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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Wednesday 17 December 2008
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Wednesday 17 December 2008
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Wednesday 17 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 Wednesday 17 December of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Wednesday 17 December see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many cases of unfair credit relationships have been brought in county courts since the implementation of the Consumer Credit Act 2006; and if he will make a statement. | | (245429) | 2
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will instruct BSkyB to divest itself of its shares in ITV. | | (244863) | 3
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the effects of BSkyB's continuing retention of shares in ITV on competition and the public interest as it relates to the need to ensure a sufficient plurality of persons with control of media. | | (244881) | 4
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what (a) communications he has had from and (b) meetings his Department has had with (i) BSkyB, (ii) News International and (iii) other News Corporation-controlled companies during the last four months; and which of those related to BSkyB's shareholding in ITV. | | (244882) | 5
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many civil servants from his Department have worked in (a) Basra, (b) Baghdad and (c) other locations in Iraq in each month since 2005. | | (245095) | 6
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will seek to amend section 14 of the Employment Act 1988 to allow seafaring union members to participate in votes via the internet when absent at sea. | | (244741) | 7
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will consider seeking to amend section 14 of the Employment Act 1988 to take account of the position of seafarers who are frequently absent from home. | | (244742) | 8
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the cost to his Department of provision of office facilities to (a) special advisers and (b) press officers (i) was in the last 12 months and (ii) has been since 1997-98. | | (244724) | 9
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will investigate the pricing structure operated by the Post Office in respect of access to its postcode address file; what rates for access are payable by (a) voluntary and non-profit organisations and (b) commercial organisations; and if he will make a statement. | | (244242) | 10
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what representations he has received on making access to the Post Office's postcode address file (a) cheaper and (b) free. | | (244333) | 11
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what gross income the Post Office received for granting access to its postcode address file in each of the last three years for which figures are available. | | (244334) | 12
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the cost to the Post Office of maintaining and updating the postcode address file was in each of the last three years for which figures are available. | | (244335) | 13
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will investigate the operation by the Post Office of the postcode address file to ensure that it offers users value for money. | | (244336) | 14
| Susan Kramer (Richmond Park): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many and what proportion of new fathers have taken paternal leave in each year since 2001, broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement. | | (244790) | 15
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that imported goods have not been produced by foreign workers who have been exploited. | | (245025) | 16
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what bonus payments were made to directors of the Post Office in each of the last five years. | | (245237) | 17
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the cost of Postwatch was in the last 12 months. | | (245238) | 18
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much was spent on salaries of members of Postwatch, including bonuses, in the last 12 months. | | (245239) | 19
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the cost of producing the Postwatch publication Post, Present and Future was. | | (245240) | 20
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the salary and pension package of each director of the Post Office was in each of the last three years. | | (245241) | 21
| Mr Ian McCartney (Makerfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent assessment he has made of the level of competition in the security industry sector. | | (244679) | 22
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps he is taking to encourage the Government's prime contractors to pay sub-contractors within 10 days. | | (245248) | 23
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps he is taking to ensure age verification online by e-tailers. | | (245249) | 24
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the performance of public bodies in making payments to suppliers within 10 days of receiving an invoice; and if he will make a statement. | | (244582) | 25
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many organisations his Department has contacted to ask that suppliers be paid within 10 days of an invoice being received in the last three months. | | (244595) | 26
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the monetary value of trade between the UK and (a) Sweden and (b) Denmark was in each of the last five years. | | (245265) | 27
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps the Government is taking to promote trade between Japan and the United Kingdom. | | (245291) | 28
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many social enterprises there are in each region (a) in total and (b) per 10,000 population. | | (244861) | 29
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when a reply will be sent to the letters dated 12 March and 13 October 2008 from the hon. Member for Torbay to the Minister of State for Trade, Investment and Consumer Affairs on sales of replica hand grenades. | | (245130) | 30
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244723) | 31
N | Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps he is taking to support the car manufacturing industry in Cheshire and Merseyside. | | (243148) | 32
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have reported that they are compliant with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245318) | 33
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245338) | 34
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245354) | 35
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies is fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245380) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 36
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what HM Revenue and Customs' policy is on answering enquiries from hon. Members; and if he will make a statement. | | (245287) | 37
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by Leeds HM Revenue and Customs office to reply to correspondence from hon. Members in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (245288) | 38
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people over the age of 18 years who do not have a bank account; and if he will make a statement. | | (245432) | 39
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the proposed boundaries for new rates of air passenger duty to provide that Larnaca airport, Cyprus, falls in the same band as Paphos airport; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245061) | 40
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of charging different rates of air passenger duty for travel to Cyprus via Paphos and Larnaca on (a) the prevalence of air travel to those airports and (b) the Cyprus economy and tourist industry; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245164) | 41
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many claimants in the London Borough of Bexley were overpaid tax credits in the last three years for which figures are available. | | (244754) | 42
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph B75 of the Pre-Budget Report, Cm 7484, what the reasons were for the reclassification of £1.4 billion of Ministry of Defence expenditure in financial year 2007-08 from current to capital expenditure. | | (245202) | 43
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with his colleagues in the Eurozone on membership of the single currency. | | (244664) | 44
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what measures he is taking to establish close working practices with EU partners in order to facilitate co-operative efforts to overcome the economic downturn. | | (244665) | 45
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last three years; and what steps were taken in response to each such occurrence. | | (244667) | 46
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff of each grade in his Department have access to electronic databases containing personal information relating to members of the public resident in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. | | (244669) | 47
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department has taken to improve access for businesses in the north east to the Small Business Finance Scheme. | | (245010) | 48
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will initiate a leak inquiry into the circumstances whereby details of the new taxation measures in the Pre-Budget Report being published in the national press prior to his statement to the House. | | (244784) | 49
