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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 8 December 2008
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 8 December 2008
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 8 December of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 8 December of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 8 December see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241182) | 2
| Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what bonuses were paid by his Department in 2007-08; to which members of staff; and for what purposes. | | (240791) | 3
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, by what means businesses in Banbury constituency may access the Small Business Finance Scheme. | | (240395) | 4
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, by what means businesses in Banbury constituency may access the Temporary Loans Fund. | | (240396) | 5
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps UK Trade and Investment takes to ensure that overseas regional trade missions are properly co-cordinated and that the funding is equitable for similar companies. | | (241529) | 6
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when the guidance relating to offering companies free advice without an Overseas Market Introduction Service fee was last changed; and what the content was of that change. | | (241532) | 7
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether there have been any changes in Overseas Market Introduction Service fees in the last 12 months. | | (241923) | 8
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether UK Trade and Investment has changed its strategy in the light of the current world economic crisis. | | (241924) | 9
| Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, on how many occasions since June 2003 the Office of Fair Trading has not responded to a super complaint within 90 days. | | (241616) | 10
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) hotels and (b) bed and breakfast establishments that have declared themselves insolvent since 2003; and if he will make a statement. | | (240335) | 11
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many staff Ofcom employs; at what cost; and what budget has been set for Ofcom for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (240339) | 12
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, in which countries there are no official services delivered on behalf of UK Trade and Investment through the British Embassy, High Commission or Consulate General in that country. | | (240831) | 13
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much his Department spent on employing staff to assist special advisers in each of the last three years. | | (240384) | 14
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department are employed to assist special advisers. | | (240385) | 15
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240991) | 16
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much his Department spent on visits by its staff to Brussels in 2007-08; and how many such visits were made by (a) air and (b) rail. | | (241258) | 17
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many individuals were declared insolvent in each of the last five years; and how many have been registered as insolvent in the current financial year. | | (240651) | 18
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many newly incorporated (a) hotels, (b) restaurants, (c) bars and (d) bed and breakfast establishments were registered with Companies House in each of the last five years. | | (240652) | 19
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many companies involved in the leisure industry went into (a) compulsory and (b) voluntary (i) administration and (ii) liquidation in each region of England and Wales in each of the last five years. | | (240653) | 20
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many hotels went into (a) compulsory and (b) voluntary (i) administration and (ii) liquidation in each region of England and Wales in each of the last five years. | | (240654) | 21
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the eligibility criteria are for applications for loans from the new transition fund. | | (241377) | 22
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of public house closures. | | (241808) | 23
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many businesses have gone bankrupt in each of the last three years. | | (240558) | 24
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many new businesses registered for VAT in Vale of York constituency in each year from 1997. | | (240559) | 25
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many businesses in Vale of York constituency were VAT-registered in each year from 1997. | | (240560) | 26
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the operating costs of the regional development agency for Yorkshire, Yorkshire Forward were in the months of (a) July, (b) August, (c) September and (d) October 2008. | | (241970) | 27
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to his Department's press release of 18 November 2008, what the budget is for the It's Your Call Road Show; when the road show will (a) commence and (b) conclude; which are the 28 towns and cities it will visit; and what were the criteria by which those locations were selected. | | (241639) | 28
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 27 October 2008, Official Report, column 722W, on the Keep Our Future Afloat campaign, to which bodies the North East Regional Development Agency provided funding to be used by the campaign. | | (242015) | 29
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Chichester of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 1149W, on trade unions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of the meeting of 26 June. | | (242038) | 30
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 27 October 2008, Official Report, column 722W, on the Keep your Future Afloat campaign, for what reason the North West Regional Development Agency provided funding to the campaign; and what expenditure the campaign undertook as a result of the funding provided. | | (242039) | 31
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, column 545W, on regulation: departmental co-ordination, whether the Code of Practice on Guidance applies to (a) non-departmental public bodies and (b) arms-length public sector regulators. | | (242044) | 32
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr of 10 November 2008, Official Report, column 907W, on Members' interests, if he will place in the Library a copy of the declaration made by the Secretary of State to the Permanent Secretary of his Department. | | (242046) | 33
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer of 10 November 2008, Official Report, column 907W, on the political levy, what guidance his Department issues on whether material which promotes a political party may be sent out with the ballot papers for the political levy ballot; and if he will make a statement. | | (242047) | 34
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241945) | 35
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many members of staff in his Department and its predecessor have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties in each of the last three years; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (242023) | 36
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the monetary value of trade between the UK and Australia was in each of the last five years. | | (240850) | 37
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much his Department spent on promoting trade between the UK and Australia in each of the last five years. | | (240851) | 38
| 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 Isle of Man in each of the last three years. | | (240874) | 39
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer of 20 November 2008, Official Report, column 679W, on Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: telephone services, when he expects Ofcom's new guidance to be published. | | (241058) | 40
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240479) | 41
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will make it his policy to exempt the Royal National Lifeboat Institution from payment of radio licence fees; and if he will make a statement. | | (240291) | 42
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the vote in the European Parliament scheduled for 17 December 2008 on amendments to the EU Working Time Directive; and if he will make a statement. | | (241085) | 43
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what requirements there are on businesses to indicate the reduction in the price of their products made in consequence of the reduction of the rate of value added tax. | | (240821) | 44
| Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the provisions of the European Commission's EU Recovery Plan; and if he will make a statement. | | (241326) | 45
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many staff in (a) his Department and its predecessor, (b) its agencies and (c) the non-departmental bodies for which his Department has responsibility have received sick pay for sick leave due to (i) stress and (ii) mental health and behavioural disorders in each of the last 10 years; what the average length of time was for which sick pay was paid in these cases; and if he will make a statement. | | (241091) | 46
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much was paid in sick pay to staff (a) his Department and its predecessor, (b) its agencies and (c) the non-departmental bodies for which his Department has responsibility in each of the last five years; what proportion of the annual staffing expenditure of each body this represented in each year; and if he will make a statement. | | (241092) | 47
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and its predecessor, (b) its agencies and (c) the non-departmental bodies for which his Department has responsibility have taken sick days due to (i) stress and (ii) mental health and behavioural disorders in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241093) | 48
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the average duration of single periods of sick leave taken by staff in (a) his Department and its predecessor, (b) its agencies and (c) the non-departmental bodies for which his Department has responsibility was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241094) | 49
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many sick days were taken by employees in his Department and its predecessor, (b) its agencies and (c) the non-departmental bodies for which his Department has responsibility due to (i) stress and (ii) mental health and behavioural disorders in each of the last 10 years; what proportion of sick days taken in each body this represented in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (241204) | 50
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the average duration of single periods of sick leave taken by staff in (a) his Department and its predecessor, (b) its agencies and (c) the non-departmental bodies for which his Department has responsibility who gave (i) stress and (ii) mental health and behavioural disorders as the reason for their absence was in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241352) | 51
N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, for what reasons the letter sent to his Department by the hon. Member for Walsall North dated 5 November 2008 regarding a constituent was not referred to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport until the end of November. | | (240351) | 52
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241244) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 53
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241188) | 54
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the economic impact of the revised rates of air passenger duty on air travel (a) to, (b) from and (c) within the Highlands and Islands of Scotland; and if he will make a statement. | | (240702) | 55
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in his Department are engaged in work on the UK's potential membership of the euro. | | (240962) | 56
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects to publish the recent assessment of the UK's performance against the five economic tests for joining the euro. | | (240963) | 57
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in his Department were engaged in preparatory work for the recent assessment of the UK's performance against the five economic tests for joining the euro. | | (240964) | 58
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter dated 24 September 2008 and subsequent correspondence from the hon. Member for Billericay regarding a constituent, Mr D Randall. | | (240682) | 59
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of income tax receipts were paid by the wealthiest (a) one per cent., (b) five per cent., (c) 10 per cent., (d) 25 per cent. and (e) 50 per cent. of the population in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (241144) | 60
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimate is of the number of households likely to (a) qualify for and (b) take up the mortgage interest deferral scheme; and what his estimate is of the cost of the scheme in (i) 2009 and (ii) 2010. | | (240769) | 61
N | Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to establish a means-tested hardship fund for policyholders following the near-collapse of Equitable Life. | | (241143) | 62
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people who will be earning £10,000 or less per annum and paying (a) national insurance contributions and (b) income tax in 2009-10. | | (240508) | 63
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 125 of the Pre-Budget Report for 2008, which three years are to be covered by the £50 million of funding for the low-carbon sector; and if he will break down this funding by (a) year and (b) project. | | (240318) | 64
| Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many companies had taken up the childcare vouchers scheme at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (241318) | 65
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what appraisals were made of (a) the sustainability impact and (b) the carbon and climate change impact of the Pre-Budget Review; and if he will (i) publish on the Treasury website and (b) place in the Library copies of such appraisals. | | (241975) | 66
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the collectable balance of outstanding debt was on (a) 30 April 2007 and (b) 31 October 2008. | | (241095) | 67
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes in workforce levels on collection of outstanding debts in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008. | | (241096) | 68
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much staff of each grade in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on first class travel in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available. | | (240382) | 69
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of tax revenue received by the Exchequer from taxation of private medical treatment provided by employers to employees in 2007-08. | | (240807) | 70
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240992) | 71
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assumptions have been made on the net present value of public-private partnership projects for the purposes of preparing the Pre-Budget Report for 2008. | | (241355) | 72
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assumptions are made by his Department when estimating the effects of inflation on future public-private partnership costs. | | (241356) | 73
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discount rate of capital is used when determining the net present value of public-private partnership projects; and what risk premium is included in that rate. | | (241357) | 74
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effects on sterling of the scale of bank deposits and other short-term instruments held by non-residents. | | (240262) | 75
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the (a) sterling and (b) foreign currency liabilities due to non-residents in less than six months (i) in cash terms, (ii) as a proportion of UK gross domestic product and (iii) as a proportion of short-term foreign currency assets of the UK authorities and banking institutions. | | (240301) | 76
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of singleton breweries which produce between (a) 30,000 and 49,999, (b) 50,000 and 99,999, (c) 100,000 and 149,999 and (d) 150,000 and 200,000 hectolitres per year. | | (240644) | 77
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to his Department was of the Small Brewers Relief Scheme in each of the last five years. | | (240645) | 78
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the percentage of brewers that are eligible for the Small Brewers Relief Scheme; how many breweries took advantage of the scheme in each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement. | | (240646) | 79
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Exchequer received in alcohol duties in each year since 1997, expressed in (a) cash terms and (b) 2008-09 prices. | | (240647) | 80
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of total tax revenue was made up by alcohol taxes in each of the last five years. | | (240648) | 81
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of total tax revenue he expects to be made up by alcohol taxes in each of the next three years. | | (240649) | 82
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many VAT-registered (a) hotels, (b) guest houses, (c) bed and breakfast establishments and (d) licensed premises there were in each of the last five years. | | (240650) | 83
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect on the price of (a) a pint of beer, (b) a bottle of wine and (c) a bottle of spirits of the measures announced in the Pre-Budget Report 2008 in each year to 2011-12. | | (240865) | 84
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what economic (a) assumptions and (b) formula his Department uses to calculate the effects of alcohol duty on the price of a (i) pint of beer, (ii) bottle of wine and (iii) bottle of spirits. | | (240866) | 85
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Treasury of extending the reduced rate of duty on beer for beer from singleton breweries that produce (a) 50,000 hectolitres, (b) 100,000 hectolitres, (c) 150,000 hectolitres and (d) 200,000 hectolitres per year. | | (240869) | 86
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what changes have been made to alcohol duties in each year since 1997. | | (241066) | 87
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level per hectolitre of each type of alcohol duty was in each year since 1997. | | (241067) | 88
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the evidential basis was for the statement in the 2008 Pre-Budget Report that 70 per cent. of all empty properties would be covered by the temporary increase in the threshold for empty property relief. | | (241811) | 89
| Mr Oliver Letwin (West Dorset): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Table B17 of the Pre-Budget Report 2008, Cm 7484, which departments will have their (a) resource and (b) capital departmental expenditure limits increased in the current financial year; and what each increase will be, expressed in near-cash terms. | | (241814) | 90
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Government-owned assets have been sold in each year since 1997; and how much each asset was sold for. | | (241155) | 91
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what are (a) his Department's and (b) HM Revenue and Customs' definition of pre-surplus staff; and what the criteria are under which an individual is added to the pre-surplus staff database. | | (241745) | 92
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what advice the Office of Government Commerce has provided on the use of break clauses in Government contracts to allow public sector bodies to leave a contract if there is a change of policy as a consequence of a change in the Government. | | (241746) | 93
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what bodies store the data for transactions made through the Government Procurement Card. | | (241752) | 94
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a full copy of the advice produced by the Civil Service for Ministers dated 22 May 1997 on consideration of options - company taxation that was released in part by his Department on 30 March 2007. | | (241758) | 95
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 7 October 2008, Official Report, column 593W, on departmental security, how many departmental passes were (a) lost and (b) stolen, in the same period, amongst (i) HM Revenue and Customs and (ii) the Valuation Office Agency. | | (241929) | 96
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 6 November 2008, Official Report, column 680W, on departmental personnel, how many staff within (a) HM Revenue & Customs and (b) the Valuation Office Agency are classified as pre-surplus. | | (241937) | 97
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 10 November 2008, Official Report, columns 936-37W, on political parties: finance, if he will place a copy of the booklet in the Library. | | (242040) | 98
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 10 November 2008, Official Report, columns 936-37W, on political parties: finance, whether it is the policy of HM Revenue and Customs that payments made to the Parliamentary Labour Party by hon. Members are tax-deductible. | | (242041) | 99
N | Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) average and (b) marginal rate of income tax is for each man who is a single earner with a wife and two children with earnings of (i) £10,000 a year and (ii) within each £5,000 band above £10,000 up to £200,000; how many such persons are in each income band announced in the Pre-Budget Report 2008; and how much such a person in each income band will have (A) as additional income and (B) to pay in tax and duties as a consequence of the measures. | | (241139) | 100
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent from the public purse on mitigating the effects of the credit crunch in terms of (a) liquidity provision, (b) loan guarantees, (c) bail-outs, (d) bank recapitalisations, (e) assistance to industry, (f) assistance to the mortgage market, (g) provision for housebuilding, (h) other public works programmes, (i) credit crunch-related tax reductions and (j) other credit crunch-related expenditure; and how much he estimates will be spent on each of these categories in each of the next five years. | | (242048) | 101
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date the Valuation Office Agency was instructed to value port businesses for rating purposes; when the valuation process began; which ports businesses have been valued so far; and which remain to be valued. | | (241083) | 102
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the services to mortgage holders being offered by banks recapitalised with public funds. | | (240278) | 103
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the economy of absenteeism amongst workers as a result of headaches. | | (241420) | 104
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations his Department has received on the removal of empty property tax relief for commercial premises; what assessment he has made of the representations; and if he will make a statement. | | (241547) | 105
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of recent changes to empty property tax relief on the involvement of developers in regeneration schemes; what representations he has received from developers on this matter; and if he will make a statement. | | (241552) | 106
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on IP addresses, which departments use the Government Secure Intranet; and for what purposes. | | (241554) | 107
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has been generated from the abolition of empty property tax relief since April 2008. | | (241699) | 108
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the revenue that will be generated from the abolition of empty property tax relief in this tax year. | | (241700) | 109
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the average value of tax on empty property paid by businesses since April 2008. | | (241701) | 110
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of empty commercial properties incurring tax demands in each month since April 2007. | | (241702) | 111
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241962) | 112
N | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he expects to be consulted on the size of any stock bonuses awarded to Lloyds TSB directors during (a) 2008 and (b) 2009. | | (240442) | 113
N | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimate is of the effect of the changes in value added tax announced in the Pre-Budget Report 2008 on the financial services sector. | | (240444) | 114
N | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the alternative funding models being considered for the Royal Mint include the option of privatisation. | | (240445) | 115
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) remit and (b) primary objective of the review relating to Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories announced in the Pre-Budget Report 2008 is. | | (240811) | 116
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to meet representatives from the government of Isle of Man to discuss the Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander banking collapse in the next two months. | | (240818) | 117
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240462) | 118
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to change the designation for VAT purposes of products designed to protect children from the sun; and if he will make a statement. | | (240290) | 119
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will meet with representatives of the School Wear Association in order to discuss VAT on school uniforms. | | (240447) | 120
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to monitor and provide estimates of the amount of unpaid work undertaken in the economy; and if he will make a statement. | | (240448) | 121
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to change the definition for VAT purposes of children's clothing from clothing to fit an average-sized 13 year old and smaller to that which fits an average-sized 15 year old and smaller; and if he will make a statement. | | (240449) | 122
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what revenue has been generated by national non-domestic rates in each of the last five years (a) nationally and (b) in each region. | | (241468) | 123
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many individual cases of tax credit overpayments his Department has taken to court to seek recovery of overpayments in (a) each month of 2008-09 and (b) each year from 2003-04 to 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (240303) | 124
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's estimate is of the effect on receipts to the Exchequer of increasing the taper rate on tax credits to (a) 46 per cent., (b) 45 per cent., (c) 44 per cent. and (d) 43 per cent. in 2009; what his estimate is of the number of people who would no longer be eligible for tax credits in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (240308) | 125
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of each of the scripts used by tax credit helpline staff. | | (241459) | 126
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is the policy of his Department's tax credit helpline to offer a callback to callers upon request. | | (241460) | 127
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether tax credit helpline call centres have caller identification technology in place. | | (241461) | 128
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) longest, (b) shortest and (c) average length of call to (i) the claimants' and (ii) hon. Members' tax credit helpline was in each of the last 24 months. | | (241462) | 129
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how long on average it took for calls to (a) the claimants' and (b) hon. Members' tax credit helpline to be answered in each of the last 24 months. | | (241463) | 130
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls were (a) received, (b) handled and (c) unanswered by (i) the claimants' and (ii) hon. Members' tax credit helpline in each of the last 24 months. | | (241464) | 131
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls have been received by the hon. Members' tax credit helpline in each month since it was established. | | (241465) | 132
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints about tax credits have been received by the tax credit office in each of the last 24 months, broken down by mode of communication. | | (241466) | 133
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many new claims for tax credits have been made in each of the last 24 months. | | (241467) | 134
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he intends to publish a response to the consultation on the tax credit system; and if he will make a statement. | | (241940) | 135
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what percentage of tax credit claimants have been underpaid more than (a) once, (b) twice, (c) three times and (d) four times since their claim began. | | (241943) | 136
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what percentage of tax credit claimants have been overpaid more than (a) once, (b) twice, (c) three times and (d) four times since their claim began. | | (241968) | 137
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average cost of pursuing a court case for tax credit overpayment recovery was in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c) 2008 to date. | | (241969) | 138
N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when a reply will be sent to the hon. Member for Walsall North's letter of 16 October 2008, regarding a constituent, ref: 2/01966/2008. | | (240354) | 139
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241239) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 140
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241178) | 141
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what guidance his Department issues to schools on reducing obesity levels among persons aged under 16 years; what recent representations he has received on the issue; and if he will make a statement. | | (241140) | 142
| Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department spent on (a) entertainment, (b) advertising and promotion and (c) public relations consultancy in 2007-08. | | (240787) | 143
| Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what bonuses were paid by his Department in 2007-08; to which members of staff; and for what purposes. | | (240788) | 144
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he is taking to reduce the proportion of young people frequently using (a) illegal drugs, (b) alcohol and (c) volatile substances. | | (240728) | 145
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children were on the Child Protection Register in the year ended March (a) 2004, (b) 2005, (c) 2006, (d) 2007 and (e) 2008. | | (241744) | 146
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessments the (a) Commission for Social Care Inspection and (b) OFSTED has made of children's services in the London Borough of Haringey in each of the last six years. | | (240485) | 147
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what procedures his Department has in place for reviewing serious case reviews; and what guidance he has given his officials on the circumstances in which such reviews should be drawn to the attention of Ministers. | | (240486) | 148
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent steps his Department has taken to provide support for children diagnosed with diabetes; and if he will make a statement. | | (240489) | 149
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will fund an increase in emergency refuge accommodation for young people in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10; and if he will make a statement. | | (240491) | 150
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department has allocated for the training of (a) youth workers and (b) social service practitioners to enable early identification of young people at risk in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (240492) | 151
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that schools provide appropriate support for children diagnosed with diabetes; and if he will make a statement. | | (241042) | 152
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department has allocated for expenditure on support for children diagnosed with diabetes in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241072) | 153
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment his Department has made of the way in which inspectorates responsible for children's services discharged their responsibilities in respect of the London Borough of Haringey's children's services. | | (241274) | 154
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children were on the Child Protection Register in each region in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (241395) | 155
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children on the Child Protection Register in each region were not allocated a social worker in each year between 1997 and 3 August 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (241396) | 156
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children on the Child Protection Register in each region have not been allocated a social worker since 9 September 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (241397) | 157
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children on the Child Protection Register in each London borough were not allocated a social worker in each year between 1997 and 3 August 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (241398) | 158
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children on the Child Protection Register in each London borough have not been allocated a social worker since 9 September 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (241399) | 159
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children on the Child Protection Register were taken into care in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (241400) | 160
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average number of cases allocated to each child protection social worker in each region was in each year between 1997 and 3 August 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (241401) | 161
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average number of cases allocated to each child protection social worker in each London borough was in each year between 1997 and 3 August 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (241402) | 162
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average number of cases allocated to each child protection social worker in each region has been since 9 September 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (241403) | 163
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average number of cases allocated to each child protection social worker in each London borough has been since 9 September 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (241404) | 164
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many home visits a child considered to be at (a) low risk and (b) high risk received from an allocated health visitor in the first two years following assessment in each London borough between 9 September 2008 and the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (241911) | 165
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children on the Child Protection Register in each region had not been allocated a health visitor in each year between 1997 and 3 August 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (241933) | 166
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children on the Child Protection Register in each London borough had not been allocated a health visitor in each year between 1997 and 3 August 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (241934) | 167
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children on the Child Protection Register in each London borough had not been allocated a health visitor between 9 September 2008 and the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (241935) | 168
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children on the Child Protection Register in each region had not been allocated a health visitor between 9 September 2008 and the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (241936) | 169
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children have been excluded from school for being HIV positive in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (240344) | 170
| Mr Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what conditions apply to the award of £10.7 million to Stoke-on-Trent under the primary capital programme. | | (240300) | 171
| Mr Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether local authorities will be required under the primary capital programme to reduce primary pupil places across the whole authority as a condition of spending the funding awarded under the programme. | | (241205) | 172
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 10 November 2008, Official Report, column 900W, on specialist schools: languages, which specialist schools have chosen languages as one of their specialisms. | | (240583) | 173
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, columns 635-6W, on general certificate of secondary education, which qualifications other than GCSEs were included as equivalents. | | (240584) | 174
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in how many comprehensive schools 50 per cent. or more of pupils achieved a modern languages GCSE at grade A* to C in 2007. | | (240883) | 175
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1836W, on the education maintenance allowance, how many students had (a) received a notice of entitlement for the education maintenance allowance, (b) successfully enrolled and (c) received at least one payment by (i) November 2006 and (ii) November 2007. | | (241515) | 176
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 16 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1502-3W, on schools: assessments, which mainstream schools did not enter any pupils for A-history. | | (241518) | 177
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 21 October 2008, Official Report, columns 326-7W, on departmental publications, which documents his Department has circulated in exceptional circumstances to schools since December 2004. | | (241592) | 178
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will estimate the cost to his predecessor department of preparing the Answer of 17 April 2007, Official Report, columns 549-52W, on GCSE. | | (241663) | 179
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 7 November 2008, Official Report, columns 118-21W, on gifted and talented youth, how many and what proportion of secondary school pupils participate in the Young, Gifted and Talented Programme, broken down by local authority. | | (241671) | 180
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 8 November 2006, Official Report, column 1742W, on GCSEs, how many and what proportion of pupils achieved GCSEs at A* to C in two foreign languages in each year since 1996. | | (241691) | 181
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of pupils eligible to receive free school meals attained a GCSE in (a) physics, (b) chemistry and (c) biology in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (241793) | 182
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of comprehensive schools offer GCSEs in the separate sciences to all pupils, broken down by local authority. | | (241794) | 183
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the interim learning providers' portal used in the administration of the Education Maintenance Allowance; and if he will make a statement. | | (241795) | 184
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which schools have been removed from the National Challenge as a consequence of their 2008 GCSE results. | | (241869) | 185
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his estimate is of the number of unregulated and unregistered educational institutions in England used by local education authorities. | | (241870) | 186
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what consideration his Department gives when issuing guidance to the time teachers will be required to spend familiarising themselves with new information. | | (241871) | 187
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, at how many maintained mainstream schools (a) 50 per cent. or more and (b) 75 per cent. or more of pupils did not attain any GCSE grades higher than a D in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (241872) | 188
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 2 November 2005, Official Report, column 1207-11W, on science, what percentage of those students who gained (a) a GCSE, (b) an A-level and (c) an AS-level in (i) biology or human biology, (ii) chemistry and (iii) physics in each year since 2000 were educated in (A) the state sector and (B) the independent sector, broken down by grade. | | (241876) | 189
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the cost to his predecessor Department of preparing the Answer of 2 November 2005, Official Report, column 1207-11W, on science. | | (241877) | 190
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 489W, on the General Certificate of Secondary Education, if he will provide an itemised breakdown of the estimated cost of providing the requested information in full. | | (241878) | 191
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 489W, on the General Certificate of Secondary Education, how many and what proportion of (a) all pupils and (b) pupils eligible to receive free school meals did not attain any GCSE grades higher than an E in each year since 2002. | | (241879) | 192
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of children in the 10 per cent. (a) most and (b) least deprived areas received (i) at least five GCSEs at A* to C including English and mathematics in 2008, (ii) level 5 or above at key stage 3 in 2006, (c) level 4 or above at key stage 2 in 2003 and (iv) level 2 or above at key stage 1 in 1999. | | (240590) | 193
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of children who attended Sure Start centres received level 2 or above at key stage 1 for all years for which data are available. | | (240591) | 194
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of children on (a) free school meals and (b) not on free school meals received (i) at least five GCSEs at A* - C including English and mathematics in 2008, (ii) level 5 or above at key stage 3 in 2006, (iv) level 4 or above at key stage 2 in 2003 and (iv) level 2 or above at key stage 1 in 1999. | | (240592) | 195
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of all guidance distributed to local councils and other bodies on procurement for the Building Schools for the Future programme. | | (240593) | 196
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children are currently being taught in temporary facilities. | | (240594) | 197
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) male and (b) female teachers there are in (i) Sure Start centres and (ii) nursery schools. | | (240595) | 198
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which (a) schools and (b) local authorities will receive extra funding in each of the next two years for school capital projects as a result of the pre-budget report announcement. | | (240596) | 199
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of teachers who qualified in each year since 1997 are known to be teaching in maintained schools. | | (240597) | 200
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teachers in the maintained sector will reach retirement age in each of the next five years. | | (240598) | 201
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many qualified teachers under the age of 60 are (a) not currently teaching and (b) not currently teaching in maintained schools. | | (240599) | 202
