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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Thursday 11 December 2008
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 11 December 2008
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Thursday 11 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 Thursday 11 December of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Thursday 11 December see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, on what dates since 1 January 2007 (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department or its predecessor have had discussions with Business for New Europe on European matters. | | (243106) | 2
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent representations he has received from Business for New Europe in connection with the proposals for a third runway at Heathrow. | | (243107) | 3
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what work has been commissioned from Business for New Europe by his Department since its inception; and at what cost. | | (243108) | 4
N | Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what analysis his Department has conducted of the use of super complaints. | | (242633) | 5
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will take steps to establish a strategy to tackle age discrimination and promote age equality in the provision of goods and services (a) by his Department and (b) within the sectors for which his Department has policy responsibility; and if he will make a statement. | | (243016) | 6
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what representations he has received on the effect on small businesses of administering the temporary change to rates of value added tax. | | (242636) | 7
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, on what basis defence export statistics will be compiled in the future. | | (243257) | 8
N | Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the proportion of UK-based industry in foreign ownership in (a) 2008 and (b) 2003 in each of the 30 largest industrial sectors. | | (242093) | 9
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) post office branches and (b) post office branches per head of population in England in (i) hamlets and isolated dwellings, (ii) villages, (iii) towns and fringe settlements and (iv) settlements of more than 10,000 inhabitants in each year since 1997. | | (243171) | 10
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate his Department has made of the number of public houses in England in (a) hamlets and isolated dwellings, (b) villages, (c) towns and fringe settlements and (d) settlements of more than 10,000 inhabitants in each year since 1997. | | (243172) | 11
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the number of households that do not have access to broadband internet in (a) Hemel Hempstead, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) England. | | (243004) | 12
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, on which occasions his Department and its predecessor has convened a citizens' jury or randomly-drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy-making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (243041) | 13
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when the Minister of State for Trade plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 24 October 2008 on the findings of the Community Pubs Inquiry report. | | (242434) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 14
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what record is kept by his Department of gifts given to the monarch and other members of the Royal Family; and how such gifts are managed. | | (243000) | 15
N | Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on requirements on banks whose shares are in public ownership to support small businesses. | | (242346) | 16
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of claims for child benefit made by (a) EU nationals excluding A2 and A8 nationals, (b) A2 and A8 nationals and (c) those with indefinite leave to remain took longer than 36 days to be processed since April 2008. | | (243402) | 17
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average processing time was for claims for child benefit by (a) EU nationals excluding A2 and A8 nationals, (b) A2 and A8 nationals and (c) those with indefinite leave to remain in each month since April 2008. | | (243403) | 18
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's target times are for processing child benefit claims; and what percentage of cases involving (a) the transfer of a claim from one carer to another (b) non-UK EU citizens, A2 and A8 nationals and (c) those with indefinite leave to remain were processed within those target times in the latest period for which information are available. | | (243404) | 19
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average processing time was for claims for child benefit by entitled (a) non-UK EU and (b) other foreign nationals in each month since April 2008. | | (243406) | 20
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of child benefit claims were processed within (a) five days and (b) 36 days in each month since April 2008. | | (243407) | 21
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time taken to process child benefit claims where the claim was being transferred from one carer to another was in each month since April 2008; and what percentage of claims of that type took longer than 36 days to process since April 2008. | | (243408) | 22
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will consider the merits of requiring HM Revenue and Customs to pay an equivalent amount of interest on tax over-demanded and subsequently refunded to that which they charge on overdue tax. | | (243055) | 23
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small and medium-sized businesses were paid within 10 days of receipt by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (243359) | 24
N | Mark Durkan (Foyle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to his contribution on 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 752, on the legally binding agreements with the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Lloyds TSB and Halifax Bank of Scotland, whether he expects these agreements to extend to Ulster Bank. | | (242772) | 25
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many individual taxpayers affected by the withdrawal of the 10 pence starting rate for income tax will pay more income tax than they did before the withdrawal of the rate when the steps announced in (a) Budgets 2007 and 2008, (b) the Chancellor's statement dated 13 May, on income tax and (c) the Pre-Budget Report 2008 are taken into account. | | (242857) | 26
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the UK's estimated (a) net contribution, (b) gross contribution and (c) gross contribution after abatement to the EU will be in (i) 2008, (ii) 2009 and (iii) 2010, calculated on the basis current exchange rates. | | (243023) | 27
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the EU budget UK contributions will comprise in (a) 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010. | | (243025) | 28
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effects of trends in exchange rates on the UK's contribution to the EU budget. | | (243027) | 29
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to mitigate the possible effects of foreign exchange movements on the level of the UK's financial contribution to the EU; and if he will make a statement. | | (243028) | 30
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1900W, on insolvency, how much was claimed by HM Revenue and Customs in (a) bankruptcy and (b) individual voluntary arrangement cases in which it was a creditor, in each of the last four years; and what the expected amounts are for (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10. | | (242527) | 31
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1899-900W, on insolvency, how much was claimed by HM Revenue and Customs was in (a) company administration and (b) company receivership cases in which it was a creditor, in each of the last four years; and what the expected amounts are for (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10. | | (242528) | 32
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1900W, on insolvency, in how many cases of (a) bankruptcy and (b) individual voluntary arrangement, where HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was a creditor, HMRC's claim was of an amount (i) up to £5,000, (ii) between £5,001 and £10,000, (iii) between £10,001 and £25,000, (iv) between £25,001 and £50,000, (v) between £50,001 and £75,000, (vi) between £75,001 and £100,000, (vii) between £100,001 and £250,000, (viii) between £250,001 and £500,000, (ix) between £500,001 and £1,000,000 and (x) over £1,000,000 in each of the last four years; and how many such cases are expected to fall into each category in (A) 2008-09 and (B) 2009-10. | | (242529) | 33
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1899-900W, on insolvency, in how many cases of (a) company administration and (b) company receivership, where HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was a creditor, HMRC's claim was of an amount (i) up to £5,000, (ii) between £5,001 and £10,000, (iii) between £10,001 and £25,000, (iv) between £25,001 and £50,000, (v) between £50,001 and £75,000, (vi) between £75,001 and £100,000, (vii) between £100,001 and £250,000, (viii) between £250,001 and £500,000, (ix) between £500,001 and £1,000,000 and (x) over £1,000,000 in each of the last four years; and how many such cases are expected to fall into each category in (A) 2008-09 and (B) 2009-10. | | (242530) | 34
N | Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he (a) last met the President of the European Commission and (b) spoke to the President of the European Commission; and whether he discussed Britain's prospective membership of the euro on either occasion. | | (241495) | 35
N | Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on which dates the (a) Chief Secretary to the Treasury, (b) Financial Secretary to the Treasury, (c) Minister of State at the Treasury, (d) Economic Secretary to the Treasury, (e) Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and (f) the Financial Services Secretary (A) last met the President of the European Commission and (B) spoke to the President of the European Commission; and whether the UK's prospective membership of the euro was discussed on each occasion. | | (242304) | 36
N | Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when Treasury officials last discussed Britain's prospective membership of the euro with the European Commission; and if he will make a statement. | | (242305) | 37
N | Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he expects the United Kingdom to meet the Maastricht criteria for membership of the euro in (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011. | | (242770) | 38
N | Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on preparations for the possibility of joining the European single currency since 1997. | | (242771) | 39
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to encourage parents to increase payments to child trust fund accounts. | | (243101) | 40
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what average payment has been made by parents into existing child trust fund accounts in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since the scheme's inception. | | (243102) | 41
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many children were eligible to receive a child trust fund voucher in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since the scheme's inception. | | (243103) | 42
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many child trust fund vouchers have been used by parents to open an account in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since the scheme's inception. | | (243104) | 43
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many child trust fund vouchers have been issued in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since the scheme's inception. | | (243105) | 44
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to table B4 of the Pre-Budget Report, on the fiscal balances compared with Budget 2008, what the figures for the cyclically-adapted (a) surplus on current budget and (b) net borrowing are as a percentage of projected gross domestic product for each year. | | (243289) | 45
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide a breakdown by principal policy decision of the increase in cyclically adjusted net borrowing by 4.3 per cent. of gross domestic product from the estimated outturn in 2007-08 to the estimate in 2009-10, as shown in the Pre-Budget Report table B4. | | (243507) | 46
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on which occasions his Department has convened a citizens' jury or randomly-drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy-making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (243043) | 47
N | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of December 2008, Official Report, column 15W, on VAT: financial services, what estimate he has made of the financial benefit the financial services sector will derive from the reduction in the standard rate of VAT. | | (242667) | 48
N | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the financial services sector contributed to the Exchequer in (a) recoverable and (b) irrecoverable VAT in the last year for which figures are available. | | (242668) | 49
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 28 October 2008 on financial protection for individuals invested in the Icelandic bank, Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander. | | (242432) | 50
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 21 October 2008 on the Icelandic bank, Kaupthing Edge (PO Ref: 1/62030/2008). | | (242433) | 51
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with the European Commission on possible UK membership of the European single currency in the last two years. | | (243002) | 52
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research he has reviewed on changes in the average size of clothes required by children up to the age of 16 in the last 30 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (243003) | 53
N | Mrs Betty Williams (Conwy): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the basis is for the assertion by HM Revenue and Customs that it will be able to meet its obligation to provide a full Welsh language service for its clients in North West Wales after the closure of its Bangor office. | | (242532) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 54