N | David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons the factual paper on the Barnett Formula was not laid before Parliament in accordance with the timetable originally planned. | | (244596) | 50
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of tax avoided by British banks through offshore tax regimes in the last 12 months. | | (244997) | 51
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to end the offshore operations of Royal Bank of Scotland. | | (245313) | 52
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244718) | 53
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to retain the HM Revenue and Customs office in Southend. | | (244677) | 54
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how inspectors of HM Revenue and Customs are (a) incentivised, (b) appraised for promotion and (c) remunerated. | | (244911) | 55
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to encourage banks to lend to housing associations. | | (244912) | 56
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average level of unsecured personal debt per head of population was in the UK in each year since 1979. | | (245258) | 57
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies has reported compliance with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245330) | 58
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245351) | 59
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245371) | 60
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245393) | 61
N | Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Government has to improve access for hon. Members to assist them in dealing with constituent issues concerning HM Revenue and Customs. | | (244139) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 62
| Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with how many faith-based organisations his Department has contracts to provide public services. | | (244841) | 63
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much has been spent by the Sex and Relationships Education Steering Group in each year since its establishment; and if he will make a statement. | | (244885) | 64
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what discussions (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had since January 2008 with the Roman Catholic Church on material disseminated by his Department to Catholic schools on sex and relationship education; what views the Catholic Church put forward in those discussions; and if he will make a statement. | | (244886) | 65
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of each piece of written evidence that has been presented to the Sex and Relationship Education Steering Group; and if he will make a statement. | | (245205) | 66
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of each piece of research which has been commissioned by the Sex and Relationship Education Steering Group; what the cost was of each; and if he will make a statement. | | (245206) | 67
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what advice his Department has given to school governing bodies on assistance for parents on low incomes to purchase school uniforms, with particular reference to the range of approved retailers. | | (245424) | 68
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his estimate is of the percentage of (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils who meet the standards outlined on swimming and water safety in the compulsory parts of the physical education curriculum. | | (245297) | 69
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what guidance his Department provides to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority on who to consult ahead of changes made to standards in swimming under the curriculum. | | (245298) | 70
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which witnesses gave evidence to the Rose Review into primary education prior to the publication of the interim report. | | (244783) | 71
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2008, Official Report, column 186W, on specialist schools: languages, how many and what percentage of pupils in each of the 220 schools with language as a first specialism achieved a modern language GCSE at grades A* to C in the last year for which figures are available. | | (244903) | 72
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2008, Official Report, columns 181-3W, on history: education, in which local authority area each of the schools listed is located; and how many and what percentage of pupils in each school are eligible to receive free school meals. | | (244904) | 73
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2008, Official Report, columns 181-3W, on history: education, which of the schools that did not enter any pupils for A level history entered one or more pupils for an A level in (a) sociology, (b) media studies and (c) communication and culture. | | (244905) | 74
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1836W, on the education maintenance allowance, how many students have (a) received a notice of entitlement for the education maintenance allowance, (b) successfully enrolled and (c) received at least one payment, broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) constituency. | | (244906) | 75
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether he was kept informed of the number of students who had (a) applied for a notice of entitlement, (b) received a notice of entitlement, (c) enrolled on a course and (d) received a payment during his communications with the Learning and Skills Council about the administration of the education maintenance allowance. | | (244933) | 76
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how regularly he has met or had communication with the Learning and Skills Council to monitor the administration of education maintenance allowance payments. | | (244934) | 77
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the cost to his Department of provision of office facilities to (a) special advisers and (b) press officers (i) was in the last 12 months and (ii) has been since 1997-98. | | (244730) | 78
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding was provided for special education in (a) Chorley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West region in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (245063) | 79
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he has taken to increase the level of co-operative working between officials in his Department and health visitors on policies relating to safeguarding children. | | (244688) | 80
| Susan Kramer (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the average cost of day care provision in each local authority; and if he will make a statement. | | (244791) | 81
| Susan Kramer (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of the Early Years Capital Grant will be made available to (a) private, voluntary and independent day care settings and (b) maintained settings in the 2008-11 spending period. | | (244792) | 82
| Susan Kramer (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, by what means the Government intends to review local authority distribution of the Early Years Capital Grant annually over the 2008-11 spending period; and if he will make a statement. | | (244793) | 83
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent steps his Department has taken in schools aimed at protecting children from domestic abuse. | | (244666) | 84
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department has taken to strengthen and improve teaching in personal, social and health education. | | (244900) | 85
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the occurrence of child abuse in the North East. | | (245004) | 86
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the school drop-out rate in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. | | (245020) | 87
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his most recent estimate is of the percentage of eligible people claiming education maintenance allowance in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. | | (245024) | 88
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children in care in each local authority area have gone missing in each of the last five years. | | (245242) | 89
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what procedures apply when the lead sponsor of an academy withdraws from involvement after the academy has been established. | | (245243) | 90
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of foster parents offering places for children in care directly with local authorities and through agencies. | | (245244) | 91
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his estimate is of the difference between the number of children seeking foster care placements and the number of such placements which are available. | | (245245) | 92
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children in the care system are placed in residential children's homes. | | (245277) | 93
| Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what response he has made to the recommendation of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council that his Department give the findings of the Ear to Listen education advocacy project run by Save the Children UK serious consideration. | | (245087) | 94
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average distance was between the relevant social service area and the placement of children subject to out of area arrangements with regard to each social services department in England in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (244849) | 95