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the estimated cost is of providing (a) diplomas and (b) academic diplomas in (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10, (iii) 2010-11 and (iv) 2011-12. | | (240600) | 203
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many gifted and talented pupils (a) eligible for and (b) not eligible for free school meals who obtained level 4 or above in key stage 2 tests in 2003 did not obtain five GCSEs at grade A* to C in 2007. | | (240601) | 204
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of gifted and talented pupils did not obtain five GCSEs at grades A* to C, including English and mathematics, in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (240602) | 205
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many national curriculum test papers from 2008 schools have asked to be re-marked. | | (240603) | 206
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a list of the roles no longer in existence in (a) his Department and (b) its bodies as a result of the Gershon review. | | (240604) | 207
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies spent on (a) entertainment, (b) hospitality and (c) advertising in 2007-08. | | (240605) | 208
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils studying for (a) further mathematics, (b) physics, (c) chemistry and (d) mathematics A-level have been in receipt of education maintenance allowance in each year since its introduction; and what the equivalent number was in the year before its introduction. | | (240606) | 209
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many days of sick leave were taken by teachers in maintained schools in the last year, broken down by type of illness. | | (240607) | 210
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the estimated cost to local authorities was of teachers' (a) absence and (b) sick leave in each of the last five years. | | (240608) | 211
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average salary for supply teachers in maintained schools was in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (240609) | 212
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of children obtained five GCSEs at grades A* to C including English and mathematics in schools (a) with fewer than 10 per cent., (b) with more than 20 per cent. and (c) with more than 50 per cent. free school meals pupils in the last three years. | | (240610) | 213
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what (a) pay, (b) conditions and (c) pensions and other benefits are stipulated in legislation for classroom assistants; and what such categories will be stipulated in statute if the proposals announced in the Queen's Speech were enacted. | | (240611) | 214
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of pupils classed as persistent absentees were absent from school for more than (a) 100, (b) 150, (c) 200, (d) 250 and (e) 300 sessions of school in the 2007-08 academic year. | | (240612) | 215
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of (a) male and (b) female (i) free school meal and (ii) non-free school meal pupils have been classed as persistent absentees in each of the last three years. | | (240613) | 216
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils have had (a) one, (b) two and (c) more than five unauthorised absences in the latest year for which data are available. | | (240614) | 217
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are no longer in education or training as a result of the delay in making education maintenance allowance payments. | | (240615) | 218
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of (a) male and (b) female pupils eligible for free school meals are studying for the 14-19 diplomas. | | (240616) | 219
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of (a) male and (b) female pupils studying for the 14-19 diplomas are eligible for free school meals. | | (240617) | 220
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much was spent on bonuses by each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies in the last year for which data are available. | | (240618) | 221
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what qualifications are considered equivalent to (a) GCSE and (b) A level by his Department. | | (240619) | 222
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of children obtained five good GCSEs including English and mathematics, excluding equivalents, in each year since 1997. | | (240620) | 223
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of (a) boys and (b) girls in (i) pupil referral units, (ii) alternative provision and (iii) special schools obtained at least five A* to C including English and mathematics at GCSE in 2008. | | (240621) | 224
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of (a) boys and (b) girls in (i) pupil referral units, (ii) alternative provision and (iii) special schools obtained at least five A* to C GCSEs in 2008. | | (240622) | 225
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of (a) boys and (b) girls in (i) pupil referral units, (ii) alternative provision and (iii) special schools obtained at least one C grade or above at GCSE in 2008. | | (240623) | 226
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of pupils in pupil referral units (a) were entered for key stage 3 tests, (b) were working below the level of the key stage 3 tests, (c) did not register a level in the key stage 3 tests, (d) registered level 1, (e) registered level 2 and (f) registered level (i) 3, (ii) 4, (iii) 5, (iv) 6, (v) 7 and (vi) 8 in each of the last three years. | | (240624) | 227
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he expects all national curriculum test papers from 2008 to have been re-marked and returned to schools. | | (240625) | 228
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on entertainment and hospitality in each year since 1997. | | (240626) | 229
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils registered as gifted and talented did not sit at least one A level examination in 2008. | | (240627) | 230
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) male and (b) female pupils receiving free school meals received (i) one or more, (ii) five or more and (iii) 10 or more fixed period exclusions in each of the last 10 years. | | (240628) | 231
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which maintained schools are offering (a) the international baccalaureate and (b) the pre-U examination in 2008-09. | | (240629) | 232
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils eligible for free school meals who (a) obtained and (b) did not obtain level 4 in key stage 2 tests in 2003 did not obtain (i) five GCSEs at A*to C and (ii) five GCSEs at A* to C including English and mathematics. | | (240630) | 233
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which independent schools are offering diplomas, broken down by diploma type. | | (240631) | 234
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a list of (a) schools and (b) school consortia offering the 14-19 diplomas, listing (i) which diplomas are being offered and (ii) how many pupils are entered for them in each case. | | (240632) | 235
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much has been spent on consultants by (a) his Department and (b) each non-departmental public body of the Department in each of the last three years, broken down by consultancy. | | (240633) | 236
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the net present value is of current (a) departmental employees and (b) teachers' pensions. | | (240634) | 237
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department has spent on the expenses of (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years. | | (240635) | 238
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of (a) teachers and (b) classroom assistants in (i) primary, (ii) maintained secondary, (iii) pupil referral units and (iv) special schools are male. | | (240636) | 239
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many special schools there were in (a) 1997, (b) 2001 and (c) the last year for which data are available. | | (240637) | 240
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what advertising expenditure (a) his Department and its predecessors and (b) its non-departmental public bodies have incurred in each of the last five years, broken down by budget heading. | | (240638) | 241
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of appeals against permanent exclusion have been upheld in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority area. | | (240639) | 242
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teachers who have qualified since 1997 are no longer in the profession. | | (240640) | 243
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average funding per pupil was for maintained (a) secondary and (b) primary school pupils in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (240641) | 244
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many secondary schools have had (a) 1,500 or more and (b) 2,000 or more pupils in each of the last 10 years. | | (240642) | 245
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teachers under the age of 60 have left the profession since 1997. | | (240643) | 246
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 28 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1011-12W, on specialised diplomas, how many people who embarked on a diploma course in each local authority embarked on a (a) foundation, (b) higher and (c) advanced level. | | (240796) | 247
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240990) | 248
| Mr Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding the Government has released to local authorities within the Tyne and Wear area for the maintenance of existing children's play areas and the establishment of new ones in the last 12 months. | | (241098) | 249
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children under the age of (a) five, (b) 10 and (c) 15 years were temporarily excluded from state schools in England and Wales for (i) attacking another pupil or teacher, (ii) having drunk alcohol at or before school or having alcohol with them and (iii) carrying an offensive weapon in each year since 1997, broken down by local education authority area. | | (241270) | 250
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what information his Department holds on the level of agreement between teacher assessments and results in (a) Key Stage 1, (b) Key Stage 2, (c) Key Stage 3 and (d) Key Stage 4 tests. | | (241583) | 251
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the level of agreement between teacher assessments and Key Stage Test results; and if he will make a statement. | | (241584) | 252
| 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. | | (241618) | 253
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what sanctions he plans to impose on Liberata for failing to make education maintenance allowance payments on time; and if he will make a statement. | | (241619) | 254
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children have been taken into care in each year since 1997, broken down by reasons for being taken into care. | | (241620) | 255
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many Fresh Start schools have opened in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement. | | (241621) | 256
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recurrent additional capital funding specialist schools receive to support their specialism; and if he will make a statement. | | (241622) | 257
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what resources his Department makes available to support school partnerships and collaborations; and if he will make a statement. | | (241626) | 258
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether people aged between 16 and 18 years in full-time education studying (a) school sixth forms, (b) sixth form colleges, (c) further education colleges and (d) academies, whose parents fulfill the qualifying criteria, are entitled to free lunches; and if he will make a statement. | | (241627) | 259
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what additional funding allocations will be made for the delivery of the new diplomas in each year from 2008-09 to 2011-12; and if he will make a statement. | | (241628) | 260
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools in each local education authority provide wraparound school care. | | (241629) | 261
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of 15 year olds (a) not entitled and (b) entitled to free school meals achieved (i) five GCSEs at A* to C and (ii) five GCSEs at A* to C including English and mathematics, in each year since 1997. | | (241630) | 262
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many people enrolled on an entry to employment programme have had education maintenance allowance payments delayed because of technical problems; and if he will make a statement. | | (241631) | 263
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of pupils is entitled to free school meals in each secondary school which does not have specialist status; and if he will make a statement. | | (241632) | 264
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many secondary schools do not have specialist status; and if he will make a statement. | | (241633) | 265
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department plans to spend on programmes for gifted and talented young people in each financial year from 2008-09 to 2011-12; and if he will make a statement. | | (241634) | 266
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which of his Department's initiatives are delivered in partnership with schools; and what the cost of each was in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available. | | (241635) | 267
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the written Ministerial Statement of 13 November 2008, Official Report, columns 61-2WS, on secondary school improvement, what schools are classified as coasting in each local authority; and if he will make a statement. | | (241850) | 268
| 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. | | (241851) | 269
| 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. | | (241852) | 270
| 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. | | (241853) | 271
| 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. | | (241854) | 272
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in how many schools over 30 per cent. of pupils received a fixed period exclusion in the last year for which figures are available. | | (241880) | 273
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils received a fixed period exclusion from school in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by index of multiple deprivation decile. | | (241881) | 274
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many infants were in classes of over 30 pupils in each year since 1997. | | (241882) | 275
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the annual cost of pre-tests for (a) key stage one, (b) key stage two and (c) key stage three; and if he will make a statement. | | (241886) | 276
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many representations his Department has received from social workers on child protection issues in the last 18 months; and to which authorities these were referred. | | (241889) | 277
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many serious case reviews have been conducted into the (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries of children in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area. | | (241890) | 278
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of secondary school pupils are participating in the young, gifted and talented programme in each local authority area. | | (241891) | 279
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils in maintained schools were entered for individual science GCSE examinations in (a) biology, (b) chemistry and (c) physics in each year since 1992. | | (241892) | 280
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which of Lord Laming's recommendations made in the report of the Victoria Climbié inquiry are yet to be implemented; and how many were implemented within the recommended timescales. | | (241893) | 281
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which local authority children's services were placed in special measures in each of the last five years. | | (241894) | 282
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of (a) maintained, (b) specialist science, (c) grammar and (d) independent schools offered triple science GCSE courses in physics, chemistry and biology in each year since 1992. | | (241895) | 283
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools in England and Wales have produced a disability equality scheme since the entry into force of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005. | | (242001) | 284
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans he has to help rural schools collaborate in offering diploma courses. | | (242003) | 285
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effects of academy schools on educational attainment in areas of relative (a) wealth and (b) deprivation. | | (242004) | 286
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils took advanced extension awards in (a) the state sector and (b) the independent sector in each year since 1997. | | (242005) | 287
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which young offender institutions have been found by inspectors to be providing too narrow a curriculum; and what steps he is taking to remedy the issue. | | (242006) | 288
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how he plans to monitor compliance by schools with the provision of section 81 of the Education and Skills Act 2008. | | (242007) | 289
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether sixth form colleges will be included under the Building Schools for the Future programme after 2010; and if he will make a statement. | | (242008) | 290
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, who the members were of the panel for the serious case review for the child known as Baby P. | | (240755) | 291
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many local authorities' children's services were placed in special measures in each of the last five years. | | (240756) | 292
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether any of the Ofsted inspectors who undertook the recent inspection of Haringey child protection services took part in the (a) 2007 Annual Performance Assessment and (b) 2006 Joint Area Review. | | (240757) | 293
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many Part 8 reviews into child deaths occurred in each local authority area in each of the last five years. | | (240758) | 294
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many representations his Department has received in the last 18 months from social workers raising concerns about child protection matters in each local authority in the last 18 months. | | (240760) | 295
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many serious case reviews have been conducted into the deaths or serious injuries of children in each local authority area in each of the last five years. | | (240761) | 296
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children in care were eligible for free school meals in each of the last five years. | | (240762) | 297
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, who the members were of the cross-department assessment panel convened to assess bids for intensive intervention projects; and whether any members of the panel declared an interest. | | (240764) | 298
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children who had ever been in care whilst at their present school were in their school's gifted and talented cohort in each of the last five years. | | (240765) | 299
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children who had ever been in care whilst at their present school in each local authority were in their school's gifted and talented cohort at the latest date for which information is available. | | (240766) | 300
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what criteria his Department plans to use to assess the effectiveness of intensive intervention projects. | | (240768) | 301
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to his Statement of 20 November 2008, Official Report, column 376, on safeguarding children, what professional advice he was given regarding the publication of the serious case review; and from whom. | | (240898) | 302
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Stafford of 11 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1067-8W, on children in care: crime, what the estimated total cost of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders has been since its inception. | | (240899) | 303
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in which month he expects Lord Laming to submit his report on progress in implementing effective arrangements for safeguarding children. | | (241036) | 304
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children are in care in each (a) primary and (b) secondary school in each of the principal seaside towns in England. | | (241502) | 305
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils in care achieved three A grades at A Level in 2008; and how many pupils in care did not gain a single grade C or above at GCSE in 2008. | | (241503) | 306
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of (a) pupils in care, (b) pupils not in care 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. | | (241506) | 307
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many primary school pupils at key stage 2 have been children in care in each year since 2000; and how many of those were among the five per cent. identified as most talented. | | (241557) | 308
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many gifted and talented pupils (a) in care and (b) not in care whom obtained level 4 or above in Key Stage 2 tests in 2003 did not obtain five GCSEs at A* to C in 2007. | | (241713) | 309
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils (a) in care and (b) not in care whom (i) obtained and (ii) did not obtain level 4 in Key Stage 2 tests in 2003 did not obtain five GCSEs at A* to C in 2007. | | (241714) | 310
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): 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) who were children in care in (i) secondary and (ii) primary schools in each year since 1997. | | (241715) | 311
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) male and (b) female pupils who were children in care received one or more fixed period exclusions in each of the last 10 years. | | (241716) | 312
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many boys in care achieved three A grades at A Level in the last year for which figures are available. | | (241717) | 313
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of 15 year olds (a) in care and (b) not in care achieved (i) five GCSEs at A* to C and (ii) five GCSEs at A* to C including English and mathematics in each year since 1997. | | (241718) | 314
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many 16 to 17 year olds in care attended a sixth form college. | | (241719) | 315
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) male and (b) female pupils of each ethnicity (i) in care and (ii) not in care are studying on one or more diploma courses. | | (241720) | 316
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children in care did not obtain an (a) C grade or above in any GCSE, (b) C grade or above in mathematics GCSE and (c) C grade or above in English GCSE in 2008. | | (241721) | 317
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils who were children in care were given a fixed period exclusion in the last 12 months, broken down by national curriculum year group. | | (241722) | 318
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils who were children in care took unauthorised absence in the last 12 months, broken down by national curriculum year group. | | (241723) | 319
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what average number of GCSEs was taken by pupils in maintained schools in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area; and how many GCSEs were taken on average by children in care in maintained schools in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority. | | (241724) | 320
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many boys in care achieved (a) five A* to C passes at GCSE, (b) five A* to C passes at GCSE, including mathematics and English, (c) five A* to C passes at GCSE, including mathematics, English and a science and (d) five A* to C passes at GCSE, including mathematics, English, science and a foreign language in each year since 1997. | | (241725) | 321
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of white British boys in care did not achieve (a) any GCSE passes, (b) at least one GCSE pass at grade C or above, (c) at least five GCSEs at A* to C and (d) at least five A* to C GCSEs, including English and mathematics in each year between 2001 and 2008. | | (241726) | 322
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of people detained in young offender institutions (a) are from care home backgrounds, (b) were children in care and (c) have been assessed as having special educational needs, broken down by type of special educational need. | | (241727) | 323
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of 14 year olds (a) not in care and (b) in care achieved level five in English, mathematics and science at key stage 3 in each year since 1997. | | (241728) | 324
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of 7-year olds in care achieved level two in literacy and numeracy at key stage 1 in each year since 1997. | | (241729) | 325
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children in care received an A grade in (a) mathematics, (b) physics, (c) chemistry, (d) further mathematics, (e) history, (f) French and (g) German A Level in each of the last five years. | | (241730) | 326
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of children in care received an A or A* grade in (a) mathematics, (b) English literature, (c) English language, (d) physics, (e) chemistry, (f) biology, (g) French and (h) German GCSE examinations in each of the last five years. | | (241731) | 327
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of 11 year olds in care achieved level four in English and mathematics at Key Stage 2 in each year since 1997. | | (241732) | 328
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils in care did not attain any GCSE grades higher than a D in each year since 1997-98. | | (241733) | 329
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many young people offered places at either Oxford or Cambridge University in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007 were in care. | | (241734) | 330
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils in care gained 10 good GCSEs in 2008. | | (241735) | 331
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children in care achieved the national standard in each Key Stage 1 examination in each year since 1997. | | (241736) | 332
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils in care are attending pupil referral units. | | (241737) | 333
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils in care were given (a) a permanent exclusion and (b) a fixed period exclusion in each of the last 10 years. | | (241738) | 334
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of white British boys in care achieved (a) no GCSE passes and (b) fewer than five GCSE passes at grade A* to C including English and mathematics in each year since 1995. | | (241739) | 335
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in which schools more than two per cent. of pupils were children in care in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (241740) | 336
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of (a) pupils in care and (b) all eligibile pupils did not sit five GCSEs or more in 2008. | | (241741) | 337
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of pupils in care gained five A* to C at GCSE, including English, science, mathematics and a foreign language in each of the last three years. | | (241742) | 338
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of eligible pupils passed at least five GCSEs in Vale of York constituency in each year since 1997. | | (240561) | 339
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of eligible pupils passed GCSEs in (a) English and (b) mathematics, at grades (i) A* and (ii) A to C in Vale of York constituency in each year since 1997. | | (240562) | 340
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much was spent on wages for (a) teachers, (b) teaching assistants and (c) support staff as a proportion of GDP in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2008. | | (240563) | 341
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much was spent on wages for (a) teachers, (b) teaching assistants and (c) support staff in (i) Yorkshire and the Humber and (ii) Vale of York constituency in (A) 1997 and (B) 2008. | | (240564) | 342
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 477W, on departmental air travel, if he will place in the Library figures for 2007-08. | | (241678) | 343
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many early years providers had an inadequate care judgement on more than one occasion in each year since 2005. | | (241077) | 344
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many nurseries Ofsted has prosecuted in each year since 2005. | | (241078) | 345
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many registrations of nurseries Ofsted (a) cancelled and (b) suspended in each year since 2005. | | (241079) | 346
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many early years providers had one or more inspection outcomes that resulted in enforcement action against them in each year since 2005. | | (241080) | 347
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241944) | 348
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240477) | 349
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average time taken to respond to calls from members of the public to the education maintenance allowance helpline was in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (240292) | 350
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will bring forward the timetable for the rebuilding of Dartmoor Community College, presently scheduled for 2013; and if he will make a statement. | | (240317) | 351
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much the most recent Child Support Agency computer update cost. | | (240288) | 352
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the Child Support Agency caseload was on the most recent date for which figures are available; and what the caseload is expected to be once the update of the Agency's IT systems is fully implemented. | | (240289) | 353
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he expects to publish the initial results of the child poverty pilots announced in the 2007 Budget. | | (241458) | 354
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241231) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 355
| Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many suicides have been caused by the drug coproxamol in each of the last three years. | | (240754) | 356
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the conception rate was among girls aged under 18 years in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007. | | (240377) | 357
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what estimate the Office of National Statistics has made of the number of patients diagnosed with cancer in each Westminster constituency in Scotland in (a) 2003, (b) 2004, (c) 2005, (d) 2006 and (e) 2007, broken down by cancer type. | | (241486) | 358
N | Mr David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when an official of his Department was first made aware that the hon. Member of Ashford was the subject of the police investigation which led to his arrest; when this information was passed on to a Minister; and to which Minister this information was passed on. | | (240959) | 359
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the (a) name and (b) cost was of each advertising campaign carried out by the Central Office of Information in relation to the Health and Safety Executive in each of the last five years. | | (240573) | 360
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the average quarterly household expenditure on electricty, gas and other fuels was in each region in England in each year since 1997. | | (240880) | 361
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240972) | 362
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2008, Official Report, columns 1138-44W, on Central Office of Information: advertising, what the (a) name, (b) cost and (c) purpose was of each advertising campaign carried out by the Central Office of Information in each of the last three years. | | (240655) | 363
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many excess deaths from cold weather there were in each parliamentary constituency in England in each year since 1996-97. | | (240532) | 364
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many registered UK charities have been investigated by the Charity Commission in consequence of allegations of links with terrorist organisations in each year since 2001. | | (241809) | 365
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many children died from each cause of death in each local authority in the last year for which data are available. | | (240759) | 366
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the reason was for the time taken to reply to the hon. Member for Thurrock's Question 231272 on assistant regional Ministers, tabled on 23 October 2008; and on what date a final draft answer was submitted to him for approval. | | (241210) | 367
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will place in the Library a copy of the document Working with Liam Byrne produced for civil servants in the Cabinet Office. | | (241587) | 368
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what role the Cabinet Office played in the circumstances leading up to the recent arrest of the hon. Member for Ashford. | | (241588) | 369
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what plans the Cabinet Secretary has for cross-departmental capability reviews. | | (241589) | 370
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of the number of new additional jobs created since 1997 in the (a) public sector and (b) private sector. | | (241590) | 371
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much funding Futurebuilders has written off in total in relation to the charity Catz Club. | | (241591) | 372
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what consideration the Futurebuilders Advisory Panel has made of the funding given by Futurebuilders to the charity Catz Club. | | (241593) | 373
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much funding the Office of the Third Sector is providing to regional Third Sector networks; and what the address is of each such network. | | (241594) | 374
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will publish the list of financial institutions that charities could place investments and deposits in which was approved by the Charity Commission and in effect in September 2008. | | (241596) | 375
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the timetable is for the commencement and review of the Public Services Forum's Access to Skills, Trade Unions and Advice in Government contracting agreement. | | (241597) | 376
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Tatton of 22 February 2005, Official Report, column 525W, on departmental publications, what the title is of the Cabinet Office's current staff newsletter; how much it costs to produce; and with what frequency is it published. | | (241640) | 377
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 6 November 2008, Official Report, column 741W, on Wilf Stevenson, on what date Wilf Stevenson was appointed as a special adviser. | | (241672) | 378
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 5 November 2008, Official Report, columns 492-3W, on charities: bank services, if he will place in the Library the background information on the charities. | | (241673) | 379
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 5 November 2008, Official Report, columns 492-3W, on charities: bank services, what the names of the 46 charities are. | | (241674) | 380
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 3 November 2008, Official Report, column 20W, on departmental travel, whether the Cabinet Office Mid-Year Report will be published before the end of 2008. | | (241675) | 381
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the date of publication was of the most recent edition of the Central Office of Information White Book. | | (241697) | 382
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what guidance has been produced on civil servants attending political party conferences. | | (241747) | 383
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what assessment has been made of consumer confidence in the security of the Government Gateway. | | (241753) | 384
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what guidance has been produced on the relationship between the salary of senior civil servants and the number of staff they manage. | | (241754) | 385
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what criteria are used by the Government Communication Network to decide whether a government communications job is advertised publicly on the Civil Service Recruitment Gateway or internally only. | | (241755) | 386
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the annual turnover of the Downing Street gift shop is. | | (241756) | 387
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what representations the Central Office of Information has received calling for the establishment of an approved list of public affairs agency suppliers. | | (241757) | 388
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will place in the Library a copy of the brochures for courses run by the National School of Government. | | (241759) | 389
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which departments and agencies utilise the Government Procurement Card. | | (241760) | 390
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which Government projects to date have had Privacy Impact Assessments commissioned. | | (241761) | 391
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 1131W, and to the written ministerial statement of 22 July 2008, Official Report, columns 99-102WS, on special advisers, whether the aggregate cost of special advisers in the statement includes the cost of (a) National Insurance contributions for employers, (b) employee pension contributions and (c) expenses. | | (241770) | 392
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many individuals are members of the Government Communications Network. | | (241771) | 393
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what guidance is provided to civil servants on the compatibility of British National Party activism with holding senior positions of authority. | | (241772) | 394
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what were the running costs of the Downing Street (a) strategic communications unit and (b) digital communications unit in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (241773) | 395
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer from the Prime Minister of 10 November 2008, Official Report, column 821W, on 10 Downing Street, for what reason the Cabinet Office has declined to place in the Library a list of the merchandise available in the Downing Street gift shop. | | (241774) | 396
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood, of 28 October 2008, Official Report, column 16W, on Catz Club, which other press releases have been removed from the Futurebuilders website on the basis that they are no longer an investee of Futurebuilders. | | (241887) | 397
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood, of 28 October 2008, Official Report, column 16W, on Catz Club, for what reasons Futurebuilders decided to terminate its relationship with Catz Club. | | (241888) | 398
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 17 November 2008, Official Report, column 244W, on Ministerial policy advisers, how much was spent on severance payments to special advisers in each year prior to 2007-08 for which records are held. | | (241896) | 399
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 13 October 2008, Official Report, column 949W, on departmental recordings, if he will publish the title, description and date submitted of each video on the departmental intranet based on the data held in the intranet database. | | (241897) | 400
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 13 October 2008, Official Report, column 949W, on departmental recordings, if he will list the names of external film production companies that have been used by the Central Office of Information in the last 12 months. | | (241898) | 401
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 13 October 2008, Official Report, columns 942-3W, on 10 Downing Street, how many desk spaces are allocated to the Downing Street Political Office. | | (241901) | 402
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 13 October 2008, Official Report, columns 942-3W, on 10 Downing Street, whether the table showing the 87 members of staff working in the Cabinet Office who were not employed by the Civil Service includes those in the Downing Street Political Office. | | (241903) | 403
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 1131W, on written questions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the standard Cabinet Office intranet (Cabweb) guidance on answering round robin Parliamentary Questions. | | (241904) | 404
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 756W, on security breaches (data loss), what the evidential basis is for the statement by the Parliamentary Secretary relating to the amount of progress in making data safe in government; and if he will make a statement. | | (241974) | 405
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the anticipated timetable is for the (a) publication and (b) parliamentary passage of the Civil Service Bill. | | (242027) | 406
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 1130W, on 10 Downing Street: catering, whether the Cabinet Office support for the public sector food procurement initiatives entails that genetically modified ingredients are used or not used in food served in the Downing Street canteen. | | (242042) | 407
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 28 October 2008, Official Report, column 795W, on Departmental Staff, how many staff work in the Downing Street Political Office according to records held by the Downing Street switchboard. | | (242043) | 408
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 1 May 2008, Official Report, column 624W, on departmental manpower, whether the figure of 189 staff on the No. 10 payroll includes the staff in the Downing Street Political Office. | | (242045) | 409
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241946) | 410
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much his Department has spent on external consultants in each year since 1997. | | (240527) | 411
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many staff members in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties in each of the last three years; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (241800) | 412
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what steps are being taken by the Contact Council in relation to public sector bodies that do not charge fees for the use of their services and which use revenue sharing 084x and 087x telephone numbers. | | (240799) | 413
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240478) | 414
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many death certificates on which (a) MRSA and (b) clostridium difficile were mentioned were issued in England and Wales in each of the last three years. | | (240568) | 415
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many cases of (a) pancreatic and (b) liver cancer there were in each (i) primary care trust and (ii) strategic health authority area of England and Wales in each of the last 10 years. | | (240283) | 416