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils eligible to receive free school meals attained a GCSE in (a) German, (b) French and (c) Spanish in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (243100) | 55
| 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 the General Certificate of Secondary Education, how many and what percentage of pupils in the maintained, mainstream sector achieved five GCSEs including a modern language GCSE atgrades A* to C in each year since 2004, broken down by index of multiple deprivation deciles. | | (243449) | 56
| 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, column 1504W, on specialist schools: languages, how many and what percentage of pupils at (a) specialist language colleges, (b) schools which have languages as a second specialism and (c) schools which have languages combined with another specialism, achieved a modern languages GCSE at grades A* to C. | | (243450) | 57
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2008, Official Report, columns 590-1W, on General Certificate of Secondary Education, if he will give an itemised breakdown of the estimated cost of providing the information requested. | | (243541) | 58
| 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, columns 489-90W, on 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 D in each year since 2002, broken down by local authority area. | | (243542) | 59
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many days of truancy there were in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in Wiltshire in each of the last three years. | | (243096) | 60
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent assessment his Department has made of the provision of healthcare for children with diabetes in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools. | | (243012) | 61
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of provision of care for children with diabetes (a) in schools and (b) on school trips. | | (243014) | 62
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of children of school age whose diabetic conditions (a) prevent and (b) reduce their attendance at school. | | (243015) | 63
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what guidance his Department provides to schools on in school healthcare for children with diabetes. | | (243049) | 64
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Department of Health on healthcare for children with diabetes when in school. | | (243051) | 65
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of children with diabetes who were unable to participate in school trips owing to a lack of healthcare provision during such trips in the last 12 months. | | (243053) | 66
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many secondary schools have a specialist full-time careers adviser attached to their staff. | | (243336) | 67
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many secondary schools have no specialised careers service or careers adviser. | | (243337) | 68
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many secondary schools have staff employed to teach specific subjects and to act as a careers adviser. | | (243338) | 69
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many secondary schools have a part-time careers adviser attached to their staff. | | (243339) | 70
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teachers are employed in a dual role as a teacher and a careers adviser. | | (243340) | 71
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many hours teachers who provide careers advice must undergo to do so. | | (243341) | 72
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what training in careers guidance and progression careers advisers in schools receive prior to starting their job. | | (243342) | 73
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what training in careers guidance and progression careers advisers in schools receive during their practice period. | | (243343) | 74
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the status of specialist careers guidance in secondary schools is; and if he will make a statement. | | (243344) | 75
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his policy is on teachers acting as careers advisers; and if he will make a statement. | | (243345) | 76
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, on what legal basis he has decided he may not publish the serious case review for Baby P. | | (243435) | 77
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate his Department has made of the number of primary schools in England in (a) hamlets and isolated settings, (b) villages, (c) towns and fringe settlements and (d) settlements of more than 10,000 inhabitants in each year since 1997. | | (243184) | 78
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, to which organisation it is proposed that (a) sixth form colleges, (b) further education colleges and (c) schools should be able to appeal against a funding decision in regard to education provision for 16 to 18 year olds taken by (i) a local authority and (ii) a sub-regional group under the proposals set out in the Raising Expectations White Paper. | | (243364) | 79
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, on which occasions his Department has convened a citizens' jury or randomly drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (243040) | 80
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what discussions he has had with HM Treasury Ministers on the application of VAT to school uniforms in the light of the extension to 18 of participation in education, employment and training; and if he will make a statement. | | (243001) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 81
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people were diagnosed with prostate cancer in (a) 2001, (b) 2002, (c) 2003, (d) 2004, (e) 2005, (f) 2006 and (g) 2007; and in how many cases in each year the prognosis was that the cancer was terminal. | | (243167) | 82
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on which occasions his Department has convened a citizens' jury or randomly drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (243044) | 83
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people who have made requests to his Department under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 have been waiting for longer than (a) four, (b) eight and (c) 12 months to receive the information they requested. | | (243522) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 84
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to amend Part L of the Building Regulations to make the specification of A-rated circulatory pumps mandatory from 2010. | | (243109) | 85
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made in her Department's £15 million programme to pilot measures to tackle household overcrowding. | | (243348) | 86
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have applied to introduce selective licensing of the private rented sector under the provisions contained within Part 3 of the Housing Act 2004. | | (243349) | 87
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the supporting people funding settlement and administration grant is for each London Borough in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10. | | (243350) | 88
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the Homes and Communities Agency will announce its decisions on bids from registered social landlords and arm's length management organisations for social housing grant. | | (243401) | 89
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will provide a breakdown by funding stream of the £775 million being brought forward from the 2010-11 budget for affordable housing in each Government office region. | | (243405) | 90
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to encourage (a) local authorities and (b) commercial operators in charge of public places to install Changing Places toilets. | | (243200) | 91
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to implement the recommendations in the Communities and Local Government Committee's Twelfth report of Session 2007-08, HC 636, on provision of public toilets that (a) local authorities make appropriate provision for disabled public toilets, taking the British Standard relating to the provision of disabled public toilets as their primary guideline and (b) her Department impose a duty on each local authority to develop a strategy on the provision of public toilets in their areas, including consultation with local communities and reviewed annually. | | (243205) | 92
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many home repossessions there were in (a) England, (b) the North West, (c) Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council area and (d) Cheadle constituency in (i) 2007 and (ii) to date in 2008. | | (242539) | 93
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has with regard to future funding of the Elevate East Lancashire housing renewal area; and if she will make a statement. | | (242526) | 94
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the timetable will be for her Department's proposed expenditure analysis review of fire and rescue services. | | (243024) | 95
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on which occasions her Department has convened a citizens' jury or randomly drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if she will make a statement. | | (243045) | 96
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department has taken following the Coroner's recommendation in his verdict on the death of Adam Meere. | | (243035) | 97
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the proportion of unmet demand for housing which arises as a result of net immigration; and if she will make a statement. | | (243005) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 98
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding his Department plans to provide to each local authority to provide free swimming in the first year of the scheme's operation. | | (243054) | 99
| Stephen Hesford (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to publicise in (a) London and (b) other places cultural events taking place in Liverpool to mark its year as European Capital of Culture; and if he will make a statement. | | (243021) | 100
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was spent on (a) travel and (b) overnight expenses for (i) Ministers and (ii) guests attending the Creativity and Business International Network event held in Liverpool on 20 November 2008. | | (242437) | 101
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which organisations were involved with the branding for the Creativity and Business International Network; and how much was paid to each organisation. | | (242438) | 102
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what dates the Welcome to Britain Group has met; and when the group next plans to meet. | | (242517) | 103
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what dates (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department have met the Welcome to Britain Group in the last 12 months. | | (242902) | 104
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to which charities his Department has provided funding of more than £100,000 in each of the last three years; and how much was provided to each. | | (242424) | 105
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on which occasions his Department has convened a citizens' jury or randomly drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (243046) | 106
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the percentage of visitors to betting shops who visited for the purpose of playing on fixed odds betting terminals in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (243399) | 107
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what definition of (a) sports betting and (b) gaming his Department uses; and if he will make a statement. | | (243400) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 108
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the timetable is for delivery of the Future Rapid Effects System programme. | | (243411) | 109
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding has been allocated for the Future Rapid Effects System programme. | | (243412) | 110
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his current estimate is for the in-service date of the Future Rapid Effects System. | | (243413) | 111
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) utility, (b) reconnaissance, (c) fires, (d) manoeuvre support and (e) basic capability vehicles will make up the Future Rapid Effects System. | | (243414) | 112
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the likely reduction in his Department's expenditure as a result of discontinuing publication of defence export delivery statistics by UK Defence Statistics. | | (243253) | 113
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the effect on the defence procurement budget of the reduction in the value of sterling in the last six months. | | (243254) | 114
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) troops in contact incidents and (b) indirect fire events were recorded in (i) Afghanistan and (ii) Iraq in each month of the last three years. | | (243255) | 115
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the costs of corrosion of equipment in the armed forces in each of the last three years. | | (243256) | 116
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will break down his Department's Winter Supplementary Estimate 2008-09 on the same basis as in his Answer of 14 July 2008, Official Report, column 168W. | | (243416) | 117
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of fitting the RAF Tristar fleet with glass cockpits is expected to be; and what his proposed timescale for these upgrades is. | | (243432) | 118
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many flying hours have been recorded on each of the six Merlin helicopters which were transferred from Denmark in each of the last three months. | | (243433) | 119
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many trained Merlin Mk 3 crews there are in the Royal Air Force. | | (243451) | 120
