will make a statement. | | (235924) | 340
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the likely cost of extending the higher rate mobility component of disability living allowance to include people registered blind; and if he will make a statement. | | (236010) | 341
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the likely cost of extending the winter fuel allowance to terminally ill people who would not otherwise qualify; and if he will make a statement. | | (236011) | 342
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are receiving disability living allowance under the special rules relating to a terminal illness (a) in total and (b) broken down by (i) region and (ii) constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (236012) | 343
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of establishing the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority and other costs associated with the proposed personal accounts scheme (a) at the date on which the scheme was proposed and (b) in each month to date; and if he will make a statement. | | (236013) | 344
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of his Department's Employee Assistance Programme has been in each year since its inception; and how much has been spent on (a) central administration of the programme, (b) counsellors delivering the programme and (c) services supplied by accredited counsellors not employed directly by his Department. | | (236116) | 345
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many face to face meetings his Department's Employee Assistance Programme has had in each year since its inception; with how many departmental staff; and if he will make a statement. | | (236117) | 346
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many requests for services provided by his Department's Employee Assistance Programme were received (a) in total, (b) from jobcentre plus staff and (c) from each non-departmental public body within his Department's area of responsibility in each year since its inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (236119) | 347
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the reasons for staff requests for services offered by his Department's Employee Assistance Programme are recorded. | | (236120) |
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