THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER
Questions for Oral Answer Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills *1
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): What assessment he has made of the contribution of further education colleges to the communities in which they are based; and if he will make a statement. | | (237514) | *2
| Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): When he proposes to publish his White Paper on Higher Education. | | (237515) | *3
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): When he next expects to meet representatives of the construction industry to discuss the industry's skills base. | | (237516) | *4
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): What steps he is taking to increase the number of apprenticeships available for young people; and if he will make a statement. | | (237517) | *5
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): What assessment he has made of the likely effect on creators of the proposed changes to the UK intellectual property framework. | | (237518) | *6
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): What steps he is taking to ensure that further education college courses meet the needs of employers. | | (237519) | *7
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): What estimate he has made of the number of new students with a reduced entitlement to maintenance grants in 2009-10. | | (237520) | *8
| Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): What steps he is taking to raise the aspirations of young people from all backgrounds to go to university. | | (237521) | *9
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): What steps his Department proposes to take in order to increase public interest in science. | | (237522) | *10
| Anne Snelgrove (South Swindon): What steps his Department is taking to ensure the provision of apprenticeships for small and medium-sized enterprises in the current economic situation. | | (237523) | *11
| Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire): What recent representations he has received on numbers of applications by state school pupils for university places. | | (237524) | *12
| Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): How many new students in (a) Staffordshire, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England will have a reduced entitlement to maintenance grants in 2009-10; and if he will make a statement. | | (237525) | *13
| Ann Coffey (Stockport): What steps his Department takes to support universities in the work they undertake to encourage young people to apply to them. | | (237526) | *14
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): When he will begin the tuition fees' review. | | (237527) | *15
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): What estimate he has made of the number of apprentices employed in the public sector in (a) the Isle of Wight and (b) England. | | (237528) | *16
| Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West): What plans he has to increase the number of apprenticeships available to young people. | | (237529) | *17
| Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): What steps he has taken to ensure that apprentices do not lose their apprenticeships in the current economic climate. | | (237530) | *18
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): What assessment he has made of the contribution made by further education colleges to the communities in which they are based. | | (237531) | *19
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): How much his Department is spending on astronomy and space research in 2008-09. | | (237532) | *20
| Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): What recent progress there has been in widening participation in higher education. | | (237533) | *21
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): What recent steps the Government has taken to increase the numbers of students participating in further and higher education. | | (237534) | *22
| Mr Philip Dunne (Ludlow): How many higher education students are studying in further education colleges. | | (237535) | *23
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): What assessment he has made of progress in the work of the Energy Technologies Institute. | | (237536) | *24
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): What steps he is taking to increase employees' skills levels in science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects. | | (237537) | *25
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): What recent guidance he has issued to local authorities on the provision of post-16 education. | | (237538) | At 11.15 a.m. Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question. *1
| Martin Linton (Battersea): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. | | (237539) | *2
| Ms Celia Barlow (Hove): | | (237540) | *3
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): | | (237541) | *4
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): | | (237542) | *5
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): | | (237543) | *6
| Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): | | (237544) | *9
| Mr Andy Slaughter (Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush): | | (237547) |
Questions for Written Answer
Notices given on Thursday 6 November 1
N | John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, pursuant to the Government's response to the Second Report Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee on the Work and Operation of the Copyright Tribunal HC 637, what plans his Department has to reform the Copyright Tribunal; what steps he has taken in this respect; what timescale he has established for reform; and what plans he has to consult on granting collecting societies the right to make reference to the Tribunal. | | (234893) | 2
N | John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment he has made of the European Commission's 2005 Recommendation on collective cross-border management of copyright; and what plans his Department has to implement the recommendation. | | (234894) |
Notices given on Monday 10 November 1
N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many disability living allowance and incapacity for work cases his Department lost on appeal in the latest period for which figures are available, broken down by category of reason. | | (234971) | 2
N | Sir Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of phenylketonuria have been diagnosed in the last 12 months; and how many of these have led to a grant of disability living allowance. | | (235574) |
Notices given on Tuesday 11 November 1
N | Mr Adam Ingram (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 5th November 2008, Official Report, column 570W, on carbon emissions: Scotland, which individual projects based in Scotland have been funded under the UK Environmental Transformation Fund; how many Scotland-based projects are currently being considered for funding; and how much has been allocated to Scotland-based projects to date. | | (236128) |
Notices given on Wednesday 12 November 1
N | Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to promote the recycling of waste gypsum. | | (236373) | 2
N | Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential risk to (a) human health and (b) the environment from hydrogen sulphide gases created when gypsum is mixed with biodegradable wastes in landfills. | | (236590) | 3
N | Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he will publish new guidance on the acceptance of waste gypsum to landfill; and when he expects the new guidance to come into force. | | (236591) | 4
N | Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how new guidance on the acceptance of waste gypsum to landfill will be disseminated to private sector operators within the waste sector; and by what means he will ensure that the new guidance will be enforced. | | (236592) |
Notices given on Thursday 13 November 1
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent steps the Government has taken to reduce levels of (a) street and (b) youth homelessness. | | (237206) | 2
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent steps the Government has taken to assist the third sector in providing services to people who are homeless. | | (237207) | 3
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent steps the Government has taken to promote services available to people who are homeless. | | (237208) | 4
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to reduce levels of street homelessness in the West Midlands. | | (237209) | 5
N | Ann Coffey (Stockport): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of those issued with a fixed penalty notice for retail theft in the last three years have subsequently reoffended. | | (236851) | 6
N | Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what additional functionality the new Post Office Card Account will offer; and if he will make a statement. | | (236850) |
Notices given on Friday 14 November 1
N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place a copy of each of the public tender documents for the Post Office Card Account in the Library. | | (237407) |
Notices given on Monday 17 November 1
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what external speakers his Department and its agencies have paid since 1st January 2005; how much each was paid; and on what dates they spoke. | | (237599) | 2
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what external speakers his Department and its agencies have paid since 1st January 2005; how much each was paid; and on what date each spoke. | | (237606) | 3
N | Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells of 30th April 2008, column 476W, on the Financial Services Authority: College Public Policy, if he will place in the Library a copy of the reply from the Chairman. | | (237722) | 4
N | Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells of 30th April 2008, column 476W, on the Financial Services Compensation Scheme: Lansons Public Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the reply from the Chairman. | | (237723) | 5
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1094-5W, on bank services, if he will put in place arrangements to support charities not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. | | (237716) | 6
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 12th November 2008, Official Report, column 759, on public relations, how much was spent on Government advertising, marketing and public relations in each year since 1997, according to records held by the Central Office of Information. | | (237598) | 7
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many full-time equivalent members of staff were employed by the Central Office of Information (COI) in each year since 1997; what the staffing costs of the COI were over that period; and what budget the COI has been set for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (237607) | 8
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) UK nationals, (b) UK born people, (c) foreign nationals, (d) non-UK EU nationals, (e) EU A8 nationals and (f) non-EU nationals of working age were in employment in the UK in (i) July to September 2006 and (ii) July to September 2008; and what the employment rate was in each group. | | (237717) | 9
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many deaths there were (a) in total and (b) per 100 of population in (i) each of the principal seaside towns in England and (ii) England in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (237668) | 10
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many house repossessions have been enforced by lenders without a court order in each month of the last three years, broken down by (a) constituency and (b) region. | | (237847) | 11
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will list in descending order the (a) current and (b) previous rankings of all lower super output areas (LSOA) in the principal seaside towns in the top 15 per cent. most deprived LSOA areas, giving the (i) local authority, (ii) seaside town, (iii) LSOA code and (iv) LSOA ward in each case. | | (237667) | 12
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many houses of multiple occupation there are in each of the principal seaside towns of England; and what percentage this represents of total housing stock in each case. | | (237669) | 13
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) permanent and (b) holiday caravans there are in the catchment area of each of the principal seaside towns of England. | | (237670) | 14
N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many RAF (a) C-17 Globemaster, (b) C-130K Hercules, (c) C-130J Hercules, (d) Tristar, (e) VC-10 aircraft and (f) other RAF aircraft listed by type have flown to (i) Democratic Republic of Congo, (ii) Rwanda and (iii) Burundi in each of the last three months. | | (237843) | 15
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what procedures Royal Navy personnel are instructed to follow in circumstances where they detain people who then claim asylum; and how many people have claimed asylum after being taken into Royal Navy custody since 2001. | | (237600) | 16
N | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made towards apprehending those allegedly responsible for the killing of six members of the Royal Military Police in a police station at Majar al-Kabir, near Basra, Iraq, in June 2003; and if he will make a statement. | | (237612) | 17
N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the proposed new Parent Body Organisation for Sellafield led by URS Washington Group is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. | | (237771) | 18
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what account the Severn tidal power feasibility study has taken of the Government's carbon dioxide emission reduction targets. | | (237597) | 19
N | Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 13th November 2008, Official Report, column 1333W, on meat and dairy consumption, what the timescale is for the work being undertaken to establish the extent to which all points in the meat production chain contribute to greenhouse gas emissions; what steps he intends to take once that work is completed; and what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the UN's estimate that 18 per cent. of global greenhouse gas emissions are related to animal production. | | (237638) | 20
N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the (a) initial and (b) final value has been of a renewables obligation certificate, including late payments, in each year of operation of the Renewables Obligation; and if he will make a statement. | | (237672) | 22
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to ensure that the destination of individual greyhounds no longer used by the racing industry is (a) reported to the relevant local authority and (b) published. | | (237778) | 23
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had on building on flood plains. | | (237663) | 24