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much (a) each board of inquiry and service inquiry into the deaths at Deepcut Barracks of (i) Private Sean Benton, (ii) Private Cheryl James, (iii) Private Geoff Gray and (iv) Private James Collinson and (b) each recall service inquiry into the deaths of Private Gray and Private Collinson cost, broken down by each category of cost, including transport and expenses. | | (243366) | 121
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) number of sitting hours and (b) duration was of (i) each board of inquiry and service inquiry into the deaths at Deepcut Barracks of (A) Private Sean Benton, (B) Private Cheryl James, (C) Private Geoff Gray and (D) Private James Collinson and (ii) each recalled service inquiry into the deaths of Private Gray and Private Collinson. | | (243367) | 122
| Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) witnesses were called and (b) statements were considered at (i) each board of inquiry and service inquiry into the deaths at Deepcut Barracks of (A) Private Sean Benton, (B) Private Cheryl James, (C) Private Geoff Gray and (D) Private James Collinson and (ii) each recalled service inquiry into the deaths of Private Gray and Private Collinson. | | (243368) | 123
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 1517W, on Afghanistan: military aircraft, for what reasons he made the statement `that I cannot understand why you are telling people otherwise', in the text of an Answer to a Parliamentary Question. | | (242637) | 124
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, columns 487-9W, on compensation, of the 53 personnel who were seriously injured in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007, how many registered a claim for compensation; and of those who registered claims, what the (a) 10th, (b) 25th, (c) 50th, (d) 75th and (e) 90th percentiles were for the length of time from injury to registration. | | (243179) | 125
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, columns 487-9W, on compensation, of the 41 personnel who were very seriously injured in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007, how many registered a claim for compensation; and of those who registered claims, what the (a) 10th, (b) 25th, (c) 50th, (d) 75th and (e) 90th percentiles were for the length of time from injury to registration. | | (243180) | 126
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department was informed by the Pakistani government of the possibility of a US air strike on the village of Ali Khel before 21 November 2008. | | (243426) | 127
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many dog handlers are employed as (a) civilians and (b) servicemen in each of the three armed services. | | (243457) | 128
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many dogs are kept by each of the armed services; and for what purposes. | | (243458) | 129
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what type of animals are kept at public expense in each of the armed services. | | (243459) | 130
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on which occasions his Department has convened a citizens' jury or randomly drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (243042) | 131
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department plans to bring legacy L115 A1 and A2 sniper rifles up to the A3 standard; and if he will make a statement. | | (242422) | 132
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Christmas mail packages sent to armed forces personnel have been returned to the original sender in the last three months. | | (242445) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 133
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the price per unit of carbon above which energy companies would have sufficient incentive to retrofit power plants with carbon capture and storage technology by (a) 2010, (b) 2015 and (c) 2020. | | (243539) | 134
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate the Government has made of the cost of carbon allowances under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in (a) 2012 and (b) 2020. | | (243540) | 135
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small and medium-sized businesses were paid within 10 days of receipt by (a) his Department and its predecessor and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (243351) | 136
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much contractors participating in the Warm Front Scheme were charged for the administration costs of the scheme in the last 12 months. | | (243415) | 137
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many contractors have left the Warm Front scheme in each of the last six months. | | (243463) | 138
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when the Minister of State plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 21 October 2008 on the monopoly of storage banks. | | (242435) | 139
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when the Minister of State plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 21 October 2008 on smaller scale renewable schemes in the Energy Bill. | | (242436) | 140
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will consider withholding planning consent for wood biomass energy plants of 50 megawatts and over except in cases where guarantees to source wood exclusively from overseas are in place. | | (243369) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 141
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his policy is on the EU Common Agricultural Policy Health Check; and when he expects full decoupling to be achieved. | | (243461) | 142
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small and medium-sized businesses were paid within 10 days of receipt by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (243352) | 143
N | Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on inspections to support the work of the Rural Payments Agency in each of the last five years. | | (242423) | 144
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to increase public understanding of agriculture and horticulture. | | (243186) | 145
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to limit the number of thoroughbred horses which may be bred by the racing industry; and if he will make a statement. | | (243017) | 146
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to which charities his Department has provided funding of more than £100,000 in each of the last three years; and how much was provided to each. | | (242425) | 147
| 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 unspent funds under the single payment scheme; and what plans he has to allocate this funding for Article 68 measures. | | (243176) | 148
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to allocate funding under Article 68 measures under the Common Agricultural Policy. | | (243177) | 149
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, columns 308-9W, on pesticides, how much funding the Government has provided in respect of off-label applications; and when he expects the interim period to end. | | (243523) | 150
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 391-4W, on the Common Agricultural Policy, what the cash amount of the tariff on (a) beef imports from Brazil, (b) butter imports from New Zealand, (c) lamb imports from New Zealand and (d) poultry meat from (i) Brazil and (ii) Thailand was in the last week for which figures are available. | | (243524) | 151
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1222-6W, on the Common Agricultural Policy, what recent assessment he has made of progress on decoupling as a result of the decisions made in the CAP Health Check. | | (243525) | 152
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will publish (a) the papers from the Study of Health in Agricultural Work by Dr Andrew Povey et al., of the University of Manchester, (b) the Survey of Health and Pesticide Exposure by Dr Tony Fletcher of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and (c) the case-control study of neuropsychological and psychiatric functioning in sheep farmers exposed to OP pesticide by Dr Sarah Mackenzie Ross of University College, London, commissioned by his Department. | | (243548) | 153
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on which occasions his Department has convened a citizens' jury or randomly drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (243038) | 154
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress has been made on implementing the recommendations contained in the Pitt report on flooding; and if he will make a statement. | | (243086) | 155
| Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of recovered (a) ferrous metal, (b) non-ferrous metal, (c) plastic, (d) paper and cardboard, (e) glass and (f) wood was exported in 2007. | | (243417) | 156
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what role the Government played during the recent meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna; what representations he and his Departmental officials made; what assessment he has made of the outcome of the meeting; and if he will make a statement. | | (242998) | 157
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the UK voted for or against the decision made at the recent meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna to set a quota of 22,000 tonnes of bluefin tuna in 2009; and what the Government's position is on a quota for bluefin tuna catch. | | (243173) | 158
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which codes of conduct to be issued under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 the Government is currently working on; and which bodies have been appointed to advise on each code. | | (243291) | 159
| Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether codes of conduct on the treatment of primates are under consideration by his Department. | | (243529) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 160
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will release into the public domain the 1,949 files his Department holds relating to Englandspiel, with specific reference to files detailing the responses given to the Dutch governments, redacting names as necessary. | | (242634) | 161
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff are working overseas for UK Trade and Investment; and what estimate he has made of the number in the next financial year. | | (243029) | 162
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many migration officers his Department has in place; in which countries they are posted; and what the estimated (a) numbers and (b) locations of such officers for 2009-10 have. | | (243030) | 163
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding his Department has made available for the Government's counter-radicalisation agenda for each year until 2010-11. | | (243031) | 164
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding his Department has made available for the British Council's Reconnect Initiative for each year until 2010-11. | | (243036) | 165
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government has taken to strengthen mechanisms for the reporting of human rights violations in Burma. | | (243093) | 166
N | Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department's officials last discussed the UK's prospective membership of the euro with the European Commission; and if he will make a statement. | | (242306) | 167
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy on the status of Tibet is; and for what reasons that policy was recently changed. | | (243008) | 168
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications of the recent vote by the European Parliament postponing a decision on involving Israel in the European Union's Community Programes; and if he will make a statement. | | (242524) | 169
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to make representations to the Syrian government in respect of honours they have bestowed on convicted Islamist terrorist Sumar Kuntar; and if he will make a statement. | | (242525) | 170
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of allegations that (a) the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and (b) the Rashtriya Swayamsesak Sangh are linked to the campaign of violence against Christians in Orissa; and if he will make a statement. | | (243226) | 171
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what changes in the Government's policy on the status of Tibet were contained in the Written Ministerial Statement of 29 October 2008, Official Report, columns 30-2WS, on Tibet. | | (243361) | 172
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the United Kingdom intelligence services had knowledge of Mr Rashid Rauf's whereabouts on the night of the US air strike of 21 November 2008 in North Waziristan, Pakistan. | | (243425) | 173
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether (a) the government of Pakistan and (b) the US Administration have made representations to the UK Government about the US air strike of 21 November in North Waziristan, Pakistan. | | (243429) | 174
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects the additional troops for MONUC authorised by UN Security Council Resolution 1843 on 20 November to be deployed. | | (243155) | 175
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which countries have taken the lead in security sector reform in Democratic Republic of Congo; and what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the reforms initiated. | | (243156) | 176
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on future action on Zimbabwe by the UN Security Council; what steps are next envisaged; and if he will make a statement. | | (243157) | 177
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects the African Union force for Somalia to be fully deployed; and if he will make a statement. | | (243158) | 178
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Nigeria on action against the perpetrators of the violence which took place in Jos between 28 and 30 November 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (243159) | 179
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions the Prime Minister's Special Envoy to Burma has had with the UN Secretary General on his forthcoming trip to Burma; and when his visit is scheduled. | | (243160) | 180
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of people arrested and detained in Northern Sri Lanka in connection with the conflict between the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam since January 2008. | | (243162) | 181