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many and what proportion of working age adults were in employment in each local authority area in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (240515) | 417
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the (a) employment and (b) unemployment rate for disabled (i) women, (ii) men and (iii) men and women aged (A) 16 to 24, (B) 25 to 34, (C) 34 to 49 and (D) 50 to state retirement age was in each quarter of the last 10 years. | | (241442) | 418
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the (a) employment and (b) unemployment rate for disabled ethnic minority (i) women, (ii) men and (iii) men and women aged (A) 16 to 24, (B) 25 to 34, (C) 34 to 49 and (D) 50 to state retirement age was in each quarter of the last 10 years. | | (241443) | 419
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the (a) employment and (b) unemployment rate for (i) women, (ii) men and (iii) men and women aged (A) 16 to 24, (B) 25 to 34, (C) 34 to 49 and (D) 50 to 60 years was in each month of the last 10 years. | | (241444) | 420
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people were employed in the (a) weaving, (b) spinning, (c) dying, (d) finishing and making-up and (e) silk industry sectors of the clothing and textiles industry at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (240416) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 421
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans she has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241176) | 422
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation is required to prepare a statement of community involvement. | | (240689) | 423
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects to respond to the consultation on the South West Regional Spatial Strategy. | | (241329) | 424
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make a statement on what contribution she expects to be made to the delivery of the eco-towns programme by the Environmental and Sustainability Standard 2008 issued by the Building Research Establishment. | | (241977) | 425
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost of leasing and maintaining each regional fire control centre (a) has been since it becoming operational and (b) was in the latest month for which figures are available. | | (241298) | 426
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what cost estimate her Department based its plans for the administration of each regional fire control centre between the date it became operational and the date the last Fire and Rescue Authority is expected to cut over to a regional control centre. | | (241299) | 427
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what date each fire and rescue authority is expected to cut over to its regional control centre, broken down by (a) brigade and (b) region. | | (241300) | 428
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects the replacement system for the fire service emergency cover risk management system to be (a) installed and (b) fully operational. | | (241301) | 429
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what contingency plans she has put in place for fire and rescue services to respond to the potential terrorist threat to the 2012 Olympic Games, in the event that not all fire and rescue authorities cut over to regional control centres by 2012. | | (241302) | 430
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) mean and (b) median monthly expenditure on private rent after deduction of housing benefit was of (a) all private rented households and (b) private rented households at each level of disposable income (i) in England and (ii) in each region in England. | | (240881) | 431
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what percentage of households of each (a) type of tenure, (b) size, (c) income level and (d) ethnicity in each region in England are estimated to be overcrowded. | | (240882) | 432
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) mean and (b) median monthly mortgage payments were (a) for all households and (b) for households at each level of disposable income in (i) England and (ii) each region in England in each of the last five years. | | (240884) | 433
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many acres of greenbelt land there were in each region in England in each year since 1997. | | (240887) | 434
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what requirements in respect of political impartiality there are on directors of regional development agencies; and if she will make a statement. | | (240261) | 435
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what conclusions her Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240989) | 436
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many visits to Brussels were made by staff of her Department in 2007-08; and what the total cost of such visits was. | | (241259) | 437
| John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans her Department has to (a) collect, (b) monitor and (c) publish information gathered from energy performance certificates. | | (241393) | 438
N | Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding from each regional development agency project budget for 2008-09 was reallocated to the Homebuy Direct scheme. | | (241327) | 439
N | John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made in enabling data held by Ordnance Survey in vector format to be used by other parties, including on a commercial basis. | | (240499) | 440
N | John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what income Ordnance Survey received from each local authority in England and Wales in 2007; and what percentage of Ordnance Survey's income in that year was accounted for by work for local authorities. | | (240500) | 441
N | John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions have taken place between Ordnance Survey and Google on the use of Ordnance Survey licence data on Google maps; and if she will make a statement. | | (240501) | 442
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the value of section 106 monies held by each local authority was in each of the last three financial years. | | (240548) | 443
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities offer assistance to people wishing to establish themselves in business as market traders. | | (240400) | 444
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many business premises have qualified for empty property rates relief in each of the last five years. | | (241810) | 445
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made on the implementation of the recommendations in Sir Michael Pitt's final report on the 2007 floods that the automatic right to connect surface water drainage from new developments to the sewerage system be removed. | | (240888) | 446
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in each local authority area affected have not yet returned to their homes following the floods of summer 2007. | | (241086) | 447
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people who have not yet returned to their homes following the floods of summer 2007 are still living (a) in caravans, (b) in hotels, (c) in bed and breakfast accommodation, (d) in temporary accommodation and (e) with relatives in each local authority area. | | (241087) | 448
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent representations she has received on the planning guidance announced on 26 November relating to flood protection for new developments; and if she will make a statement. | | (241504) | 449
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent representations she has received from (a) developers, (b) local authorities and (c) the Environment Agency on the operation of Planning Policy Statement 25. | | (241505) | 450
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent representations she has received from fire-fighters on their status as statutory consultees on flooding emergencies. | | (241641) | 451
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households in local authorities had been accepted as owed a main homelessness duty between 1997-98 and 2007-08 in (a) North Yorkshire and (b) the Vale of York. | | (241972) | 452
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much local authority stock in (a) North Yorkshire and (b) Vale of York constituency was sold under the Right to Buy scheme in each year since 1997. | | (241973) | 453
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East, of 6 October 2008, Official Report, columns 298-99W, on departmental air travel, if she will place in the Library the finalised figures for 2007-08. | | (241533) | 454
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms are in place to assess whether measures implemented as part of the Prevent strand of Project Contest (a) are effective and (b) deliver value for money. | | (240577) | 455
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much money will be spent as part of the Prevent strand of Project Contest on targeting the risk of extremism amongst (a) individuals who have had contact with the criminal justice system and (b) individuals who are in prison in 2008-09. | | (240578) | 456
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent as part of the Prevent strand of Project Contest on targeting the risk of extremism amongst (a) individuals who have had contact with the criminal justice system and (b) individuals who are in prison in each year since 2003. | | (240579) | 457
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department forecasts will be spent on the Prevent strand of Project Contest in 2008-09. | | (240580) | 458
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on implementing the Prevent strand of Project Contest since 2003. | | (240581) | 459
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what figures were included within the formula to account for provision for debt servicing for those authorities that received positive subsidy under the Housing Revenue Account subsidy system for 2008-09. | | (241485) | 460
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what date she expects rate demands to be issued to port businesses for rates due from 2005; what the Valuation Office Agency's latest assessment of rateable values of port businesses is; when she expects rebates to be paid to port owners for rates overpaid since 2005; and what estimate she has made of the overall value of such rebates. | | (240897) | 461
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of commercial premises that were empty in each month since May 1997. | | (241546) | 462
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of rent for a the average cost of commercial property in each month since May 1997; what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the removal of empty property tax relief on commercial property rents; and if she will make a statement. | | (241551) | 463
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) her Department and (b) computers in the offices of (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241947) | 464
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many members of staff in her Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties in each of the last three years; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (242017) | 465
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of lives saved through the Urban Search and Rescue programme since its inception in February 2008. | | (240808) | 466
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how the welfare of dogs involved in the Fire Service's Urban Search and Rescue programme is monitored; and with whom responsibility for such monitoring lies. | | (240809) | 467
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to keep centrally held records on the number of compulsory purchase orders that have been issued by local authorities. | | (241428) | 468
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what dates the Central Fire Service Advisory Committee has met since it was established; what the main outcomes were of such meetings; and if she will make a statement. | | (241429) | 469
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) full-time and (b) retained fire officers there were in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement. | | (241430) | 470
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many weeks intensive training is required to be undertaken by fire service recruits in each of the fire authority areas in each of the last six years. | | (241431) | 471
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will instruct the Building Research Establishment to take evidence from hon. Members as part of its review into houses of multiple occupation. | | (241432) | 472
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information she holds on the number of deaths caused by fire in (a) houses of multiple occupation, (b) private rented sector, (c) council/social rented sector and (d) private houses in each year for which figures are available. | | (241434) | 473
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1276-7W, on regeneration: coastal areas, which central government departments were involved in the Coastal Town Network (CTN); how many times the CTN met; at what level each department was represented; and which local authorities were represented. | | (241508) | 474
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 1277W, on regeneration: coastal areas, if she will consider collecting and holding, at central level, information on the work of the Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships in respect of the principal seaside towns. | | (241509) | 475
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1287-8W, on travelling people: coastal areas, what assessment her Department has made of the needs of non-migrant transient populations in seaside towns. | | (241510) | 476
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 1276W, on regeneration: coastal areas, whether her cross-departmental working group on coastal towns held discussions with hon. Members whose constituencies include seaside towns. | | (241511) | 477
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 1280W, on the revenue support grant, if she will consider the introduction of an explicit measure of transient population as part of formula grant distribution system. | | (241512) | 478
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 1274W, on multiple occupation, which key stakeholders have been consulted in connection with the Building Research Establishment review of the licensing regime for houses in multiple occupation. | | (241513) | 479
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 1274W, on multiple occupation: coastal areas, if she will make it her policy to collect data on the take-up rate of mandatory licensing of houses in multiple occupation in seaside towns. | | (241514) | 480
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 1276W, on regeneration: coastal areas, whether hon. Members whose constituencies include seaside towns were consulted in connection with the regeneration framework consultation. | | (241643) | 481
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what records her Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240476) | 482
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homeless (a) children and (b) adults are in temporary accommodation in each local authority area in Essex. | | (240295) | 483
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many housing repairs were undertaken by each local authority in each of the last five years; and how much each authority spent on such repairs. | | (240797) | 484
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department takes to protect tenants of private landlords who have their property repossessed. | | (240798) | 485
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps have been taken to ensure that access to the My Choice Home Buy scheme is equitable across regions and counties. | | (240870) | 486
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241248) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 487
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaption strategy. | | (241173) | 488
| Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what bonuses were paid by his Department in 2007-08; to which members of staff; and for what purposes. | | (240795) | 489
| Mr Richard Caborn (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which (a) individuals and (b) organisations responded to Sport England's consultation on distribution of Lottery funding; which responded (i) positively and (ii) negatively; and if he will make a statement. | | (241668) | 490
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support his Department is giving to Bradford's bid to become the world's first city of film. | | (240347) | 491
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his estimate is of the number of adults who participated in moderate intensity sport at least three times a week in each of the last five years. | | (240333) | 492
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much per capita was spent from the public purse on sporting infrastructure in each of the last five years. | | (240334) | 493
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many Zoneparcs are in operation; and how much funding for these projects has been (a) allocated and (b) spent to date. | | (240336) | 494
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much grant-in-aid was allocated for Arts Council England in 2007-08; and how much has been allocated in each year for which projections have been made, broken down by budget sub-heading. | | (240337) | 495
| 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. | | (240338) | 496
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) yellow cards and (b) red cards have been issued to licensees under his Department's alert system referred to in the Youth Alcohol Action Plan. | | (240545) | 497
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on official entertainment in each year since 1997-98. | | (241209) | 498
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240988) | 499
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what income his Department received from the National Lottery in each year since 1997. | | (240939) | 500
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the National Lottery Commission spent on administration in each year since 1997. | | (240940) | 501
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the National Lottery Commission spent on staff expenses in each year since 1997. | | (240941) | 502
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been allocated for spending on bonuses for staff within his Department in 2008-09. | | (240942) | 503
| 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. | | (240943) | 504
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many more Convergence Think Tank seminars he expects to take place. | | (240944) | 505
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) the Royal Armouries, (b) Sir John Soane's Museum, (c) Chatham Historic Dockyard and (d) the Wallace Collection spent on employing press and communications officers in each of the last five years. | | (240945) | 506
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by the National Lottery Commission in each year since 1997. | | (240946) | 507
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the National Lottery Commission paid to external consultants in each year since 1997. | | (240947) | 508
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the National Lottery Commission spent on salaries in each year since 1997. | | (240948) | 509
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the National Lottery Commission spent on staff bonuses in each year since 1997. | | (240949) | 510
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he expects his Department's Disability Reference Group to report to his Department's Board on progress in addressing actions on disability. | | (240950) | 511
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) Sport England, (b) English Heritage, (c) the Heritage Lottery Fund, (d) the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, (e) the Big Lottery Fund and (f) Arts Council England spent on (i) transcripts or recordings, (ii) fees to the Newspaper Licensing Authority and (iii) analysis of press coverage in each of the last three years. | | (240951) | 512
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which (a) keywords and (b) terms (i) Arts Council England, (ii) the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, (iii) the Big Lottery Fund, (iv) English Heritage and (v) the Heritage Lottery Fund have monitored in the media in each of the last three years. | | (240952) | 513
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what percentage of the money spent by (a) Arts Council England and (b) Sport England on media monitoring services came from National Lottery income in each of the last three years. | | (240953) | 514
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he plans to take to strengthen creative industries. | | (240274) | 515
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the contribution to the economy of the computer games industry. | | (240275) | 516
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241948) | 517
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking in response to recent job losses within the seaside arcade sector; and if he will make a statement. | | (241435) | 518
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many seaside arcades have closed since September 2007. | | (241487) | 519
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is planning to take in response to the downturn in seaside arcades since the introduction of the Gambling Act on 1 September 2007. | | (241488) | 520
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of regulatory costs of the Gambling Act 2005 on seaside arcades. | | (241489) | 521
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will ask the National Audit Office to undertake a study into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the Gambling Commission. | | (241490) | 522
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will request the British Library to use closed circuit television and to take other security measures in its reading rooms where rare books are consulted; and if he will make a statement. | | (240529) | 523
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many members of staff in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties in each of the last three years; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (242018) | 524
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of tourists from St Helena who have visited the United Kingdom in the last three years. | | (240844) | 525
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has made to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012. | | (240856) | 526
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to promote tourism between the Isle of Man and the United Kingdom. | | (240875) | 527
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240475) | 528
N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when a reply will be sent to the hon. Member for Walsall North's letter of 5 November 2008 to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, transferred to his Department at the end of November regarding a constituent. | | (240353) | 529
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241234) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 530
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241175) | 531
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Pre Budget Report 2008, page 119, what the meaning is of the phrase examining alternative business models in respect of the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency; and if he will make a statement. | | (240394) | 532
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to introduce a veterans' identity card; what benefits this card will provide; and if he will make a statement. | | (240506) | 533
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240987) | 534
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what ongoing pension scheme commitment is given to service personnel, broken down by (a) rank and (b) length of service. | | (241748) | 535
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will break down the basic salary levels in the armed forces by (a) service and (b) rank. | | (241749) | 536
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial benefits service personnel receive, broken down by (a) service and (b) rank. | | (241750) | 537
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel there are, broken down by (a) service, (b) rank, (c) age and (d) sex. | | (241751) | 538
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 904W, on nuclear weapons, whether beryllium was used in the nuclear trials codenamed (a) Hurricane, (b) Totem, (c) Mosaic, (d) Buffalo, (e) Grapple, (f) Antler, (g) Grapple X, (h) Grapple Y and (i) Grapple Z. | | (241999) | 539
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officers with the NATO rank of OF-3 or above are employed by each of the three services, broken down by rank. | | (242031) | 540
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the pay grades are of officers above the NATO rank of OF-3 in all three services, broken down by rank. | | (242032) | 541
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Prime Minister's Answer to the hon. Member for Billericay of 14 November 2007, Official Report, column 664, what measures the Government has taken to reconsider the atomic test veterans' claim in light of the most recent scientific evidence. | | (242033) | 542
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the projected number is of battalion headquarters to be registered to the North West over the next two years. | | (240284) | 543
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many battalion headquarters were registered in the North West in each of the last three years. | | (240547) | 544
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what definition his Department uses of harmony with regard to each of the three services. | | (240495) | 545
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Harrier pilots were deployed on Operation Herrick in each month since the deployment began. | | (240496) | 546
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for how many days on average (a) pilots and (b) engineering and support personnel serving in front-line Harrier squadrons at RAF Cottesmore were deployed on Operation Herrick in the period from 1 November 2006 to 31 October 2008. | | (240497) | 547
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the Tornado aircraft to be deployed in Operation Herrick to achieve that final operating capability. | | (240498) | 548
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the statement by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence of 19 November 2008, Official Report, columns 94-5WH, on RAF operations, whether the Tornado aircraft due to be deployed to Afghanistan on Operation Herrick from 1 April 2009 will be fitted with the Raptor imaging system from the start of their deployment. | | (241200) | 549
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent representations his Department has received from the Keep Our Future Afloat campaign; and whether it has responded. | | (241849) | 550
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the statement of 19 November 2008, Official Report, column 95WH, on RAF operations, whether the Tornado aircraft due to be deployed to Afghanistan on Operation Herrick from 1 April 2009 will be fitted with the Raptor imaging system from the start of their deployment. | | (240736) | 551
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much back pay was owing to Territorial Army soldiers who have undertaken active service in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan at the latest date for which figures are available; what steps are being taken to clear the backlog; and if he will make a statement. | | (241277) | 552
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armoured or protected Land Rovers of each type were deployed to Iraq prior to October 2003; and when they were deployed. | | (241279) | 553
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what safeguards are in place for which his Department is responsible to prevent the acquisition of dangerous pathogens from UK civilian laboratories by individuals intending to construct biological weapons. | | (241776) | 554
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what safeguards are in place for which his Department is responsible to prevent the acquisition of scientific and technical knowledge from UK sources by individuals intending to construct (a) biological weapons, (b) chemical weapons and (c) nuclear or radiological weapons for the purpose of a terrorist attack. | | (241777) | 555
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what resources and procedures his Department has in place to respond to (a) a biological terrorist attack, (b) a chemical terrorist attack and (c) a nuclear or radiological terrorist attack. | | (241778) | 556
N | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of parcels sent from members of the public to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan but not addressed to an individual which had not been delivered in the latest period for which figures are available; and how such parcels were treated by the British Forces Post Office. | | [R] (240451) | 557
N | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance issued to commanders in relation to (a) detention of pirates and (b) applications for asylum by pirates detained on Royal Navy vessels. | | [R] (240452) | 558
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241949) | 559
N | Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for North East Milton Keynes of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1559-60W, on Tornado GR4, whether the interim Paveway IV capability will have been integrated onto the Tornado before its deployment of Operation Herrick. | | (241359) | 560
N | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any of the Jaish-al-Mahdi prisoners released under the prisoner release scheme agreed by the British Army and the Iraqi government had been involved in attacks on British forces. | | (240443) | 561
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of its staffing budget for 2007-08 the Financial Management Shared Service Centre spent in Scotland; and what the equivalent figures were for (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07. | | (241117) | 562
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of its staffing budget for 2007-08 the Defence Logistics Organisation spent in Scotland; and what the equivalent figures were for (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07. | | (241118) | 563
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of its staffing budget for 2007-08 the Veterans' Policy Unit spent in Scotland; and what the equivalent figures were for (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07. | | (241119) | 564
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of those people are employed by the Defence Vetting Agency; how many of those are employed in Scotland; what the equivalent figures were for (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08; what the staffing costs of the agency are in 2008-09; and what they were in (i) 2004-05, (ii) 2005-06, (iii) 2006-07 and (iv) 2007-08. | | (241120) | 565
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of its staffing budget for 2007-08 the Disposal Services Agency spent in Scotland; and what the equivalent figures were for (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07. | | (241121) | 566
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed by the Defence Estates; how many of those are employed in Scotland; what the equivalent figures were for (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08; what the personnel costs of the agency are in 2008-09; and what they were in (i) 2004-05, (ii) 2005-06, (iii) 2006-07 and (iv) 2007-08. | | (241122) | 567
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Trident submarines are on active service; how many are being repaired; and if he will make a statement. | | (241353) | 568
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the maintenance cost of Trident submarines in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the next five years. | | (241354) | 569
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many animals have been used in defence research projects in each of the last three years. | | (240970) | 570
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what current defence research projects involve the use of animal procedures. | | (241315) | 571
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240474) | 572
N | Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Terma self-defence suite will be part of the initial operating capability of Tornados deployed on Operation Herrick from 1 April 2009. | | (241358) | 573
| Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British service personnel have been (a) injured and (b) killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan since 2001. | | (240349) | 574
| Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British service personnel have been (a) injured and (b) killed by friendly fire in Iraq since 2003. | | (240350) | 575
| Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British service personnel were (a) injured and (b) killed by friendly fire during the 1990-91 Gulf War. | | (241264) | 576
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the affordability of the proposed pricing scheme for the Falkland Islands Airbridge under the provisions of the Joint Policy Statement agreed between his Department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; and if he will make a statement. | | (240771) | 577
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the socio-economic impact on the Falkland Islands of the proposed pricing scheme for the Falkland Islands Airbridge under the provisions of the Joint Policy Statement agreed between his Department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. | | (240772) | 578
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of the withdrawal of the child/student fare from the Falkland Islands Airbridge agreement on the ability of Falkland Islands family members to travel between the Falkland Islands and the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. | | (240773) | 579
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will reinstate the child/student fare to the Falkland Islands Airbridge pricing scheme under the provisions of the Joint Policy Statement agreed between his Department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. | | (240774) | 580
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations his Department has received on the proposed pricing scheme for the Falkland Islands Airbridge under the provisions of the Joint Policy Statement agreed between his Department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. | | (240775) | 581
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what consultations were carried out by his Department on the proposed pricing scheme for the Falkland Islands Airbridge under the provisions of the Joint Policy Statement agreed between his Department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; and if he will make a statement. | | (240776) | 582
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will reduce the prices under the proposed pricing scheme for the Falkland Islands Airbridge under the provisions of the Joint Policy Statement agreed between his Department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; and if he will make a statement. | | (240777) | 583
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the status is of the Helix Programme to update the United Kingdom's large aircraft capability; and if he will make a statement. | | (241520) | 584
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what factors underlay his Department's Project Helix decision to replace three Nimrod R1 aircraft with US RC-135 Rivet Joint Boeing jets instead of procuring the BAE Systems' MRA4; what assessment he has made of the future of the BAE Systems Woodford production plant and aerodrome beyond 2012 as a result of his Department's decision; and if he will make a statement. | | (241521) | 585
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of revamping the R1 fleet in comparison with using the BAE Systems' MRA4 platform; and if he will make a statement. | | (241522) | 586
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of any operational benefits of the MRA4 replacement option for the Royal Air Force in terms of (a) capability, (b) in-service date and (c) value for money; and if he will make a statement. | | (241523) | 587
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost of the replacement of three 35-year old Nimrod R1 aircraft based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire with 46-year old US RC-135 Boeings is expected to be; and if he will make a statement. | | (241524) | 588
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what factors underlay his Department's decision to procure 46-year old US RC-135 Boeings to replace three 35-year old Nimrod R1 aircraft based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. | | (241525) | 589
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241249) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 590
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241179) | 591
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he plans to reply to the letters dated 29 September and 29 October 2008 from the hon. Member for Billericay regarding a constituent, Mr C Jones. | | (240683) | 592
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he has held discussions on possible regulation of the liquefied petroleum gas market. | | (241692) | 593
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department has taken to determine whether the proposed Kingsnorth power station would deliver an absolute increase in energy efficiency; what assessment he has made of the energy efficiency of (a) Kingsnorth and (b) existing plant; and what estimate he has made of the change in levels of carbon dioxide emissions which would result from the (i) construction and (ii) operation of the power station. | | (241883) | 594
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what environmental impact assessment regarding wildlife is required for wind turbines, with particular reference to bats. | | (242049) | 595
| Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to meet the Government's 2010 target to eradicate fuel poverty in (a) vulnerable households with a disabled person and (b) all vulnerable households. | | (241930) | 596
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240986) | 597
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on what dates staff transferred from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to his Department have since their transfer communicated with (a) E.ON and (b) Kent Police regarding the Kingsnorth Climate Camp. | | (240389) | 598
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he will reply to the letter to him of 15 October from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr J Lee. | | (241698) | 599
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241950) | 600
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many members of staff in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties since his Department's creation; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (242024) | 601
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240473) | 602
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what consultation with businesses his Department (a) has undertaken and (b) plans to undertake on the implementation of the carbon reduction commitment. | | (240879) | 603
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what carbon dioxide reductions are expected as a result of the carbon reduction commitment in its first five years; and how those targets have been calculated. | | (240960) | 604
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent representations he has received from businesses about the effects on their cash-flow of the carbon reduction commitment. | | (240961) | 605
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with energy suppliers on the introduction of social tariffs for (a) domestic fuel oil and (b) liquid petroleum gas. | | (241471) | 606
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) rural and (b) urban households which are in fuel poverty. | | (241472) | 607
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) cost and (b) policy implications of meeting the likely UK share of the EU target of 20 per cent. of energy from renewables by 2020. | | (240309) | 608
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what modelling his Department has conducted on how the UK can meet its share of the EU target of 20 per cent. of energy from renewables by 2020; and if he will publish the results. | | (240314) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 609
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he intends to implement the recommendations of the Pitt Review. | | (240509) | 610
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he will publish a draft Floods and Water Bill. | | (240510) | 611
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 27 October 2008, Official Report, column 614W, on flood control, what the (a) original planned and (b) actual completion date of completed flood protection schemes was in each of the last five years; and what the original planned completion date was of each flood protection scheme which had not been completed by that date. | | (240665) | 612
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people were employed to conduct farm inspections by each inspection body for which his Department is responsible in each of the last five years. | | (240666) | 613
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 15th October 2008, Official Report, columns 1218-22W, on non-departmental public bodies, how the budget savings over the period (a) 2007-08 to 2008-09 and (b) 2008-09 to 2010 of (i) Natural England, (ii) Carbon Trust, (iii) Encams, (iv) RPA Operations and (v) the Marine and Fisheries Agency break down among spending areas. | | (240842) | 614
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much public expenditure was incurred in respect of (a) Greatrex Associates, (b) Paul Sullivan Snooker and Pool, (c) Coffee Republic, (d) Bristol and District Retirement Council, (e) Cherubs Floral Design Ltd. and (f) Total Horsemanship Ltd in 2007-08; and for what purpose in each case. | | (240843) | 615
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the monetary value was of each settlement his Department made as a result of legal proceedings naming his Department as a defending party where no legal proceedings are ongoing in (a) each of the last five years and (b) 2008 to date; and what the title of each such case is. | | (240900) | 616
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241183) | 617
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with Ofwat on the role of climate change adaptation in the Ofwat Price Review 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (241185) | 618
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the costs of climate change adaptation on the Ofwat Price Review 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (241186) | 619
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's position is on the priorities to be achieved by the Ofwat Price Review 2009. | | (241187) | 620
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what provision his Department has made in its budget for potential civil liabilities stemming from legal proceedings. | | (241190) | 621
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many legal proceedings naming his Department as a defending party were (a) filed, (b) concluded and (c) dismissed in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) 2008 to date. | | (241191) | 622
| 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) Balmoral Transport Service, (b) MC Chauffeurs and (c) Stratstone in 2007-08; and to what purpose. | | (241192) | 623
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) businesses and (b) individuals provided consultancy services to his Department in each of the last three years; and what the top 10 contracts by value were in each case. | | (241193) | 624
| Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what bonuses were paid by his Department in 2007-08; to which members of staff; and for what purposes. | | (240793) | 625
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page 119 of the Pre Budget Report Cm 7684, what form will be taken by the review to assess how best public value might be delivered from assets in the medium term in respect of British Waterways; and if he will make a statement. | | (240392) | 626
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page 119 of the Pre Budget Report Cm 7684, what options there are for delivery of public value from the state in the long term in respect of the Forestry Commission; and if he will make a statement. | | (240393) | 627
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration he has given to the future chairmanship of the Sustainable Development Commission; and whether Sir Jonathan Porritt has indicated whether he would be willing to continue as chair beyond his term ending in July 2009. | | (241976) | 628
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made of the effect on the Marine Management Organisation's operations of relocating its headquarters outside London. | | (241135) | 629
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which functions of the Marine and Fisheries Agency are dependent on the Agency's location; and for what reasons in each case. | | (241136) | 630
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made of the effects of the proposed relocation of the London headquarters of the Marine Management Organisation on the services provided. | | (241137) | 631
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many new jobs there will be for local people in each of the new locations of the Marine Management Organisation; and how much each such job will cost to create as a proportion of the total costs of the move. | | (241138) | 632
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research his Department has commissioned on the effects of farmers' markets on (a) producers and (b) consumers. | | (241706) | 633
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions there have been for illegal actions relating to badgers in each of the last five years; how many of these were successful; and what guidelines he issues to police forces on this issue. | | (241707) | 634
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to reduce the level of intensive rearing and farming of game birds; and what advice he has received from the Farm Animal Welfare Council on this matter. | | (241708) | 635
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the welfare of game birds. | | (241709) | 636
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of arrangements for the management of hazardous waste; and if he will make a statement. | | (241710) | 637
| Mr Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken to protect the UK's populations of common and grey seals. | | (241071) | 638
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have spent on Christmas (i) cards, (ii) parties and (iii) decorations in the last 12 months. | | (240321) | 639
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has spent on (a) flat screen televisions, (b) DVD players and (c) stereo equipment in each of the last three years. | | (240386) | 640
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240985) | 641
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on visits by its staff to Brussels in 2007-08; and how many such visits were made by (a) air and (b) rail. | | (241257) | 642
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many frozen semen straws from the Hannoverian stallion (WELTMEYER 31-44035-84) have been imported since 1 January 1989; and how many such straws have been checked by an Agricultural Development Advisory Service vet. | | (240690) | 643
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken to increase levels of processing of material awaiting recycling. | | (240885) | 644
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which of the recommendations contained in Sir Michael Pitt's final report on the 2007 floods have been, or are in the process of being, implemented. | | (240886) | 645
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what statistics his Department holds on the amount of textile waste (a) recycled and (b) sent to landfill in each of the last five years. | | (240889) | 646
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of the waste generated by (a) his Department and (b) the Environment Agency has been recycled or composted in each of the last three years. | | (240890) | 647
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was spent by (a) his Department and (b) the Environment Agency on waste management (i) for recycling and (ii) for landfill in the last 12 months; and what percentage of the overall budget this represents in each case. | | (240891) | 648
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much hazardous waste was sent to landfill in each of the last three years. | | (240892) | 649
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what enforcement measures have been undertaken by each local council to impose penalties for litter under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005; how many fines have been imposed; and to what value. | | (240893) | 650
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many fly-tipping offences have been successfully prosecuted under the provisions of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005. | | (240894) | 651
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many fines have been imposed by local councils for the littering of (a) cigarette butts and (b) chewing gum in the last 12 months; and what the total monetary value of such penalties was. | | (240895) | 652
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of introducing a deposit and return scheme for bottles; how such a scheme would be applied; and how it would work in practice. | | (240896) | 653
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many companies have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of being in breach of the Producer Responsibility Obligation (Packaging Waste) Regulations. | | (240921) | 654
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of changes in the levels of beach litter since 2004; and if he will make a statement. | | (240922) | 655
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to publish the draft Floods and Water Bill. | | (240957) | 656
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to publish the full programme for implementation of the Pitt Report; and if he will make a statement. | | (240958) | 657
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which of the recommendations contained in Sir Michael Pitt's interim report on the 2007 floods (a) have been and (b) are in the process of being implemented. | | (241089) | 658
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent improvements have been made to the Environment Agency's flood warning system. | | (241290) | 659
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps have been made to improve the resilience of critical infrastructure from flooding since the floods which took place in July 2007. | | (241291) | 660
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made towards implementing recommendation 21 from Sir Michael Pitt on flooding regarding risk-based standards for public sewerage systems. | | (241292) | 661
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made towards implementing recommendation 22 from Sir Michael Pitt on flooding regarding industry pricing reviews and the sewerage network. | | (241293) | 662
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what additional flood defences commissioned since the floods in July 2007 his Department (a) has had built and (b) is having built. | | (241294) | 663
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many properties were considered to be at risk of flooding in each of the last five years. | | (241295) | 664
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken map to surface water flooding as recommended by Sir Michael Pitt in his final report. | | (241296) | 665
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many flood engineers are employed by the Environment Agency; and how many vacancies for flood engineers there are at the Environment Agency. | | (241297) | 666
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has for the £20 million for flood defence expenditure announced in the Pre Budget Report. | | (241498) | 667
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Environment Agency on repairs of critical infrastructure which is at risk from flooding. | | (241499) | 668
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects the Environment Agency's first flooding engineers will graduate from university and take up positions in the Agency. | | (241507) | 669
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the evidential basis was for the statement in the Pre-budget Report that 27,000 homes will be protected from flooding with the help of the £20 million funding announced; and where those homes are located. | | (241642) | 670
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 21 October 2008, Official Report, column 162W, on departmental air travel, if he will place in the Library figures for 2007-08. | | (241676) | 671
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many inspections of genetically modified organism (GMO) test sites have been carried out by the GM Inspectorate relating to Part B consents in respect of experimental releases of GMOs under the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992 and the GMO (Deliberate Release) (England) Regulations 2002 in England since January 2000; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each inspection report. | | (241623) | 672
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sites were used in England for the farm scale evaluations (FSE) of genetically modified organisms from January 2000; how many were vandalised; whether, in each case of vandalism, the trials produced data which was used in the final analysis of the FSE results; and if he will list in each case the (a) crop, (b) location, (c) six figure map reference and (d) Part B consent number, where appropriate. | | (241624) | 673
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sites growing genetically modified organisms grant Part C authorisation for commercial cultivation under Directive 90/220 or 2001/18 have been sown since January 2000; and how many of these sites have been vandalised. | | (241625) | 674
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many post-release monitoring reports of Part B consents in respect of the experimental releases of genetically modified organisms authorised under the Genetically Modfied Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992 and the GMO (Deliberate Release) (England) Regulations 2002 his Department has received since January 2000; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each report received. | | (241762) | 675
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Part B consents for the experimental releases of genetically modified organisms authorised under the Genetically Modfied Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992 and the GMO (Deliberate Release) (England) Regulations 2002 were (a) granted and (b) still valid in England since January 2000; and if he will list them. | | (241763) | 676
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241951) | 677
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people were employed to conduct farm inspections by each inspection body which is the responsibility of his Department in each of the last five years. | | (241024) | 678
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 30 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1181-4W, on the Rural Development Programme, if he will provide the figures requested, excluding projects where England Rural Development Programme legacy payments were made after 1 January 2007. | | (241025) | 679
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 30 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1183-6W, on the Rural Development Programme, if he will provide the figures requested where England Rural Development Programme legacy payments were made after 1 January 2007. | | (241026) | 680
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on professional (a) IT and telecommunication, (b) management and business consultancy, (c) programme and project management, (d) research and development, (e) specialist consultancy and (f) temporary staff services in 2007-08. | | (241236) | 681
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) businesses and (b) individuals provided consultancy service to his Department in each of the last three years; and what the 10 most valuable contracts were in each case. | | (241237) | 682
N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much he expects to have been paid out under the 2008 Single Payment Scheme by 25 December 2008; and to how many claimants he expects payment to have been made by that date. | | (241238) | 683
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what date the EU target of 96.14 per cent. of payments by value under the single payment scheme in England was met in each of the scheme years to date; and when he expects the target to be met for the 2008 scheme year. | | (241251) | 684
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the potential taxpayer liability for (a) fines disallowance and (b) other penalties as a result of late payment under the single farm payment scheme and other precursor common agricultural schemes since 1997. | | (241252) | 685
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) fines, (b) disallowance and (c) other penalties the Government has incurred as a result of late payments under the single payment scheme and other precursor common agricultural schemes since 1997; and from which budget each penalty was paid. | | (241253) | 686
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many members of staff in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties in each of the last three years; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (242022) | 687
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people were prosecuted for offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 in 2007. | | (240812) | 688
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240472) | 689
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to ban the import of dairy products from China; and if he will make a statement. | | (241387) | 690
| Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to fund new mixed plastics recycling plants; and if he will make a statement. | | (241868) | 691
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on water quality at English beaches and the Blue Flag scheme. | | (241059) | 692
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the populations of pollinating insects in the last five years. | | (241060) | 693
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the populations of (a) bees, (b) moths, (c) butterflies, (d) beetles, (e) upwing flies and (f) other invertebrates in the last five years. | | (241061) | 694
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take on regulation of pesticide spraying following the recent High Court ruling by Mr Justice Collins on the matter. | | (241062) | 695
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many pets have entered the UK from abroad in each of the last three years. | | (241469) | 696
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many pet passports have been issued in each of the last three years. | | (241470) | 697
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effects of shipping noise on (a) whales, (b) dolphins, (c) porpoises and (d) other aquatic animals. | | (241473) | 698
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department has provided for research on farm animal diseases in each of the last five years. | | (241475) | 699
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will increase the funding available to collect and analyse disease surveillance data relating to cross-border pet movement. | | (241476) | 700
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) European Union Commissioners on the pet movement derogation and its expiry date in June 2010. | | (241477) | 701
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the tonnage of grain for (a) human consumption and (b) animal consumption was held in the UK on (i) 1 January, (ii) 1 March, (iii) 1 May, (iv) 1 July, (v) 1 September and (vi) 1 November in the last year for which figures are available. | | (241478) | 702
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the six-day movement rule for farm livestock. | | (241479) | 703
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the likelihood of British livestock being affected by the bluetongue virus serotype (a) one and (b) six; and what discussions he has had with representatives of the live-stock related industry on the development of vaccines against each strain. | | (241480) | 704
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the level of bluetongue vaccine uptake in England. | | (241481) | 705
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the total income generated by farming in England (a) in absolute terms expressed in pounds sterling and (b) as a percentage of gross domestic product in each of the last three years. | | (241482) | 706
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has performed a cost/benefit analysis on the EU requirement for foals born after 1 July 2009 to be identified by a microchip linked to a horse passport; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of implementing such a requirement in the first 12 months of its operation. | | (241483) | 707
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward proposals to designate ocean noise a pollutant for the purposes of the forthcoming Marine Bill. | | (241484) | 708
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department and its agencies are members of the (a) Classic, (b) Classic Plus, (c) Nuvos and (d) Premium civil service pension schemes. | | (240307) | 709
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many new (a) laptops, (b) mobile telephones and (c) personal digital assistant devices his Department bought for the use of departmental Ministers following each change in Ministers since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (240310) | 710
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241245) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 711
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241189) | 712
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on terrorist attacks in Israel since October 2008; what discussions he has had with the government of Israel on the matter; and if he will make a statement. | | (241166) | 713
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on UK participation at the Durban Review Conference; and if he will make a statement. | | (241167) | 714
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of Israel on UK attendance at the Durban Review Conference in 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (241168) | 715
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many bottles of (a) blue chip list wines, (b) fine wines, (c) reception or drinking wines and (d) spirits and liqueurs were held in the Government wine cellar managed by his Department in each of the last five years; what the estimated value of each type of drink and of the Government wine cellar in total was in each year; how much was spent on (i) blue chip list wines, (ii) fine wines, (iii) reception or drinking wines and (iv) spirits and liqueurs for the Government wine cellar in each of those years; what the expenditure on the Government wine cellar was in each of those years; what proportion of the cellar stock is currently English wine; and what the policy is in respect of the procurement of English wines for the cellar. | | (241055) | 716
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the US Administration on the reported killing of Rashid Rauf in Pakistan. | | (242028) | 717
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the US administration on behalf of Mr Binyam Mohamed in respect of his detention in Guantanamo Bay. | | (240319) | 718
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 9 July 2008, Official Report, column 1660W, on languages, how much has been paid in the current financial year to each of the 15 foreign language training providers who have a framework agreement with his Department. | | (240671) | 719
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the right hon. Lord Morris of Manchester of 14 October 2008, Official Report, House of Lords column WA45, on the Commonwealth Scholarships Programme, whether the working group on scholarships has been formed; what its (a) composition and (b) mandate is; and when it is expected to report. | | (240672) | 720
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 3 November 2008, Official Report, column 162W, on departmental training, if he will place in the Library a copy of the audit of skills in his Department conducted in 2008. | | (240673) | 721
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, column 655W, on Gulf of Aden: piracy, if he will provide a breakdown of the UK's (a) current and (b) planned contribution to the (i) EU and (ii) NATO and Combined Force 150 counter-piracy missions in the Horn of Africa. | | (240675) | 722
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the right hon. Lord Morris of Manchester of 14 October 2008, Official Report, House of Lords column WA45, on the Commonwealth Scholarships Programme, what steps have been taken to identify additional funding for scholarships for Canada; what the outcome was of this process; and whether similar steps have been taken for other countries affected by the termination of the Commonwealth Scholarships Programme. | | (240676) | 723
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the Solana-Rehn joint report to EU Foreign Ministers on the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina; and if he will make a statement. | | (240822) | 724
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the outcome of the European Commission's assignment to examine the practical consequences to be drawn from Russia's unilateral decision to recognise the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as set out in paragraph two of the 1 September Presidency Conclusions of the European Council (12594/08); and if he will make a statement. | | (240832) | 725
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on national caveats applicable to the operations of troops deployed with the UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and if he will make a statement. | | (240833) | 726
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what budget allocation his Department has made for the services of foreign language training providers in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10. | | (240835) | 727
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the terms of the Odzak agreement signed on 8 November 2008 in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | | (240836) | 728
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Solana-Rehn joint report to EU foreign ministers on the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | | (240837) | 729
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the level of co-operation and consultation between the EU and NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovina; and if he will make a statement. | | (240838) | 730
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's policy is on Serbia's proposal for renegotiating the 1999 Kumanovo agreement; and if he will make a statement. | | (240839) | 731
| 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 citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina who have been issued (a) Serbian and (b) Croatian passports since the Dayton Peace Accord of 1995. | | (240840) | 732
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's policy is on proposals for the liberalisation of the EU visa regime for Serbian citizens; when he expects a decision to be taken on these proposals; and if he will make a statement. | | (240841) | 733
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff at BBC Monitoring Caversham (a) ther are in total and (b) monitor Russian-language broadcasts. | | (240659) | 734
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much and what proportion of the overall BBC World Service budget was spent on (a) Arabic-language services, (b) Persian-language services and (c) Russian-language services in each of the last five years. | | (240661) | 735
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of the audience for the BBC Russian internet service is based in (a) Russia, (b) other former Soviet Union countries, (c) the UK and (d) other countries. | | (240662) | 736
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in (a) the US Administration and (b) other European countries on offering joint Russian language radio services for international audiences. | | (240663) | 737
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the location is of the transmitters for the BBC Russian Service. | | (240664) | 738
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240984) | 739
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British citizens have been refused entry into Israel at Ben Gurion Airport in each of the last three years; what records his Department holds on the reasons for refusal in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (240703) | 740
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his most recent assessment of the state of UK-Russia relations is. | | (240783) | 741
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) UK diplomatic staff there were in Russia and (b) Russian diplomatic staff there were in the UK (i) immediately prior to the expulsion of diplomats in 2007 and (ii) at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (240784) | 742
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 17 November 2008, Official Report, column 184W, on departmental air travel, how many members of his Department have taken advantage of the policy on travelling in a cheaper class and using the difference for additional free personal air travel in the last 12 months. | | (241681) | 743
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 140W, on departmental air travel, how much departmental air mileage was carbon offset through the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership in each of the last two years, broken down by (a) domestic and (b) non-domestic travel. | | (242037) | 744
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what protocols and procedures govern the sharing of intelligence by the United Kingdom Intelligence Services with the intelligence services of allied countries. | | (240999) | 745
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of reports that Mr Rashid Rauf was killed in the US air strike of 21 November 2008 in North Waziristan, Pakistan. | | (241016) | 746
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to (a) the government of Pakistan and (b) the government of the USA on the reported death of Mr Rashid Rauf on 21 November 2008. | | (241017) | 747
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British citizens were imprisoned in Pakistan during 2006. | | (241278) | 748
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has received reports of who fired first in recent skirmishes between forces of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda across their mutual border. | | (240656) | 749
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on whether there should be direct negotiations between General Nkunda and President Kabila of Democratic Republic of Congo; and if he will make a statement. | | (240657) | 750
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of participation in recent fighting in Democratic Republic of Congo since the signing of a ceasefire of (a) government troops and (b) members of the CNDP and other militia. | | (240658) | 751
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on alleged abuses by the government of Democratic Republic of Congo of the human rights of members of opposition parties; and if he will make a statement. | | (241343) | 752
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241952) | 753
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many inhabitants of St Helena have taken up residence in the United Kingdom in the last five years. | | (240849) | 754
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans there are for official visits to the UK by members of the government of Australia. | | (240853) | 755
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans his Department has made for marking the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012. | | (240855) | 756
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what meetings he has had with officials from St Helena in the last two years. | | (240872) | 757
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which endangered species exist on (a) St Helena, (b) Ascension Island and (c)Tristan Da Cunha; and what steps the Government has taken to encourage environment conservation on the islands. | | (240873) | 758
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans the Government has to improve transport links between the United Kingdom and St Helena. | | (240876) | 759
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to visit (a) St Helena, (b) Tristan da Cunha and (c) Ascension Islands in the next 12 months. | | (240878) | 760
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had on the preservation of the diversity of wildlife in (a) Montserrat and (b) Bermuda. | | (240965) | 761
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department last met representatives from the International Whaling Commission to discuss international whaling practices. | | (240966) | 762
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240471) | 763
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has made representations to the Thai government on the recent anti-government protestors' blockade of Bangkok's two main airports; and if he will make a statement. | | (240302) | 764
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps in the light of the blockade of Bangkok's two main airports to ensure that UK citizens who are caught up in protests or blockades in other countries can be (a) kept fully informed and (b) returned to the UK as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement. | | (240322) | 765
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of UK citizens who were caught up in the recent blockade of Bangkok's two main airports; and if he will make a statement. | | (240327) | 766
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the British Ambassador to Indonesia about the ongoing search for a missing British citizen, Jeremy Hoyland; and if he will make a statement. | | (240554) | 767
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Indonesian Foreign Minister on the ongoing search for a missing British citizen, Jeremy Hoyland; and if he will make a statement. | | (240555) | 768
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to locate a missing British citizen, Jeremy Hoyland; and if he will make a statement. | | (240556) | 769
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement about the ongoing search for a missing British citizen, Jeremy Hoyland. | | (240557) | 770
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many full-time permanent members of staff work for his Department's Forced Marriage Unit. | | (241220) | 771
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the operational budget of the Forced Marriage Unit is for 2008-09. | | (241221) | 772
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many cases of suspected forced marriage were reported to the Forced Marriage Unit in (a) 2008 and (b) 2007. | | (241222) | 773
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what training is provided to Embassy staff who negotiate with suspected victims of forced marriage and their families. | | (241223) | 774
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what legal guidance his Department provides for staff in agencies working outside the UK who deal with suspected cases of forced marriage. | | (241224) | 775
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding has been allocated to public information campaigns to increase awareness about access to assistance for suspected victims of forced marriage in 2008-09. | | (241225) | 776
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has received on the proposed pricing scheme for the Falkland Islands Airbridge under the provisions of the Joint Policy Statement agreed between his Department and the Ministry of Defence. | | (240778) | 777
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what consultations were carried out by his Department on the proposed pricing scheme for the Falkland Islands Airbridge under the provisions of the Joint Policy Statement agreed between his Department and the Ministry of Defence; and if he will make a statement. | | (240779) | 778
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241240) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 779
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241181) | 780
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what requirements must be met for a company to receive remuneration for the dispensing of incontinence appliances under a dispensing appliance contractors licence; what recent representations he has received about the issue; and if he will make a statement. | | (241125) | 781
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the proposal to require dispensing appliance contractors to provide a home delivery service will apply in circumstances where the contractors would be providing such a service at a financial loss; what recent representations he has received about this issue; and if he will make a statement. | | (241126) | 782
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the basis was for his Department's estimate of the number of illegal abortions contained in paragraph 2.4 of the partial regulatory impact assessment on the Termination of Pregnancy Bill of Session 2006-07; and if he will make a statement. | | (241141) | 783
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department took account of the effects of the Hyde Amendment restricting US federal funding of abortion in preparing the partial regulatory impact assessment on the Termination of Pregnancy Bill of Session 2006-07; and if he will make a statement. | | (241142) | 784
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people who were not eligible for free NHS treatment but who received free NHS services in (a) Southend Primary Care Trust, (b) Essex and (c) England in each year since 1997; and what estimate he has made of the costs of providing such services in each area in each year. | | (241162) | 785
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received in respect of Bolton Primary Care Trust's policy on the prescribing of cranial helmets for children; and if he will make a statement. | | (240687) | 786
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the annual savings accruing to his Department as a result of expatriates resident in Australia meeting the cost of their healthcare. | | (240681) | 787
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the independent evaluation of patients' experience, the workforce implications and the costings of a national primary angioplasty service has been completed. | | (240355) | 788
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the target for the NHS to offer screening to all people with diabetes has been met. | | (240356) | 789
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made with implementation of the recommendations of the report, Making every young person with diabetes matter. | | (240357) | 790
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in achieving race equality in the local commissioning of mental health services. | | (240358) | 791
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) crisis resolution, (b) assertive outreach and (c) early intervention teams in the field of mental health there were at the end of March 2008. | | (240359) | 792
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the three pilots undertaken as part of the Diabetes Year of Care Project. | | (240360) | 793
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in the development of local stroke care networks. | | (240361) | 794
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has completed his assessment of options for providing modern proton therapy services. | | (240362) | 795
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cardiac rehabilitation programmes in England have contributed to the national audit of cardiac rehabilitation. | | (240363) | 796
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of adequacy of cardiac rehabilitation services in England. | | (240364) | 797
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to assist pharmacies to provide advice to patients in respect of mental health matters. | | (240365) | 798
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Prison Service staff have received mental health awareness training. | | (240366) | 799
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of front-of-pack food labelling designed to assist people to make healthier food choices. | | (240367) | 800
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the healthy start scheme. | | (240368) | 801
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Let's Get Moving resource pack has been provided to all GP surgeries in England. | | (240369) | 802
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the National School Pedometer programme in improving children's health. | | (240370) | 803
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Government policies to encourage safe and sensible social drinking. | | (240371) | 804
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made towards the new public service agreement target to reduce drug and alcohol harm, with particular reference to the new national indicator to measure change in the rate of hospital admissions for alcohol-related conditions. | | (240372) | 805
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which voluntary organisations have received funding from his Department for work to reduce stigma and discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS. | | (240373) | 806
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been screened under the National Chlamydia Screening Programme. | | (240374) | 807
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Teaching Public Health Networks in providing training opportunities. | | (240375) | 808
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of progress towards the public service agreement target to reduce health inequalities by 10 per cent. by 2010. | | (240376) | 809
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Public Health National Support Team on alcohol harm reduction has started its work. | | (240378) | 810
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) commencement and (b) completion dates are for the three healthy organisations pilots on health and well-being of NHS staff. | | (240379) | 811
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate of sickness absence of staff in his Department was in each of the last five years. | | (240380) | 812
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has his Department made in the development of new qualifications for pharmacy support staff; and if he will make a statement. | | (240704) | 813
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in the review of prescription charges and exemptions; and if he will make a statement. | | (240705) | 814
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made by the Neonatal Taskforce; and if he will make a statement. | | (240706) | 815
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to public funds of the Family Nurse Partnerships programme has been to date. | | (240707) | 816
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether evaluation of the Family Nurse Partnerships Programme pilots has been completed; and if he will make a statement. | | (240708) | 817
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps he has taken to improve primary care services for people with mental health problems. | | (240709) | 818
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps have been taken by his Department to improve the health of offenders since the publication of Improving Health, Supporting Justice: A Strategy for Improving Health and Social Care Services for People Subject to the Criminal Justice System. | | (240710) | 819
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in how many prisons the Integrated Drug Treatment System has been introduced. | | (240711) | 820
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made towards achieving the target of a waiting time of 14 days for the transfer of prisoners with severe mental illness to hospital; and if he will make a statement. | | (240712) | 821
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department has allocated to SHiFT in each year to 2011. | | (240713) | 822
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made by SHiFT in its work to tackle discrimination in (a) employment and (b) the media against people with mental health problems. | | (240714) | 823
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made in the implementation of the recommendations made in the Social Exclusion Unit's report, Mental Health and Social Exclusion, at (a) regional and (b) local level. | | (240715) | 824
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made by the National Social Inclusion working group on the co-ordination and establishment of regional employment partnerships for people with mental health problems; and if he will make a statement. | | (240716) | 825
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his most recent assessment is of the effectiveness of programmes designed to increase the uptake of direct payments by people with mental health problems; and if he will make a statement. | | (240717) | 826
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in which local authority areas individual budgets for mental health service users have been piloted. | | (240718) | 827
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made in the development of a public mental health framework for creating well-being; and if he will make a statement. | | (240719) | 828
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many local psychological therapy services there are in England; and if he will make a statement. | | (240720) | 829
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made in training therapists under the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (240721) | 830
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve progress towards standard 6 of the National Service Framework for Mental Health. | | (240722) | 831
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the multi-site project undertaken by his Department in collaboration with the British Heart Foundation and the British Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation to consider costs and reimbursement through the payment by results system for cardiac rehabilitation; and if he will make a statement. | | (240723) | 832
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many pharmacies there were in England on 31 March 2008. | | (240724) | 833
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of NHS prescriptions issued in 2007 attracted a charge. | | (240725) | 834
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the conception rate among those under the age of 18. | | (240726) | 835
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the prevalence of smoking. | | (240727) | 836
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital admissions for (a) unintended and (b) deliberate injury there were per 10,000 people aged under 19 years in the last 12 month period for which figures are available. | | (240729) | 837
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of pregnant women had a health and social care needs assessment by a midwife or healthcare professional within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in the last 12 months. | | (240730) | 838