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions with local authorities have taken place on the Pitt review on flooding. | | (237664) | 25
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken in response to the Pitt review on flooding. | | (237665) | 26
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department intends to publish its detailed response to the Pitt review on flooding. | | (237666) | 27
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what short-term objectives he has set for progress that can be achieved to improve the position in Tibet. | | (237783) | 28
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter addressed to US President-Elect Barack Obama agreed by EU Foreign Ministers at their meeting on 10th November 2008. | | (237601) | 29
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on proposals to change the Algerian constitution to allow presidents to serve for a third term. | | (237856) | 30
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the UN Secretary General's recent six-point proposal for Serb majority areas of Kosovo; and if he will make a statement. | | (237677) | 31
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescription items have been dispensed (a) by dispensing doctors in Winchester and the Meon Valley and (b) in the community by community pharmacists, appliance contractors and dispensing doctors in Winchester and the Meon Valley in each of the last three years. | | (237671) | 32
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with regulators on the safety of melantan. | | (237673) | 33
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the sale of untested and illegal pharmaceutical drugs via the internet; and if he will make a statement. | | (237674) | 34
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what correspondence his Department has received in support of an increase in penalties for individuals selling untested pharmaceuticals on the internet; and if he will make a statement. | | (237675) | 35
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 788W, on British nationality: assessments, if she will give a breakdown by nationality of the pass rate for the Life in the UK test in each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available. | | (237784) | 36
N | Mike Gapes (Ilford South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average response time to a call to the MP hotline dealing with visa cases was in the last 12 months. | | (237630) | 37
N | Mike Gapes (Ilford South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of calls to the MP hotline dealing with visa cases (a) were answered by a person and (b) went to a voice message answering machine in the last 12 months. | | (237631) | 38
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint Service database will be used to store biometrics collected from (a) foreign nationals receiving identity cards and (b) British citizens receiving identity cards. | | (237724) | 39
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether individuals applying for a critical worker identity card in 2009 will have their data retained on the National Identity Register. | | (237725) | 40
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether foreign nationals who are issued with biometric immigration documents before the National Identity Register has been established will have their details entered on the Register when it has been set up. | | (237726) | 41
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which of the data fields listed in Schedule 1 of the Identity Cards Act 2006 individuals applying for a critical worker identity card in 2009 will be required to supply. | | (237727) | 42
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of installing biometric passport readers at each of the main airports and ports in the UK; and if she will make a statement. | | (237608) | 43
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the unit cost of a (a) biometric passport reader and (b) identity card reader is expected to be. | | (237609) | 44
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the effect on expenditure as classified in the (a) common passport and identity card and (b) passport specific section of the most recent Identity Cards Scheme Cost Report in each year between 2008-09 and 2017-18 if biometric passports contained just a facial scan. | | (237610) | 45
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much it is expected to cost to issue foreign nationals with identity cards in each of the five years from 2010-11. | | (237611) | 46
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, on what date the Commission expects to publish information relating to hon. Members' expenses following the judgment of the divisional court on 16th May 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (237602) | 47
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment he has made of the extent to which careers advice influences academically-able pupils in their decision on whether to proceed to higher education. | | (237721) | 48
N | Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells of 29th April 2008, Official Report, column 292W, on ConstructionSkills: Stratagem, if he will place in the Library a copy of the reply from the Chief Executive. | | (237718) | 49
N | Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells of 1st May 2008, Official Report, columns 686-87W, on the United Kingdom Accreditation Service: Grayling Political Strategy, if he will place in the Library a copy of the reply from the Chief Executive of Ufi. | | (237857) | 50
N | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) flat cash grant allocation and (b) forecast shortfall is for the Norfolk Probation Area in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (237774) | 51
N | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimated share of Probation Service national savings the Norfolk probation area is expected to achieve in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (237775) | 52
N | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of staff employed by his Department who will leave through (a) natural wastage, (b) retirement and (c) redundancy in the Norfolk probation area during (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (237776) | 53
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) flat cash allocation and (b) forecast shortfall is for the Thames Valley probation area in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (237772) | 54
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimated share of Probation Service national savings the Thames Valley probation area is expected to achieve in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (237773) | 55
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of people employed by his Department who will leave the Thames Valley probation area in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12 through (i) retirement, (ii) redundancy and (iii) natural wastage. | | (237777) | 56
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the likely cost to local authorities resulting from (a) the increase in public law family fees and (b) making those changes retrospective over the next two years. | | (237596) | 57
N | Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, whether the terms of reference set for KPMG in relation to its report on venue options for the 2012 Olympics included an instruction to hold discussions with the Ministry of Defence. | | (237719) | 59
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the national bus concessionary fares scheme on community rail partnerships. | | (237779) | 62
N | Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many carriages announced in the (a) high level output statement and (b) intercity express programme his Department expects to (i) have been ordered and (ii) be in service by (A) 2010 and (B) 2012. | | (237840) | 63
N | Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what detailed specifications his Department has made for the procurement of new trains since 2000. | | (237841) | 64
N | Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of the train carriages referred to in the high level output statement have been (a) tendered for and (b) ordered. | | (237842) | 65
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) initial budget and (b) cost outturn was for the Highways Agency roadworks on the A40 at Over, Gloucestershire. | | (237594) | 66
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the reasons are for the delays in the completion of works to the A40 between Highnam and Over. | | (237595) | 67
N | Hywel Williams (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with First Great Western Trains and Virgin Trains on the use of the Welsh language in respect of (a) rail services provided in Wales and (b) cross-border rail services. | | (237845) | 68
N | Hywel Williams (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with the Department for Transport, Virgin Trains and Great Western Trains regarding the use of the Welsh language in respect of rail services provided (a) in Wales and (b) across the border. | | (237846) | 69
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's most recent estimate is of the effect that reducing to three months the backdating of (a) pension credit, (b) housing benefit and (c) council tax benefit will have on expenditure on those benefits in each of the next five years. | | (237714) | 70
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the winter fuel allowance was worth as a percentage of (a) average household fuel bills and (b) average pensioner household fuel bills in each of the last 10 years for which information is available, broken down by constituency. | | (237715) | 71
N | Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of disability living allowance in York are in paid employment. | | (237603) | 72
N | Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in York moved off incapacity benefit into work in each of the last five years. | | (237604) | 73
N | Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people in York have been assisted to find work (a) by disability advisers employed by Jobcentre Plus and (b) through other publicly-funded initiatives to assist disabled people in the last 12 months. | | (237605) | 74
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether (a) income and (b) lump sums paid under (i) a war pension and (ii) the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme are disregarded for the purpose of calculating income support eligibility; and if he will make a statement. | | (237720) | 75
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the White Paper on welfare reform will be published. | | (237839) | 76
N | Hywel Williams (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidelines his Department has in place regarding contacting incapacity benefit claimants by telephone in the evenings and at weekends. | | (237844) |
Notices given on Tuesday 18 November 1
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason light goods vehicles with lower emissions ratings do not fall into a lower vehicle excise duty band than similar vehicles with higher emissions. | | [Transferred] (237781) | 2
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will assess the merits of vehicle excise duty gradation according to emissions levels in the case of light goods vehicles. | | [Transferred] (237782) | 3
N | Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many inspections of abattoirs were conducted by the Meat Hygiene Service in each of the last five years; and what the average number of inspections was during the period. | | [Transferred] (237676) | 4
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason magistrates are not able to access information on fixed penalty notices issued to those before them who have pleaded guilty. | | [Transferred] (237780) | 5
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the rate of staff (a) absence and (b) sickness absence was in (i) his Department and its predecessors and (ii) each of their agencies and non-departmental public bodies in each year from 1997-98 to 2008-09; what the target rates set for his Department are in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (238415) | 6
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many civil servants have been employed by each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies in each year from 1997-98 to 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238428) | 7
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much his Department and its predecessors have spent on (a) focus groups and (b) opinion polls in each year since 1997-98; how much he estimates will be spent on each category in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238510) | 8
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many press releases were issued by his Department and its predecessors in each year since 1997-98; and if he will make a statement. | | (238511) | 9
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many (a) special advisers and (b) press officers were employed by his Department and its predecessors in each year since 1997-98; and at what cost in each year. | | (238512) | 10
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many employees in his Department took early retirement in each of the last five financial years; and at what cost. | | (238520) | 11
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on (i) publicity and (ii) advertising in each year since 1997-98; how much each plans to spend in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238521) | 12
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on external consultancy in each year since 1997-98; how much each plans to spend in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238522) | 13
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what discussions he has had with Ofcom on negotiations over the codes of practice relating to the Memorandum of Understanding signed between rights owners and internet service providers. | | (238353) | 14
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the Competition Commission's proposed remedies set out in Chapter 11 of its report into the grocery sector. | | (238500) | 15
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many people in receipt of mobility benefit received (a) discounts on their bills and (b) assistance in another form from energy companies in the last 12 months. | | (238259) | 16
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer of 11th November 2008, Official Report, column 1125W, on departmental training, what the (a) duration and (b) cost was of the training received by the Secretary of State. | | (238430) | 17
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238163) | 18
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many VAT registered businesses there were in (a) Hemel Hempstead, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) the UK in each year since 1994. | | (238107) | 19
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many new businesses were started in (a) Hemel Hempstead, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) the UK in each year since 2001. | | (238108) | 20