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 27 October 2008, Official Report, columns 532-3W, whether the next EU-India Human Rights Dialogue will take place before the end of 2008; and what subjects are on the agenda for the next dialogue. | | (243332) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 182
| Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with (a) his counterpart in the government of Singapore and (b) Singaporean healthcare institutions on the Lorenzo software product; and if he will make a statement. | | (243187) | 183
| Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with (a) his counterpart in the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and (b) healthcare institutions in the UAE on the deployment of Cerner electronic patient management and care record systems; and if he will make a statement. | | (243188) | 184
| Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to study the effectiveness of the use of the Lorenzo software product by Singhealth; and if he will make a statement. | | (243189) | 185
| Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is on schedule to go live with its electronic patient management and care record system. | | (243190) | 186
| Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on when a complete version of Lorenzo Release 2 will undergo tests in the UK. | | (243191) | 187
| Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what fines have been (a) levied against and (b) paid by CSC for late delivery of the Lorenzo system; whether local service providers will be paid for upgrades from interim solutions to Lorenzo; and whether the local service providers will pay hospitals' costs incurred in upgrading from such interim solutions where they have been installed. | | (243192) | 188
| Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many users of the Lorenzo system there are at the (a) Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust, (b) Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (c) South Birmingham Primary Care Trust; and what the average number of concurrent users of the Lorenzo product was at each of those trusts in the last month for which figures are available. | | (243193) | 189
| Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what dates (a) Department of Health officials received a demonstration of the Lorenzo software product and (b) local service provider contracts were signed under the National Programme for IT in the NHS for the Lorenzo software product; and what the planned delivery date for the Lorenzo software product was when those contracts were signed. | | (243434) | 190
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many invoices submitted to his Department in the last month for which figures are available were paid within 10 days of receipt; and how many remained unpaid after 28 days. | | (242664) | 191
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all NHS trusts purchasing supplies and equipment under central NHS contracts pay invoices within 10 days of receipt. | | (242665) | 192
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small and medium-sized businesses were paid within 10 days of receipt by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (243353) | 193
N | Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of prescribing anti-depressant drugs in the London Borough of Bexley in each of the last five years. | | (242904) | 194
N | Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many alcohol-related emergency admissions to hospitals there have been in (a) the London Borough of Bexley, (b) the London Borough of Greenwich and (c) the London Borough of Bromley in each year since 1997, broken down by (i) age and (ii) sex of patient admitted. | | (242905) | 195
N | Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people diagnosed with mild or moderate depression in the London Borough of Bexley in the last 12 months. | | (242906) | 196
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to abolish hospital car park charges in England for cancer patients. | | (242999) | 197
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will increase levels of funding for local authorities to take account of the effect of the increasing number of people with learning disabilities on provision made by local authority social services departments. | | (243006) | 198
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children of school age have been diagnosed with diabetes. | | (243011) | 199
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will direct hospital trusts not to charge for hospital car parking for cancer patients. | | (243032) | 200
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that GPs are always informed about the treatment and follow-up care of cancer patients undertaken by hospitals. | | (243033) | 201
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Children, Schools and Families on improving the provision of healthcare in schools for children with diabetes. | | (243050) | 202
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many drug addicts are participating in the Maudsley heroin prescribing pilot; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the pilot per addict per year. | | (243512) | 203
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust's pilot on prescribing and injecting heroin. | | (243518) | 204
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on research into treatments for prostate cancer by the National Health Service in (a) 2001, (b) 2002, (c) 2003, (d) 2004, (e) 2005, (f) 2006 and (g) 2007. | | (243163) | 205
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of funding dedicated to cancer research by the National Health Service. | | (243164) | 206
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of funding provided for research into treatments for prostate cancer by the National Health Service. | | (243165) | 207
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for future levels of funding to the National Health Service for cancer research. | | (243166) | 208
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prostate cancer patients there were whose cancer went into remission following National Health Service treatment in (a) 2001, (b) 2002, (c) 2003, (d) 2004, (e) 2005, (f) 2006 and (g) 2007. | | (243168) | 209
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the treatments available to prostate cancer patients on the National Health Service. | | (243169) | 210
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Government's strategy on cancer on the rates of those diagnosed with cancer in each year since 2001. | | (243178) | 211
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's strategy is for tackling cancer; and if he will make a statement. | | (243181) | 212
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's strategy is for tackling prostate cancer; and if he will make a statement. | | (243182) | 213
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on cancer research by the National Health Service in (a) 2001, (b) 2002, (c) 2003, (d) 2004, (e) 2005, (f) 2006 and (g) 2007. | | (243183) | 214
| Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to reduce rates of tuberculosis amongst (a) the homeless, (b) problem drug users and (c) prisoners in (i) London and (ii) outside London; and what steps he intends to take over the next three years. | | (243099) | 215
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, to which charities his Department has provided funding of more than £100,000 in each of the last three years; and how much was provided to each. | | (242426) | 216
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) dental surgeries and (b) dental surgeries per head of population in England in (i) hamlets and isolated dwellings, (ii) villages, (iii) towns and fringe settlements and (iv) settlements of more than 10,000 inhabitants in each year since 1997. | | (243174) | 217
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) GP surgeries and (b) GP surgeries per head of population in England in (i) hamlets and isolated dwellings, (ii) villages, (iii) towns and fringe settlements and (iv) settlements of more than 10,000 inhabitants in each year since 1997. | | (243175) | 218
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on which occasions his Department has convened a citizens' jury or randomly drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (243047) | 219
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applicants there were for student means-tested NHS bursaries in each of the last five years. | | (242428) | 220
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many student applicants have been refused means-tested NHS bursaries in each of the last five years. | | (242429) | 221
N | Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the benefits and disbenefits which multiple dispensing licences have for dispensing appliance contractors under (a) the current on-cost system and (b) the system of remuneration proposed by his Department. | | (242907) | 222
| Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what rights (a) foundation trust members and (b) members of the public have to attend meetings of (i) boards of directors and (ii) boards of governors of their local foundation trust. | | (243431) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 223
N | Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) families and (b) children under the age of 18 years were detained within Dungavel detention centre on 1 December 2008. | | (241496) | 224
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small and medium-sized businesses were paid within 10 days of receipt by (a) her Department and (b) the agencies for which her Department is responsible in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08; and if she will make a statement. | | (243354) | 225
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in (a) Bexley, (b) London and (c) England applied for leave to remain in the UK outside of immigration rules in each of the last five years; and how many did not have valid leave to remain at the time of their application. | | (243057) | 226
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of theft or burglary have been reported in (a) London and (b) Bexley in each year since 1997. | | (243058) | 227
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what offences British citizens have been (a) arrested and (b) surrendered to the authorities of another EU member state under the provisions of a European arrest warrant since the Extradition Act 2003 came into force. | | (243022) | 228
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the performance of (a) the National DNA Database and (b) the Independent Safeguarding Authority database. | | (243095) | 229
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the additional costs to local authorities of decisions made under the Case Resolution Programme for asylum legacy cases which have resulted in the granting of leave to remain. | | (243112) | 230
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what arrangements her Department has made with the French government to fly back to their country of origin potential illegal entrants into the United Kingdom from France; when she expects the first such flights to happen; how costs will be split between the Government and the French government; and what payments in cash or benefits in kind will be made to those placed on such flights. | | (243113) | 231
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crack house closures there were in (a) Ashford and (b) Kent in each of the last five years. | | (243114) | 232
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of violence against the person were recorded (a) in total and (b) per 100 population in (i) Ashford constituency and (ii) Kent police area in each year between 1997 and 2008. | | (243115) | 233
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reasons are for the withdrawal of funding for the Metropolitan Police Human Trafficking Unit; and if she will make a statement. | | (243116) | 234
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Border Agency (UKBA) enforcement operations have taken place on Saturdays or Sundays in each month of 2008, broken down by each UKBA region. | | (243117) | 235
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas issued by posts in (a) India, (b) Pakistan, (c) Bangladesh, (d) South Africa, (e) Australia and (f) the US have been revoked in each of the last five years. | | (243118) | 236
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unsuccessful asylum seekers were in receipt of section 4 support on 1 November 2008. | | (243119) | 237
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences of (a) drug and (b) drink driving were recorded in (i) Ashford and (ii) Kent in each year since 1997. | | (243120) | 238
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been (a) issued and (b) breached in (i) Ashford constituency and (ii) Kent since 1 January 2005. | | (243121) | 239
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which countries her Department cannot return unsuccessful asylum seekers on humanitarian grounds; and how many unsuccessful asylum seekers from each such country were present in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2008. | | (243122) | 240
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what checks her Department and its agencies make of the immigration status of couriers working within her Department and its agencies; whether her Department requires couriers to notify the Department if they discover an illegal worker who has worked handling documents on behalf of her Department and its agencies; and how many illegal workers have been discovered working for such couriers in each of the last three years. | | (243123) | 241
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times (a) her Department and (b) the Border and Immigration Agency lost or misplaced databases relating to (i) British citizens and (ii) foreign nationals in each of the last five years; what information, relating to how many people, was held on lost or misplaced databases; and if she will make a statement. | | (243124) | 242
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many electronic and computer files her Department and its agencies lost in transit in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (243125) | 243