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children have been placed out of area by each social services department in England since 2005-06. | | (244850) | 96
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children's homes there were in each local authority area of England on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many places in such homes were available in each local authority area. | | (244851) | 97
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what involvement his Department has had with the Coastal Town Network; at what level his Department is represented; and what issues his Department has raised at the Network. | | (244852) | 98
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the most recent Ofsted inspection grades were for each secondary school that serves the principal seaside towns of England; and what the national average was of such grades. | | (244859) | 99
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1358W, on secondary education: coastal areas, if he will consider commissioning research on the effect of high turnover in schools on (a) educational achievement, (b) social cohesion and family breakdown and (c) the effective monitoring of vulnerable children. | | (244992) | 100
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1865W, on schools: standards, to which National Challenge school the Answer refers. | | (244993) | 101
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what information his Department holds on the number of children who are entitled to free school meals in each (a) ward and (b) lower super output area. | | (245008) | 102
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will make it his policy to hold discussions with the Department for Transport on the cost of public transport for young people in areas where there are no local authority subsidies; and if he will make a statement. | | (244749) | 103
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the operation of the education maintenance allowance on the social cohesion of school children; and if he will make a statement. | | (244751) | 104
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of those working in social services departments in each local authority area in England were agency staff in each of the last two years; and if he will make a statement. | | (244689) | 105
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, by what date he expects the confidential whistleblowers' hotline for social workers announced by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills to be operational; and if he will make a statement. | | (244690) | 106
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many complaints were made against social services departments in each local authority area in Yorkshire and the Humber in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (244691) | 107
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children were killed or injured in each local authority area in Yorkshire and the Humber between April 2007 and August 2008; how many of these were on the Child Protection Register; and if he will make a statement. | | (244782) | 108
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to his Department has reported compliance with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245310) | 109
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many contracts his Department has which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245332) | 110
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245356) | 111
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of the IT systems in his Department is fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245374) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 112
| Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with how many faith-based organisations his Department has contracts to provide public services. | | (244842) | 113
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that charities receive money donated through street fundraisers. | | (245035) | 114
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what use the Cabinet Office has made of (a) private investigators and (b) Risk Analysis UK Ltd since May 2005. | | (244794) | 115
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether prices in the Downing Street gift shop have been reduced to reflect the reduction in value added tax to 15 per cent. | | (244941) | 116
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244699) | 117
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have reported that they are compliant with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245317) | 118
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245339) | 119
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245355) | 120
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies is fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245381) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 121
| Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with how many faith-based organisations her Department has contracts to provide public services. | | (244840) | 122
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what grants are available for the construction of low carbon buildings; and if she will make a statement. | | (245426) | 123
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what publications her Department and its predecessors have issued on faith communities since 1997. | | (245430) | 124
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average difference was between the estimated value of houses on which mortgages have been defaulted and the re-sale price of such houses following repossession in the last 12 months. | | (244940) | 125
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what support her Department is providing for home improvement agencies; what the contribution is of the Supporting People budget to the work of such agencies; and what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the resources available to assist people seeking to modify their homes in order to be able to remain resident in them. | | (244331) | 126
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much local authority housing stock in (a) Bexley and (b) London has been sold under the right-to-buy scheme in each year since 1997. | | (244752) | 127
| Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she plans to issue the guidance for independent qualified medical practitioners providing an opinion on permanent disability, fitness for regular work, qualifying injury and degree of disability document agreed with the Fire Brigades Union in June 2008. | | (244756) | 128
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of levels of brownfield development in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. | | (244901) | 129
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of people who will be assisted by the Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme in (a) the UK, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. | | (244902) | 130
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many care leavers were evicted from social housing in 2007 as a result of rent arrears. | | (245275) | 131
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of effects of the rent-a-room scheme in providing accommodation for people who have lost their homes; and if she will make a statement. | | (245276) | 132
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 20 November 2008, Official Report, column 771W, on mobile homes: coastal areas, what consideration she has made of the merits of collecting such information centrally; and if she will make it her policy to collect such information. | | (244817) | 133
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 17 November 2008, Official Report, column 129W, on multiple occupation: coastal areas, what consideration she has made of the merits of collecting such information centrally; and if she will make it her policy to collect such information. | | (244818) | 134
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 30 January 2008, Official Report, column 446W, on multiple occupation: licensing, if she will place in the Library a copy of the advice and guidance on best practice in relation to regulation of private sector landlords to which the Answer refers. | | (244819) | 135
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 18 February 2008, Official Report, column 47W, on multiple occupation: licensing, what estimate she has made of the number and percentage of houses of multiple occupation that should be licensed in each of the next five years. | | (244820) | 136
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1503W, on housing: standards, what measures her Department is taking to reduce the considerable variation in regeneration between the principal seaside towns of England. | | (244821) | 137
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the relative needs formula developed by her Department includes a weighting for the number of (a) vulnerable adults and children, (b) former offenders, (c) drug addicts and alcoholics, (d) homeless people and (e) mentally ill people in an area; and what measures are in place to ensure that funding follows the client across local authority boundaries in such cases. | | (244848) | 138
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which principal seaside towns are (a) members and (b) not members of the Coastal Towns Network (CTN); and whether there are plans to develop links between the CTN and coastal towns in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. | | (244860) | 139