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many individuals in (a) Hemel Hempstead, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) the UK filed for bankruptcy in each year since 1997. | | (238185) | 21
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the monetary value of trade between the UK and the Turks and Caicos Islands in each of the last three years. | | (238231) | 22
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what progress has been made in trials of emergency services text message service. | | (238408) | 23
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to regulate credit rating agencies. | | (238269) | 24
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he made of the effect of the financial crisis in Hungary and Belarus on the UK economy. | | (238331) | 25
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he next plans to assess the UK's progress in meeting the economic costs in joining the euro. | | (238332) | 26
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the multiple effect of a fiscal boost to the economy through (a) greater public spending and (b) tax reductions. | | (238333) | 27
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what evaluations he has made of the effect on local economies of increases in public spending. | | (238480) | 28
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on the use of post offices to provide banking services. | | (238481) | 29
| Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the estimated cost to the public purse of the new entrepreneurs relief from capital gains tax is in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (238307) | 30
| Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimates are of the effect of the flat 18 per cent. capital gains tax (CGT) rate on CGT receipts from disposals by (a) higher rate taxpayers and (b) basic rate taxpayers of (i) business assets and (ii) non-business assets for (A) 2008-09, (B) 2009-10 and (C) 2010-11. | | (238308) | 31
| Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimate is of the cost to the public purse of the annual £9,200 exempted amount in respect of the payment of capital gains tax in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (238309) | 32
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Treasury has made of the contribution which indistries dependent on intellectual property make to the UK economy. | | (238359) | 33
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of intellectual property crime on revenues received by the Exchequer. | | (238360) | 34
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much tax revenue has been recovered as a result of the work of compliance staff in the Penzance HM Revenue and Customs office in each of the last five years. | | (238039) | 35
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of tax revenue recovered as a result of work undertaken in the Penzance HM Revenue and Customs office during the last five years. | | (238040) | 36
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposed closure of the Penzance tax office on the local economy; and if he will assess the potential contribution of this office to the local economy in the current economic climate. | | (238261) | 37
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the fiscal stimulus provided to local economies by HM Revenue and Customs operations in local communities. | | (238262) | 38
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what factors underlay his decision to delay the final announcement of his future plans for the workforce change programme. | | (238263) | 39
| Mr Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to (a) raise the limits and (b) review the interest rates on prudential borrowing by local authorities. | | (238054) | 40
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238177) | 41
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department received its first Value For Money programme report from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; and what assessment he has made of the report. | | (238148) | 42
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which postal service provider carried most of the (a) letters and (b) parcels sent by his Department in each of the last three years. | | (238318) | 43
| Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Child Trust Fund take-up rates were for (a) each constituency in Wales and (b) each ward in the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (238127) | 44
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit cases are awaiting a decision by the Adjudicator's Office; what the target time for a decision to be made is; what the (a) length of the longest time and (b) average time taken to reach a decision has been in each year since its inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (238339) | 45
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans he has to reduce levels of bullying in schools, with particular reference to bullying of children with disabilities. | | (238255) | 46
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what programmes are in place to educate secondary school pupils on the dangers of illegal drugs. | | (238046) | 47
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many unfilled secondary school places there were in (a) Bexley and (b) Greater London on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (238137) | 48
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what (a) contractural and (b) other penalties will be imposed on Liberata in respect of its administration of education maintenance allowances. | | (238072) | 49
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding per pupil was provided to city academies in (a) Norwich North and (b) England in (i) 2007-08 and (ii) 2008-09; how many pupils attended each city academy in (A) Norwich North and (B) England in each of these years; and for how many pupils in each city academy in (1) Norwich North and (2) England funding was provided in each of those years. | | (238316) | 50
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what guidance has been issued by his Department to (a) schools and (b) OFSTED on training of school staff to deal with emergencies relating to children with diabetes. | | (238413) | 51
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238165) | 52
| Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether the forthcoming Children's Workforce Strategy will include any cross-cutting themes. | | (238036) | 53
| Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when his Department plans to publish the Children's Workforce Strategy. | | (238094) | 54
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many overseas trained teachers lost their jobs from state schools because they had not attained qualified teacher status within four years by September 2008, broken down by subject taught. | | (238129) | 55
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether his Department uses the Royal Mail as the primary company for sending its post, parcels and packages. | | (238122) | 56
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he is taking to improve the performance of local authority care systems in preventing looked-after children from offending. | | (238086) | 57
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will put in place strategies to assist local authorities in their capacity as corporate parents to prevent children in their care becoming involved in crime. | | (238113) | 58
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what research his Department or its predecessor has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on links between young people in care and criminality in the last five years. | | (238114) | 59
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many surplus places there were in (a) secondary and (b) primary schools in each local authority area in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement. | | (238341) | 60
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether national challenge schools may pay higher salaries to teaching staff than other maintained schools; and if he will make a statement. | | (238342) | 61
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of those who enrolled as teacher trainees in each year since 1997 were teachers three years after enrolment. | | (238343) | 62
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of schools built under the Building Schools for the Future programme have (a) 1,000 pupils or fewer, (b) 1,001 to 1,500 pupils, (c) 1,501 to 2,000 pupils and (d) more than 2,000 pupils. | | (238344) | 63
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what targets have been set for the effectiveness of the new diplomas; and if he will make a statement. | | (238345) | 64
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of 14 year olds he expects will be enrolled on a diploma course in 2013; and if he will make a statement. | | (238346) | 65
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department has spent on developing a general diploma in each year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (238347) | 66
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what marks were required in key stage 2 tests in (a) English and (b) mathematics to achieve a level (i) 4 and (ii) 5 in (A) 1999, (B) 2006, (C) 2007 and (D) 2008. | | (238348) | 67
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of fixed period exclusions were given to pupils (a) with special educational needs and (b) entitled to free school meals in (i) secondary schools and (ii) primary schools in each year since 1997. | | (238349) | 68
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his latest estimate is of the proportion of their school time spent preparing for key stage 2 tests by children in year 6; and if he will make a statement. | | (238350) | 69
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of (a) pupils entitled to free school meals, (b) pupils not entitled to free school meals and (c) all pupils gained (i) no GCSEs and (ii) fewer than five A* to G grades including English and mathematics at GCSE in each year since 1999. | | (238351) | 70
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils attended secondary schools in which there were (a) over 1,000, (b) over 1,500, (c) over 2,000 and (d) over 3,000 pupils in each year since 1997. | | (238352) | 71
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many full-time equivalent (a) teachers, (b) teaching assistants and (c) support staff there were in local education authority schools in (i) Hemel Hempstead, (ii) Hertfordshire and (iii) England in (A) 1997 and (B) the latest period for which figures are available. | | (238187) | 72
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many looked after children there were in each (a) ward and (b) lower layer super output area in each of the principal seaside towns in England in the last year for which figures were available. | | (238294) | 73
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what rules apply to the out-of-county placement of vulnerable (a) adults and (b) children; what procedures are employed to monitor such placements; and how the costs of such placements are shared. | | (238299) | 74
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils he estimates will be in an academy in 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (238109) | 75
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans he has for the academies programme beyond 2012; and if he will make a statement. | | (238110) | 76
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans his Department has to conduct a review of academies admissions; and if he will make a statement. | | (238111) | 77
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many new sponsors he estimates will become actively involved in the academies programme in the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (238112) | 78
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of academies had 30 per cent. or more pupils gain five A* to C grades at GCSE in each of the last three years; what assessment he has made of how this compares with other schools in the state sector; and if he will make a statement. | | (238115) | 79
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many press releases were issued by his Department in each year from 1997-98; and if he will make a statement. | | (238230) | 80
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) special advisers and (b) press officers were employed by his Department in each year from 1997-98 to 2007-08; and at what cost in each of those years. | | (238449) | 81
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much his Department spent on (a) focus groups and (b) opinion polls in each year since 1997-98; and if he will make a statement. | | (238506) | 82
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much (a) his Department, (b) its agency and (c) each non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department spent on (i) publicity and (ii) advertising in each year since 1997-98; how much each plans to spend on each category in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238516) | 83
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much (a) his Department, (b) its agency and (c) each of its non-departmental public bodies spent on external consultancy in each year since 1997-98; how much each plans to spend in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238517) | 84
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the rate of staff (a) absenteeism and (b) sickness absence was in (i) his Department, (ii) its agency and (iii) each of its non-departmental public bodies in each year since 1997-98; what the target rates for his Department are in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (238518) | 85
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many employees in his Department took early retirement in each of the last five financial years; and at what cost. | | (238519) | 86
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many deaths there have been from anorexia in (a) Norwich, (b) Norfolk and (c) the UK in each of the last five years. | | (238304) | 87
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the average monthly income was for disabled adults between the ages of (a) 20 and 29, (b) 30 and 39, (c) 40 and 49 and (d) 50 and 60 years in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (238260) | 88
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238164) | 89
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what steps have been taken following the police investigations conducted in 2006 on the insertion of faked documents into files at the national archives; and if he will make a statement. | | (238405) | 90
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) men and (b) women were in work in (i) Hemel Hempstead and (ii) the UK in May of each year since 1997. | | (238186) | 91