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 18 November, Official Report, columns 318-9W, on deportation, how many of the 63,365 removals from the United Kingdom in 2007 were cases of (a) enforced removals, (b) persons refused entry at port and subsequently removed, including cases dealt with at juxtaposed controls, (c) persons departing voluntarily after enforcement action had been initiated against them, (d) persons leaving under assisted voluntary return programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration and (e) persons whom it has been established have left the United Kingdom without informing the immigration authorities. | | (243430) | 244
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 2275-6W, on Metropolitan Police: human trafficking, if she will place in the Library a copy of all recent correspondence between her Department, the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Metropolitan Police related to the funding of the Metropolitan Police human trafficking team. | | (243448) | 245
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide a breakdown of the sentences issued to those convicted of human trafficking offences in each of the last five years by category and length of sentence. | | (243299) | 246
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average sentence was for those convicted of human trafficking offences over the last five years. | | (243300) | 247
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average sentence was for those convicted of human trafficking offences as a result of (a) Operation Pentameter 1 and (b) Operation Pentameter 2. | | (243301) | 248
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the maximum sentence is for human trafficking offences. | | (243302) | 249
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the estimated number of UK sex establishments Operation Pentameter 2 visited. | | (243303) | 250
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many trafficked children have gone missing from the care of social services in each of the last five years. | | (243305) | 251
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, where children rescued from human traffickers are accommodated. | | (243307) | 252
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children rescued from human traffickers have subsequently been put up in bed and breakfast accommodation in each of the last five years. | | (243308) | 253
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) the use of safe accommodation at the Poppy Project is available for children who are victims of human trafficking and (b) there is safe accommodation providing 24 hour care for trafficked children. | | (243309) | 254
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people employed by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency deal with human trafficking investigations. | | (243315) | 255
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of staff of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency are dedicated to human trafficking investigations. | | (243316) | 256
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Government has spent on raising awareness of human trafficking in each of the last five years. | | (243317) | 257
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-British citizens convicted of human trafficking offences have been deported from Britain in each of the last five years. | | (243318) | 258
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-British citizens have been convicted and subsequently imprisoned in relation to human trafficking offences in each of the last five years. | | (243319) | 259
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Government spent on (a) Operation Pentameter 1 and (b) Operation Pentameter 2. | | (243320) | 260
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police services and (b) local authorities have issued a notice of proposal to designate an alcohol disorder zone. | | (243321) | 261
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Government has spent on advertising costs and producing information material on alcohol disorder zones. | | (243322) | 262
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have (a) been issued and (b) been breached in each of the last five years. | | (243324) | 263
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many victims of human trafficking have been rescued by the Metropolitan Police human trafficking unit in each of the last two years. | | (243326) | 264
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests and (b) convictions there have been for human trafficking offences as a result of the activity of the Metropolitan Police human trafficking unit in each of the last two years. | | (243327) | 265
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers work for the Metropolitan Police human trafficking unit. | | (243328) | 266
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has provided for funding human trafficking investigations in each of the last five years. | | (243329) | 267
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests and (b) convictions there have been for human trafficking offences under Operation Pentameter 2. | | (243330) | 268
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will break down the sentences issued to those convicted of human trafficking offences under Operation Pentameter 2 by (a) category and (b) length of sentence. | | (243331) | 269
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has assessed the possibility that rescued children who are victims of human trafficking may still be under the control of traffickers while they are in local authority care. | | (243347) | 270
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has (a) inspected and (b) approved an overseas primate supply or breeding facility in Cambodia for the export of primates to the UK for the purposes of scientific research; and if she will make a statement. | | (243007) | 271
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will extend the ban on the importation of wild-caught primates to include primates imported for the purposes of scientific research from countries where there is an indigenous population of that species. | | (243018) | 272
| Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her most recent estimate is of the proportion of crimes involving violence and disorder which are related to irresponsible drinking. | | (243460) | 273
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many local authorities in England and Wales have applied to make (a) an alcohol disorder zone, (b) a section 30 dispersal order and (c) a designated public place order in each year since each was introduced. | | (243153) | 274
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have committed suicide while being held in an immigration centre in each of the last 10 years, broken down by (a) centre, (b) age and (c) sex. | | (243154) | 275
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the likelihood of compliance by 2009 of charter and leisure operators which serve popular tourist destinations with requirements set under the e-borders scheme for inbound travel documents. | | (243273) | 276
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the effect on the cost to the public purse of revenue from charges for (a) identity cards, (b) biometric passports and (c) registration of biometric information in each of the next 10 years. | | (243274) | 277
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how old the (a) youngest and (b) oldest person with a profile on the national DNA database is; and how old the (i) youngest and (ii) oldest person to have had a profile added to the the national DNA database was at the time the profile was added. | | (243275) | 278
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average cost of (a) employing, (b) training and (c) developing a probationary police constable in the last 12 months for which figures are available. | | (243277) | 279
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the (a) number of acquisitive crimes committed by dependent drug users, (b) the monetary value of goods so stolen and (c) the cost to the public purse arising from police time spent investigating such thefts in the last 12 months for which figures are available. | | (243292) | 280
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the level of acquisitive crime associated with drug addiction in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (243293) | 281
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects the projected benefits to the leisure and charter industry from the e-borders scheme to begin to flow. | | (243294) | 282
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what deadlines have been set under the e-borders scheme in respect of (a) outbound and (b) inbound travel document information for (i) leisure aviation, (ii) scheduled aviation, (iii) ferries, (iv) international rail, (v) boats, (vi) light aviation and (vii) other sectors. | | (243295) | 283
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the European Criminal Record Information system will allow the vetting of prospective employees by (a) airport authorities and (b) other sensitive employers; and what estimate she has made of the speed with which a request for information on a prospective employee's record could be answered. | | (243296) | 284
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department plans to charge foreign nationals who (a) require and (b) do not require a visa for an identity card in each of the next five years. | | (243297) | 285
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to use the receipts from foreign nationals from charges in respect of (a) identity cards and (b) registering biometric information to meet the cost to the public purse of the identity card scheme; and what estimate she has made of the amount of such receipts from foreign nationals in each of the next 10 years. | | (243298) | 286
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost of recruiting a police officer was in the last 12 months for which figures are available. | | (243365) | 287
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 27 October 2008, Official Report, columns 676-7W, on genetics: databases, if she will break down the information given by police force area. | | (243418) | 288
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of each (a) biometric passport reader and (b) identity card reader is expected to be. | | (243419) | 289
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of issuing identity cards to foreign nationals in each of the five years from 2010-11. | | (243420) | 290
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to (a) collate and (b) publish as a separate category statistics on offences committed with airsoft guns. | | (243421) | 291
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many registered airsoft skirmishers there are in the UK. | | (243422) | 292
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many registered airsoft skirmishing sites there are; and how many there were in December 2007. | | (243423) | 293
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the value for money study of drug policy expenditure undertaken as part of the 2007 drug strategy review. | | (243513) | 294
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): 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. | | (243514) | 295
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with Ministerial colleagues on the likely levels of take-up of identity (ID) card verification across Government; what estimate she has made of the number of agencies which expect to use ID card verification when the scheme is rolled out; and how many separate locations in each agency are likely to need an ID card reader. | | (243515) | 296
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which of her Department's agencies she expects to use identity card verification when the scheme is rolled out; and what estimate she has made of the number of separate locations in each agency which will require an identity card reader. | | (243517) | 297
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost of employing a police officer in each police authority area was in the last 12 months for which figures are available; what the equivalent figure was in each of the last five years; and what the figures are expected to be in each of the next five years. | | (243519) | 298
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated research on the relationships between drug dependency, acquisitive crime and the street price of drugs. | | (243520) | 299
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost in each of the next five years of reintroducing exit checks for all people departing the United Kingdom. | | (243521) | 300
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much revenue is expected to be generated by fees, including charging for taking biometric information, for (a) identity cards and (b) biometric passports in each of the next 10 years. | | (243530) | 301
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes in the charge for visas for (a) business visitors, (b) students, (c) family visitors, (d) spouses or civil partners of a settled person, (e) children of a settled person, (f) prospective students and (g) visitors from China there have been in the last three years. | | (242518) | 302
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to increase the number of prosecutions brought for selling alcohol to a drunken person. | | (243026) | 303
| Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time taken following an immigration appeal tribunal hearing was to (a) notify in writing the decision to the applicant and (b) send written notification of indefinite leave to remain to successful applicants in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (243208) | 304
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of whether Tablighi Jamaat plays a role in the radicalisation of young Muslims in the United Kingdom. | | (243427) | 305
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of whether Tablighi Jamaat poses a security risk to the United Kingdom. | | (243428) | 306
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on which occasions her Department has convened a citizens' jury or randomly drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if she will make a statement. | | (243039) | 307
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) eliminated from inquiries and (b) charged as a result of the police DNA database in the last year for which figures exist; and if she will make a statement. | | (241998) | 308
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact on the deployment of police resources of the introduction of a more liberal licensing regime for alcohol sales. | | (243056) | 309