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made on review of child and adolescent mental health services; and if he will make a statement. | | (240731) | 839
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress the Child Health and Maternal Health Intelligence Unit has made towards its objectives; and if he will make a statement. | | (240732) | 840
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the development of a national end-of-life care strategy; and if he will make a statement. | | (240901) | 841
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made in the pilot training programme for laparoscopic colorectal cancer; and if he will make a statement. | | (240902) | 842
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made in the project to introduce virtual skills training for student therapeutic radiographers; and if he will make a statement. | | (240903) | 843
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the National Advanced Communication Skills Training Programme meets the needs of NHS staff working in end-of-life care; and if he will make a statement. | | (240904) | 844
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the National Commissioning Group commissions proton therapy for suitable cancers other than eye cancers from overseas suppliers. | | (240905) | 845
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made on the National Cancer Equality Initiative; and if he will make a statement. | | (240906) | 846
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the outcomes of Men's Health Week 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (240907) | 847
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the provision by the NHS of choice between active patient care and care at home for those with long-term conditions; and if he will make a statement. | | (240908) | 848
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made on the National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative relating to cancer; and if he will make a statement. | | (240909) | 849
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the extension of the age range for breast cancer screening to include women aged 47 to 73 years has been implemented. | | (240910) | 850
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he expects MRSA screening for all elective patients to be in place by March 2009. | | (240911) | 851
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in its work on digital mammography; and if he will make a statement. | | (240912) | 852
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the national roll-out of liquid-based cytology to all laboratories has been completed. | | (240913) | 853
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the review of the Prostate Cancer Risk-management Programme has been completed. | | (240914) | 854
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the Prostate Cancer Risk-management Programme to be relaunched. | | (240915) | 855
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the first prostate cancer training courses resulting from the work of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have been delivered. | | (240916) | 856
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made in the reconfiguration of NHS Pathology Services in England; and if he will make a statement. | | (240917) | 857
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the expenditure of the Public Health Leadership Forum for Pharmacy was in financial year 2007-08. | | (240918) | 858
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in the development of specialist accreditation frameworks for pharmacists; and if he will make a statement. | | (240919) | 859
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on revision of the national occupational standards in pharmacy; and if he will make a statement. | | (240920) | 860
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made on the National Cancer Survivors Initiative; and if he will make a statement. | | (241335) | 861
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps he has taken to improve the standard of assistance provided by the NHS to parents of disabled children. | | (241344) | 862
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps he has taken to improve the emotional health and well-being of children. | | (241345) | 863
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps his Department has taken to bring about an increase in levels of breastfeeding. | | (241346) | 864
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in responding to the recommendations contained in the report of the group chaired by Professor Mayur Lakhani on primary care for black and minority ethnic people; and if he will make a statement. | | (241347) | 865
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the patient capacity of the National High Secure Healthcare Service for Women at Rampton Hospital is; and how many patients were placed there on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (241348) | 866
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the 17 new trials approved by the Gene Therapy Advisory Committee were in 2007-08. | | (241349) | 867
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of progress towards agreement of European Union proposals in relation to patients who wish to travel to other EU member states for treatment and have their costs reimbursed. | | (241350) | 868
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the NHS mid-life life check scheme has commenced. | | (241351) | 869
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital admissions in respect of diagnosis code (a) F10, (b) K70 and (c) T51 there were in each (i) NHS primary care trust area and (ii) NHS region in (A) 1997, (B) 2001, (C) 2005 and (D) the most recent year for which figures are available, broken down by age group of patient admitted; and if he will make a statement. | | (240484) | 870
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procedures his Department has in place for routine scrutiny of serious case reviews in respect of elder abuse. | | (240487) | 871
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which serious case reviews his Department took into account in preparing its consultation document on safeguarding vulnerable adults and the No Secrets guidance. | | (240488) | 872
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many deaths in care homes were attributed to each notifiable infectious disease in each year since 1997. | | (240770) | 873
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent nurses were employed within the NHS in each year since 1996. | | (241049) | 874
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his estimate is of the risk-adjusted backlog maintenance cost for the NHS in (a) England and (b) each strategic health authority in each year since 1997. | | (241050) | 875
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished consultant episodes there were for (a) paediatric and (b) adolescent obesity treatment in (i) England and (ii) each strategic health authority in each year since 1997. | | (241051) | 876
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many surgical procedures to treat obesity were carried out on the NHS in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each strategic health authority area in each year since 1997. | | (241052) | 877
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the maintenance backlog to reach estate code condition B was in (a) England and (b) each strategic health authority in each year since 1997. | | (241053) | 878
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nosocomial cases of small round-structured viruses there were in each strategic health authority area in each of the last five years. | | (241054) | 879
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with dementia were recorded on dementia registers by GPs as part of the dementia indicator quality outcome framework. | | (241056) | 880
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people with (a) dementia and (b) cancer in England; and how much his Department spent on medical research on (i) cancer and (ii) dementia in 2007-08. | | (241057) | 881
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to announce his decision on the inclusion of other social care workers on the register of the General Social Care Council. | | (241268) | 882
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many delayed discharges there were in (a) each strategic health authority area, (b) each primary care trust area and (c) England in each of the last five years, broken down by (i) reason for delay and (ii) age of patient; and how many patients in each case were occupying an acute hospital bed. | | (241271) | 883
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data his Department routinely collects in respect of continuing care. | | (241272) | 884
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many home visits on average a child considered to be at (a) low risk and (b) high risk received from an allocated health visitor in the first two years following assessment in each region in each year between 1997 and 3 August 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (241899) | 885
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many home visits on average a child considered to be at (a) low risk and (b) high risk received from an allocated health visitor in the first two years following assessment in each region between 9 September 2008 and the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (241900) | 886
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many home visits on average a child considered to be at (a) low risk and (b) high risk received from an allocated health visitor in the first two years following assessment in each London borough in each year between 1997 and 3 August 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (241902) | 887
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average number of cases allocated to health visitors in each London borough was between 9 September 2008 and the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (241912) | 888
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average number of cases allocated to health visitors in each London borough was in each year between 1997 and 3 August 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (241913) | 889
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average number of cases allocated to health visitors was in each region between 9 September 2008 and the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (241914) | 890
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average number of cases allocated to health visitors in each region was in each year between 1997 and 3 August 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (241915) | 891
| Mrs Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors there were in each region in each year since 1997 for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (241932) | 892
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the prison healthcare budget was spent on mental health care during the last financial year. | | (240693) | 893
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prisoners received mental health care treatment in the last financial year. | | (240694) | 894
| Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many reported cases of ill health have been attributed to long-term exposure to organophosphates in each of the last 10 years. | | (241599) | 895
| Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many reported cases there have been of people suffering from (a) excessive fatigue, (b) sensory disturbance, (c) disturbance of higher cerebral functions, (d) loss of cognitive functions and (e) memory loss where such symptoms have been attributed to long-term exposure to organophosphates in each of the last 10 years. | | (241600) | 896
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether there has been any nugatory cost to his Department and its agencies relating to tendered procurement where the tender process has been cancelled prior to the award of the contract in the last three years. | | (240388) | 897
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what regulations govern private companies selling hearing aids to people with hearing impairments; and if he will make a statement. | | (240806) | 898
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240983) | 899
| Mr Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what work his Department is undertaking to enable NHS trusts to develop premises and sites which facilitate the provision of modern and accessible healthcare. | | (241099) | 900
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the role and purpose is of the National Treatment Agency. | | (241686) | 901
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff were employed at the National Treatment Agency (a) when it was first launched and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (241687) | 902
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the purpose is of the Drug Change Programme pilots; and what assessment he has made of the implications of the pilots for levels of bureaucracy in the administration of drug and alcohol treatment. | | (241688) | 903
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total expenditure was by his Department on drug and alcohol treatment in 2007-08; and what percentage of the overall budget was spent on monitoring and management of the commissioning process. | | (241689) | 904
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the budget was for the National Treatment Agency in (a) its first year of operation and (b) 2007-08. | | (241690) | 905
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each local authority spent per head of population on taking and analysing samples for food standards purposes in the last 12 months. | | (240401) | 906
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many public analysts laboratories were open in each year since 1997. | | (240402) | 907
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which psychiatric hospitals have provided separate units for the assessment of patients arrested by the police under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983. | | (240407) | 908
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to bring forward proposals to amend the Mental Health Act 2007 to include mental capacity as a condition of compulsory treatment in light of the NHS constitution. | | (240530) | 909
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patient safety incidents of each type, classified as causing (a) no harm, (b) low harm, (c) moderate harm, (d) severe harm and (e) death, were recorded in each NHS trust in each quarter since the inception of the national reporting and learning system. | | (240531) | 910
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the guarantee of choice on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence approved treatments as outlined in the NHS constitution will apply to mental health treatment guidelines. | | (240536) | 911
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the voluntary sector will be eligible for funding from the new strategic health authority innovation funds. | | (240537) | 912
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether mental health service users will be guaranteed a choice of hospital under the new NHS constitution. | | (240538) | 913
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 1046W, on health centres, what steps are being taken against primary care trusts whose plans for (a) a new GP-led health centre and (b) new GP practices do not meet core criteria. | | (240668) | 914
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 1046W, on health centres, for each primary care trust whose plans for a new (a) GP-led health centre and (b) GP practice do not meet core criteria, what the reasons are for this being the case. | | (240669) | 915
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) locations, (b) costs and (c) planned opening date is of each hospital planned to be built under his Department's community hospitals programme. | | (241100) | 916
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data are collected in the Estates Returns Information Collection on the NHS estate. | | (241101) | 917
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on (a) agency nurses, (b) locum doctors and (c) other agency staff by each NHS organisation incurring such expenditure in each year from 1997-98 to 2006-07. | | (241102) | 918
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to his Department of (a) EEA healthcare claims and (b) UK healthcare claims against other EEA countries was in 2007-08; and what estimate he has made of such costs in 2008-09. | | (241103) | 919
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 213 of the 2008 Pre-Budget Report, Cm 7484, what the latest planned capital expenditure is for (a) his Department and (b) the NHS in each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11. | | (241104) | 920
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 214 of the 2008 Pre-Budget Report, Cm 7484, which NHS capital programmes will be changed following the change in the NHS capital budget in 2010-11; and what the change will be in each case. | | (241105) | 921
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 113 of the 2008 Pre-Budget Report, Cm 7484, what the location is of each GP surgery to be upgraded into a training practice. | | (241106) | 922
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 113 of the 2008 Pre-Budget Report, Cm 7484, how the £100 million for upgrading GP surgeries to training practices will be allocated. | | (241107) | 923
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the 2008 Pre-Budget Report, Cm 7484, what contribution his Department is expected to make to the £5 billion efficiency savings in 2010-11; and how he plans to achieve such savings. | | (241108) | 924
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 116 of the 2008 Pre-Budget Report, Cm 7484, whether his plans to provide free prescriptions for everyone with long-term conditions will be paid for from the planned £550 million savings in the cost of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme. | | (241109) | 925
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 120 of the 2008 Pre-Budget Report, Cm 7484, what improvements in NHS estate utilisation are taking place; and what contribution he estimates each will make to efficiency savings in the next 12 months. | | (241110) | 926
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS organisations (a) collect and (b) collate data on serious untoward incidents in the NHS. | | (241145) | 927
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many deaths have resulted from patient safety incidents in each year since 1997-98 for which figures are available, broken down by type of incident. | | (241146) | 928
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which staff members attended his Department's departmental board away day held on 11 and 12 September 2008; and how much was claimed in total in expenses relating to the away day by such staff. | | (241147) | 929
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, where his Department's departmental board away day which took place on 11 and 12 September 2008 was held. | | (241148) | 930
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of the (a) agenda and (b) minutes of his Department's departmental board away day held on 11 and 12 September 2008. | | (241149) | 931
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's workforce planning assumptions used to inform the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review. | | (241150) | 932
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the health of children in care. | | (241151) | 933
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many yellow card reports the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency received in each year since 1997; to which (a) drug and (b) device each such report related; and how many such reports were made by (i) patients and (ii) healthcare professionals in each year. | | (241152) | 934
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much members of his Department's departmental board claimed in expenses in each financial year from 2004-05 to 2007-08. | | (241153) | 935
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what benefits in kind have been recorded as being provided to senior staff in his Department in its resource accounts for (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08. | | (241154) | 936
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) net NHS expenditure, (b) net NHS expenditure per head and (c) net NHS expenditure as a proportion of GDP is planned to be in England in each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11. | | (241218) | 937
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) net NHS expenditure, (b) net NHS expenditure per head and (c) net NHS expenditure as a proportion of GDP was in England in each year from 1997-98 to 2007-08. | | (241219) | 938
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on cancelled private finance initiative projects since 1997; what the project was in each case; and on what date each such project was cancelled. | | (241339) | 939
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the capital value is of each private finance initiative scheme overseen by his Department which has reached financial close; and, for each such scheme, (a) over what period repayments will take place and (b) what the cost of repayment will be expressed in (i) real and (ii) cash terms. | | (241340) | 940
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department (a) has spent and (b) plans to spend in each of the next three financial years under the community hospitals programme. | | (241341) | 941
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) location, (b) cost and (c) date of opening of each hospital built to date under his Department's community hospitals programme is. | | (241342) | 942
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department submitted to HM Treasury on its potential for efficiency savings in 2010-11 prior to the publication of the 2008 Pre-Budget Report. | | (241386) | 943
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, according to the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System, how many clients in each local authority structured drug treatment (a) had a child aged 16 years or under and (b) were living with a child aged 16 years or under in each of the last 10 years. | | (240767) | 944
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been employed as (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) administrative or clinical staff in (i) North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust and (ii) England in each year since 1997; and how many were employed on a (A) permanent and (B) part-time basis. | | (241682) | 945
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in (a) North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust and (b) England have made calls to NHS Direct in each year since 2001; and what the estimated cost of the service was in each year. | | (241683) | 946
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed in (a) North Yorkshire and (b) England with (i) type one diabetes and (ii) type two diabetes in each year since 1997. | | (241971) | 947
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the role of diabetes specialist nurses in ensuring that people with diabetes achieve the recommended HbA1c levels. | | (240286) | 948
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the role of diabetes specialist nurses in improving standards of care for those admitted to hospital with particular reference to (a) access to the inpatient diabetes specialist nurses, (b) reducing medicines error and length of stay and (c) production of local guidelines regarding continuity of care once patients are discharged into the community. | | (240287) | 949
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act had been held in police custody in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (241324) | 950
| Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the implementation of the vascular checks programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (241535) | 951
| Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the mechanism is for allocating funding for the vascular checks programme to primary care trusts. | | (241536) | 952
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the £150 million spending for respite care announced in the carers strategy will be disbursed; to whom; and according to what formula. | | (241417) | 953
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the working population who suffer from migraine or other headache disorders. | | (241418) | 954
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the working population who are absent as a result of headache or migraine on any one day. | | (241419) | 955
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the number of people in employment who experience migraine or other headache disorders. | | (241421) | 956
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much per patient per year was spent on headache disorder research in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (241422) | 957
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to improve the provision of headache disorder care within the NHS. | | (241423) | 958
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the Local Involvement Networks which are operational. | | (241424) | 959
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library the latest minutes for each of his Department's advisory bodies. | | (241425) | 960
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much independent hospitals have paid to appear on the NHS Choices website in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (241426) | 961
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of all the reports made to the National Reporting and Learning System in December 2007 of patient safety incidents concerning malnutrition. | | (241427) | 962
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in each primary care trust have received continuing care in each quarter per 10,000 population (a) since the application of the national framework for continuing care and (b) for two years prior to the application of the national framework for continuing care; and how many people per 10,000 population met the eligibility criteria for continuing care for the first time (i) since the application of the national framework for continuing care and (ii) in the two years prior to the application of the national framework for continuing care. | | (241436) | 963
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were receiving continuing care in the last quarter for which figures are available, broken down by (a) primary care trust and (b) the length of time for which they had been receiving continuing care. | | (241500) | 964
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance is provided to healthcare professionals to prevent prescribing and dispensing errors in relation to immunosuppressant therapies. | | (241501) | 965
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many specialist headache disorder nurses there are in England; and in which hospitals or health centres they are based. | | (241544) | 966
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of closed hospital wards which have been re-opened in the last three months. | | (241548) | 967
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department takes to protect patients from the risk posed by the varying bioequivalence of therapies used for the same indication; and if he will make a statement. | | (241549) | 968
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) prescribing and (b) dispensing errors of immunosuppressant therapies have been recorded in each of the last five years; if he will place in the Library a copy of the records; and if he will make a statement. | | (241550) | 969
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of on-call time worked by junior doctors was classified as (a) inactive and (b) active at the latest date on which figures are available. | | (241555) | 970
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of comments made in an official capacity by (a) his Chief Nursing Officer, (b) his Director General of Workforce and (c) the NHS Chief Executive on the 2006-07 pay settlement for nurses in the NHS. | | (241556) | 971
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of hours worked by locums in the NHS in each of the last five years at (a) the grade of the locum, (b) a grade below that of the locum and (c) a grade above that of the locum. | | (241684) | 972
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether care providers are informed when Criminal Records Bureau checks on their prospective employees are discovered not to have been correctly carried out; what estimate he has made of the number of such checks; and if he will provide compensation to care providers for such cases. | | (241685) | 973
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, at what rate a locum covering a job below his or her grade is paid. | | (241785) | 974
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what percentage of hospitals have rota gaps; what assessment he has made of the effect of such gaps on junior doctors; and if he will list the hospitals and the departments within them that have rota gaps. | | (241786) | 975
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether active on call time will begin when (a) a doctor receives a call, (b) a doctor responds to a call or (c) a doctor arrives with the patient; and if he will make a statement. | | (241787) | 976
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how (a) inactive and (b) active call time is calculated; and how it will be calculated when the Working Time Directive comes into force with regard to the NHS. | | (241788) | 977
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many problematic drugs users were estimated to be residing in London in the last year for which figures are available. | | (240585) | 978
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people residing in London are estimated to have used (a) Class A drugs and (b) any illegal drugs in the last year for which figures are available. | | (240586) | 979
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many drugs-related hospital admissions were recorded in London in each of the last five years. | | (240587) | 980
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of all drug misuse deaths in England occurred in London in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (240588) | 981
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which trigger offences lead to drug testing as part of his Department's drug intervention programme; and whether he plans to include further offences within that definition. | | (240589) | 982
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the estimated period of protection against cervical cancer afforded by the Cervarix vaccine. | | (240740) | 983
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of progress made towards meeting his Department's target for all elective admissions to hospitals to be screened for MRSA by March 2009; and what steps he takes to monitor such progress. | | (240741) | 984
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice his Department has issued on the screening of patients for MRSA prior to admission into accident and emergency departments in England. | | (240742) | 985
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his most recent estimate is of the number of prisoners suffering from serious mental illness; how many of those prisoners are women; and if he will make a statement. | | (240743) | 986
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provision his Department has made to assist all hospitals in setting up dedicated isolation wards for patients who carry infections. | | (240744) | 987
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prisoners suffering from severe psychiatric disorders have been diverted from prison to secure psychiatric settings in each year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (240746) | 988
N | Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on salaries and wages for (a) general and senior managers, (b) nurses and midwives and (c) administrative and clerical staff within each primary care trust in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08. | | (240749) | 989
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent by the NHS on treatment and prevention of genital warts in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (240750) | 990
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many females between the ages of (a) 11 to 14, (b) 15 to 17 and (c) 18 to 21 years old his Department estimates will be vaccinated with Cervarix in England in the next 12 months. | | (240751) | 991
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of women between the ages of 16 and 21 were known to be sexually active in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (240752) | 992
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on procurement and distribution of the Cervarix vaccine. | | (240753) | 993
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the level of regional differences in cervical cancer rates in England; what steps his Department is taking to reduce higher rates; and if he will make a statement. | | (240823) | 994
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women were (a) called for a smear test and (b) attended the screening in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (240824) | 995
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase the attendance rate for cervical screenings. | | (240825) | 996
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve awareness of cervical cancer amongst people in deprived areas. | | (240826) | 997
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued to strategic health authorities on (a) the closure of hospitals and (b) the transfer of hospital services to alternative locations. | | (240845) | 998
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospitals have been closed in (a) the East of England, South Central, South East Coast and South West strategic health authorities and (b) the North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber strategic health authorities in each year since 2006. | | (240846) | 999
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) root fillings and (b) individual tooth extractions have been carried out under the NHS dental contract in each year since 2006. | | (241598) | 1000
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients on the diabetes register there were in each primary care trust area in each of the last three years for which figures are available. | | (240296) | 1001
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many instances of exception reporting relating to diabetes there were in each primary care trust area in each of the last three years for which figures are available, ranked by local authority in descending order. | | (240297) | 1002
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240470) | 1003
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of GP practices in each of the regions had at least 50 per cent. of their patients living three or more miles away in the last year. | | (240540) | 1004
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of GP practices in each of the regions was single-handed in each of the last two years. | | (240541) | 1005
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average practice list size was for (a) GPs and (b) dentists in each region in each of the last two years. | | (240542) | 1006
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the relative condition of children's teeth in England in comparison (a) with previous years and (b) with other EU countries for benchmarking purposes. | | (240543) | 1007
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) fillings and (b) extractions were carried out on children's teeth in each of the regions in the last year. | | (240544) | 1008
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the process is by which relatives of patients are informed when a patient has contracted MRSA or another hospital-acquired infection in each hospital in England. | | (240567) | 1009
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost of NHS ophthalmic services was in each region in the last 12 months. | | (240572) | 1010
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has taken steps to assess the level of contamination by the industrial chemical melamine in dairy exports from China to the UK. | | (240685) | 1011
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what change there has been in the number of alcohol-related (a) admissions and (b) visits to accident and emergency facilities since the implementation of changes affecting the sale of alcohol contained in the Licensing Act 2003; and if he will make a statement. | | (241289) | 1012
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children with kidney problems resident in Essex are currently receiving treatment and dialysis at (a) Great Ormond Street and (b) Evalina at Guy's and St Thomas's. | | (241333) | 1013
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress is being made towards achieving his Department's target set out in the 2004 White Paper, Choosing Health, of ensuring that there is at least one full-time, qualified school nurse working with each cluster or group of primary schools in England. | | (241782) | 1014
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each primary care trust in Yorkshire and the Humber spent on consultations in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (240551) | 1015
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on national consultations in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (240552) | 1016
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on changing the name of the East Riding of Yorkshire Primary Care Trust to NHS East Riding of Yorkshire; and if he will make a statement. | | (240553) | 1017
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 2100-1W, on neurofibromatosis, what treatments for neurofibromatosis are available on the National Health Service. | | (240735) | 1018
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many civil servants working in his Department and its agencies have pensions with a cash equivalent transfer value of over £1 million. | | (240313) | 1019
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of the documents rediscovered by his Department in 2007 relating to the safety of blood products have been (a) publicly released and (b) released to the Archer inquiry; and if he will make a statement. | | (240430) | 1020
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 17 June 2008, Official Report, column 799, on cardiovascular incidents, what steps his Department (a) has taken since that Answer and (b) plans to take to ensure that the manufacturer of Vioxx fulfils its responsibilities to people in the UK who have been affected; and if he will make a statement. | | (241266) | 1021
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241243) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 1022
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans she has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241180) | 1023
| Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what bonuses were paid by her Department in 2007-08; to which members of staff; and for what purposes. | | (240794) | 1024
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to resolve the immigration status of (a) Karwan Hamid Rasoul, ref. B1097175/R1061228 and (b) Patrick Odo, ref. HO 01064278. | | (240403) | 1025
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letters dated 9 October and 7 November 2008 from the hon. Member for Billericay regarding a constituent, Mr I Adewunmi. | | (240684) | 1026
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1345W, on Crimes against humanity: entry clearances, how many cases considered by the war crimes team have been referred to the Metropolitan Police. | | (241206) | 1027
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1345W, on crimes against humanity: entry clearances, in how many of the cases where applicants have been refused refugee status following recommendations by the war crimes team the applicant has been granted discretionary leave and remains in the United Kingdom. | | (241207) | 1028
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1345W, on crimes against humanity: entry clearances, how many cases investigated by the war crimes team involved those who were refused (a) naturalisation and (b) indefinite leave to remain and who remain resident in UK territory. | | (241208) | 1029
| Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many motor cars have been seized wrongly owing to (a) inaccuracies in and (b) omissions from the Motor Insurers Database in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by police authority in England. | | (241519) | 1030
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many raids have been carried out by police on private homes between the hours of midnight and 5:00 am with no charges being brought on the direction of the family courts in the last 12 months. | | (241978) | 1031
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of people accepted on the Higher Potential Scheme in each of the last five years were (a) women, (b) black and minority ethnic and (c) disabled. | | (240345) | 1032
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals to remove from the national DNA database profiles of people who have not been convicted of an offence. | | (242009) | 1033
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals to limit the length of time an individual's profile may be retained on the national DNA database based on the seriousness of the offence the individual was convicted of. | | (242010) | 1034
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals to prohibit genetic research with material from the national DNA database. | | (242011) | 1035
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will commission research into the proportion of the (a) black and (b) non-black population with DNA samples retained on the national DNA database, and the reasons for any difference in frequency. | | (242012) | 1036
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides to police forces on the investigation of offences involving cruelty to badgers. | | (242013) | 1037
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many acceptable behaviour contracts have been issued to young people drinking and behaving anti-socially in public in each of the last five years. | | (240539) | 1038
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many retailers have been prosecuted for persistently selling alcohol to a person under 18 years old in each of the last five years. | | (240546) | 1039
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration she gave to including intellectual property property crime in the National Community Safety Plan for 2008 to 2011; and if she will make a statement. | | (240576) | 1040
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the average age of people first entering into prostitution in the latest period for which information is available; and upon what research her Department's calculations are based. | | (241129) | 1041
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's definition is of a person who has been trafficked. | | (241130) | 1042
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who have been trafficked who are (a) in the UK and (b) working as prostitutes in the UK. | | (241131) | 1043
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research her Department has used to estimate the number of people who have been trafficked into the UK. | | (241132) | 1044
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what protocol is used by the police for dealing with people who are identified as having been trafficked. | | (241133) | 1045
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who had been trafficked into the UK were deported in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008. | | (241215) | 1046
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answers of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 2253W, to Questions 226398 and 226400 on entry clearances: biometrics, when she plans to write to the hon. Member for Beaconsfield. | | (241491) | 1047