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 1276W, on regeneration: coastal areas, if she will place in the Library a list of those who responded to the consultation on the regeneration of seaside towns. | | (244990) | 140
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Answer of 28 January 2008, Official Report, column 119W, on multiple occupation: licensing, for what reasons her Department has no plans to establish a central record of offences committed under mandatory licensing of houses in multiple occupation. | | (245009) | 141
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether she expects the Boundary Commission's review of judging bids for unitary status in aggregate to take into consideration the effect of local government structural changes on existing unitary authorities in Devon. | | (244750) | 142
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by her Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244700) | 143
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homeless (a) children and (b) adults in each local authority in Essex are currently placed in temporary accommodation outside their borough; and if she will make a statement. | | (240418) | 144
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will meet the hon. Member for Castle Point and a delegation of borough councillors to discuss green belt preservation in Castle Point Borough. | | (243084) | 145
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will extend the deadline for the payment of £200,000 in respect of the timely submission of Castle Point's Local Development Framework to allow for public consultation; and if she will make a statement. | | (243225) | 146
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many home inspectors qualified to produce home condition reports were registered in England at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (244746) | 147
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people were training to become a registered home inspector at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (244747) | 148
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the number of registered home inspectors to meet consumer demand; and if she will make a statement. | | (244748) | 149
N | Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects to announce her decision on Halton Council's capitalisation bid for the Mersey Gateway. | | (244238) | 150
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) her Department and (b) its agencies has reported compliance with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245319) | 151
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many contracts (a) her Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245340) | 152
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when her Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245357) | 153
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) her Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245382) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 154
| Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of the campaign to boycott the BBC licence fee on BBC revenues. | | (245200) | 155
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the outcome was of the application to list Block C of the Standish Hospital site; on what basis the decision was taken; for what reasons the hon. Member for Stroud was not informed of the decision; and if he will make a statement. | | (244332) | 156
| Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what grounds his Department's plans to sell the Tote met objection from the EU; what response he has made to such objections; and if he will make a statement. | | (244678) | 157
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the cost to his Department of provision of office facilities to (a) special advisers and (b) press officers (i) was in the last 12 months and (ii) has been in each year since 1997-98. | | (244837) | 158
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to (a) increase levels of participation in sport and (b) improve the provision of sporting facilities, with particular reference to the North East. | | (244671) | 159
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps are being taken to increase the accessibility of high culture to working-class people. | | (244824) | 160
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government plans to take to address incidences of cyber-bullying. | | (244891) | 161
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much public money was spent per capita on sporting infrastructure in (a) the North East and (b) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each of the last five years. | | (245015) | 162
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the entry fees for the Cabinet War Rooms have been reduced to reflect the reduction in VAT to 15 per cent. | | (244785) | 163
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which holiday destinations in England were most frequently visited by domestic tourists in each of the last 10 years, calculated according to the number of visitors per 10,000 of local population. | | (244862) | 164
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he expects to send a substantive reply to the hon. Member for Torbay's letter of 14 July 2008 on the display of nudity in television programmes and in mainstream magazines. | | (245100) | 165
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244701) | 166
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps, in accordance with the International Telecommunications Union regulations on harmful radio interference, to ensure that the operation of electrical apparatus or installations, including power and telecommunications distribution networks, does not cause harmful interference to any radio communications service, with particular reference to international shortwave broadcasting and amateur radio; and if he will make a statement. | | (242441) | 167
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment has been made of the (a) effect and (b) cost of introducing administered incentive pricing for radio frequencies on the Royal National Lifeboat Institute service. | | (245185) | 168
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies has reported compliance with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245320) | 169
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245341) | 170
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245358) | 171
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies is fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245383) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 172
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many orders for military uniforms his Department has placed with Turner Vlrr in the last 10 years. | | (245282) | 173
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the procurement strategy for army uniforms is; and if he will make a statement. | | (245283) | 174
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many private military and security companies are operating in Iraq; and if he will make a statement. | | (245285) | 175
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) Territorial Army members and (b) reservists have participated in the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245051) | 176
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Government has contributed to the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus in (a) monetary support, (b) troops and (c) senior officers in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245052) | 177
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate (a) he and (b) the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus have made of the (i) number and (ii) strength of Turkish forces in north Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245053) | 178
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many aircraft are in-service with the Royal Air Force, broken down by type. | | (245062) | 179
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department intends to spend on the purchase of consultancy services, with reference to Standard Chart of Account code 51401400, in financial years 2008-09 to 2010-11. | | (245088) | 180
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department records the number of (a) armoured vehicles, (b) aircraft, (c) helicopters and (d) weapons systems removed from service as a result of battle damage in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003. | | (245089) | 181
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on repairing (a) armoured vehicles, (b) aircraft, (c) helicopters and (d) weapons systems damaged owing to their use in Iraq and Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement. | | (245091) | 182
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's expenditure was on schools and community relations, as referred to in his Department's resource account code hierarchy, in near cash terms, in each financial year since 2000-01. | | (245092) | 183
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to allow French (a) fixed-wing and (b) rotary-wing aircraft on (i) HMS Prince of Wales and (ii) HMS Queen Elizabeth. | | (245093) | 184
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many forces personnel are deployed on operations, broken down by location. | | (245094) | 185
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the latest Chief of the General Staff's Briefing Team report. | | (245096) | 186
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of the Armed Forces are deployed on (a) operations and (b) other military tasks. | | (245097) | 187