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people were employed in the tourism sector in each principal seaside town in (a) 1978, (b) 1988, (c) 1998 and (d) the latest year for which figures are available. | | (238298) | 92
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, how many churches were transferred into usage as (a) restaurants, (b) bars and (c) gymnasia in each of the last five years. | | (238020) | 93
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what the value of the Commission's investment portfolio was in each of the last five years. | | (238021) | 94
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, how many representations the Commission has received from parishes on alternative uses for churches during the last 12 months. | | (238022) | 95
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, how many church buildings were sold in each year since 1997; and what the annual total value of sales was in each year. | | (238023) | 96
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, how many churches were made redundant in each year since 1997. | | (238024) | 97
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, how many churches the Commission was responsible for in each year since 1997. | | (238025) | 98
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consultation was undertaken with businesses based in ports before the decision was taken to make retrospective demands for business rates on UK port occupiers. | | (238312) | 99
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the level of non-payment of retrospective business rates on UK port occupiers in respect of 2005 will have an effect on her Department's budget for 2008-09. | | (238313) | 100
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much additional funding the Government has allocated to local authorities for enforcement of sections 198 and 101A of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988; and how much of that sum local authorities have allocated to trading standards departments for that purpose. | | (238354) | 101
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of the increase in the revenue support grant for 2008-09 intended for the enforcement of sections 198 and 107A of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 she expects local authorities to allocate to their trading standards departments. | | (238355) | 102
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in her Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238166) | 103
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of Planning Policy Guidance 15 and 16. | | (238014) | 104
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Good Practice Guide on Planning for Tourism. | | (238015) | 105
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the provisions of section 54A of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1991. | | (238016) | 106
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent representations her Department has received relating to section 66(1) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1991. | | (238017) | 107
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of local authorities employed a conservation officer in each of the last five years. | | (238147) | 108
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department uses the Royal Mail as the primary company for sending its post, parcels and packages. | | (238120) | 109
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have introduced (a) licensing requirements for homes in multiple occupation outside the Housing Act 2004 and (b) selective licensing arrangements for houses in multiple occupation in areas (i) of low housing demand and (ii) with significant anti-social behaviour problems. | | (238090) | 110
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations she has received from (a) voluntary organisations and (b) local authorities on amending housing regulations for houses in multiple occupation. | | (238091) | 111
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what account her Department takes of levels of the (a) elderly and (b) transient population of seaside towns when deciding upon the formula for the revenue support grant. | | (238295) | 112
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress her Department has made with HM Treasury on the national regeneration framework in seaside towns. | | (238310) | 113
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the effects of mandatory licensing of houses in multiple occupation in seaside towns; what estimate she has made of the take up rate; and if she will make a statement. | | (238419) | 114
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what research her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on relationships between houses in multiple occupation and levels of transient and vulnerable people living in the principal English seaside towns; and if she will make a statement. | | (238420) | 115
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the use of out of county placements of vulnerable adults and children in principal seaside towns in England. | | (238421) | 116
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the needs of transient populations in seaside towns. | | (238422) | 117
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what controls are available to local authorities to manage houses in multiple occupation in the principal English seaside towns; what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the use of such controls; and if she will make a statement. | | (238423) | 118
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department and its predecessors have made of trends in standards of (a) houses in multiple occupation and (b) the private rented sector in the last 10 years. | | (238424) | 119
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms her Department has in place to increase funding to local authorities when there is increased demand for disabled facilities grants. | | (238406) | 120
| Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the annual change in the level of council tax in each district council in the East Midlands was in each year since 1997-98; and if she will make a statement. | | (238076) | 121
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many employees of his Department took early retirement in each of the last five financial years; and at what cost. | | (238504) | 122
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) his Department, (b) its agency and (c) each non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department spent on (i) publicity and (ii) advertising in each year from 1997-98 to 2007-08; what the equivalent estimated figures are in each case for 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238507) | 123
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the rate of staff (a) absenteeism and (b) sickness absence was in (i) his Department, (ii) its agency and (iii) each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies in each year from 1997-98 to 2007-08; what the target rates in each case are for his Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (238508) | 124
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on (a) focus groups and (b) opinion polls in each year since 1997-98; how much he estimates will be spent on each category in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238509) | 125
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) special advisers and (b) press officers have been employed by his Department in each year since 1997-98; and at what cost in each such year. | | (238513) | 126
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many press releases were issued by his Department in each year since 1997-98; and if he will make a statement. | | (238514) | 127
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) his Department, (b) its agency and (c) each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies spent on external consultancy in each year since 1997-98; how much is planned to be spent by each in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238515) | 128
| Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of his Department's outturn expenditure on administration for 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238526) | 129
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) discussions he has had with and (b) representations he has received from representatives of the computer gaming industry on (i) skills shortages and (ii) level of taxation in the industry. | | (238266) | 130
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17th November 2008, Official Report, column 11W, on gambling: regulation, how many remote gambling website operators are based in the UK. | | (238335) | 131
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17th November 2008, Official Report, column 11W, on gambling: regulation, how many remote gambling operations failed the mystery shopper tests. | | (238336) | 132
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17th November 2008, Official Report, column 11W, on gambling: regulations, for what reason the Gambling Commission has not carried out tests of overseas operators since the summer of 2007; and when he expects further tests of overseas operators to be undertaken. | | (238337) | 133
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the funding available under the Big Lottery Fund Children's Play initiative has been (a) committed and (b) spent. | | (238362) | 134
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of progress towards the Government's commitment to provide £200 million for improving children's play opportunities under his Department's review of children's play. | | (238363) | 135
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many offices (a) his Department, (b) its agency and (c) each of its non-departmental public bodies occupy; what the location of each is; how many staff are employed at each location; and what the floor area of each office is. | | (238432) | 136
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) his Department, (b) its agency and (c) each of its non-departmental public bodies spent on office accommodation from 2005-06 to 2007-08; and what the estimated outturn for 2008-09 is. | | (238433) | 137
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on S4C in each year since 1997-98; and how many viewers S4C had in each year. | | (238434) | 138
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many employees in his Department took early retirement in each of the last five financial years; and at what cost. | | (238435) | 139
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) his Department, (b) its agency and (c) its non-departmental public bodies spent on (i) publicity and (ii) advertising in each year from 1997-98 to 2007-08; what the estimated outturn of each body is for 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238436) | 140
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) his Department, (b) its agency and (c) its non-departmental public bodies spent on external consultancy in each year from 1997-98 to 2007-08; what the estimated outturn of each body is for 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238437) | 141
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many special advisers his Department employed in each year since 1997-98; and at what cost. | | (238438) | 142
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many press releases his Department has issued in each year since 1997-98; and if he will make a statement. | | (238439) | 143
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on (a) focus groups and (b) opinion polls in each year since 1997-98 to date; and if he will make a statement. | | (238440) | 144
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many press officers his Department has employed in each year since 1997-98; at what cost; and if he will make a statement. | | (238441) | 145
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on offical entertainment in each year since 1997-98 to date. | | (238442) | 146
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the rate of staff (a) absenteeism and (b) sickness absence was in (i) his Department, (ii) its agency and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies in each year since 1997-98; what targets have been set for his Department in each respect; and if he will make a statement. | | (238505) | 147
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of his Department's outturn expenditure on administration for 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238527) | 148
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many civil servants were employed by each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies in each year from 1997-98 to 2007-08; what the estimated figures are for 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (238528) | 149
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2008, Official Report, column 816W, on departmental training, what the (a) nature, (b) duration and (c) cost was of the training he received. | | (238416) | 150
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 13th November 2008, Official Report, column 1326W, on departmental training, which languages he was trained in; and what the (a) purpose, (b) duration and (c) cost was of (i) the foreign language training and (ii) the advice on continuing professional development he received. | | (238417) | 151
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238167) | 152
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the change in the UK's ranking in the Anholt Nation Brand Index as part of his work to champion UK tourism in the last three years. | | (238012) | 153
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to develop a satellite account for tourism statistics; and if he will make a statement. | | (238018) | 154
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he expects to publish the Convergence Think Tank's interim report on the future policy and legislative framework for the communications industries; and if he will make a statement. | | (238019) | 155
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he has taken to promote the concept of a new major international conference centre in London. | | (238026) | 156
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of his Department's Fitness for Purpose: Quality Counts initiative of 2005; and if he will make a statement. | | (238027) | 157
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of his Department's Fit For Your Trip? initiative of 2003; and if he will make a statement. | | (238028) | 158
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when his Department's Tourism Forum was wound up; and when it held its last meeting. | | (238029) | 159
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what projects have been commissioned using his Department's Joint Research Budget; and what the estimated total cost of each project is. | | (238030) | 160
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what public relations services were provided to the Big Lottery Fund by Cake in each of the last three years; and what the total cost was in each year. | | (238031) | 161