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 9 June 2008, Official Report, column 75W, on human trafficking: females, what steps are being taken by the (a) Serious Organised Crime Agency and (b) United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre to improve collection of intelligence of human trafficking; and when she expects improved statistics on the extent of human trafficking in the United Kingdom to be published. | | (241516) | 1048
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 17 September 2008, Official Report, column 2257W, on departmental marketing, department branding and marketing, how much was spent by (a) her Department, (b) the UK Border Agency, (c) the Identity and Passport Service and (d) the Criminal Records Bureau and their predecessors in each of the last five years. | | (241517) | 1049
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how long biometric information collected from a recipient of a biometric visa may be retained once the individual is no longer resident in the UK. | | (241537) | 1050
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department plans to spend in total on tackling drugs in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (241538) | 1051
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occassions in (a) her Department and (b) its agencies confidential data have been downloaded onto compact discs (i) without and (ii) with encryption in the last 12 months. | | (241539) | 1052
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many violent incidents were recorded by the British Crime Survey in each police force area in 2007-08. | | (241540) | 1053
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many victims of human trafficking were identified during police operations in each of the last five years. | | (241542) | 1054
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her statement of 21 October 2008, Official Report, column 175, what the evidential basis is for the statement that 12 per cent. fewer low-skilled workers from outside the EU would have come to the UK to work last year had tier 2 of the points-based migration system been in place. | | (241595) | 1055
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people granted settlement last year after four or five months on a work permit had married a person not subject to immigration control prior to their application for settlement. | | (241601) | 1056
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce a penalty notice for disorder as a sanction for the possession of (a) any other Class B drugs besides cannabis and (c) any Class C drugs. | | (241602) | 1057
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when warnings for cannabis possession will be recorded on the Police National Computer. | | (241603) | 1058
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether British citizens with an entry on the National Identity Register will be required to inform the Home Office when they have a child. | | (241604) | 1059
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate has been made of the total implementation cost of the measures in the Policing Green Paper, published on 17 July 2008. | | (241605) | 1060
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures will be introduced to secure the identity of (a) people under 16 years and (b) individuals who will not be enrolled on the National Identity Register. | | (241606) | 1061
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost implications for the UK Border Agency are of the London Olympics in 2012. | | (241607) | 1062
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many registered sex offenders in England and Wales are currently recorded as having their whereabouts unknown. | | (241608) | 1063
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the Border Agency will check that a foreign national entering the country as a business visitor does not work whilst in the UK. | | (241609) | 1064
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what records UK Border Agency will keep of the companies that receive individuals who have entered the UK as a business visitor to act as advisers, consultants, trainers or trouble shooters for those companies. | | (241610) | 1065
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is a limit on the number of times a person can be granted entry to the UK for six months as a business visitor. | | (241611) | 1066
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the criteria will be for deciding which applicants for an identity card will be required to attend an interview in order to authenticate their identity. | | (241612) | 1067
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons identification cards for EEA citizens will not feature reference to the individual's nationality. | | (241613) | 1068
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many files relating to applications from members of the public have been lost in transit between units of the UK Border Agency and its predecessor in each of the last three years. | | (241617) | 1069
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Introducing the National Identity Scheme guide of 6 November 2008, what mechanism will exist to allow the public to check their core identity information on the internet. | | (241636) | 1070
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Introducing the National Identity Scheme guide of 6 November 2008, how the security of the system to allow identity card holders to check their core identity information online will be protected. | | (241637) | 1071
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Introducing the National Identity Scheme guide of 6 November 2008, what estimate has been made of the cost of providing the system to allow identity card holders to check their core identity information online. | | (241638) | 1072
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 10 September 2008, Official Report, columns 1767-8W, on genetics: databases, of the 14,000 offences linked to DNA profiles retained since 2001, how many were detected crimes in which an offender was brought to justice. | | (241669) | 1073
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 2257-8W, on genetics: databases, when she plans to write to the hon. Member for Beaconsfield. | | (241670) | 1074
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget for the Advisory Panel on Country Information of the UK Border Agency and its predecessor was in each of the last three years. | | (241796) | 1075
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of people resident in the UK hold UK citizenship. | | (241797) | 1076
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many pilot schemes for new biometric technology have been carried out over the last five years. | | (241798) | 1077
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what mechanism evidence is gathered from police forces on the impact of migration on each force. | | (241856) | 1078
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which departments are involved in the prevention of youth crime; and what the role of each is in this respect. | | (241857) | 1079
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints were investigated by the Complaints Audit Committee of the UK Border Agency and its predecessor in each of the last three years. | | (241858) | 1080
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been carried out of the effect on the amount of police paperwork of moving responsibility for charging decisions from police forces to the Crown Prosecution Service under the statutory charging initiative. | | (241859) | 1081
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of (a) issuing and (b) producing passports in each of the last eight years has been; and what estimate has been made of the cost of (i) issuing and (ii) producing passports for each of the next eight years. | | (241860) | 1082
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual resource costs of providing passports to British citizens were in each of the last five years. | | (241861) | 1083
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the proposed pilot scheme to test the benefits of establishing a national forensic database of drug seizures will be established; where it will take place; and what the cost of the scheme will be. | | (241862) | 1084
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) prosecuted, (b) convicted of knife possession and (c) sentenced to prison for knife possession between (i) June and October 2008 and (ii) June and October 2007. | | (241863) | 1085
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding the Government (a) has contributed to the Maritime Analysis Operations Centre - Narcotics in 2007-08, (b) plans to contribute to the Centre in 2008-09 and (c) plans to contribute in each of the next three years. | | (241864) | 1086
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many private contractors have been granted access to personal data held by her Department in the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement. | | (241867) | 1087
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 22 October 2008, Official Report, column 442W, on drugs: crime prevention, when she expects data on crackhouse closure orders in 2007-08 to be available. | | (241873) | 1088
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 21 October 2008, Official Report, column 259W, on departmental procurement, how much was paid to (a) the Labour Party, (b) Biometrix, (c) Information Risk Management plc, (d) Good Relations Ltd and (e) Marks and Spencer Lunch to Go in 2007-08; and for what purpose in each case. | | (241874) | 1089
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 21 October 2008, Official Report, column 259W, on departmental procurement, what payments the Identity and Passport Service made to Swingletree Stables in 2007-08; and for what purpose in each case. | | (241875) | 1090
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 14 October 2008, Official Report, column 1079W, on the proceeds of crime, what initiatives have been funded through allocations to police forces under the asset recovery incentive scheme. | | (241884) | 1091
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 14 October 2008, Official Report, column 1079W, on the proceeds of crime, how much was received by each police force under the asset recovery incentive scheme in the last year for which figures are available. | | (241885) | 1092
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) objectives, (b) results and (c) costs were of the youth crime prevention programmes sponsored by her Department in the last five years. | | (242029) | 1093
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, column 595W, on parenting contracts, how the use of such contracts is monitored; and how their effectiveness is assessed. | | (242030) | 1094
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in what circumstances A2 nationals will be required to possess the new identity card for foreign nationals. | | (240660) | 1095
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to remove the system of floors and ceilings in the distribution of government grant funding to police forces. | | (240343) | 1096
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the change in police force costs in each year since 2001; and if she will make a statement. | | (240346) | 1097
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) security grant, (b) crime fighting fund grant, (c) police community support officer grant, (d) basic crime unit grant and (e) probationer training grant will be for Gloucestershire in 2009-10. | | (240348) | 1098
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding was made available to (a) Gloucestershire constabulary and (b) police forces in England from (i) the general grant, (ii) additional rules 2 grant, (iii) security grant, (iv) Crime Fighting Fund grant, (v) police community support officer grant, (vi) Basic Crime Unit grant and (vii) probationer training grant in each year between 2001-02 and 2008-09; and if she will make a statement. | | (240814) | 1099
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what conclusions her Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240977) | 1100
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers are (a) seconded to overseas missions, governments or organisations and (b) otherwise serving abroad. | | (241254) | 1101
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on visits by its staff to Brussels in 2007-08; and how many such visits were made by (a) air and (b) rail. | | (241256) | 1102
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who is on the board which monitors the development of the DNA database. | | (240863) | 1103
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) crime scene and (b) police officer DNA profiles have been removed from the national DNA database in each month of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (240864) | 1104
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of incidents where personal information and DNA samples which (a) were to be loaded onto the national DNA database and (b) have been loaded onto the national DNA database have been lost; and if she will make a statement. | | (240924) | 1105
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the charge will be for registering a change of (a) name, (b) marital status and (c) address under the proposed national identity card scheme. | | (240925) | 1106
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department expects will be spent on the national identity card scheme in its (a) first and (b) second year of operation. | | (240926) | 1107
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were convicted of each type of terrorist offence in each of the last five years. | | (240927) | 1108
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people suspected of offences under anti-terrorism legislation were held for more than 14 days before being charged in the last three years. | | (240928) | 1109
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints of racial abuse relating to staff for which her Department is responsible have been (a) investigated and (b) upheld in the last 12 months. | | (240929) | 1110
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals to impose time limits on the retention of people's DNA profiles on the national DNA database related to the seriousness of the offence where convicted. | | (240930) | 1111
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals to remove from the national DNA database profiles of people who have not been convicted of an offence. | | (240931) | 1112
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions for offences relating to the trafficking of human beings were brought in each year since 1997. | | (240932) | 1113
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) prosecuted for, (b) convicted of and (c) sentenced to prison for knife possession between (i) June and October 2008 and (ii) June and October 2007. | | (240933) | 1114
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of corruption involving (a) police, (b) prison and (c) customs officers which involved illegal drugs there were in each of the last five years. | | (240934) | 1115
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) gun crimes and (b) arrests relating to gun crime there were in (i) England and Wales and (ii) each police force area in each of the last five years. | | (240935) | 1116
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many members of staff at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate have been investigated for impropriety since 31 July 2006. | | (240936) | 1117
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times (a) her Department and (b) the UK Border Agency lost or misplaced databases containing data on (i) British citizens and (ii) foreign nationals in each year since 1997; and what information relating to how many people was held on each such database. | | (240937) | 1118
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department and its agencies were (a) investigated, (b) disciplined and (c) dismissed for (i) not following practice and protocols when handling files and databases contaning personal information on members of the public, (ii) losing or mishandling sensitive personal data and (iii) gaining or attempting to gain unauthorised access to personal information in each year since 1997. | | (240938) | 1119
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were prosecuted for offences relating to the trafficking of human beings for (a) the sex trade and (b) illegal labour in each year since 1997. | | (241045) | 1120
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long it took on average to process a (a) short-term and (b) long-term visa application in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (241065) | 1121
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) short-term and (b) long-term visa applications that were wrongly approved in each year since 1997. | | (241068) | 1122
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many items of correspondence her Department has received on identity cards and the national identity database in the last two years; and how many expressed (a) support for and (b) opposition to the Government's policy. | | (241661) | 1123
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the prison population in England and Wales has a profile on the national DNA database. | | (241664) | 1124
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged under 16 years have a profile on the National DNA Database; and of these how many have a conviction recorded on the police national computer. | | (241665) | 1125
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged under 10 years have a profile on the National DNA Database; and of these how many have a conviction recorded on the police national computer. | | (241666) | 1126
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many electronic or computer files her Department and its agencies lost in transit in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (241789) | 1127
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department notified the Metropolitan Police that her Department's funding of the Metropolitan Police human trafficking unit would cease; what representations she has received from the Metropolitan Police on this matter; and if she will place in the Library copies of the correspondence she has (a) sent and (b) received on the matter. | | (241791) | 1128
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of people-trafficking-related (a) investigations, (b) trials and (c) convictions have been brought about as a result of the activity of the Metropolitan Police human trafficking unit in each year since its inception. | | (241792) | 1129
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reasons are for the decision to cease funding the Metropolitan Police's human trafficking unit; and if she will make a statement. | | (241802) | 1130
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police recruits left the police force within two years of joining since 1997, broken down by police force area; and what percentage of leavers that figure represented in each year. | | (241803) | 1131
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many private contractors have been granted access to personal data held by her Department in the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement. | | (241805) | 1132
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many written requests her Department has received from persons expressing the desire to apply early for an identity card. | | (241806) | 1133
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) keywords and (b) terms her Department has monitored in the media in each of the last three years. | | (240954) | 1134
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which organisations provided media monitoring services to (a) her Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last three years; and what the cost of each such contract was over that period. | | (240955) | 1135
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to extend the requirement for airside workers to undergo basic criminal record checks in order to have an identity card to the rest of the population; and if she will make a statement. | | (241082) | 1136
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will reply to the letter to her of 20 October from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs Naseem Ahmed. | | (241693) | 1137
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will reply to the letter to her of 20 October from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms A Mlay. | | (241694) | 1138
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will reply to the letter to her of 28 October from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr A Benmeddall. | | (241696) | 1139
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will respond to the letter to her of 21 October 2008 from the Rt hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Mr S. Choudhry. | | (241775) | 1140
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when an application was made to a magistrate for a search warrant to search the office of the hon. Member for Ashford within the parliamentary precincts; what response was made to that application; and if she will make a statement. | | (240502) | 1141
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what requirements there are on police officers to produce search warrants when searching premises; in what circumstances they are not required to produce such warrants; and if she will make a statement. | | (240505) | 1142
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assistance individuals subject to control orders receive with their living costs. | | (240997) | 1143
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are detained under her instruction at HM Prison Belmarsh; for how long each has been detained; and when she expects each to be released. | | (240998) | 1144
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK Border Agency, when considering the deportation of an individual to a country with which the UK does not have a Memorandum of Understanding (a) assesses the human rights and politicial situation in the relevant country each time an individual case arises and (b) has a general policy on the human rights and political situation of a country at any one time. | | (241000) | 1145
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many activists of organisations proscribed under terrorism legislation have been (a) arrested, (b) charged and (c) convicted for offences under that legislation in each year since its introduction; and if she will make a statement. | | (241069) | 1146
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of establishing a permanent security presence on duty at all times at all ports of entry to the UK. | | (241280) | 1147
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals currently subject to control orders have previous convictions for terrorism-related offences. | | (241281) | 1148
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the £600 million security budget for the London 2012 Olympics has been provisionally allocated for the headquarters building. | | (241283) | 1149
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many buildings are under consideration to house the headquarters of the security function for the London 2012 Olympics; and by what criteria the buildings under consideration will be judged. | | (241284) | 1150
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had on the introduction of the electronic collection of data relating to people detained in a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983. | | (241325) | 1151
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) her Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241953) | 1152
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the results of trials of use by police of personal transporters on public highways in Sutton; what assessment she has made of the potential contribution of such transporters to neighbourhood policy; and if she will make a statement. | | [R] (240391) | 1153
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information she holds on whether allegations of threats of violence have been reported to the police by members of the British National Party since the Party's membership list was posted on the internet; and if she will make a statement. | | (240528) | 1154
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many buildings are under consideration for the headquarters of the security function for the London 2012 Olympics; and what criteria will apply to the selection of such headquarters. | | (240315) | 1155
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the £600 million London 2012 security budget has been provisionally allocated for the headquarters' building. | | (240325) | 1156
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have signed voluntary return forms in relation to the Darfur region. | | (241018) | 1157
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have signed voluntary return forms in relation to Zimbabwe. | | (241019) | 1158
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many interpreters her Department employs for assistance with asylum claims. | | (241020) | 1159
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimates she has made of the cost of providing support for migrant women who have no recourse to public funds while their application for indefinite leave to remain is considered. | | (241027) | 1160
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had on the application of the recourse to public funds rule to migrant women subjected to domestic violence. | | (241046) | 1161
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of migrant women who are victims of domestic violence and have no recourse to public funds. | | (241047) | 1162
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to begin a consultation on policy relating to migrant women who are victims of domestic violence and have no recourse to public funds. | | (241048) | 1163
| Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of migrant women subject to the no recourse to public funds rule who would become eligible for retrospective support if their application for independent leave to remain were successful. | | (241337) | 1164
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what records her Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240469) | 1165
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many brothels have been raided in England and Wales in each of the last three years, broken down by region. | | (240574) | 1166
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sex offenders were registered in Essex in each of the last five years. | | (240450) | 1167
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the increase in the number of profiles on the police DNA database over the last year for which figures exist represents persons who were not found guilty of any offence; and if she will make a statement. | | (241801) | 1168
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures govern telephone operators listening to silent emergency calls; and for how long operators are advised to listen to such calls. | | (240871) | 1169
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspected cases of forced marriage were reported to (a) the UK Border Agency and (b) UK agencies abroad in the last 12 months. | | (241227) | 1170
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what timetable she has set for taking steps to assist victims of forced marriage with no recourse to public funds. | | (241228) | 1171
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made towards full implementation of the scheme to give victims of domestic violence with no recourse to public funds access to assistance with their housing and living costs. | | (241229) | 1172
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent forced marriage by raising public awareness of the matter. | | (241230) | 1173
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many animal procedures licences were (a) received and (b) approved by her Department in each of the last five years. | | (241064) | 1174
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many wild reptiles have been seized as illegal imports at UK airports and ports in the last 12 months. | | (241474) | 1175
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department and its agencies are members of the (a) Classic, (b) Classic Plus, (c) Nuvos and (d) Premium civil service pension schemes. | | (240304) | 1176
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions personal information and DNA samples which (a) were planned to be loaded onto and (b) had been loaded onto the national DNA database have been lost; and if she will make a statement. | | (240305) | 1177
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures are in place to ensure the security of personal information and DNA samples that (a) are waiting to be processed into a DNA profile and (b) have been loaded onto the national DNA database; and if she will make a statement. | | (240306) | 1178
N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when a reply will be sent to the hon. Member for Walsall North's letter of 4 November 2008, regarding a constituent; (HO ref: P1120638). | | (240352) | 1179
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the letter to her of 3 December 2008 from Assistant Commissioner Robert Quick, from whom the police obtained the information which led them to understand that the Serjeant at Arms had obtained legal advice in the period between their meetings of 26 and 27 November with her. | | (241389) | 1180
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241242) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 1181
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, to which House official the police would be required to submit any request for access to the Parliamentary email system. | | (241250) | 1182
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, who requested the suspension of the hon. Member for Ashford's parliamentary email account at the time of his arrest; for what reasons; and who authorised its suspension. | | (240504) | 1183
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what legal advice the Serjeant at Arms sought in the period between her two meetings with the police, on 26 and 27 November; and from whom she sought that advice. | | (241388) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 1184
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241174) | 1185
| Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what bonuses were paid by his Department in 2007-08; to which members of staff; and for what purposes. | | (240786) | 1186
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses in Oxfordshire that will receive extra Train to Gain funding as announced in the Pre-Budget Report. | | (240397) | 1187
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what steps he is taking to improve the collection of data on the progression of apprentices into higher education. | | (240272) | 1188
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240982) | 1189
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many students who were formerly children in care were admitted to a university in 2007. | | (241743) | 1190
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 527W, on departmental air travel, if he will place in the Library the DIUS figures provided by the Department for Children, Schools and Families for 2007-08. | | (241677) | 1191
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241954) | 1192
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many members of staff in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties since his Department's creation; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (242025) | 1193
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many Australian nationals were engaged in full-time study at UK universities at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (240852) | 1194
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240468) | 1195
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the cost was of buying (a) laptops, (b) mobile telephones and (c) personal digital assistant devices for new Ministers in his Department and its predecessors following each change in Ministers since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (240429) | 1196
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in each financial year since his Department was established. | | (241235) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 1197
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241184) | 1198
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's estimated change in expenditure on departmental research will be over the next (a) year, (b) two years and (c) five years; and what areas of research will be targeted. | | (241528) | 1199
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department takes to ensure that relevant research informs its policy making. | | (241530) | 1200
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of his departmental budget (a) bilateral and (b) unilateral aid will contribute over the next (i) year, (ii) two years and (iii) five years. | | (241905) | 1201
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of his Department's contracts went to UK companies in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (241906) | 1202
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what safeguards his Department has put in place to make sure that where direct budgetary aid is given (a) the money is correctly spent and (b) it does not lead to the substitution of other Government expenditure which has not been approved. | | (241907) | 1203
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what criteria his Department uses to ensure that multilateral donors have at least as good financial and physical safeguards in place as a bilateral aid project undertaken by his Department. | | (241908) | 1204
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what auditing function his Department carries out with multilateral donors. | | (241909) | 1205
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what percentage of his Department's projects are re-visited after completion but during the expected life of the project to ensure they are still functioning and maintained properly. | | (241910) | 1206
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, column 655W, on Gulf of Aden: piracy, if he will provide a breakdown of the £25 million allocated by his Department to support efforts to tackle the instability in Somalia which creates the conditions allowing piratical activity to flourish. | | (240674) | 1207
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 15 September 2008, Official Report, column 2177W, on Commonwealth scholarships, if he will list the contribution his Department (a) made in each of the last five financial years and (b) plans to make in financial years (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10 and (iii) 2010-11 to UK programmes for overseas scholars. | | (240677) | 1208
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the (a) objectives, (b) proposed timescale and (c) estimated costs are of his Department's proposed climate change assessment for Afghanistan. | | (240847) | 1209
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what contribution the Government is making in terms of (a) resources and (b) personnel to the World Health Organisation's efforts to respond to the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe; and if he will make a statement. | | (240848) | 1210
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information technology projects initiated by his Department have been cancelled prior to completion in the last five years; and what the cost of each such project was to the public purse. | | (240383) | 1211
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff in his Department are responsible for brand management and marketing; and what the cost of employing such staff was in 2007-08. | | (240387) | 1212
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240981) | 1213
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he will reply to the letter to him of 3 November from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr S Choudhry. | | (241695) | 1214
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the (a) name, (b) relevant country, (c) aim, (d) amount of expenditure, (e) activities undertaken, (f) duration and (g) number of individuals assisted is of each project under the Returns and Reintegration Fund that is (i) ongoing, (ii) completed and (iii) planned; and what the procedure is for identifying and selecting projects to receive such funding. | | (241112) | 1215
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) financial, (b) administrative and (c) other resources his Department (i) has provided and (ii) plans to provide in each of the next five years to the Returns and Reintegration Fund from (A) its central budget and (B) its country offices. | | (241113) | 1216
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the (a) cost, (b) location, (c) duration, (d) purpose, (e) number of attendees and (f) date was of each of his Department's staff retreats in each of the last three years. | | (241114) | 1217
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's (a) chart of accounts and (b) resource accounts codes and usage descriptions together with the amount of expenditure for each account code for (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08. | | (241115) | 1218
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many business class, work-related flights taken by members of his Department's staff through the flexible travel scheme were (a) eligible for downgrade to economy class and (b) downgraded to economy class in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08. | | (241216) | 1219
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how the £3 million in aid for Zimbabwe he announced on 26 November is to be spent; and if he will make a statement. | | (241260) | 1220
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions he has had with the governments of Zimbabwe's neighbours regarding the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe; and how many cases of cholera have been reported in those countries. | | (241261) | 1221
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of his Department's aid to Zimbabwe in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09 was used, or is intended to be used, for water and sanitation projects. | | (241262) | 1222
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what projects his Department has funded at or above the value of £100,000 for each of the last three years. | | (241263) | 1223
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what aid he has given to Kenya to assist the resettlement of individuals displaced internally in that country since the elections in 2007. | | (241328) | 1224
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2008, Official Report, column 778W, on the Departmental internet, if he will list the changes made. | | (241394) | 1225
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241955) | 1226
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what provisions his Department has made for funding the construction of an airport on the island of Saint Helena; and if he will make a statement. | | (240862) | 1227
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate his Department has made of the financial cost of constructing an airport on St Helena. | | (240867) | 1228
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions his Department has had with officials from St Helena on the construction of an airport on the island. | | (240868) | 1229
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to attract investment to St Helena. | | (240877) | 1230
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department takes to ensure that investments abroad through (a) CDC Group and (b) other bodies do not engage with offshore tax regimes that are designated as harmful by the EU Code of Conduct. | | (240328) | 1231
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much was spent on the staff restaurant subsidy at his Department in each of the last three years. | | (241116) | 1232
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240467) | 1233
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much UK overseas development aid was (a) committed and (b) disbursed (i) in total and (ii) under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Assistance Committee creditor reporting system (A) agricultural codes (31110 to 31195), (B) basic nutrition (12240), (C) food aid/food security (52010) and (D) emergency food aid (72040) codes in 2007. | | (241201) | 1234
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241246) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 1235
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906. | | (241161) | 1236
| Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what bonuses were paid by his Department in 2007-08; to which members of staff; and for what purposes. | | (240792) | 1237
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will instruct the Legal Services Commission to reply to the letter dated 22 October 2008 from the Rossendale Citizens' Advice Bureau; and if he will make a statement. | | (240270) | 1238
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made in his review of the application of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to private sector bodies delivering public services; and if he will make a statement. | | (241531) | 1239
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve the capacity of Government departments and agencies to manage knowledge and information in the light of guidance recently issued in his Department's document Information Matters. | | (240271) | 1240
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking in conjunction with the National Archives to improve (a) standards in and (b) awareness of the archive sector, including local and private archives. | | (240273) | 1241
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations he has received in (a) person and (b) writing from children detained in (i) a young offender institution and (ii) a secure training centre in the last 12 months. | | (241679) | 1242
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of foreign drivers did not pay fines for motoring offences in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) the last 12 months. | | (241768) | 1243
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the function is of the Youth Justice Board monitors placed in each secure training centre; what qualifications are required of Youth Justice Board monitors; and how many times a Youth Justice Board monitor has raised a concern in writing relating to the safety or well-being of a child in a secure training centre in each of the last five years. | | (241847) | 1244
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are receiving housing advice in preparation for resettlement. | | (240692) | 1245
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the re-offending rate is for offenders (a) one year and (b) two years after leaving custody. | | (240695) | 1246
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons in England and Wales have a visitor centre on site or in the immediate locality; and how many of these centres are managed by the third sector. | | (240696) | 1247
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what re-settlement support is made available by his Department to prisoners seeking employment. | | (240698) | 1248
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the National Offender Management Service has cost in each year since its inception. | | (240699) | 1249
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were engaged in drug-related intervention during 2007-08, broken down by method of intervention. | | (240700) | 1250
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were engaged in alcohol-related intervention programmes in 2007-08, broken down by method of intervention. | | (241081) | 1251
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what percentage of offenders released from prison in the first quarter of (a) 2000, (b) 2001, (c) 2005 and (d) 2006 reoffended between one and two years of release. | | (240405) | 1252
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many are employed in the National Offender Management Service Head Office; and how many of these are former employees of the (a) probation and (b) prison service. | | (240455) | 1253