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that all oral and written statements to be made in the House regarding human trafficking and related matters are notified in advance to the hon. Member for Totnes in his capacity as Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Trafficking of Women and Children. | | (242536) | 310
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that all press releases from her Department regarding human trafficking and related matters are sent to the hon. Member for Totnes in his capacity as Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Trafficking of Women and Children at the same time as they are released to the media. | | (242537) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 311
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what discussions he has had with musicians and their representatives on the Draft Copyright Term Directive. | | (243252) | 312
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small and medium-sized businesses were paid within 10 days of receipt by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (243355) | 313
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the monetary value of the last three valuations of the student loans book were. | | (243335) | 314
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what grants are available to students studying part-time at a higher education institution. | | (243346) | 315
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the maximum grant available for students studying part-time at a higher education institution is. | | (243370) | 316
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what financial aid is available for individuals studying part-time at a higher education institution to cover living expenses for the duration of the course. | | (243371) | 317
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what advice on fees is available to individuals wishing to study part-time for a degree at a higher education institution. | | (243372) | 318
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what entitlement individuals over the age of 25 wishing to study a course at a further education college have to (a) grants and (b) income-dependent loans. | | (243373) | 319
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what advice on funding is available to individuals over the age of 25 wishing to study a course at a further education college. | | (243374) | 320
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the status of Learning and Skills Council (LSC) local partnerships will be following the reorganisation of the LSC. | | (243375) | 321
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much (a) per prisoner and (b) in total was spent on providing education in prisons in each of the last five years. | | (243279) | 322
| Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many higher education institutions were subject to sanctions by the Office for Fair Access for failing to meet agreed access targets in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08. | | (243206) | 323
| Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many higher education institutions had agreed access targets with the Office for Fair Access in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08. | | (243207) | 324
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many students were in receipt of reduced student loans due to the availability of means-tested NHS bursaries in each of the last five years. | | (242427) | 325
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, if he will consider reducing the interest rate applied to student loans to mirror the recent reduction in the Bank of England base rate; and if he will make a statement. | | (243376) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 326
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support his Department has provided for rehabilitation of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and if he will make a statement. | | (243087) | 327
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance his Department is giving to programmes to combat HIV/AIDS in (a) Africa and (b) Asia; and if he will make a statement. | | (243088) | 328
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what aid projects were supported by his Department in (a) Pakistan, (b) Cambodia and (c) Zimbabwe in each of the last three years. | | (243089) | 329
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of UK funds of the $1.4 billion for global food security has already been disbursed; and how disbursements of such funding are allocated for the purposes of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development DAC creditor reporting system. | | (243090) | 330
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of his Department's $1.4 billion funding allocation to improve global food security will be delivered through (a) international institutions, (b) non-governmental organisations and (c) direct funding for national governments. | | (243091) | 331
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of the $1.4 billion committed by his Department to improve global food security will be released in each of the five years of the disbursement period. | | (243092) | 332
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans he has for changes in the level of UK aid to the Horn of Africa region. | | (243409) | 333
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions took place (a) between his Department and CDC in 2005 and 2007 and (b) with the Treasury in 2007, regarding the possibility of extracting resources from CDC, as referred to on page 15 of the National Audit Office Report, Investing for Development: DfID's oversight of CDC Group Plc, HC (2008-09) 18. | | (243009) | 334
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many personal, non-work-related flights were taken by staff in his Department with money released by downgrades from business class to economy class for work-related flights under his Department's flexible travel scheme in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08; and how much was spent on each flight in each such year. | | (243010) | 335
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations the Government has made to the UN in respect of the setting up of the UN Police Training and Advisory Mission MINURCAT 2 in Chad. | | (243199) | 336
N | David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make extra funding available to assist people with disabilities in the developing world. | | (242035) | 337
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the number of people displaced due to the conflict in the Nigerian city of Jos between 28 and 30 November 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (243161) | 338
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much the UK has contributed to security sector reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2003; and what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the reforms initiated. | | (243170) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 339
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average adult re-offending rate was for male prisoners two years after release in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (243097) | 340
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average adult re-offending rate was for female prisoners two years after release in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (243098) | 341
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small and medium-sized businesses were paid within 10 days of receipt by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (243356) | 342
N | Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court orders have been issued for the repossession of homes in the Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency in each year since 2001. | | (242903) | 343
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many penalty notices were issued for shoplifting of goods up to the value of £200 in each of the last four years. | | (243323) | 344
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department expects to complete its prison capacity building programme; and what estimate he has made of the running cost of the capacity added by the programme in each of the next 10 years. | | (243278) | 345
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost was of keeping a prisoner for a day in each (a) prison establishment and (b) young offender institution in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (243280) | 346
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners on average were serving sentences of (a) less than three months, (b) between three and six months and (c) between six and 12 months in each of the last five years. | | (243281) | 347
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his estimate is of the number of people who (a) started and (b) completed offending behaviour programmes (i) in prison and (ii) on probation in each of the last five years; and what the rate of re-offending was for each, broken down by type of programme. | | (243282) | 348
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many committal hearings were held in each of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of the cost of committal hearings in each of those years. | | (243283) | 349
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) breach rate of community sentences and (b) imprisonment rate for those who breached community sentences was in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (243284) | 350
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost was of keeping a person in residential drug rehabilitation for (a) one week and (b) one year in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (243285) | 351
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost was of keeping a person in prison for (a) one week and (b) one year in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (243286) | 352
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average (a) daily, (b) weekly, (c) monthly and (d) annual cost of supervising an offender on a community sentence was in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (243287) | 353
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost of administering offending behaviour programmes was (a) in prison and (b) on probation in each of the last five years, broken down by type of programme. | | (243288) | 354
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many additional prison places his Department plans to provide in each of the next 10 years; and whether those figures include places in the proposed three Titan prisons. | | (243290) | 355
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the expected (a) total and (b) annual capital costs of his Department's plan for additional prison capacity are over the period of the plans. | | (243516) | 356
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the status is of the Information Tribunal's consideration of the Appeal by the Office of Government Commerce against the decision notices issued by the Information Commissioner on the disclosure of gateway review documents relating to the Home Office's Identity Cards Programme. | | (243034) | 357
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on which occasions his Department has convened a citizens' jury or randomly drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (243037) | 358
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward proposals to establish parallel juries for the purposes of research into how juries reach their verdicts. | | (243198) | 359
| Mr Ian Taylor (Esher & Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what further steps he will take to reduce the time taken by the Office of the Public Guardian for the registration of lasting powers of attorney. | | (243111) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 360
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of people in Northern Ireland who are fluent speakers of (a) Polish, (b) Mandarin, (c) Irish, (d) Ulster Scots, (f) Portuguese, (g) Spanish, (h) French and (i) German. | | (243201) | 361
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which social action projects he has visited in the last 12 months. | | (243202) | 362
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the First Minister and (b) the Deputy First Minister on Northern Ireland's contribution to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. | | (243203) | 363
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans his Department has to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012. | | (243204) | 364
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 881W, on departmental hospitality, what the origins are of the water used. | | (243227) | 365
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many water coolers are used by his Department. | | (243228) | 366
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many litres of water were used by his Department's water coolers in each of the last 12 months. | | (243229) | 367
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 882W, on departmental pensions, what the reasons are for the increases in the cost of pension contributions in each year. | | (243230) | 368
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people took early retirement from his Department in each of the last five years. | | (243231) | 369
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what his Department's policy is on early retirement. | | (243232) | 370
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 882W, on departmental pensions, what the future projections are of the cost of pension contributions incurred in each financial year up to 2015. | | (243233) | 371
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people have retired from his Department in each of the last five years, broken down by age. | | (243234) | 372
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 883W, on departmental vehicles, how many vehicles were owned by the Department in each year. | | (243235) | 373
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 883W, on departmental vehicles, what types and makes of vehicles were maintained in each year. | | (243236) | 374
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many members of staff of his Department travelled abroad on official business in each of the last 12 months. | | (243237) | 375
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 882W, on departmental travel, what the travel expenditure was of each of his executive non-departmental public bodies in the last 12 months; and how many members of staff of such bodies travelled abroad on official business in that period. | | (243238) | 376