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armoured vehicles were in-service in the Army in (a) 1997 and (b) 2008, broken down by type. | | (245098) | 188
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many reservist personnel are currently deployed, broken down by (a) service and (b) location. | | (245099) | 189
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the current in-service dates are for the Future Carrier programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (245102) | 190
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans are in place to ensure that the Armed Forces will have a continuing aircraft carrier capability during the transition between the withdrawal of service of the CVS carriers and the entry into service of the CVF carriers. | | (245103) | 191
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what total expenditure has been to date on the FRES utility variant programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (245104) | 192
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Future Lynx aircraft his Department plans to procure; and if he will make a statement. | | (245105) | 193
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the terms of reference of the Bernard Gray review are; and when it is due to report. | | (245106) | 194
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's projections for repayment to the Exchequer for funding for urgent operational requirements are for each financial year for which figures are available. | | (245107) | 195
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans there are to resurface the runway at MoD Machrihanish. | | (245108) | 196
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to sell off MoD Machrihanish; and if he will make a statement. | | (245109) | 197
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) inflow and (b) outflow was of personnel in the Defence Medical Services in each year since 1997, broken down by (i) service and (ii) type. | | (245110) | 198
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) inflow and (b) outflow was of personnel in the Defence Medical Services in each month in 2008, broken down by (i) service and (ii) type. | | (245111) | 199
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value is of departmental equipment (a) lost and (b) stolen in each of the last five years, broken down by service. | | (245112) | 200
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel have been declared unfit for front line duty in each service in the last 12 months. | | (245113) | 201
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the strength of the Territorial Army has been in each of the last 10 years. | | (245114) | 202
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many requests his Department has received under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in each of the last three years; in how many cases requests were refused; and what the average time taken to respond to such requests was. | | (245115) | 203
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed services recruitment centres there were in (a) 1997 and (b) 2008, broken down by service. | | (245116) | 204
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many recruitment training courses were either cancelled or postponed in each of the last three years; and how many recruits were affected. | | (245117) | 205
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of each battalion of the infantry are in breach of their harmony guidelines for tour intervals. | | (245118) | 206
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times elements of the Theatre Reserve Battalion in Cyprus have been deployed to (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq in each year since 2003, broken down by (i) length of deployment and (ii) unit down to the company level. | | (245119) | 207
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on the purchase of consultancy services, with reference to the Standard Chart of Account code 51401400, in 2007-08. | | (245120) | 208
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on contract and agency staff, with reference to the Standard Chart of Account code 51404000, in 2007-08. | | (245121) | 209
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department plans to spend on contract and agency staff, with reference to the Standard Chart of Account code 51404000, in 2008-09 to 2010-11. | | (245122) | 210
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Barron Report on defence land needs. | | (245123) | 211
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's (a) pre Main Gate and (b) post Main Gate (i) category A, (ii) category B and (iii) category C procurement projects were as at 31 March in each year since 2002. | | (245124) | 212
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's long-term housing plan. | | (245125) | 213
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library unredacted copies of his Department's major project statements from 1983 to 1992. | | (245126) | 214
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the latest versions of the cost of defence output categories taxonomy. | | (245127) | 215
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library copies of (a) the Defence and Analytical Services Agency's (DASA) monthly price index booklets, (b) DASA's quarterly price index forecasts, (c) DASA's quarterly foreign price indices and (d) DASA's negotiators' briefing packs issued in 2008. | | (245128) | 216
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library copies of the (a) FCR Scoping Study, (b) FOM Mapping Study, (c) DRMP Information Strategy and (d) DRMS Information Systems Strategy produced for his Department. | | (245129) | 217
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to report assets held by Annington Homes on his Department's balance sheet under IFRIC 12. | | (245131) | 218
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will break down in near cash terms the tables included in note (a) 24 of the MoD Resource Accounts 2001-02, (b) 25 of MoD Annual Report and Accounts 2002-03, (c) 26 of MoD Annual Report and Accounts 2003-04 and (d) 26 of MoD Annual Report and Accounts 2004-05. | | (245132) | 219
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will break down in near cash terms the tables included in note 24 of the MoD Annual Report and Accounts (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and 2007-08. | | (245133) | 220
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library copies of the quarterly CPS21 publication for each quarter of 2008. | | (245134) | 221
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Prime Minister's statement on the European Council, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan of 15 December 2008, Official Report, columns 813-831, what units will form the increase of 300 troops to Afghanistan. | | (245183) | 222
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Prime Minister's statement on the European Council, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India of 15 December 2008, Official Report, columns 813-831, what the Government's policy is on the number of trained Afghan national army troops required for security purposes in Afghnistan. | | (245184) | 223
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to box 6.4 of the Pre-Budget Report (CM 7484), if he will place in the Library a copy of the terms of reference of the reviews he intends to undertake of the (a) Met Office, (b) Oil and Pipeline Agency and (c) Defence Storage and Distribution Agency. | | (245201) | 224
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Written Ministerial Statement of 11 December, Official Report, column 65WS, on defence equipment, what the terms of reference are for the defence acquisition review; and when it will report. | | (245203) | 225
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Written Ministerial Statement of 11 December, Official Report, column 65 WS, on defence equipment, whether the defence budget will be required to repay the full cost or half the cost of urgent operational requirement purchases over £635 million in financial year 2009-10. | | (245204) | 226
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's response to HM Treasury's consultation paper on accounting for PPP arrangements, including PFI contracts. | | (245312) | 227
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department is planning to spend on submarine safety, with particular reference to (a) hull structure, (b) hydromechanics and (c) maritime life support in each of the next five years. | | (244736) | 228
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of how the building process of the Trident II will affect the building process of the Astute-class SSNs. | | (244743) | 229
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Trident II systems his Department is planning to build; and what his estimate is of the interval between the delivery of each Trident II. | | (244762) | 230
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veterans are members of (a) Armed Forces Pension Scheme 75 and (b) Armed Forces Pension Scheme 05. | | (244827) | 231
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veterans who have been diagnosed as having less than 12 months to live, have applied for a serious ill-health lump sump payment under an armed forces pension scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (244828) | 232
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when (a) HMS Queen Elizabeth and (b) HMS Prince of Wales will enter service. | | (243497) | 233