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persons convicted for carrying a knife in one of the 10 Tackling Knives Action Programme pilots have (a) been sentenced to custody and (b) been given a community programme that did not involve unpaid work. | | (240480) | 1254
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persons have been made the subject of an unpaid work requirement in the Tackling Knives Action Programme pilots. | | (240481) | 1255
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) adults, (b) 18 to 21 year olds and (c) juveniles were sentenced for offences involving a knife or other bladed article in (i) Greater Manchester, (ii) Lancashire, (iii) London, (iv) the West Midlands, (v) West Yorkshire, (vi) the Thames Valley, (vii) Merseyside, (viii) Essex, (ix) Nottinghamshire and (x) South Wales in (A) August, (B) September, (C) October and (D) November 2008; how many in each age category in each area received a (1) custodial and (2) community sentence; and of those receiving a community sentence, how many were ordered to undertake a 300 hour community payback sentence on up to five days each week. | | (240482) | 1256
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of training in intellectual property law for judges and magistrates and their advisers; and what guidance has been issued to the Judicial Studies Board pursuant to recommendation 44 of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property. | | (241330) | 1257
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persons have been seconded from (a) the Probation Service and (b) the Prison Service to work in the National Offender Management Service's headquarters. | | (241332) | 1258
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Wantage of 22 May 2008, Official Report, column 413W, on personal injury: compensation, when he plans to publish his Department's response to the consultation; and if he will make a statement. | | (241338) | 1259
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what services his Department provides to people who are identified as having been trafficked. | | (241134) | 1260
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for the offence of misconduct in public office in each of the last 10 years. | | (241615) | 1261
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240980) | 1262
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department and the former Department for Constitutional Affairs spent on visits by their staff to Brussels in 2007-08; and how many such visits were made by (a) air and (b) rail. | | (241255) | 1263
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what offences women were being detained in prison on 1 April in each year since 1997; and how many were being detained for each category of offence in each such year. | | (241285) | 1264
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what offences men were being detained in prison on 1 April in each year since 1997; and how many men were being detained for each such category of offence in each such year. | | (241286) | 1265
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children between the ages of (a) 11 and 13, (b) 14 and 16 and (c) 17 and 18 years were held in young offender institutions in each year since 1997, broken down by sex. | | (241287) | 1266
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children were detained in the prison estate on 1 April in each year since 1997, broken down by (a) sex and (b) offence for which they were detained. | | (241288) | 1267
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 865W, on HM Courts Service: finance, upon what assumptions on changes to the volume of cases the estimate of additional income was based; and what assessment he has made of the accuracy of such assumptions. | | (241156) | 1268
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners currently serving sentences in Her Majesty's prisons are beyond their original or adjusted tariff; and of these, how many are maintaining innocence of the crime for which they were convicted. | | (241545) | 1269
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women were serving prison sentences for offences in connection with prostitution at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (240415) | 1270
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent reductions there have been to budgets of (a) prisons and (b) other detention facilities in respect of the financial year 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (240316) | 1271
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much compensation was awarded by employment tribunals in each year since 2003-04, broken down by jurisdiction. | | (240419) | 1272
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many unpaid employment tribunal monetary awards were registered in county courts in each year since 2003-04. | | (240420) | 1273
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will consider the merits of raising the cap for payouts in the small claims court from its current level of £5,000. | | (241667) | 1274
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many representations his Department has received on changes to the special educational needs and disability tribunal in the last six months. | | (240763) | 1275
N | Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what percentage of inmates at Feltham A and Feltham B young offender institution (a) declared a religious belief, broken down by belief and (b) declared a different religion, broken down by religion, in the last nine months. | | (240435) | 1276
| Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of violence between inmates have been recorded in Feltham A and Feltham B young offender institution in each of the last 12 months. | | (240436) | 1277
| Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what punishments have been issued by the Governor of Feltham A and B young offender institution to inmates involved in violence within the institution in the last six months. | | (240437) | 1278
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what programmes were operating in prisons in relation to prisoners who were serving sentences for hate crimes at the latest date for which information is available. | | (241319) | 1279
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) funding and (b) other assistance his Department is providing to the Anne Frank Trust for its projects involving offenders in prison and young offenders institutions in 2008-09. | | (241320) | 1280
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what programmes his Department has put in place to work with those convicted of hate crime to reduce their levels of re-offending. | | (241321) | 1281
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what programmes his Department has put in place to work with those people for whom hatred or racism played a part in their crime to reduce their re-offending. | | (241322) | 1282
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which (a) prisons and (b) probation services have established programmes to reduce rates of re-offending amongst individuals imprisoned for hate crimes. | | (241323) | 1283
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East, of 6 October 2008, Official Report, columns 252-3W, on departmental air travel, if he will place in the Library the figures for 2007-08. | | (241711) | 1284
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East, of 21 October 2008, Official Report, column 257W, on departmental air travel, if he will place in the Library the figures for 2007-08. | | (241712) | 1285
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 27 October 2008, Official Report, column 744W, on departmental procurement, if he will place in the Library a list of names and addresses of the payees. | | (241927) | 1286
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the statement of the Minister of State of 20 October 2008, Official Report, column 120, on the Political Parties and Elections Bill, whether his Department holds a copy of the letter from the affiliated trades unions. | | (241928) | 1287
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241956) | 1288
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the additional cost per prison placement of treating in prison a prisoner with a severe psychiatric disorder. | | (240745) | 1289
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what training is provided for prison officers who deal with offenders with severe psychotic disorders; and what the cost of such training was in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (240747) | 1290
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the reoffending rate among prisoners suffering from severe psychiatric disorders in each year between 2003-04 and 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (240748) | 1291
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff members in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties in each of the last three years; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (241799) | 1292
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the high visibility payback scheme in meeting its objectives; and if he will make a statement. | | (240739) | 1293
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of former UK residents who have taken up residence in the Isle of Man in the last three years. | | (240810) | 1294
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many tourists from the UK visited the Isle of Man in 2007. | | (240820) | 1295
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Australian nationals were detained in HM prisons at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (240854) | 1296
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much each member of his Department's Corporate Management Board has claimed in expenses since his Department was established; what the purpose was of each such claim; and how much has been paid by his Department in response to such claims. | | (240298) | 1297
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the role is of each member of his Department's Corporate Management Board; and what tasks and responsibilities have been allocated to each member. | | (240299) | 1298
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what dates each member of his Department's Corporate Management Board has undertaken work on his Department's behalf since the Department was established; and which of these duties have been performed at places other than on the Government or Parliamentary estates. | | (240421) | 1299
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what terms and conditions have been attached to the appointment of each member of his Department's Corporate Management Board. | | (240422) | 1300
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) remuneration and (b) bonuses and other benefits each member of his Department's Corporate Management Board has received since the establishment of the Department; and what estimate he has made of further such remuneration and benefit to be received in the financial year 2008-09. | | (240423) | 1301
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what training and guidance has been provided for each member of his Department's Corporate Management Board on (a) mediation and (b) the Government's Alternative Dispute Resolution pledge; and (i) when and (ii) by whom such training and guidance was provided. | | (240424) | 1302
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what procedures govern the appointment of a lead negotiator by his Department's Corporate Management Board in cases of mediation; and whether such negotiators are given authority to settle matters referred for mediation in circumstances where the appropriate remedy is determined to be (a) the provision of apologies reflecting upon the reputation of the Department, (b) financial and (c) another remedy. | | (240425) | 1303
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mediations his Department has participated in since its establishment. | | (240426) | 1304
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who was appointed as lead negotiator in each of the mediations in which his Department has participated since the establishment of his Department. | | (240427) | 1305
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on alternative dispute resolution including mediation on (a) training provided by external providers including the Treasury Solicitor's Department, (b) subscriptions to related instruction and (c) facilitation fees; and to whom such payments have been made since the establishment of his Department. | | (240453) | 1306
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what training and guidance on alternative dispute resolution including mediation has been (a) published on his Department's intranet and (b) otherwise provided to those of his Department's staff who are involved in resolving disputes in which his Department is a party. | | (240454) | 1307
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240466) | 1308
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of common prostitution, loitering or soliciting for the purpose of prostitution under the terms of the Street Offences Act 1959 in each of the last two years; and how many of them were (i) UK citizens, (ii) EU foreign nationals and (iii) non-EU foreign nationals. | | (240569) | 1309
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of placing an advertisement relating to prostitution in each of the last two years; and how many of them were (i) UK citizens, (ii) EU foreign nationals and (iii) non-EU foreign nationals. | | (240570) | 1310
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of kerb-crawling in each of the last two years; and how many of them were (i) UK citizens, (ii) EU foreign nationals and (iii) non-EU foreign nationals. | | (240571) | 1311
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how long on average it has taken the Legal Services Ombudsman to (a) deal with and (b) decide individual cases in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (240549) | 1312
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases the Legal Services Ombudsman has dealt with in each of the last five years; how many of these have found in favour of the individual making the complaint; and if he will make a statement. | | (240550) | 1313
N | Mr Edward Timpson (Crewe & Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for the offence of causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult under section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. | | (241076) | 1314
| Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 6 November 2008, Official Report, column 751W, on political parties: finance, whether it is proposed that expenditure incurred by an hon. Member outside a general election period funded by party funds which disparages an individual who is (a) an untriggered prospective parliamentary candidate and (b) a triggered parliamentary candidate for the same constituency should trigger the election expenses of the hon. Member for the purposes of the new rules. | | (241816) | 1315
| Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the impact assessment produced for the new trigger rules for election spending, what estimate has been made of (a) the change in the number of candidates in general elections and (b) the likely number of (i) pre-trigger prospective candidates and (ii) triggered candidates that would be regulated by the new rules. | | (241837) | 1316
| Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 6 November 2008, Official Report, column 751W, on political parties: finance, whether it is proposed that money spent before a person becomes a triggered candidate shall count against the aggregate candidate spending limit if the goods or services purchsed are used after the persons becomes a triggered candidate. | | (241838) | 1317
| Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in what circumstances he envisages that hon. Members will trigger their own candidate spending limits prior to the calling of a general election under the proposed new trigger rules. | | (241839) | 1318
| Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it is his policy that spending by hon. Members on promoting themselves using funds other than the public purse, outside a general election period, should be considered to be promoting or initiating their candidature for the purposes of the new trigger rules on election spending. | | (241840) | 1319
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department and its agencies are members of the (a) Classic, (b) Classic Plus, (c) Nuvos and (d) Premium civil service pension schemes. | | (240311) | 1320
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many consent orders for child maintenance have passed through the courts in each of the last 10 years. | | (241941) | 1321
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the likely change in the number of consent orders that will go through the courts for child maintenance, following repeal of section 6 of the Child Support Act 1991. | | (241942) | 1322
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241241) | Questions to the Leader of the House 1323
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Leader of the House, what conclusions her Office has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240994) | 1324
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Leader of the House, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) her Office and (b) computers in (i) her private office, (ii) the offices of its communications officials and (iii) the offices of her special advisers. | | (241967) | 1325
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Leader of the House, if she will list the hon. Members who used the communications allowance to fund the publication of a Parliamentary Report in the 2007-08 Session. | | (241790) | 1326
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Leader of the House, what records her Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) the amount of money spent on alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240670) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1327
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241172) | 1328
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many visits have been undertaken by members of the Parades Commission to venues outside Northern Ireland in the last five years; which venues were visited; on what dates; and what the cost was of each visit. | | (241812) | 1329
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which members of the Parades Commission have undertaken visits on official business outside Northern Ireland in each of the last five years; and which venues have been visited. | | (241813) | 1330
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he plans to make a decision about funding for a museum for the Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross Foundation. | | (240507) | 1331
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Public Prosecution Service in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241817) | 1332
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Northern Ireland Prison Service in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241818) | 1333
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Forensic Science Northern Ireland Service in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241819) | 1334
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Youth Justice Agency in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241820) | 1335
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Compensation Agency in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241821) | 1336
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Independent Assessor for Police Service of Northern Ireland Recuritment Applications in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241822) | 1337
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241823) | 1338
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Office of the Police Ombudsman in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241824) | 1339
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Northern Ireland Police Fund in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241825) | 1340
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross Foundation in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241826) | 1341
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241827) | 1342
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Northern Ireland Probation Board in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241828) | 1343
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Northern Ireland Law Commission in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241829) | 1344
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Independent Assessor for Police Service of Northern Ireland recruitment applications in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241830) | 1345
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Parades Commission in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241831) | 1346
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Police Rehabilitation and Retraining Trust in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241832) | 1347
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Independent Monitoring Boards of (a) Maghaberry, (b) Magilligan and (c) Hydebank Wood prisons in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241833) | 1348
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Prisoner Ombudsman in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241834) | 1349
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Life Sentence Review Commissioners in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241835) | 1350
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Commissioner for Hearings under Prison Rule 109B (Loss of Remission Commissioner) in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241836) | 1351
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the State Pathologist in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | (241841) | 1352
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240979) | 1353
| Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much was spent on employing press and communications officers in his Department in each of the last three years. | | (240956) | 1354
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what process governs the appointment of the Attorney General Northern Ireland. | | (241021) | 1355
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241957) | 1356
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many members of staff in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties in each of the last three years; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (242016) | 1357
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240456) | 1358
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people have been (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of prostitute-soliciting in Northern Ireland in each of the last two years; and how many of these were (i) UK citizens, (ii) EU foreign nationals and (iii) non-EU foreign nationals. | | (240565) | 1359
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people have been (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of brothel keeping in Northern Ireland in each of the last two years; and how many of these were (i) UK citizens, (ii) EU foreign nationals and (iii) non-EU foreign nationals. | | (240566) | 1360
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many brothels have been raided in Northern Ireland in each of the last three years. | | (240575) | 1361
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241233) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 1362
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what assessment she has made of the impact of introducing a lower rate of value added tax on the overall costs of the London 2012 Olympic Games. | | (241660) | 1363
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what conclusions her Office has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240995) | 1364
| Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, if she will place in the Library a copy of the brief provided by Major Peter Underhill to KPMG in relation to Olympic shooting venues. | | (240438) | 1365
N | Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, when she expects to publish the KPMG report on Olympic venues. | | (240439) | 1366
N | Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what the cost to the public purse will be of the KPMG report into the suitability of the Olympic venues. | | (240440) | 1367
| Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, if she will place in the Library copies of the agendas, minutes and supporting documents considered by the Olympic Board at its last six meetings. | | (240441) | 1368
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) her Office and (b) computers in (i) her private office, (ii) the offices of its communications officials and (iii) the offices of her special advisers. | | (241958) | 1369
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what the largest build cost per square foot of the Olympic village is; and how this compares to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors index. | | (240320) | 1370
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what effect the reduction in the number of (a) apartments and (b) bed spaces has had on the construction costs of the Olympic village. | | (240323) | 1371
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what exclusivity agreements are in force in relation to the Olympic village; and for how long each is to be in force. | | (240324) | 1372
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what records her Office maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240457) | Questions to the Prime Minister 1373
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 20 November 2008, Official Report, column 662W, on the world economy, which ministers and officials accompanied him to Washington for the G20 economic summit on 15 November 2008; and if he will put on his Office's website all papers submitted to the summit. | | (241807) | 1374
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Prime Minister, what conclusions his Office has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240971) | 1375
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Prime Minister, whether he authorised under the terms of the Wilson Doctrine the interception of telephone or other electronic communications of the hon. Member for Ashford (a) before and (b) after his recent arrest. | | (240503) | 1376
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Prime Minister, whether (a) listening devices and (b) other forms of surveillance technology have been placed in the homes or offices of an hon. Member by (a) the police and (b) the intelligence and security services in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (240785) | 1377
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Prime Minister, what was the cost of entertainment and hospitality in Downing Street and Chequers in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. | | (241585) | 1378
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Prime Minister, how many investigations the Security Commission has undertaken into security breaches since 1997. | | (241586) | 1379
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for North East Hertfordshire of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1308W, on departmental public expenditure, whether the figure given for the running cost of his Office in 2007-08 includes the cost of (a) the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and (b) the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit; and if he will make a statement. | | (241779) | 1380
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for North East Hertfordshire of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1308W, on departmental public expenditure, what the figure for 2006-07 was. | | (241783) | 1381
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Office and (b) computers in (i) his private office, (ii) the offices of its communications officials and (iii) the offices of his special advisers. | | (241959) | 1382
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Prime Minister, what records his Office maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240458) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 1383
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241170) | 1384
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the effects of the increase in air passenger duty on the levels of air passenger traffic between the Highlands and islands of Scotland and the rest of the world; whether his Department has performed an economic impact assessment of the amended air passenger duty rate; and if he will make a statement. | | (240678) | 1385
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with Scottish banks on arrangements for public financial support for them. | | (241194) | 1386
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent on (a) taxis, (b) potted plants, (c) works of art and (d) redecoration in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available. | | (240381) | 1387
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240978) | 1388
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, with reference to the Answer of 5 November 2008, Official Report, columns 462-3W, on departmental procurement, for what reason and for what premises the kettles and television sets were purchased. | | (242036) | 1389
N | David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions, on what dates, he had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the contents of the Alcoholic Liquor Duties (Surcharges) and Tobacco Products Duty Order 2008 (S.I. 2008, No. 3026) and the assessment that no impact on the private or voluntary sectors was foreseen. | | (240686) | 1390
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241960) | 1391
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many members of staff in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties in each of the last three years; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (242021) | 1392
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment the Government has made of the value of the Scotch whisky industry to the Scottish economy. | | (240738) | 1393
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240459) | 1394
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241124) | Questions to the Solicitor General 1395
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Solicitor General, how many complaints have been made against Essex Crown Prosecution Service in each year since 1997. | | (241160) | 1396
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Solicitor General, how many people were prosecuted for the offence of inviting, causing or permitting a child or young person to gamble in each of the last five years. | | (240340) | 1397
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Solicitor General, what conclusions the Law Officers' Departments have reached in fulfilment of their duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240973) | 1398
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Solicitor General, how many cases relating to allegations of corruption overseas are being processed by the Attorney General's Office. | | (240533) | 1399
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Solicitor General, what factors the Attorney General is taking into account in considering whether to consent to the Serious Fraud Office bringing charges against Energy Financing Team for alleged overseas corruption offences in Serbia. | | (240534) | 1400
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Solicitor General, what discussions the Attorney General has had with Government departments; and what representations she has received from others on whether to consent to the bringing of charges against Energy Financing Team for alleged overseas corruption offences in Serbia. | | (240535) | 1401
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Solicitor General, when the investigation into the activities of Energy Financing Team in Serbia will be concluded; on what date the case was referred to the Serious Fraud Office; and on what date the Serious Fraud Office passed its report to the Attorney General. | | (240582) | 1402
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions sought by police for offences relating to electoral fraud were not proceeded with by the Crown Prosecution Service in the last 36 months. | | (241680) | 1403
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Solicitor General, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) the Law Officers' Departments and (b) computers in the offices of their (i) Ministers and (ii) communications officials. | | (241966) | 1404
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Solicitor General, what recent discussions she has had with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on the prosecution of users of personal transporters on public highways; what guidance is used by the CPS on that matter; and how many such prosecutions have taken place. | | [R] (240390) | 1405
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Solicitor General, what records her Office maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240460) | Questions to the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 1406
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, with reference to the Answer of 4 March 2008, Official Report, column 2242W, on Liberal Democrats: finance, what the (a) status and (b) timetable is of the Electoral Commission's investigation into the permissibility of the donations by Mr Michael Brown to the Liberal Democrat Party. | | (241769) | 1407
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what guidance the Electoral Commission has given on whether the underwriting of a political party and providing guarantees to auditors should be registered as a donation or a loan. | | (241848) | 1408
| Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, with reference to the memorandum submitted by the Electoral Commission to the Public Bill Committee of Session 2007-08 on the Political Parties and Elections Bill, in relation to the proposed new trigger rules, whether spending by an individual in relation to a campaign on local issues, but not in relation to their candidacy in a future election, would count as a trigger. | | (241815) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 1409
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241177) | 1410
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will designate the air route from London Gatwick to Inverness under Public Service Obligation protection; and if he will make a statement. | | (240679) | 1411
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will designate all air service to peripheral areas of the United Kingdom from London Heathrow and London Gatwick which do not have a seven hour day return trip capability by surface transport under Public Service Obligation protection; and if he will make a statement. | | (240680) | 1412
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many body scanners his Department operates in (a) airports, (b) ports and (c) railway stations; and where each is located. | | (241784) | 1413
N | Mr David Curry (Skipton & Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding has been provided to each local authority to run the national concessionary bus fares scheme in 2008-09; and what estimate his Department has made of the expenditure which will be incurred by each authority on the scheme in that year. | | (240408) | 1414
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average rise in regulated rail fares was from (a) Abbey Wood Station, (b) Barnehurst Station, (c) Bexleyheath Station, (d) Crayford Station, (e) Slade Green Station and (f) Welling Station to London in each year since 1997. | | (240414) | 1415
| Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many candidates took the motorcycle driving test in each of the last 18 months for which figures are available. | | (241526) | 1416
| Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of information conveyed to drivers by means of variable message signs on the motorway network. | | (241527) | 1417
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the working group on the Severn Bridge is expected to present its findings. | | (240342) | 1418
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240976) | 1419
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what population density figure was used to calculate the distance to the nearest acceptable alternative driving test centre, with reference to each driving test centre which (a) has had its closure announced and (b) was considered for closure in the last 24 months; and what geographical or constituency boundary was used to calculate the population density in each case. | | (240285) | 1420
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what procedures are in place to ensure that individuals who renew their car tax disc (a) online, (b) by telephone and (c) in person have valid car insurance. | | (240431) | 1421
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his most recent estimate is of the number of uninsured drivers who renewed their car tax (a) online, (b) by telephone and (c) in person in the last 12 months. | | (240432) | 1422
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his estimate is of the number of taxed and insured cars that are regularly driven by a driver not included on the insurance certificate. | | (240433) | 1423
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his estimate is of the number of cars that are not (a) insured and (b) taxed. | | (240434) | 1424
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the effect on levels of congestion on the Dartford-Thurrock toll crossing consequent on the introduction of the revised tariff for a car from £1.00 to £1.50; and if he will make a statement. | | (241097) | 1425
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 196W, on departmental air travel, whether figures for 2007-08 have now been calculated. | | (242000) | 1426
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 116WS, on the cost of Ministerial cars for 2007-08, which Ministers and senior civil servants had use of a Government Car and Despatch Agency vehicle in 2007-08. | | (242050) | 1427
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to consider the merits of dualling of the A1 from Newcastle to East Lothian. | | (241662) | 1428
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has made to external consultants in each of the last five years (a) in total and (b) broken down by payments to (i) management consultancies, (ii) public affairs consultancies, (iii) public relations consultancies, (iv) advertising agencies and (v) other organisations. | | (241553) | 1429
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments his Department has made to external consultancies in each of the last five years, broken down by payments to (a) management consultancies, (b) public affairs consultancies, (c) public relations consultancies, (d) advertising agencies and (e) other consultancies. | | (241916) | 1430
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments the Driving Standards Agency has made to external consultancies in each of the last five years, broken down by payments to (a) management consultancies, (b) public affairs consultancies, (c) public relations consultancies, (d) advertising agencies and (e) other consultancies. | | (241917) | 1431
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments the Vehicle Certification Agency has made to external consultancies in each of the last five years, broken down by payments to (a) management consultancies, (b) public affairs consultancies, (c) public relations consultancies, (d) advertising agencies and (e) other consultancies. | | (241918) | 1432
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments the Highways Agency has made to external consultancies in each of the last five years, broken down by payments to (a) management consultancies, (b) public affairs consultancies, (c) public relations consultancies, (d) advertising agencies and (e) other consultancies. | | (241919) | 1433
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has made to external consultancies in each of the last five years, broken down by payments to (a) management consultancies, (b) public affairs consultancies, (c) public relations consultancies, (d) advertising agencies and (e) other consultancies. | | (241920) | 1434
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments the Government Car and Despatch Agency has made to external consultancies in each of the last five years, broken down by payments to (a) management consultancies, (b) public affairs consultancies, (c) public relations consultancies, (d) advertising agencies and (e) other consultancies. | | (241921) | 1435
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency has made to external consultancies in each of the last five years, broken down by payments to (a) management consultancies, (b) public affairs consultancies, (c) public relations consultancies, (d) advertising agencies and (e) other consultancies. | | (241922) | 1436
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241961) | 1437
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many members of staff in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties in each of the last three years; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (242026) | 1438
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his Department has had with the shipping industry on reducing incidental noise from commercial shipping operations in the marine environment; and if he will make a statement. | | (240967) | 1439
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to contribute to the work of the International Marine Organisation's correspondence group on drafting non-mandatory guidelines on ship noise reduction; and if he will make a statement. | | (240968) | 1440
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to announce the (a) timings and (b) business case for the additional 182 vehicles for Northern Rail. | | (240923) | 1441
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made in discussions on the preparation and delivery of additional rolling stock vehicles to Northern Rail. | | (241075) | 1442
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240461) | 1443
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of speed cameras deliberately damaged or destroyed in Essex in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241334) | 1444
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) fatalities, (b) serious injuries and (c) other outcomes there were in road traffic accidents reported to his Department in (i) Cornwall and (ii) England in each month in each of the last five years. | | (240691) | 1445
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241226) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 1446
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241169) | 1447
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240975) | 1448
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241965) | 1449
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many members of staff in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties in each of the last three years; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (242020) | 1450
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240463) | 1451
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241123) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 1452
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, with reference to paragraph 3.11 of the Carers at the Heart of 21st Century Families and Communities report, how much of the £150 million funding for breaks for carers of disabled children will be provided by the Government Equalities Office over each of the next two years. | | (240813) | 1453
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, if she will place in the Library a copy of each response to the discrimination law review consultation. | | (240817) | 1454
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what conclusions the Government Equalities Office has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240993) | 1455
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what steps the Government is taking to reduce levels of domestic violence. | | (240280) | 1456
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what progress has been made on provision of emergency funding for rape crisis centres. | | (240281) | 1457