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 882W, on departmental travel, how many members of staff had their international travel paid for by his Department in the last 12 months. | | (243239) | 377
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 882W, on departmental travel, how much has been spent on hotels used by his staff in the last 12 months; and if he will list the hotels used. | | (243240) | 378
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 886W, on the Saville Inquiry, which firms have worked for the inquiry; for how many hours they have worked; and whom they have represented. | | (243241) | 379
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 886W, on the Saville Inquiry, how much each legal firm has received. | | (243242) | 380
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 886W, on the Saville Inquiry, what the reasons are for increases in expenditure on legal fees. | | (243243) | 381
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 886W, on the Saville Inquiry, whether expenditure on legal fees is expected to increase. | | (243244) | 382
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 881W, on departmental hospitality, if he will list each of the events hosted. | | (243245) | 383
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 881W, on departmental hospitality, where each of the events was held. | | (243246) | 384
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 881W, on departmental hospitality, which firms were used to supply hospitality. | | (243247) | 385
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 881W, on departmental hospitality, which companies provided the bottled water. | | (243248) | 386
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department has spent on advertising in the last five years. | | (243249) | 387
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1319W, on the Northern Ireland Assembly, on which days he had official meetings with members of the Northern Ireland Assembly in the last 12 months. | | (243250) | 388
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what reasons Lord Saville has given for his discussions to set the date for delivery to him of the report of the Saville Inquiry in autumn 2009. | | (243377) | 389
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1321W, on religion, with the leaders of which denominations he has had official meetings in the last 12 months. | | (243378) | 390
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1321W, on religion, on which days he had official meetings with church leaders in the last 12 months. | | (243379) | 391
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which legal firms have worked on the Billy Wright Inquiry; for what periods; who each firm represented; how much his Department has spent on legal fees for the Inquiry; how much has been spent in the Inquiry in each month since it was established; and when the Inquiry is expect to report. | | (243380) | 392
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1318W, on departmental press releases, how many press releases his Department has issued in the last five years. | | (243381) | 393
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1318W, on departmental press releases, how many press releases each of his press officers has released in the last 12 months. | | (243382) | 394
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, column 260W, on the Olympic Games 2012, what plans his Department has to involve Northern Ireland in the 2012 Olympic Games. | | (243383) | 395
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, column 260W, on the Olympic Games 2012, when he next expects to hold discussions with (a) the First Minister and (b) the Deputy First Minister on this matter. | | (243384) | 396
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 30 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1169-70W, on departmental pay, how many people did not receive bonuses. | | (243385) | 397
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 30 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1169-70W, on departmental pay, what procedure is used to decide whether bonuses should be awarded. | | (243386) | 398
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 30 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1169-70W, on departmental pay, how many non-pensionable bonuses have been awarded to members of staff in his Department in the last five years; and what the cost was of such bonuses. | | (243387) | 399
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, column 260W, on departmental sick leave, which illnesses resulted in working days being lost. | | (243388) | 400
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, column 260W, on departmental sick leave, how many people were absent for more than a month due to ill health in the last 12 months. | | (243389) | 401
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, column 260W, on departmental sick leave, what steps are being taken to reduce the number of working days lost. | | (243390) | 402
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many working days have been lost through sickness absence by Northern Ireland Office staff in each of the last five years. | | (243391) | 403
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1321W, on the USA, how many meetings he has had with members of the incoming US administration. | | (243392) | 404
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which legal firms have worked on the Robert Hamill Inquiry; for what periods; who each firm represented; how much his Department has spent on legal fees related to the Inquiry; how much has been spent on the Inquiry in each month since it was established; and when the Inquiry is expected to report. | | (243393) | 405
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 1209W, on departmental consultants, how many external consultants his Department has used in the last 12 months. | | (243394) | 406
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 1209W, on departmental consultants, how much his Department, its agencies and executive non-departmental public bodies spent on external consultants between May 2007 and March 2008. | | (243395) | 407
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 1209W, on departmental consultants, for how long each of the external consultants has worked for his Department. | | (243396) | 408
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 1209W, on departmental consultants, which organisations were used as external consultants in (a) the last 12 months and (b) the last five years. | | (243397) | 409
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which legal firms have worked on the Rosemary Nelson Inquiry; for what periods; who each firm represented; how much his Department has spent on legal fees for the inquiry; how much has been spent on the inquiry in each month since it was established; and when the inquiry is expected to report. | | (243398) | 410
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 1211W, on electronic equipment, how much his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on electronic equipment in the last 12 months. | | (243436) | 411
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 1211W, on electronic equipment, for what reasons electronic equipment with a value of more than £1,000 is classed as capital expenditure. | | (243437) | 412
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1321W, on reoffenders, what assessment he has made of how the reoffending rates for Northern Ireland compare to (a) the UK and (b) other parts of the UK. | | (243438) | 413
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1321W, on reoffenders, what steps he is taking to reduce reoffending rates. | | (243439) | 414
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1321W, on reoffenders, if he will provide updated figures for the categories of information given in the Answer. | | (243440) | 415
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1321W, on reoffenders, if he will provide a breakdown by relevant offence of the reoffending rates within (a) 12 months and (b) three years; and what percentage of offenders in each category were aged (i) between 16 and 21, (ii) between 22 and 25, (iii) between 26 and 30, (iv) between 31 and 40, (v) between 41 and 50, (vi) between 51 and 65 and (vii) over 65 years. | | (243441) | 416
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what percentage of all former prisoners in Northern Ireland had reoffended following release from custody on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (243442) | 417
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much has been spent on his transport on official visits in the last 12 months. | | (243443) | 418
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, column 261W, on the Saville Inquiry, what the basis is for the estimate that the final cost of the inquiry will be £191 million. | | (243444) | 419
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, column 261W, on the Saville Inquiry, what the reasons are for the differences between the estimated final cost of the Inquiry and the original estimated cost. | | (243445) | 420
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1320W, on prison construction, what recent discussions he has had on building new young offender institutions. | | (243446) | 421
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1210W, on the economic situation, on which dates he has held meetings with business representatives in the last 12 months. | | (243447) | 422
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, columns 885-6W, on television, how much his Department spent on licence fees in the last 12 months. | | (243452) | 423
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, columns 885-6W, on television, from where the televisions were purchased; how many of the televisions (a) had (i) built-in freeview receivers (ii) digital receivers and (b) were widescreen, (c) were LCD and (d) were high definition. | | (243453) | 424
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, columns 885-6W, on television, which companies provided the digital television services. | | (243454) | 425
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, columns 885-6W, on television, which channels his Department pays for. | | (243455) | 426
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, columns 885-6W, on television, what the makes were of the televisions purchased by his Department; and how many of each make were bought. | | (243456) | 427
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what official visits to Brussels he plans to make in the next 12 months. | | (243502) | 428
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1318W, on departmental marketing, what each advertisement referred to was; and how much each cost. | | (243503) | 429
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-1W, on recruitment and religion, in what ways the Department of Finance and Personnel has liaised with representatives of ethnic communities in the last 12 months. | | (243504) | 430
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1320-1W, on recruitment and religion, how many people have been recruited to posts in his Department from non-Christian backgrounds in the last 12 months. | | (243505) | 431
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what meetings he has had with officials of the US administration in the last 12 months. | | (243506) | 432
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1317W, on departmental ICT, what the original cost estimates were for the projects listed. | | (243508) | 433
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1319W, on official visits, on which dates he has been in Northern Ireland on official visits in the last 12 months. | | (243509) | 434
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1319W, on official visits, on which dates he (a) has held meetings with the Irish Government and (b) has been in the Republic of Ireland on official business in the last 12 months. | | (243510) | 435
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1319W, on official visits, for how many nights he has stayed in (a) the Republic of Ireland and (b) Northern Ireland in the last 12 months. | | (243511) | 436
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, on departmental marketing, how much his Department spent on advertising in the last five years. | | (243526) | 437
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 882W, on departmental manpower, what the responsibilities are of the people employed by his Department who are not civil servants. | | (243527) | 438
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 10 November 2008, Official Report, column 772W, on departmental older workers, what recent steps his Department has taken to encourage older people to apply to work in the Department. | | (243528) | 439
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, Offical Report, column 1209W, on departmental marketing, how much his Department's (a) agencies and (b) executive non-departmental public bodies have spent on advertising in the last 12 months. | | (243543) | 440
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, Offical Report, column 1209W, on departmental marketing, what advertisements were funded during 2007-08. | | (243544) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 441
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, if she will place in the Library the response from the Olympic Delivery Authority on the monetary value of contracts awarded to business organisations in Wales. | | (242519) | Questions to the Prime Minister 442
N | Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Prime Minister, when he (a) last met the President of the European Commission and (b) spoke to the President of the European Commission; and whether he discussed Britain's prospective membership of the euro on either occasion. | | (241494) | 443
N | Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Prime Minister, whether it is the Government's long-term policy objective to take the UK into the euro zone. | | (242302) | 444
N | Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Prime Minister, when the Cabinet last discussed the possibility of the UK's membership of the euro. | | (242303) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 445