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many reponses the Big Lottery Fund has received to its Big Thinking consultation. | | (238146) | 162
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when his Department completed its strategic analysis of the first six months of its Joint Research Budget; and if he will place a copy of the report in the Library. | | (238149) | 163
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, in which region the tourism satellite accounting pilot took place in 2004; what assessment he has made of the results; and if he will place a copy of the results in the Library. | | (238151) | 164
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, in which overseas locations Visit Britain maintained an office in each year since 1997; and how many overseas offices he expects will remain in operation in 2009. | | (238182) | 165
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when his Department completed its preliminary review of its Public Engagement and Recognition Unit; which grade of official carried out the review; and if he will place a copy of the report in the Library. | | (238183) | 166
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 12th May 2008, Official Report, column 1375W, on tourism, when he expects to publish his Department's report on the elasticities of tourism demand. | | (238411) | 167
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department uses the Royal Mail as the primary company for sending its post, parcels and packages. | | (238117) | 168
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether there have been any incidents of loss of employees' personal data from (a) his Department and (b) the organisation for which his Department is responsible in each of the last three years; what procedures apply when such losses occur; and if he will make a statement. | | (238071) | 169
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to share best practices in developing tourism between the principal seaside towns in England. | | (238092) | 170
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what Visit Britain's national strategy for coastal and seaside tourism is. | | (238093) | 171
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the amount that domestic visitors to UK coastal destinations spent in (a) 1978, (b) 1988, (c) 1998 and (d) the latest year for which figures are available; and what estimate he has made of the amount that domestic visitors to each principal seaside town spent in each of the last 10 years. | | (238300) | 172
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which 10 destinations in England were most frequently visited by domestic tourists in each year for which figures are available. | | (238301) | 173
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the average amount spent per visit during tourism day trips to (a) seaside towns, (b) cities and (c) rural destinations in each year for which figures are available. | | (238302) | 174
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to counteract piracy off the coast of Africa. | | (238141) | 175
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what UK forces are stationed off the east African coast to deal with piracy in the area. | | (238142) | 176
| Mr Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what provision his Department makes for the use of official cars by retired senior military officers; what the cost of such provision was in each of the last five years; and whether the arrangements for such provision have changed in the last 10 years. | | (238492) | 177
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the likely time gap will be between the final removal of the Hercules fleet from RAF Lyneham and the arrival of the Joint Helicopter Command contingent upon any relevant decision arising from Project Belvedere. | | (238042) | 178
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what restrictions there are on flying times and patterns for helicopters based at (a) RAF Benson, (b) RAF Odiham and for Hercules at (c) RAF Lyneham. | | (238125) | 179
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his estimate is of the expense of infrastructure improvements required on (a) RAF Benson, (b) RAF Odiham and (c) RAF Lyneham to bring them up to the requisite standard. | | (238126) | 180
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with Help for Heroes on funding for rehabilitation for military casualties from (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan. | | (238258) | 181
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel have been (a) killed and (b) injured while in snatch Land Rovers in (i) Iraq and (ii) Afghanistan in (A) 2006, (B) 2007 and (C) the first six months of 2008. | | (238329) | 182
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Typhoon aircraft are to be deployed to Iceland on NATO Quick Reaction Alert duty; on what date; and for how long. | | (238049) | 183
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what options for replacement of the Nimrod R 1 capability are under consideration. | | (238050) | 184
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects Paveway IV bombs to enter service on Royal Air Force Typhoon aircraft. | | (238051) | 185
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238168) | 186
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the basic A400M airframe will be configured to deliver an air-to-air refuelling capability; and what his policy is on whether the RAF fleet will be adaptable to such a capability. | | (238041) | 187
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will assess the proposal put to him by Crown Aviation on the provision of military airlift services; and if he will make a statement. | | (238043) | 188
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department uses the Royal Mail as the primary company for sending its post, parcels and packages. | | (238119) | 189
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what resources the Government has provided for the training of local militias in Afghanistan. | | (238210) | 190
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how the Government plans to improve (a) the protection afforded by and (b) the survivability of the Warrior armoured fighting vehicle. | | (238211) | 191
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial penalty clauses apply to his Department should it decide to (a) reduce orders under and (b) withdrawn from the A400M Programme. | | (238303) | 192
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of projected changes in (a) sea level and (b) frequency of severity of storm-related events on the (i) working lifetime and (ii) decommissioning period of new nuclear power stations located on the coast; and what arrangements are in place for funding (A) protective measures and (B) insurance costs for such stations. | | (238256) | 193
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of the merits of the use of plutonium as a fuel component in a new civil nuclear power programme. | | (238257) | 194
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been since the establishment of the Department. | | (238169) | 195
| Stephen Hesford (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information his Department holds for benchmarking purposes on (a) changes in energy prices in (i) EU member states and (ii) the EU in each of the last three years and (b) the support EU member states provide to vulnerable energy consumers. | | (238497) | 196
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department uses the Royal Mail as the primary company for sending its post, parcels and packages. | | (238123) | 197
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what resources are available to help people aged over 70 years insulate their homes. | | (238037) | 198
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Home Carbon Saver scheme, operated by Energy Services; and if he will make a statement. | | (238038) | 199
| Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many homes have been provided with heating under the Warm Front scheme in (a) England and (b) Bolsover constituency in the last two years. | | (238077) | 200
| Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which contractors the Warm Front scheme uses in the East Midlands. | | (238078) | 201
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much expenditure his Department incurred in respect of (a) Chitterybite Ceilidh Band, (b) Off Limits, (c) Fresh Attacks, (d) Catch 22, (e) George Noble, (F) Mountain Goat Ltd, (g) The Right Address Ltd, (h) Devon and Exeter Steeplechases Ltd and (i) Solent Steam Packet Services Ltd in 2007-08; and for what purpose in each case. | | (238228) | 202
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to find an alternative to apivar; and if he will make a statement. | | (238200) | 203
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations his Department has received on the sustainability of the bee population; and if he will make a statement. | | (238201) | 204
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding has been provided by his Department for research into the impact of genetically-modified crops on bee colonies in each region in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (238203) | 205
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding has been provided by his Department for the protection of native species of wild flowering vegetation in each region in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (238204) | 206
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding has been provided by his Department to support voluntary bee-keeping groups in each region in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (238205) | 207
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps have been taken to find alternative treatments for (a) pyrethroid resistance, (b) colony collapse disorder and (c) varroa in bees in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (238206) | 208
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department has provided for research into (a) pyrethroid resistance, (b) colony collapse disorder and (c) varroa in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (238207) | 209
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of levels of (a) pyrethroid resistance, (b) colony collapse disorder and (c) varroa in bees in each region in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (238208) | 210
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to support the sustainability of bee colonies in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (238209) | 211
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which Commoners' Associations that were previously responsible for the operation of the Single Farm Payment are now no longer carrying out that function. | | (238143) | 212
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people on Minchinhampton Common, Gloucestershire are entitled to receive single farm payments; and how many such people received single farm payments in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (238144) | 213
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Minchinhampton Commoners' Association to try to resolve difficulties over the operation of the Single Farm Payment on the Common. | | (238145) | 214
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the merits of the Competition Commission's proposed establishment of a new grocery supply code of practice, with particular reference to whether it will provide (a) clarity and (b) protection for primary food produces. | | (238501) | 215
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has assessed the merits of the proposal in Chapter 11 of the Competition Commission's supply of groceries in the UK report in respect of giving primary food producers the right to initiate complaints about the conduct of grocery retailers. | | (238502) | 216
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on the Competition Commission's proposed remedies for primary producers following its report into the grocery sector. | | (238503) | 217
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which postal service provider carried most of the (a) letters and (b) parcels sent by his Department in each of the last three years. | | (238322) | 218
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Government has allocated in national aid for nut growers in each of the last five years, broken down by type of nut. | | (238095) | 219
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the extent of decoupling under the Common Agricultural Policy in each EU member state for benchmarking purposes. | | (238096) | 220
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take following the judgement in the case of Partridge Farms Ltd vs the Secretary of State; and if he will make a statement. | | (238495) | 221
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to oppose the deployment of US missile defence system elements in Poland and the Czech Republic; and if he will make a statement. | | (238181) | 222
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17th November 2008, Official Report, column 196W, on embassies: foreign workers, what additional positions in the UK overseas posts have been identified by localisation in the financial years (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09, broken down by (i) country, (ii) mission, (iii) title of position and (iv) payband. | | (238229) | 223
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how long on average Ministers in his Department have taken to answer Questions for (a) ordinary written answer and (b) written answer on a named day in the present session. | | (238237) | 224
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how long on average his Department has taken to answer letters from hon. Members in the present session. | | (238238) | 225
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Questions to his Department for written answer on a named day in the present session to date did not receive a substantive reply on the day named. | | (238239) | 226
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Questions to his Department for written answer with no day named did not receive an answer within one working week of the date of tabling in the present session to date. | | (238240) | 227
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Questions for (a) ordinary written answer and (b) written answer on a named day Ministers in his Department have answered in the present session. | | (238241) | 228
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of occasions in 2008 in which ransom has been (a) demanded and (b) paid in respect of vessels hijacked off the coast of Somalia; and what estimate he has made of the total ransom paid. | | (238242) | 229
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17th November 2008, Official Report, column 196W, on embassies: foreign workers, which posts have been localised since January 2007, broken down by (a) country, (b) mission, (c) title of position and (d) pay band. | | (238243) | 230