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the out-of-service date will be for the aircraft comprising the Joint Harrier Force. | | (243498) | 234
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when each (a) Type 22 and (b) Type 23 frigate will go out of service. | | (243499) | 235
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when each Trafalgar Class submarine will go out of service. | | (243500) | 236
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the first Future Surface Combatant will enter service. | | (243501) | 237
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) desktop computers, (b) laptop computers, (c) hard drives and (d) memory sticks which have gone missing from (i) his Department and (ii) each of its agencies in each year since 2003 have since been recovered. | | (245085) | 238
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of former members of the armed services who were homeless at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (244773) | 239
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) serving and (b) former members of the armed forces are in (i) drug and (ii) alcohol rehabilitation. | | (244936) | 240
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces are living in temporary accommodation. | | (244937) | 241
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many legal proceedings naming his Department as a defending party are under appeal. | | (244938) | 242
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many legal proceedings naming his Department as a defending party are ongoing or unresolved. | | (244939) | 243
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the compatibility of the UK's NATO and EU military commitments. | | (245271) | 244
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what systems are used to (a) monitor and (b) obtain information on turtle populations on the Sovereign Bases in Cyprus. | | (245415) | 245
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many turtles hatched at RAF Akrotiri in each of the last three years. | | (245416) | 246
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces take part in his Department's Turtlewatch scheme in Cyprus. | | (245417) | 247
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244702) | 248
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have reported that they are compliant with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245321) | 249
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245342) | 250
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245359) | 251
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245384) | 252
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether all vessels comprising the EU Operation Atlanta under the command of Rear Admiral Phil Jones fly the European Union flag; and from what position the flag is displayed on each vessel. | | (245225) | 253
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK armed forces bases have been established in Southern Iraq in each year since 2003; what the (a) location and (b) names of each is; and on which date each was vacated. | | (245226) | 254
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many attacks of each type have been launched against UK armed forces bases in southern Iraq since 1 May 2003. | | (245227) | 255
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Supacat M-WMIK have been supplied to UK armed forces in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan; how many of them were armoured to become Jackals in each case; and how many M-WMIKs are operating unarmoured in each country. | | (245229) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 256
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will bring forward proposals to require energy companies to inform customers about assistance available to vulnerable groups in their social tariff schemes; and if he will make a statement. | | (245070) | 257
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the Government's targets are for reducing fuel poverty; what changes have been made to these targets since October 2008; what discussions he has had with (a) the Chancellor of the Exchequer and (b) other Ministers on this issue since October 2008; what recent representations he has received on fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement. | | (245082) | 258
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what research his Department has (a) undertaken and (b) evaluated on the effectiveness of the operation of sections (i) 1 and (ii) 2 of the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000; what recent discussions he has had with (A) the Chancellor of the Exchequer and (B) other Ministers on the effectiveness of the operation of this Act; and what recent representations he has received on the operation of the Act. | | (245083) | 259
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress the Government has made on meeting the targets arising under the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000 during 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (245084) | 260
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will hold discussions with the trustees of the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme on ways to improve benefits for scheme members. | | (245425) | 261
| Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans are in place to implement a micro-generation strategy across all government buildings; and what the budget is for this work. | | (244786) | 262
| Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with public sector bodies to ensure that new build or renovated public buildings incorporate zero-carbon features. | | (244787) | 263
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate he has made of levels of fuel poverty in (a) Chorley, (b) Lancashire and (c) each county; and if he will make a statement. | | (245064) | 264
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if the Government will provide greater levels of financial support to homeowners seeking to purchase domestic (a) wind and (b) solar technologies. | | (244670) | 265
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with his (a) Swedish and (b) Danish counterparts on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. | | (245266) | 266
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244703) | 267
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to his Department has reported compliance with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245309) | 268
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many contracts his Department has which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245333) | 269
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245360) | 270
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what percentage of the IT systems in his Department is fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245375) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 271
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is his Department's policy to seek to reduce the financial support for intensive livestock production methods. | | (244680) | 272
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has allocated to support sustainable livestock production in 2008-09. | | (244681) | 273
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department takes to encourage consumers to purchase meat and dairy products produced (a) locally and (b) in accordance with (i) animal welfare and (ii) environmental regulations. | | (244682) | 274
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much land under the Countryside and Right of Way Act 2000 has been allocated to (a) walkers, (b) cyclists and (c) horseriders in (i) Chorley, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) the North West. | | (245065) | 275
| Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to review the Conservation of Seals Act 1970 with a view to strengthening the protection offered to seals. | | (245086) | 276
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Japanese counterpart on whaling. | | (245260) | 277
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244704) | 278
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to promote walking and cycling along routes of the canal system (a) throughout the UK and (b) in London. | | (244858) | 279
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which steps his Department has taken to evaluate the new multi-modal refuse collection vehicle for London. | | (244879) | 280
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he next plans to meet the Mayor of London to discuss the environmental strategy for London. | | (244880) | 281
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies has reported compliance with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245322) | 282
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245343) | 283
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245361) | 284
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245385) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 285
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on steps taken by the government of Egypt to reduce trafficking of weapons and people into Gaza; and if he will make a statement. | | (244832) | 286
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the policy of Palestinian leaders on recognition of the state of Israel as a Jewish state; what recent discussions he has had with Arab governments on the issue; and if he will make a statement. | | (244833) | 287