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what recent discussions she has had with ministerial colleagues on alternatives to imprisonment for women. | | (240282) | 1458
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) her Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241964) | 1459
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what records the Government Equalities Office maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240464) | 1460
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how much the Government Equalities Office spent on Ministerial hospitality in each financial year since the Office was established. | | (241247) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 1461
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy. | | (241171) | 1462
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of children in each age group in (a) Southend-on-Sea, (b) Essex, (c) the Metropolitan Police area of London and (d) England and Wales were living in absolute poverty in each year since 1997. | | (241127) | 1463
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government (a) has taken since January 2008 and (b) plans to take in each of the next 12 months towards its target to end child poverty by 2020; what recent representations he has received about the issue; and if he will make a statement. | | (241128) | 1464
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people reported benefit fraud online in each of the last three years; how many of those reports were made anonymously; how many such reports were followed up with an investigation; and how many successful prosecutions for benefit fraud there were over that period. | | (241157) | 1465
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) males and (b) females were (i) convicted and (ii) received a custodial sentence in respect of an offence of benefit fraud in (A) each of the last three years and (B) each quarter of each of the last three years; for those people fined, what the average fine was; and how many people were dealt with by way of caution in the same period. | | (241158) | 1466
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has (a) taken since July 2008 and (b) plans to take in the next 12 months to reduce levels of unemployment; what recent representations he has received about the issue; and if he will make a statement. | | (241159) | 1467
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what research his Department (a) has commissioned, (b) plans to commission and (c) has evaluated on the reasons the Government did not reduce child poverty by a quarter between 1998-99 and 2004-05; and if he will make a statement. | | (241163) | 1468
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what definition his Department uses of child poverty; when this was last amended; what recent discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on the definition; what recent representations he has received on the definition; and if he will make a statement. | | (241164) | 1469
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what research his Department (a) has commissioned, (b) plans to commission and (c) has evaluated on the reasons for the rise in levels of child poverty after 2004-05; and if he will make a statement. | | (241165) | 1470
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many extra people will be employed by Jobcentre Plus in Oxfordshire on the Rapid Response Service, with reference to the Pre-Budget Report. | | (240398) | 1471
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of the extra 2,000 staff at jobcentres proposed in the Pre-Budget Report will be employed in Oxfordshire. | | (240399) | 1472
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department collects on the administration of (a) disability living and (b) attendance allowance. | | (240493) | 1473
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to increase awareness of the potential benefits of appointeeship among people with mental illness and their carers. | | (240494) | 1474
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department routinely collects on the administration of (a) disability living allowance and (b) attendance allowance. | | (241267) | 1475
| Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Statement of 13 November 2008, Official Report, columns 967-8, on Post Office card account, what estimate he has made of the level of reasonable costs for which the Government will provide compensation to unsuccessful bidders. | | (241022) | 1476
N | Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Statement of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 970, on Post Office card account, if he will place in the Library a copy of the legal advice which said that his decision was the right way to proceed. | | (241023) | 1477
| Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the cost to his Department, excluding claims for compensation, of the tendering and bidding process for the Post Office card account. | | (241202) | 1478
N | Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what legal requirements applied to (a) the decision to put the Post Office card account contract out to tender and (b) the ending of the tender process and the award of the contract to Post Office Limited. | | (241203) | 1479
| Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any claim for compensation has been made by a bidder in the terminated Post Office card account tender process. | | (241336) | 1480
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to promote the Post Office card account. | | (240326) | 1481
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of children in each age group in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Bexley were living in absolute poverty in each year since 1997. | | (241375) | 1482
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's latest estimate is of the number of disabled children living below the poverty line in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford and (b) the London Borough of Bexley in each of the last 10 years. | | (241376) | 1483
| Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will extend eligiblity for winter fuel payments to cancer patients aged under 60 year. | | (241931) | 1484
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 1382W, on incapacity benefit, what the total monetary value of the benefits paid to claimants whose recored diagnosis includes drug dependency was in each of the last five years. | | (241855) | 1485
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what interfaces of (a) data and (b) process will exist between Provider Referral and Payment and Flexible New Deal providers. | | (240260) | 1486
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what performance metrics Provider Referral and Payment will track for each Flexible New Deal (a) contract and (b) provider. | | (240263) | 1487
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what system is used to operate the Work Capability Assessment; and what the unit processing time for each assessment is. | | (240264) | 1488
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's (a) current and (b) planned IT programmes and projects are; and what the planned (i) budget and (ii) timescale of each is. | | (240265) | 1489
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT and data security policies and procedures. | | (240266) | 1490
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what risk assessment his Department has made in respect of each data set it holds. | | (240267) | 1491
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what contribution Flexible New Deal providers are expected to make to the data record for each Flexible New Deal claimant held by his Department. | | (240268) | 1492
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what security controls are in place in respect of each data set his Department holds; and whether such controls are based on the level of risk. | | (240269) | 1493
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what encryption controls his Department has in respect of (a) portable data storage devices and (b) key databases. | | (240293) | 1494
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which third parties are responsible for (a) managing and (b) hosting his Department's IT (i) systems and (ii) infrastructure. | | (240294) | 1495
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the work programme to design, develop, implement and operate provider referral and payment, including a description of IT or consultancy suppliers involved at any stage. | | (240329) | 1496
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children in families in work which were earning less than the average national weekly income there were in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (240330) | 1497
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 36 of the Departmental Framework 2008, if he will place in the Library a copy of the future work programme for the Customer Information System. | | (240331) | 1498
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether responsibility for data security is assigned at a senior level and included within relevant job descriptions in his Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (240332) | 1499
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what independent assurance he has obtained on the adequacy of data security and information governance arrangements across his Department and its associated agencies. | | (240341) | 1500
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. | | (240409) | 1501
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what IT (a) infrastructure and (b) systems his (i) Department and (ii) its agencies use. | | (240410) | 1502
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the asset register of his Department's IT infrastructure and systems. | | (240411) | 1503
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the average useful economic life of departmental IT infrastructure. | | (240412) | 1504
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what date the review of the closure plan for Jobcentre Plus offices will be completed; and if he will make a statement. | | (240413) | 1505
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what formal data owners there are for each dataset held by his Department and its agencies; and if he will make a statement. | | (240815) | 1506
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what delays against original IT project timetables have been experienced on IT projects being undertaken by his Department and its agencies; and what (a) the reasons for delay and (b) corrective action taken were in each case. | | (240816) | 1507
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which IT projects in his Department are running above the original agreed budget; what the cause of budget overrun is in each case; what corrective action has been taken in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (240819) | 1508
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. | | (240974) | 1509
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether each data set for which his Department is responsible is held on (a) live system environments, (b) backup tapes and (c) manual records; at what other locations data are stored; and if he will make a statement. | | (241303) | 1510
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) staff recruitment and management practices, (b) administrative processes and (c) technical controls in maintaining data security in his Department and its agencies. | | (241304) | 1511
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) procedures and (b) staff training programmes his Department has put in place on maintaining data security. | | (241305) | 1512
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what policies and procedures his Department has relating to (a) change management, (b) problem management, (c) incident management, (d) release management and (e) configuration management in respect of departmental computer systems. | | (241306) | 1513
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to replace the computer system infrastructure of (a) his Department and (b) its agencies; and if he will make a statement. | | (241307) | 1514
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which of his Department's computer systems use (a) real time and (b) batch interfaces for the transfer of data between departmental computer systems. | | (241308) | 1515
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department takes to register (a) risks and (b) other issues relating to the operation of departmental computer systems. | | (241309) | 1516
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what business continuity and disaster recovery plans his Department maintains in relation to its computer systems. | | (241310) | 1517
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what records his Department keeps of computer (a) software failures, (b) viruses, (c) hacking attacks and (d) denial of service attacks. | | (241311) | 1518
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent surveys (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have undertaken of satisfaction levels of users of departmental computer systems. | | (241312) | 1519
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what computer systems his Department uses to store (a) financial and (b) non-financial data, broken down by (i) version number, (ii) supplier, (iii) system name, (iv) underlying database and (v) operating system. | | (241313) | 1520
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, columns 561-62W, on the Post Office card account, if he will take steps to make the best possible estimate of the cost to his Department of the tendering and bidding process for the Post Office card account; and what information his Department holds on the costs of the processes. | | (241316) | 1521
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has for future changes to its computer systems which store (a) financial and (b) non-financial data. | | (241317) | 1522
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of each of his Department's (a) initiation documents, (b) business cases, (c) cost/benefit analyses, (d) communication plans, (e) project plans, (f) risks and issues logs, (g) technical and functional specifications, (h) user acceptance criteria and (i) stakeholder analyses for planned IT projects. | | (241390) | 1523
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what records his Department maintains in relation to the classes of data held by his Department and its agencies. | | (241391) | 1524
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consideration is made of the implications for child poverty in second homes when debts to the Child Support Agency are enforced. | | (241925) | 1525
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government takes to monitor the debt collection strategies of bailiffs appointed by the Child Support Agency. | | (241926) | 1526
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was paid out in crisis loans (a) in total and (b) by each London job centre in each year since 2005. | | (240701) | 1527
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many GP surgeries in England have jobcentre employment advisers working in them. | | (241111) | 1528
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 58W, on departmental air travel, whether figures for 2007-08 have now been calculated. | | (242014) | 1529
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 1207W, on speeches, how much Mr Phil Collins has been paid for speech-writing services to his Department to date. | | (242051) | 1530
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps Jobcentre Plus are taking to assist people recently made redundant back into work. | | (240276) | 1531
| Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to assist (a) lone parents and (b) people with disabilities to (i) prepare for and (ii) obtain work. | | (240277) | 1532
| Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children in Wansbeck constituency are eligible to receive a £250 voucher to open a child trust fund account; and how many such accounts have been opened by parents or guardians in the last 12 months. | | (240688) | 1533
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 336-7W, on Government departments: information and communications technology, which IP addresses are used by (a) his Department and (b) computers in the offices of its (i) Ministers, (ii) communications officials and (iii) special advisers. | | (241963) | 1534
| Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many members of staff in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties in each of the last three years; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received. | | (242019) | 1535
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times he has visited (a) the United States, (b) Strasbourg, (c) the Hague and (d) Brussels on official business in the last 12 months. | | (240737) | 1536
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1960W, on departmental ICT, how many individuals have been disciplined over the loss of the items referred to. | | (240827) | 1537
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1960W, on departmental ICT, what steps have been taken to reduce future losses of ICT equipment. | | (240828) | 1538
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1960W, on departmental ICT, how much has been spent trying to recover the missing items referred to. | | (240829) | 1539
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many nights he has spent in hotels on official business in the last 12 months. | | (240830) | 1540
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many dedicated Jobcentre Plus (a) special advisers and (b) press officers his Department employs. | | (240858) | 1541
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many press releases his Department has issued in the last 12 months. | | (240859) | 1542
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1960W, on Departmental ICT, which of the items of ICT equipment recorded as lost or stolen had software protection installed; and if he will make a statement. | | (240860) | 1543
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1960W, on Departmental ICT, what assessment he has made of the types of data held on the ICT equipment which has gone missing from his Department since 2001; and if he will make a statement. | | (240861) | 1544
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Taunton of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1966-7W, on departmental public opinion, whether the outturn costs of the focus groups were within budget. | | (241034) | 1545
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Taunton of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1966-7W, on departmental public opinion, what plans his Department has to hold further focus groups. | | (241035) | 1546
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1993-4W, on jobcentres, how many vacancies have been advertised in jobcentres in each of the last six months. | | (241037) | 1547
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1993-4W, on jobcentres, what estimate he has made of the number of people using jobcentres in each year since 2002. | | (241038) | 1548
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1993-4W, on jobcentres, how many jobcentres were (a) opened and (b) closed in each year for which figures are available. | | (241039) | 1549
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1993-4W, on jobcentres, how many people were employed in jobcentres in each year for which figures are available. | | (241040) | 1550
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1993-4W, on jobcentres, for what reasons the number of Jobcentre Plus offices has decreased. | | (241041) | 1551
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many incapacity benefit claimants there were in the South West Befordshire constituency in November 2008. | | (240406) | 1552
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what records his Department maintains of its expenditure on (a) official hospitality and (b) alcohol for official hospitality. | | (240465) | 1553
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many nationals of other EU countries resident in the UK were in receipt of benefits on the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (241084) | 1554
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calendar days on average each local authority in Kent took to process (a) new housing benefit claims and (b) housing benefit claims submitted by existing recipients as a result of a change in circumstances in each of the last five years. | | (241781) | 1555
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) benefit payments and (b) pension payments were issued by giro cheque in each (i) constituency and (ii) region in each of the last three years. | | (241063) | 1556
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants on the New Deal 50 Plus programme entered sustainable employment in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district immediately on leaving the programme in each month since May 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (240428) | 1557
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants on the New Deal for Partners Programme in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district entered immediately into sustainable employment on leaving the programme in each month since May 2007. | | (240511) | 1558
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants on the New Deal for Disabled People programme in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district entered sustainable employment immediately on leaving the programme in each month since March 2006. | | (240512) | 1559
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average salary was for (a) male and (b) female Jobcentre Plus employees in each region in each year since 1 April 2002. | | (240513) | 1560
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average salary of (a) male and (b) female personal advisers in Jobcentre Plus in each region was in each year since the post was created. | | (240514) | 1561
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was paid in (a) crisis loans, (b) budgeting loans and (c) community care grants to people in (i) each Jobcentre Plus district and (ii) each region in each month since April 2003; and if he will make a statement. | | (240516) | 1562
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which Jobcentre Plus districts underspent their allocations for (a) crisis loans, (b) budgeting loans and (c) community care grants in each year since 2003; how much and what proportion of the budget for each such district the underspend represented; and if he will make a statement. | | (240517) | 1563
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) Jobcentre Plus staff and (b) customer-facing Jobcentre Plus staff there were (i) in total, (ii) in each region and (iii) in each Jobcentre Plus district at the latest date for which information is available; and if he will make a statement. | | (240518) | 1564
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many unprocessed applications for (a) crisis loans, (b) budgeting loans, (c) community care grants, (d) disability living allowance and (e) severe disability living allowance there were at the end of each quarter of the last five years (i) in total and (ii) in each of the smallest geographical areas for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (240519) | 1565
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average amount of overpaid pension credits per case was clawed back by his Department in (a) each month of 2008-09 and (b) each of the last five financial years; and if he will make a statement. | | (240520) | 1566
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's latest estimate is of the effect on its expenditure from changing the backdating period for (a) pension credit, (b) council tax benefit and (c) housing benefit; and if he will make a statement. | | (240521) | 1567
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people (a) in each region and (b) of each pay grade were employed by Jobcentre Plus in each year since 1 April 2002. | | (240522) | 1568
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in overpaid pension credits was recovered by his Department in each (a) month of 2008-09 and (b) year from 2003-04 to 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (240523) | 1569
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of leavers from the New Deal for Partners Programme in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district entered immediately into sustainable employment on leaving the programme in each month since May 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (240524) | 1570
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of leavers from the New Deal for Disabled People programme in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district entered immediately into sustainable employment on leaving the programme in each month since March 2006; and if he will make a statement. | | (240525) | 1571
| 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. | | (240526) | 1572
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of the New Deal Lone Parents programme was in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district in each year since its inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (240733) | 1573
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of the New Deal for Musicians programme was in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district in each year since its inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (240734) | 1574
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants on the New Deal for Musicians Programme entered immediately into sustainable employment upon leaving the programme in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district in each month since the programme's inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (241001) | 1575
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what modelling his Department has carried out of different economic and labour market conditions in assessing the potential effect of changes in eligibility for income support on (a) lone parents and (b) people claiming emlpoyment support allowance; and if he will make a statement. | | (241002) | 1576
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many registered blind people receive the (a) low and (b) middle rate mobility component of the disability living allowance (i) in each (A) region and (B) constituency and (ii) nationwide. | | (241003) | 1577
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of jobseeker's allowance applications received by Jobcentre Plus were from people who had claimed jobseeker's allowance within the previous (a) three, (b) six and (c) 12 months of the claim being made in each quarter of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241004) | 1578
| 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 held in each region in each year since Jobcentre Plus was established. | | (241005) | 1579
| 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. | | (241006) | 1580
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what employment programme 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. | | (241007) | 1581
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) maximum and (b) minimum amount payable as additional housing cost premium of pension credit was in each year since its introduction. | | (241008) | 1582
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of pension credit claimants have received a premium for each type of housing cost in each year since pension credit was introduced. | | (241009) | 1583
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average amount has been 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. | | (241010) | 1584
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of abolishing the single room rent and paying housing benefit claimants the same rate of benefit irrespective of their age in the last 12 months. | | (241011) | 1585
| 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. | | (241012) | 1586
| 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. | | (241013) | 1587
| 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 who may benefit from the rapid response service. | | (241014) | 1588
| 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 in each region in each year since the service was established; what proportion of those rejected were rejected as a result of (i) funding constraint and (ii) employers and employees not meeting eligibility criteria in each such (A) region and (B) year; and if he will make a statement. | | (241015) | 1589
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much overpaid pension credit was reimbursed to his Department on average as a result of cases taken to court over repayment in (a) each month of 2008-09 and (b) each of the last five financial years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241028) | 1590
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 16 July 2008, Official Report, columns 474-5W, how many and what proportion of his Department's 8,950 customer-facing staff have received specific training on the changes to the eligibility rules for income support which came into effect in November 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (241029) | 1591
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average processing time for (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) housing benefit, (c) crisis loan, (d) community care grant and (e) budgeting loan applications was in (i) each of the smallest geographical areas for which information is available and (ii) nationwide in each quarter of each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241030) | 1592
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants there were per customer-facing Jobcentre Plus staff member in each region in each quarter of each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241031) | 1593
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of the New Deal 50 Plus programme in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district in each year since its inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (241032) | 1594
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of new jobseeker's allowance claimants expected to move onto the benefit as a result of (i) losing employment, (ii) moving off income support, (iii) failing a work capability assessment and (iv) other reasons in each of the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (241033) | 1595
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which means-tested benefits have income disregard rules; what the level of income disregard is for each benefit; and whether he plans to increase these levels. | | (241043) | 1596
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 9 July 2008, Official Report, column 1685W, on lone parents: income support, what progress has been made towards developing a communications strategy to support the changes to the eligibility rules for income support coming into effect in (a) October 2008, (b) October 2009 and (c) October 2010; and if he will make a statement. | | (241044) | 1597
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's estimate is of the cost of extending the winter fuel allowance to terminally ill people who would not otherwise qualify, excluding the one-off additional payment of £50 for 2008-09. | | (241070) | 1598
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of jobseeker's allowance (JSA) claimants moved off JSA and into employment in each month of the last five years, broken down by the smallest geographical area for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (241073) | 1599
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claimed the higher rate care component of disability living allowance on the ground of terminal illness in 2007-08, broken down by the smallest geographical area for which figures are available. | | (241074) | 1600
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of the New Deal for Partners Programme was in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district in each year since it was established; and if he will make a statement. | | (241090) | 1601
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's latest estimate is of the number of disabled children living below the poverty line in (a) the UK, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) England in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241195) | 1602
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new jobseeker's allowance applications have been received from people in each age group (a) in total and (b) in each of the smallest geographical areas for which figures are available in each month of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241196) | 1603
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's estimate is of the number of people who will be in receipt of employment and support allowance (a) in total, (b) in the work-related activity group and (c) in the support group in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241197) | 1604
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time was for decisions to be taken on crisis loan applications in (a) each of the last 12 quarters and (b) in each month of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241198) | 1605
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's estimate is of the number of people who will be on employment and support allowance (ESA), broken down by (a) income-based ESA and (b) contributory-based ESA in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241199) | 1606
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much pension credit has been clawed back by his Department in each (a) month of 2007-08 and (b) of the last five financial years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241217) | 1607
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 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. | | (241265) | 1608
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals have been taken to court by his Department to seek repayment of overpaid pension credits in each (a) month of 2008-09 and (b) of the last five financial years; and if he will make a statement. | | (241314) | 1609
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the organisational chart for his Department. | | (241445) | 1610
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) complaints and (b) requests for a review of decision have been received by the Social Fund in each month since Jobcentre Plus assumed responsibility for handling the initial application process; and if he will make a statement. | | (241446) | 1611
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, at which locations Social Fund staff work; and how many such staff work at each location. | | (241447) | 1612
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff have worked on the Social Fund in each month in each of the last five years. | | (241448) | 1613
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff have left their post in Jobcentre Plus in each region in each month of the last five years. | | (241449) | 1614
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff have left their posts in Jobcentre Plus after a period of sick leave in each month in each of the last five years. | | (241450) | 1615
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how may vacancies in the Jobcentre Plus network have been advertised in each of the last 12 months. | | (241451) | 1616
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many posts in the Jobcentre Plus network have been vacant in each of the last 12 months. | | (241452) | 1617
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) longest, (b) shortest and (c) average length of contract offered to temporary staff employed specifically to support the introduction of employment support allowance was. | | (241453) | 1618
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, at which locations those staff appointed by Jobcentre Plus specifically to support the introduction of employment support allowance worked; and how many worked at each such location. | | (241454) | 1619
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of the 2000 staff originally appointed to support the introduction of employment support allowance are (a) still working in their original role, (b) employed on temporary contracts elsewhere in Jobcentre Plus and (c) employed on permanent contracts elsewhere in Jobcentre Plus. | | (241455) | 1620
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much expenditure his Department has incurred in providing Jobcentre Plus services in each of the last 10 years, broken down by district. | | (241456) | 1621
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the budget required for the Jobcentre Plus network in each of the next five years. | | (241457) | 1622
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the (a) employment and (b) unemployment rate of (i) men, (ii) women and (iii) men and women with the equivalent of five GCSEs of fewer aged (A) 16 to 24, (B) 25 to 34, (C) 34 to 49 and (D) 50 years to state retirement age in each quarter for the last 10 years. | | (241704) | 1623
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the (a) employment and (b) unemployment rate of (i) lone fathers, (ii) lone mothers and (iii) lone parents with the equivalent of five GCSEs or fewer aged (A) 16 to 24, (B) 25 to 34, (C) 34 to 49 and (D) 50 years to state retirement age in each quarter for the last 10 years. | | (241705) | 1624
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 619W, on employment, how many staff he estimates will be recruited to (a) full-time and (b) part-time (i) temporary and (ii) permanent positions in Jobcentre Plus; how many of these appointments will be made from staff originally recruited to support the introduction of employment support allowance; and if he will make a statement. | | (241780) | 1625
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. | | (241232) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1626
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which Islamic tribunals have authority to act under the Arbitration Act 1996. | | [Transferred] (241865) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 1627
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to link celebrations marking the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with the London Olympics in 2012. | | [Transferred] (240857) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 1628
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made in the (a) development of Basra International Airport and (b) renovation of Umm Qasr port since 8 October 2007; and what contribution has been made to each project by the UK. | | [Transferred] (240834) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 1629
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which districts have held emergency planning measures and resilience scenarios to prepare for future flooding incidents following the floods of summer 2007. | | [Transferred] (241088) | 1630
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with overseas counterparts on the illegal ivory trade in China; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (240969) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 1631
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Government-funded residential places were available at any one time for women who were victims of human trafficking in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (241541) | 1632
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the eligibility requirements are for victims of human trafficking to be granted access to safe accommodation funded by the Government. | | [Transferred] (241543) | 1633
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Government-funded residential places were available for women who were victims of human trafficking in each month of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (241804) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 1634
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) prosecuted, (b) convicted and (c) received a level 2 fine for the offence of not obeying an instruction to stop drinking in a designated public place in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (241614) | 1635
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 24th November 2008, Official Report, column 1054W, on Kyrgyzstan: entry clearances, what critical IT failures were responsible for frustrating the efforts of the entry clearance team in Almaty in respect of the application made on behalf of Kyrgyz musicians and performers invited to the UK by the Kyrgyz Ambassador; and if she will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (240780) | 1636
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the application for entry clearance to the UK in respect of musicians and performers invited by the Kyrgyz Ambassador was first received; and on what dates the application was processed in (a) Kyrgyzstan, (b) Almaty, (c) Astana and (d) London. | | [Transferred] (240781) | 1637
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons, following the move of the British Embassy in Kazakhstan from Almaty to Astana, entry clearance to the UK is being processed in Almaty rather than Astana; and if she will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (240782) | 1638
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences since 11 September 2001 have at some point claimed asylum. | | [Transferred] (241282) | 1639
| Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the monetary value of property and possessions seized by the Assets Recovery Agency from residents of Northern Ireland convicted of drug dealing offences was in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (241433) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 1640
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, which hon. Members have (a) had materials from their place of work taken from the Parliamentary Estate by the police and (b) had computer files read (i) on and (ii) off the Estate by the police in the last 10 years. | | [Transferred] (241392) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 1641
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much capital expenditure was incurred for each separate project of works at the Institute for Animal Health Pirbright Laboratory in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09 to date. | | [Transferred] (240667) | 1642
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what his policy is on penalties for (a) physical and (b) online copyright infringement; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (241331) | 1643
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many and what percentage of students completing BEd courses were awarded a (a) pass, (b) third class and (c) lower second class degree in each of the last 10 years. | | [Transferred] (242002) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 1644
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | [Transferred] (241842) | 1645
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Judicial Appointments Commission in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | [Transferred] (241843) | 1646
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Judicial Appointments Ombudsman in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | [Transferred] (241844) | 1647
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Northern Ireland Court Service in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | [Transferred] (241845) | 1648
| Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel in the current three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. | | [Transferred] (241846) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 1649
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many registered gas engineers there were in each of the last 10 years; and how many were (a) deregistered, (b) fined and (c) imprisoned in each of the last 10 years. | | [Transferred] (241703) | 1650
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of standards in the regulation of domestic gas fitters and engineers; and what consideration he has given to the amendment of the existing regulatory regime. | | [Transferred] (241938) | 1651
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) injuries and (b) fatalities as a result of domestic gas accidents there have been in each of the last 10 years. | | [Transferred] (241939) |
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