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the amended United Nations six point plan for deployment of the EULEX mission in Kosovo; and if he will make a statement. | | (238244) | 231
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of progress in the implementation of the Ahtisaari plan for Kosovo. | | (238245) | 232
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has (a) received from and (b) made to the government of Serbia on the deployment of the EULEX mission in Kosovo; and if he will make a statement. | | (238246) | 233
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has (a) received from and (b) made to the government of Kosovo on implementation of the deployment of the EULEX mission in Kosovo; and if he will make a statement. | | (238247) | 234
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many EULEX personnel are presently deployed in Kosovo; and if he will make a statement. | | (238248) | 235
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the BBC World Service's operations in Russia; and if he will make a statement. | | (238249) | 236
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what changes to the BBC World Service's Russian Service there have been in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (238250) | 237
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the BBC World Service's policy is on broadcasting to Georgia; and if he will make a statement. | | (238251) | 238
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to answer Question 225596, tabled on 6th October 2008, on language training. | | (238252) | 239
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to answer Question 225600, tabled on 6th October 2008, on reception of visiting dignitaries. | | (238253) | 240
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to answer Question 225598, tabled on 6th October 2008, on Government hospitality. | | (238254) | 241
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of his Department's employees are assigned to issue academic technology approval scheme certificates. | | (238128) | 242
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which postal service provider carried most of the (a) letters and (b) parcels sent by his Department in each of the last three years. | | (238326) | 243
| Mr Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of the comments made by the President of the European Council at the EU-Russia Summit in Nice on the contribution to European security of the development of a missile defence system in Europe; what his policy is on the proposal by the President of the European Council's proposal for a meeting on European security in 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (238305) | 244
| Mr Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of levels of public support for the siting of US missiles and early warning bases in Europe; what assessment he has made of trends in public opinion on the contribution of such installations to (a) US-Russia relations and (b) UK and European security; and if he will make a statement. | | (238306) | 245
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of former UK residents who have taken up residence in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the last five years. | | (238232) | 246
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has met officials from the Turks and Caicos Islands since the impact of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. | | (238366) | 247
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people from the Turks and Caicos Islands visited the UK in 2007. | | (238367) | 248
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage greater investment in the Turks and Caicos Islands. | | (238368) | 249
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to encourage tourism between the UK and the Turks and Caicos Islands. | | (238369) | 250
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Falkland Islands government on the Argentinian response to the new Falkland Islands constitution. | | (238372) | 251
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17th November 2008, Official Report, columns 192-3W, if he will bring forward proposals to make the membership of the three selection boards which appoint ambassadors and high commissioners more reflective of the UK population as a whole in their educational background. | | (238496) | 252
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the current NHS tariff rates are for (a) hip replacement, (b) stent and (c) gallbladder operations. | | (238267) | 253
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the NHS to have fully implemented the health resource group coding system. | | (238268) | 254
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many copies of the employers (a) resource pack and (b) booklets relating to (i) social care and (ii) social work have been downloaded from his Department's social care and social work careers information website in each quarter since it was established. | | (238425) | 255
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of each of the most recent local maternity workforce plans submitted to his Department by strategic health authorities. | | (238537) | 256
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1461-2W, on midwives, what the average national benchmark price for the tuition fee of a student midwife was in each academic year since 1997-98. | | (238538) | 257
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms his Department uses to measure the rate of inflation as it applies to NHS costs. | | (238539) | 258
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of progress towards implementation of the national choice guarantee for maternity services. | | (238540) | 259
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5th November 2008, Official Report, column 524W, on maternity services, what (a) standalone midwifery units and (b) midwifery units situated alongside consultant-led units there are in each region of England. | | (238541) | 260
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5th November 2008, Official Report, column 524W, on maternity services, when the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts came into operation. | | (238542) | 261
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data will be gathered through the National Maternity Services Dataset; and if he will make a statement. | | (238543) | 262
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of opticians in the London Borough of Bexley and (b) the number of opticians per 1,000 population in the London Borough of Bexley. | | (238133) | 263
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding the Government has provided for research into neurological illnesses in the last 10 years. | | (238089) | 264
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which postal service provider carried most of the (a) letters and (b) parcels sent by his Department in each of the last three years. | | (238321) | 265
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the NHS's budget is spent on medicine for the treatment of neurological illnesses. | | (238364) | 266
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what surveys his Department has (a) undertaken and (b) commissioned on the effectiveness of treatment of neurological illnesses. | | (238365) | 267
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of (a) type 1 and (b) type 2 diabetes were diagnosed in each primary care trust area in Hertfordshire in each of the last five years, broken down by age group. | | (238233) | 268
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many places for BSc courses in specialist community nursing programmes were funded through strategic health authorities in 2008-09; and how many applications for places on such courses there were in that year. | | (238409) | 269
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what national targets are in place for the use by young people of in-school healthcare services; and what performance primary care trusts in Devon have achieved against these targets in the latest period for which information is available. | | (238410) | 270
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding was provided for school nurses in each primary care trust area in 2008-09. | | (238412) | 271
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much central Government funding has been allocated to the introduction of the abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme. | | (238489) | 272
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of the abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme to (a) the NHS and (b) primary care trusts; and if he will make a statement. | | (238490) | 273
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of patients in England and Wales who were treated for abdominal aortic aneurysms by (a) open surgical repair and (b) endovascular repair in each of the last five years. | | (238491) | 274
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff providing surgical equipment sterilising services to the NHS are employed by (a) NHS trusts and (b) private companies. | | (238414) | 275
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency spent on private sector consultancy fees in each of the last three financial years. | | (238418) | 276
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS trusts have (a) in-house and (b) private suppliers under contracts for the provision of surgical equipment sterilising services. | | (238426) | 277
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procurement guidance his Department provides to NHS trusts on in-house bids received during a tendering process for clinical support services. | | (238427) | 278
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has carried out on the geographical distribution of people with (a) type 1 and (b) type 2 diabetes to enable effective allocation of resources for treatment to take place. | | (238484) | 279
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department expects to spend on research into diabetes in (a) 2008, (b) 2009, (c) 2010, (d) 2011 and (e) 2012. | | (238485) | 280
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have insulin pumps; and how many insulin pumps are provided by the NHS every year. | | (238486) | 281
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are on a waiting list for insulin pumps. | | (238487) | 282
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many diabetic specialist nurses there are; and what the ratio of nurses to patients is. | | (238488) | 283
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration she has given to issuing visas gratis to Gurkha soldiers; and if she will make a statement. | | (238270) | 284
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas have been issued gratis in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) reason and (b) country of origin of applicant. | | (238271) | 285
| Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Buckingham of 14th October 2008, Official Report, column 1072W, on crimes against humanity, how many people who have been suspected by the war crimes team of involvement in crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide are in the UK. | | (238493) | 286
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many breaches of anti-social behaviour orders have resulted in a criminal conviction in the London Borough of Bexley since the inception of the orders. | | (238134) | 287
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers, (b) police constables, (c) police sergeants and (d) police community support officers were working in the London Borough of Bexley in (i) 2007 and (ii) 2008 to date. | | (238136) | 288
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of commercial crime which is committed in the workplace in relation to intellectual property offences. | | (238356) | 289
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration she gave to including intellectual property crime in the National Community Safety plan for 2008 to 2011; and if she will make a statement. | | (238357) | 290
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether information held by (a) her Department and (b) the UK Border Agency on who is due to be removed from the UK on chartered flights is provided to the Courts Service. | | (238225) | 291
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to Question 224470, tabled on 3rd October 2008, on police officer resignations. | | (238443) | 292
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to Question 225219, tabled on 3rd October 2008, on Home Office contracts with PA Consulting. | | (238444) | 293
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to Question 225102, tabled on 3rd October 2008, on UK citizenship. | | (238445) | 294
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in her Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238170) | 295
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her statement of intent on students under the points-based system - Tier 4, what benchmarks she has set to assess progress made towards her objectives for the new student route for visa applications. | | (238191) | 296
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from (a) Russia, (b) China and (c) India applied for an entry visa in each year since 1997. | | (238150) | 297
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) higher education institutions, (b) businesses, (c) schools, (d) local authorities and (e) government departments have registered to be tier 2 sponsors in the points-based system. | | (238130) | 298
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of processing time is expected to be over the next planning period from application to licence of tier 2 sponsors under the points-based system. | | (238131) | 299
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many higher education institutions have registered to be tier 4 sponsors in the points-based system. | | (238132) | 300
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will reply to the letter of 9th October 2008 from the rt hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on behalf of Miss Z Hallam. | | (238139) | 301
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will reply to the letter of 14th October 2008 from the rt hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on behalf of Mrs Asia Rehman. | | (238140) | 302
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which postal service provider carried most of the (a) letters and (b) parcels sent by her Department in each of the last three years. | | (238317) | 303
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crack house closures there were in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire in the last three years. | | (238100) | 304
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to improve crime detection rates in (a) Hemel Hempstead, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) England and Wales. | | (238104) | 305