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 have been made to his Department since 2005; how many such requests were (a) agreed to and (b) refused in each of those years; how many refusals were subject to appeal to the Information Commissioner in each of those years; how many appeals were successful; if he will place in the Library copies of the material subsequently provided in each case; how much was spent by his Department opposing each appeal; which (i) consultants and (ii) law firms were employed by his Department in connection with each appeal; and if he will make a statement. | | (245080) | 288
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe since October 2008; what discussions he has had with governments in the region on the matter; what assistance his Department has given to people affected by the outbreak; and if he will make a statement. | | (245081) | 289
| Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of reports from UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen Abu-Zayd that Israel has stopped UN staff based in Gaza from using the diplomatic pouch; and if he will make a statement. | | (244763) | 290
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Turkish Cypriot authorities to enable refugee Maronites to reoccupy their villages and houses in the occupied north part of Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245029) | 291
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to permit Orthodox worshippers to (a) freely visit the monastery of Agios Andreas in the Kerpas peninsula and (b) ring the church bell there; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245030) | 292
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress is being made in disbursing the 259 million euro earmarked by the European Union for expenditure in northern Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | (245049) | 293
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will put in place measures to count the number of (a) persons and (b) vehicles travelling directly to Sovereign Base Area territory from northern Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245050) | 294
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the annual budgetary requirement of the UN Cyprus Committee on Missing Persons is; how many sets of human remains of (a) Greek Cypriots and (b) Turkish Cypriots the Committee has (i) recovered, (ii) identified and (iii) returned to relatives; how many sites the Committee has (A) investigated and (B) excavated; how many sites remain to be investigated; how much the Government has provided for the work of the Committee in each of the last four years; which other countries and organisations have provided for in each of the last four years, and how much in each case; if he will consider making further funds available to meet the Committee's budgetary requirements; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245054) | 295
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much the Government contributed to the removal of land mines in Cyprus; how much other countries or organisations have contributed; how much further funding is required to complete the work; if he will consider further contributions to bridge any outstanding funding gap; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245055) | 296
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress is being made in Cyprus on the removal of land mines in (a) the buffer zone, (b) areas under the control of the Republic of Cyprus government and (c) the Turkish occupied areas; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245056) | 297
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Turkish Cypriot authorities with a view to obtaining the permissions and decrees necessary to restore the Agios Andreas Monastery in the Karpas peninsula; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245057) | 298
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to assist in achieving further confidence-building measures in Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245059) | 299
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what difficulties he has identified in the restoration of the buildings at the Ledra Street crossing in Nicosia following its recent opening; what representations he is making in this regard; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245060) | 300
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the extent of building on Greek Cypriot owned land in north Cyprus by people other than that land's lawful owners; what assessment he has made of the effects of such building on prospects for a settlement in Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245158) | 301
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the (a) volume and (b) value of trade passing (i) from north to south Cyprus, (ii) from south to north Cyprus, (iii) from north Cyprus, through Republic of Cyprus ports, to other countries, (iv) from Republic of Cyprus to Turkey and (v) from Turkey to the Republic of Cyprus for (A) the current year and (B) each of the last three years,; what assessment he has made of the obstacles to trade in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245159) | 302
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the prospects of Turkey meeting the obligations under the Ankara Protocol before the assessment in 2009 of Turkey's EU accession prospects; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245160) | 303
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of progress in each of the (a) technical committees and (b) working groups involved in the Cyprus negotiations; what assessment he has made of the prospects of implementing any of their recommendations in advance of a final settlement as confidence building measures; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245161) | 304
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of progress in negotiations between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders towards a settlement; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245162) | 305
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in which newspapers and periodicals published in northern Cyprus the UK and its High Commission places advertisements; if he will make it his policy not to place such advertisements in newspapers and periodicals owned by Asil Nadir; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245163) | 306
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the appropriate authorities on behalf of the enclaved Maronite community in the north of Cyprus (a) to enable them to visit the church of Agla Marina, (b) for permission for them (i) to ring the church bell at Asomatos village and (ii) to visit the church freely and (c) for restoration of the monastery of Prophetis Elias; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245165) | 307
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made on behalf of the enclaved Greek Cypriots living in the Karpas peninsula; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245166) | 308
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) average age of (i) Greek Cypriots, (ii) Turkish Cypriots and (iii) settlers from the Turkish mainland resident in the Karpas peninsula; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245167) | 309
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) number and (b) average age of Maronites resident in enclaves in northern Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245168) | 310
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of restrictions on Greek Cypriot enclaved residents living in the Karpas penninsula on (a) where they can live, (b) the right of former residents to return to live there, (c) to own a business, (d) to repair or modernise their homes, (e) to undertake paid employment, (f) to hunt or fish and (g) to educate their children; what representations he has made on their behalf to seek the lifting of such restrictions; and to whom he has made those representations. | | [R] (245169) | 311
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his estimate is of the number of (a) Turkish nationals and (b) Turkish settlers living in northern Cyprus, apart from members of the armed forces; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245170) | 312
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of reports of the Turkish navy preventing survey ships operating on behalf of the Republic of Cyprus in Cyprus's exclusive economic zone carrying out their work; what representations he has made on this matter; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245171) | 313
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications of the possible opening of the proposed crossing point at Kato Pyrgos/Kokkina/Erenköy/Limnitis/Yesilirmak; what representations he has made on the subject; what assessment he has made of the obstacles to the crossing point being opened; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245172) | 314
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his estimate is of the level of civil society activity in northern Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245173) | 315
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of (a) the extent to which the Turkish Cypriot economy is subsidised by Turkey and (b) the extent to which the Turkish Republic of northern Cyprus depends on such subsidies; what his estimate is of the number and percentage of public sector workers in the north of Cyprus excluding serving military personnel; what assessment he has made of the sustainability of the economy of northern Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245174) | 316