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria will be used to assess the bid for funding by Lancashire County Council and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council for the Pennine Reach scheme. | | (243251) | 446
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on EU proposals to introduce legislation to reduce the rolling resistance of tyres. | | (242635) | 447
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason plastic and paper combination driving licences were given an expiry date different to that of other forms of driving licences. | | (242652) | 448
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what notification drivers are given when their plastic and paper combination driving licences are due to expire. | | (242653) | 449
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what penalty will be applied to drivers who continue to drive without renewing their plastic and paper combination driving licence. | | (242654) | 450
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small and medium-sized businesses were paid within 10 days of receipt by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (243358) | 451
| Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on delivering 12-car trains on rail lines in North Kent. | | (243531) | 452
| Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will postpone fare increases on Southeastern rail services until the ticketing machines are made compatible with Oyster pay-as-you-go cards; and if he will make a statement. | | (243532) | 453
| Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that Southeastern carries out efficient ticketing enforcement on its rail services; and if he will make a statement. | | (243533) | 454
| Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on the cost of (a) replacing bendy buses in London and (b) the reintroduction of Routemaster buses; and if he will make a statement. | | (243534) | 455
| Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on the implications for London's transport budget of removing the western extension of the congestion charge zone; and if he will make a statement. | | (243535) | 456
| Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many enforcement staff were employed by Southeastern at the time that they took over the integrated Kent franchise; how many they currently employ; and if he will make a statement. | | (243536) | 457
| Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on traffic congestion on the Blackwall Tunnel approach roads; and if he will make a statement. | | (243537) | 458
| Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the status of the proposed Silvertown Link Thames river crossing is; and if he will make a statement. | | (243538) | 459
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of disabled people unable to (a) work and (b) pursue higher education because they are unable to use public transport; and if he will make a statement. | | (243094) | 460
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic accidents resulting in fatalities or serious injury involved lorries on Britain's motorways in each of the last 10 years. | | (243185) | 461
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on developing alternative fuels for aircraft. | | (243410) | 462
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many reported deaths there were in (a) North Wiltshire, (b) Wiltshire and (c) England as a result of traffic accidents in each of the last five years. | | (243462) | 463
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of UK residents whose personal details are held on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (a) vehicle register database, (b) driver register database, (c) local office casework system database and (d) driver and vehicle intelligence database. | | (242430) | 464
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the proportion of personal detail entries relating to UK residents which contained inaccurate information on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (a) vehicle register database, (b) driver register database, (c) local office casework systems database and (d) driver and vehicle intelligence database in each of the last four years. | | (242431) | 465
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many civil servants in his Department work on his Department's policy on (a) walking, (b) cycling, (c) motoring, (d) aviation and (e) rail. | | (243052) | 466
| Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to bring section 10 of the Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 into force. | | (243362) | 467
| Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people in (a) Gateshead and (b) Sunderland have a concessionary bus pass for over 60 year olds. | | (243363) | 468
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on the funding of the phase 2 extension of the East London Line. | | (243194) | 469
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much (a) his Department and (b) each of its non-departmental public bodies spent on external consultancy on (i) the rail network, (ii) the bus network, (iii) the road network, (iv) air transport, (v) water transport and (vi) other transport in each year since 1997. | | (242538) | 470
| Susan Kramer (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the debate of 15 January 2007, Official Report, columns 626-634, on helicopter flights (London), what progress has been made on the complaints procedure for helicopter noise. | | (243195) | 471
| Susan Kramer (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the debate of 15 January 2007, Official Report, columns 626-34, on helicopter flights (London), how many helicopter flights have been permitted to depart from the designated route in the London control zone in each year for which figures are available. | | (243196) | 472
| Susan Kramer (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the debate of 15 January 2007, Official Report, columns 626-34, on helicopter flights (London), what progress his Department, the Civil Aviation Authority and the National Air Traffic Service have made in collecting more comprehensive data on helicopter noise in London. | | (243197) | 473
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent research he has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the safety of pedicabs as a means of public transport; what recent reports he has received on pedicab safety; and if he will make a statement. | | (243059) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 474
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will review the way in which income from savings is taken into account in calculating entitlement to pension credit following the reduction in the Bank rate to two per cent.; and if he will make a statement. | | (242666) | 475
N | Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what legal justification his Department based its decision to (a) terminate the tender process for the Post Office card account and (b) award the contract for the Post Office card account to the Post Office. | | (242632) | 476
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small and medium-sized businesses were paid within 10 days of receipt by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (243360) | 477
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what courses were offered to claimants of jobseeker's allowance in the London Borough of Bexley in the last 12 months; and what the cost was per person of each course completed. | | (243048) | 478
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people applied for adult entertainment industry vacancies advertised by Jobcentre Plus in each year since 2003, broken down by (a) age, (b) gender and (c) type of vacancy. | | (242630) | 479
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many vacancies within the adult entertainment industry were advertised by Jobcentre Plus in each year since 2003, broken down by type of vacancy. | | (242631) | 480
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answers of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1996-7W, on jobseeker's allowance, whether his Department has compiled data on the amount of time jobseeker's allowance claimants have received the allowance or other out of work benefits over a set period of time including circumstances where a claimant has made more than one claim for an allowance in that period. | | (242769) | 481
| Mr David Hamilton (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have received an incorrect payment of winter fuel allowance because they were incorrectly assessed as living with another qualifying individual in a single building divided into multiple dwellings in the last 12 months. | | (243019) | 482
| Mr David Hamilton (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to ensure that people living in properties divided into multiple dwellings receive the correct rate of winter fuel payment. | | (243020) | 483
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 (a) system maps, (b) user guides, (c) project initiation documents from the time of implementation, (d) system notes and (e) interface details/charts for financial and non-financial IT systems in place within (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies. | | (241416) | 484
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many housing benefit claimants there are in (a) the North West, (b) Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council area and (c) Cheadle constituency. | | (242533) | 485
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants there are in (a) the North West, (b) Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council area and (c) Cheadle constituency. | | (242534) | 486
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households in (a) Cheadle constituency and (b) Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council area which will be eligible for cold weather payments if the temperature falls below the level which triggers payment of the allowance in 2008-09. | | (242535) | 487
N | Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps are taken to recover overpayments of carer's allowance when the person to whom the claim relates dies and eligibility for the allowance ceases. | | (242629) | 488
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if, following the recent consultation in relation to the industrial injuries disablement benefit scheme he will hold a further consultation on the new scheme relating to lump sum payments for those suffering from mesothelioma resulting from exposure to asbestos at work. | | (242858) | 489
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what conclusions he has drawn from the responses to the recent consultation on the industrial injuries disablement benefit scheme with regard to benefits being awarded to those individuals who have been retired from work or moved on to new employment and who later suffer disability as a result of injury at work. | | (242859) | 490
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions since the local housing allowance was introduced tenants have made legal or other representations to be classed as vulnerable in order to have their allowance paid direct to their landlord. | | (242945) | 491
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the Directgov website is being promoted to the public. | | (242520) | 492
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of running the Directgov website was in each of the last five years. | | (242521) | 493
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many unique visitors have used the Directgov website in each of the last five years. | | (242522) | 494
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Directgov website; and what criteria have been established to assess its effectiveness. | | (242523) | 495
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which sub-sites of the Directgov website have (a) received the most direct visitors and (b) recorded the most online transactions in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and what assessment he has made of the performance of each sub-site against objectives in creating two-way engagement between the citizen and government. | | (242531) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 496
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small and medium-sized businesses were paid within 10 days of receipt by No. 10 Downing Street in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (243357) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 497
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many individuals working for private military security companies registered in the UK have been killed on duty in Iraq since 2003. | | [Transferred] (243110) | 498
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Office was informed of the suspected death of Mr Rashid Rauf from a US air strike in the village of Ali Khel on 21 November 2008. | | [Transferred] (243424) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 499
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government has recently considered establishing a helpline in order to provide information for victims of trafficking. | | [Transferred] (243304) | 500
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims of human trafficking have gone missing whilst in safe accommodation in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (243306) | 501
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding the Home Office has provided for the Poppy Project in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (243310) | 502
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many beds are available for victims of trafficking at the Poppy Project; and how many new beds have been provided in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (243311) | 503
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what referral criteria are put in place for the Poppy Project; and whether the Government has recently considered amending such criteria. | | [Transferred] (243312) | 504
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims of trafficking have been refused a place at the Poppy Project due to a lack of available beds in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (243313) | 505
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the occupancy levels were of the Poppy Project in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (243314) | 506
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many penalty notices for disorder have been issued in each of the last four years; and how many have not been paid in each year. | | [Transferred] (243325) |
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