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has allocated to tackle anti-social behaviour in (a) Hemel Hempstead, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) the UK in each year since the inception of intervention programmes. | | (238235) | 306
| Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in Derbyshire (a) retired and (b) took early retirement on health grounds in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (238084) | 307
| Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been imposed in (a) Derbyshire and (b) Bolsover constituency since their introduction. | | (238085) | 308
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the Student Loans Company on the relationship between interest rates on student loans and the Bank of England base rate in light of the current economic situation; and if he will make a statement. | | (238190) | 309
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment he has made of the contribution of intellectual property to the UK economy. | | (238358) | 310
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of intellectual property crime on the UK economy. | | (238361) | 311
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238171) | 312
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many higher education institutions offered courses in building conservation and related subjects in each year since 1997; and what percentage of the total number of institutions this represents. | | (238013) | 313
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much quality-related research funding was received by each UK higher education institution for the period 2003-04 to 2008-09. | | (238087) | 314
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many and what percentage of students studying at each higher education institution in the 2007-08 academic session were from (a) state schools and (b) socio-economic groups 4-7, broken down by ethnic origin; and how much quality-related research funding each institution received for that year. | | (238088) | 315
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which postal service provider carried most of the (a) letters and (b) parcels sent by his Department since its creation. | | (238319) | 316
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which postal service provider carried most of the (a) letters and (b) parcels sent by his Department and its predecessor in each of the last three years. | | (238325) | 317
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many and what percentage of students were admitted to (a) Oxford University, (b) Cambridge University and (c) one of the Russell Group of universities from each local education authority in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (238192) | 318
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many people living in the Vale of York have participated in Train to Gain in each of the last three years. | | (238069) | 319
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many people in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) the UK received (i) adult learning grants and (ii) career development loans in the last period for which figures are available; and what the total monetary value was of such grants and loans. | | (238105) | 320
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many 16 to 24 year olds were in post-16 education in (a) Hertfordshire and (b) Hemel Hempstead in each year since 1997. | | (238188) | 321
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-3W, on Africa: education, what the (a) regional and (b) national African associations of higher education are to which support has been provided. | | (238474) | 322
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-3W, on Africa: education, what the outcome of the teacher census in Sierra Leone was. | | (238475) | 323
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-3W, on Africa: education, what the requirements for disbursements from (a) the Catalytic Fund and (b) the UNICEF-administered transition fund are. | | (238476) | 324
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-3W, on Africa: education, what the best practice criteria on harmonisation and alignment in the (a) Monterey consensus and (b) Paris Declaration are. | | (238477) | 325
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-3W, on Africa: education, what criteria he uses to assess whether a bilateral or multilateral investment proposal is bankable. | | (238478) | 326
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-3W, on Africa: education, what the compliance requirements of the Education for All Fast Track Initiative are. | | (238479) | 327
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-3W, on Africa: education, what the imported UK share of multilateral overseas development aid for the Education for All initiative is. | | (238523) | 328
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-3W, on Africa: education, which sectors of the Education for All initiatives are supported on the UK's behalf by (a) the International Development Association, (b) the African Development Fund, (c) the European Commission and (d) the UN Children's Fund. | | (238524) | 329
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-3W, on Africa: education, which (a) major donors in education (b) developing countries and (c) five major civil security organisations are partners in the Education For All Fast Track initiative. | | (238525) | 330
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-3W, on Africa: education, what reports his Department and its international partners have produced on the outcome of the project undertaken by the Association for Development of Education in African Books Working Group. | | (238529) | 331
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1325W, on environment protection: overseas aid, what criteria he uses to judge improvements in forest permenance; and what performance indicators have been established for the voluntary partnership agreement. | | (238530) | 332
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, column 1326W, on Pakistan: overseas aid, what steps he has taken to raise £10 million from the private sector; and at what cost. | | (238531) | 333
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-3W, on Africa: education, what the nature is of the infrastructure grants provided to the government of Kenya; and how much funding the UK has provided to education in Malawi. | | (238532) | 334
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets in each respect. | | (238482) | 335
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238172) | 336
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department uses the Royal Mail as the primary company for sending its post, parcels and packages. | | (238116) | 337
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will publish a list of all bilateral projects for which his Department has provided funding at or above the level of £100,000 in each of the last three years. | | (238494) | 338
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress his Department has made on a financial aid package to help the Turks and Caicos Islands deal with the effects of Hurricane Ike. | | (238370) | 339
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much financial aid his Department has given to the Turks and Caicos Islands since Hurricane Ike in September 2008. | | (238371) | 340
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) flat cash grant allocation, (b) forecast shortfall and (c) estimated share is of Probation Service national savings for the Essex probation area in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (238047) | 341
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of staff who will leave the Probation Service through (a) natural wastage, (b) retirement and (c) redundancy in the Essex probation area in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (238048) | 342
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison guards have been (a) suspended and (b) dismissed for bringing drugs into prisons in each of the last three years; and how many have been prosecuted for offences related to bringing drugs into prisons in each year. | | (238044) | 343
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the use of mobile telephones to bring drugs into prisons. | | (238045) | 344
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of (a) custodial sentence handed down by magistrates' courts and (b) sentence served in prison is by persons sentenced by magistrates' courts in each of the last three years. | | (238264) | 345
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were released having served less than half their sentence in each of the last three years; what guidance his Department gives on the proportion of a sentence which shall be served in prison; and if he will make a statement. | | (238265) | 346
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the flat cash grant allocation for the Gloucestershire probation area is for (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (238533) | 347
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate has been made of the share of national Probation Service savings to be contributed by the Gloucestershire probation area for (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (238534) | 348
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of Probation Service staff expected to leave the Gloucestershire probation area as a result of (a) natural wastage, (b) retirement and (c) redundancy in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (238535) | 349
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimated share of the total Probation Service budget will be allocated to the Leicestershire probation area in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (238102) | 350
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Probation Service staff will be lost through either natural wastage, retirement or redundancy in the Leicestershire probation area in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (238103) | 351
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the flat cash grant allocation for the Leicestershire probation area is in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (238184) | 352
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many body orifice security scanners have been (a) purchased and (b) installed in prisons in England and Wales since July 2008. | | (238450) | 353
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons operate body orifice security scanners. | | (238451) | 354
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times taxis have been used to transport prisoners and young offenders to and from each (a) prison and (b) young offenders institution in each of the last five years. | | (238452) | 355
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost of using taxis to transport prisoners and young offenders to and from each (a) prison and (b) young offender institutions was in each of the last five years. | | (238453) | 356
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison governors currently in post held the same post (a) one year ago, (b) two years ago and (c) more than two years ago. | | (238454) | 357
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times Operation Safeguard places were used in the last 12 months. | | (238455) | 358
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average nightly cost to his Department of reserving a police cell under Operation Safeguard was in the last 12 months. | | (238456) | 359
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the grant allocation for the London probation area will be in (a) cash and (b) real terms in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (238097) | 360
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated share of national savings from the Probation Service's budget is which falls to the London probation area in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (238098) | 361
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff he estimates will be lost through (a) natural wastage, (b) retirement and (c) redundancy in the London probation area during (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (238099) | 362
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of staff who will leave the Probation Service through (a) natural wastage, (b) retirement and (c) redundancy in the Hampshire probation area in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (238052) | 363
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) flat cash grant allocation, (b) forecast shortfall and (c) estimated share of national Probation Service savings are for the Hampshire probation area for (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (238053) | 364
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238173) | 365
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of judgements made by the European Court of Human Rights which required amendments to UK legislation in the last 10 years; what the date was of each such judgment; and in how many cases such amendments have not been made. | | (238189) | 366
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which postal service provider carried most of the (a) letters and (b) parcels sent by his Department and its predecessor in each of the last three years. | | (238320) | 367
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the flat cash grant allocation is for the North Wales Probation Area for (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (238446) | 368
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of probation service staff expected to leave the Dyfed Powys Probation Area as a result of (a) natural wastage, (b) retirement and (c) redundancy in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (238447) | 369
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the flat cash grant allocation for the Dyfed Powys Probation Area is for (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (238448) | 370
| Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of Probation Service staff expected to leave the South Wales Probation Area as a result of (a) natural wastage, (b) retirement and (c) redundancy in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (238483) | 371
| Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the share of National Probation Service savings which will be achieved by South Wales probation area in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (238498) | 372
| Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the flat cash grant alloaction for the South Wales probation area is for (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (238499) | 373
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many breaches of anti-social behaviour orders in (a) Hemel Hempstead, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) the UK have resulted in a criminal conviction in each year since the inception of such orders. | | (238234) | 374
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many bail hostels there are in each of the principal seaside towns in England. | | (238311) | 375
| Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of drugs offences in the East Midlands in each of the last six years. | | (238083) | 376
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Leader of the House, if she will bring forward plans to reform the House's scrutiny of European legislation. | | (238070) | 377
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238174) | 378
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department uses the Royal Mail as the primary company for sending its post, parcels and packages. | | (238118) | 379
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many legally held weapons have been stolen from properties in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years, broken down by police (a) districts and (b) areas. | | (238073) | 380
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many attempted child abductions were reported to the police in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years, broken down by police (a) district and (b) area. | | (238074) | 381
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry has been to date. | | (238328) | 382
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Prime Minister, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Office has been in the last 12 months. | | (238175) | 383
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Prime Minister, when the annual report of the Intelligence and Security Committee for the year 2007-08 will be published. | | (238429) | 384
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238176) | 385
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which postal service provider carried most of the (a) letters and (b) parcels sent by his Department in each of the last three years. | | (238324) | 386
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Solicitor General, who sits on the Rape Performance Group; on how many occasions it has met since its creation; what advice it has provided to the Government; and what action the Government has taken on the basis of its advice. | | (238431) | 387
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what factors he took into account before deciding to advise local authorities seeking Government funding for major transport schemes that local contributions of (a) 25 per cent. for new light rail schemes and (b) 10 per cent. for new non-light rail schemes are required. | | (238314) | 388
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of the requirement for a 25 per cent. local funding contribution for new light rail schemes on the number of future proposals for new light rail schemes. | | (238315) | 389
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what transport information projects in West Yorkshire have been undertaken under funding schemes sponsored by his Department in each year since its creation. | | (238536) | 390
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent representations he has received from Train Operating Companies on rail fare increases. | | (238135) | 391
| 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 years were killed in a road traffic accident in each local authority area in England in the last 10 years. | | (238330) | 392
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department uses the Royal Mail as the primary company for sending its post, parcels and packages. | | (238121) | 393
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to reduce the levy local authorities are able to charge community groups for events which they hold which require road closures. | | (238407) | 394
| Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many cycle routes have been established in the East Midlands since 1998. | | (238075) | 395
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238178) | 396
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which postal service provider carried most of the (a) letters and (b) parcels sent by his Department in each of the last three years. | | (238323) | 397
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in the Government Equalities Office has been in the last 12 months. | | (238179) | 398
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work-focused interviews in a year a claimant must attend in any one year in order to retain a benefit, broken down by the benefit claimed. | | (238272) | 399
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants there were in (a) the UK and (b) Wellingborough constituency on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (238334) | 400
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new National Insurance numbers excluding those generated automatically on reaching the age of 16 years, have been issued in each (a) London borough and (b) county of England in each of the last five years. | | (238236) | 401
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) blind and (b) partially sighted people living in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency received the mobility component of disability living allowance at the lower rate in each year since 2003. | | (238138) | 402
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months. | | (238180) | 403
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department uses the Royal Mail as the primary company for sending its post, parcels and packages. | | (238124) | 404
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children in Hemel Hempstead were living in absolute poverty in (a) 1997 and (b) 2008; and what percentage of all children living in absolute poverty this represented in each year. | | (238101) | 405
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent by his Department on pensioners per capita in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire in each year since 1997. | | (238106) | 406
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time carers there are. | | (238373) | 407
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of (a) full-time and (b) part-time carers receive benefits. | | (238374) | 408
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many written representations he has received on the Post Office card account. | | (238375) | 409
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much he expects his Department's We're closing in campaign to cost; what estimate he has made of the additional number of fraudulent benefit claimants to be caught as a result of the campaign; and what performance measures have been set for the campaign. | | (238376) | 410
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of Child Support Agency payments have been paid (a) incorrectly and (b) late in the last period for which figures are available. | | (238377) | 411
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobcentres there were in each of the last 10 years. | | (238378) | 412
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of calls reporting benefit fraud led to a successful conviction in the last period for which figures are available. | | (238379) | 413
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on the New Deal programme from its inception to August 2008. | | (238380) | 414
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average expenditure has been on each person who has found employment through the New Deal programme. | | (238381) | 415
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps he has taken to encourage the use of personal private pensions. | | (238382) | 416
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps the Government has taken towards its target to end child poverty by 2020. | | (238383) | 417
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with disabilities his Department employs. | | (238384) | 418
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what performance measures have been established for employment and support allowance. | | (238385) | 419
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for employment and support allowance have been made since its inception, broken down by age group. | | (238386) | 420
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce levels of unemployment. | | (238387) | 421
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much incapacity benefit was paid on average in each week of the last period for which figures are available. | | (238388) | 422
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much employment and support allowance was paid on average in each week of the last period for which figures are available. | | (238389) | 423
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department was paid for the advertising to potential bidders of the Post Office Card Account contract. | | (238390) | 424
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have a Post Office Card Account. | | (238391) | 425
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many overseas visits he has made in his official capacity since his appointment. | | (238392) | 426
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobcentres he has visited in his official capacity since his appointment. | | (238393) | 427
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much on average was paid in (a) incapacity benefit, (b) special disability allowance and (c) income support for the disabled in (i) each principal seaside town, (ii) lower super output area (LSOA) in each such town and (iii) the UK in each year since 1997; and in which ward of each town each LSOA is located. | | (238296) | 428
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) research and (b) analysis his Department has conducted on rates of (i) sickness and (ii) disability benefit claims in (A) coastal towns and (B) principal seaside towns in comparison with average rates for the UK; and if he will make a statement. | | (238297) | 429
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of 16 to 18 year olds were not in education, employment or training in each of the (a) wards and (b) lower layer super output areas in each of the principal seaside towns in England in the last year for which figures are available. | | (238338) | 430
| Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each constituency in the East Midlands received the retirement age addition for persons aged 80 years or over in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (238079) | 431
| Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women in each constituency in the East Midlands receive the care component of disability living allowance at the higher rate. | | (238080) | 432
| Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Bolsover constituency received the winter fuel payment in (a) 2003, (b) 2004, (c) 2005, (d) 2006 and (e) 2007. | | (238081) | 433
| Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of rules on state pension entitlement on people who stay at home to care for (a) children and (b) elderly relatives; and if he will make a statement. | | (238082) | 434
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people over working age with fixed rate mortgages and in receipt of pension credit who will fall into mortgage arrears in the next 12 months following reductions in the standard interest rate component of their benefit. | | (238340) | 435
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff were employed by (a) Jobcentre Plus, (b) the Health and Safety Executive, (c) the Pensions Regulator and (d) the Pension Protection Fund in (i) 2005-06, (ii) 2006-07 and (iii) 2007-08. | | (238202) | 436
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of pension credit claimants received a premium for each type of housing cost in each year since pension credit was introduced. | | (238212) | 437
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost was of the housing cost premium paid out to pension credit claimants in each year since it was introduced. | | (238213) | 438
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) maximum and (b) minimum amount was that can be paid to claimants of the additional housing cost premium of pension credit in each year since its introduction. | | (238214) | 439
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average amount is of the additional housing cost premium of pension credit which has been paid to claimants in receipt of it in each year since its introduction; and if he will make a statement. | | (238215) | 440
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what employment programmes lone parents with children under the age of 12 years will be eligible to take part in once the flexible new deal has been implemented nationally and employment zone contracts have ended; and if he will make a statement. | | (238216) | 441
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employees have been offered early access under Jobcentre Plus's rapid response service to (a) work-based learning for adults, (b) programme centres and (c) rapid response service focused training (i) 12 weeks before the date of redundancy, (ii) between 12 weeks before the date of redundancy and the date of redundancy and (iii) between the date of redundancy and 12 weeks after that date. | | (238217) | 442
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many on-site advice surgeries Jobcentre Plus's rapid response service has carried out in each region in each year since it was established. | | (238218) | 443
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of bids for services from the rapid response service were (a) accepted and (b) rejected because of (i) lack of funding and (ii) the employer and employees not meeting the conditions in each region in each year since the service was established; and if he will make a statement. | | (238219) | 444
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps (a) Jobcentre Plus's rapid response service and (b) Jobcentre Plus staff take to identify companies with employees that may have benefited from the rapid response service. | | (238220) | 445
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on advertising the services offered by Jobcentre Plus's rapid response service to employers in each year since it was established. | | (238221) | 446
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much Jobcentre Plus's rapid response service has cost in each year since it was established. | | (238222) | 447
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff were working in JobCentre Plus's rapid response service in each region in each year since it was established. | | (238223) | 448
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what means his Department has informed employers of the existence of Jobcentre Plus's rapid response service since it was established. | | (238224) | 449
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17th November 2008, Official Report, column 77W, on Employee Assistance Programme, how many requests from staff for services have been received by the Department's Employee Assistance Programme in each category of reason recorded in each year since the programme was established; and if he will make a statement. | | (238226) | 450
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of abolishing the single room rent and paying housing benefit claimants the same rate of benefit irrespective of their age. | | (238227) |
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