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of levels of cross-green line contacts by civil society in Cyprus (a) overall, (b) by political parties, (c) by trades unions and (d) by young people; what steps he is taking to encourage such contacts; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245180) | 317
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of the imprisonment of two young Turkish Cypriots for allegedly insulting the Turkish Cypriot leader on a Facebook group they had set up; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245181) | 318
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Turkish Cypriot authorities on the efforts of north Cyprus police to locate 160 members of the Facebook group on which the Turkish Cypriot leader was allegedly insulted. | | [R] (245182) | 319
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the prospects for the Turkish Cypriot economy; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245190) | 320
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Turkish nationals have become citizens of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245191) | 321
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the prospects for the Europa Nostra initiative for the restoration of Famagusta/Varosha; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245192) | 322
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the six chapters identified as the subjects for consideration by the leaders of the communities in Cyprus are; what process is being adopted for the consideration of each chapter; what progress is being made on consideration of each chapter; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245193) | 323
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the extent of people trafficking (a) for sexual purposes and (b) other purposes in northern Cyprus in the latest period for which he has information; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245194) | 324
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the effectiveness of the Turkish Cypriot property commission in providing an adequate remedy; how many cases have been lodged by Greek Cypriots with the commission; how many such cases have been determined; how many of those determined cases have resulted in awards of (a) compensation and (b) restitution; whether the awards have been implemented in each of these cases; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245195) | 325
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the consequences of the European Court of Justice Advocate General's opinion in the Orams case; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245196) | 326
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the implementation by Turkey of the Arestes judgment in the European Court of Human Rights; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245197) | 327
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the Republic of Cyprus's guardianship law in the light of the Sofi case; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245198) | 328
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the consequences of the European Court of Human Rights case of Varnavas v Turkey; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245199) | 329
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his estimate is of the number of people who travelled across the green line from (a) north to south and (b) south to north in Cyprus, in (i) 2008 and (ii) each of the last four years; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245217) | 330
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of trends in the number of mosques being built in northern Cyprus; what assessment he has made of the consequences of those trends for the prospects of settlement in Cyprus; what assessment he has made of the sources of funding for such building; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245218) | 331
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the consequences of the decisions of UK Cyprus veterans to erect a memorial in Kyrenia (a) generally and (b) on relations between the communities on the island; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245219) | 332
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in what circumstances UK nationals who are fugitives from justice can have their passports renewed by UK consulates overseas (a) generally and (b) in Northern Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245220) | 333
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the effects of recent changes in the higher ranks of the Turkish Army in Cyprus on the prospects for a settlement; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245221) | 334
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress is being made in (a) Northern Cyprus and (b) the Republic of Cyprus on education reform, with particular reference in each case to (i) the history curriculum and (ii) the availability of language teaching in the other community's language; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245222) | 335
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the water shortage in Cyprus and the effectiveness of policy to combat it; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245223) | 336
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the consequences of Turkey assuming the chairmanship of the UN Security Council for the prospects of a settlement in Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245224) | 337
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, following the recent decision of the Court of First Instance, if he will make it his policy to vote against the continued inclusion of the People's Mujahadeen of Iran on the EU blacklist. | | (243666) | 338
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the political situation in (a) the Nuba Mountains, (b) Abyei and (c) northern Sudan; what reports he has received of inter-community tensions; whether he plans to take steps in response to such reports; and if he will make a statement. | | (244329) | 339
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance he is (a) providing and (b) offering to the authorities in Mumbai in respect of their efforts to identify those responsible for the recent terrorist attack. | | (244330) | 340
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to include provisions in the Immigration and Citizenship Bill to give British nationals who are not British citizens entitlement to full British citizenship. | | (244735) | 341
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to press for the exclusion of Western Saharan waters from any new agreement to replace the current EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement on its expiry. | | (244921) | 342
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether UK-registered trawlers are fishing in waters off occupied Western Sahara. | | (244922) | 343
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to foster Indo-British relations. | | (244668) | 344
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on access to St Helena after the planned retirement from service in 2010 of RMS St Helena; what the consequences for that policy are of the decision to postpone the St Helena airport project; and if he will make a statement. | | (244935) | 345
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Chevening scholarships have been awarded to Tibetans in each year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (245246) | 346
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of the whereabouts of the Tibetan film maker Dhondup Wangchen; and what discussions he has had with his Chinese counterpart on the matter. | | (245247) | 347
N | Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department records the (a) location at and (b) unit with which Colombian military personnel serve once they have completed a period of training in the UK; and whether it records the type of activity undertaken by such personnel in the course of their military career. | | (244626) | 348
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British (a) citizens and (b) overseas citizens are registered as living in Japan. | | (245259) | 349
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Japanese counterpart on action against terrorism. | | (245261) | 350
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK citizens visited Japan in (a) 2007 and (b) 2006. | | (245262) | 351
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals have taken up residence in (a) Sweden and (b) Denmark in each of the last five years. | | (245264) | 352
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals are engaged in full-time study in (a) Swedish and (b) Danish universities. | | (245269) | 353
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which Ministers have visited Japan in the last 12 months on official business. | | (245290) | 354
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what effect he anticipates the economic downturn will have on the number of business travellers from the UK to Nordic countries. | | (245412) | 355
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much was received through the sale of fishing licences in the British Indian Ocean Territory in the last five years. | | (245419) | 356
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what meetings he and his predecessors have had with representatives of the Chagossian people in the last 10 years. | | (245420) | 357
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his American counterpart on the future of the Diego Garcia airbase in the Chagos Islands in light of the expiry of the agreement for US-UK joint use of Diego Garcia for defence operations in 2016. | | (245421) | 358
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take in response to the recent House of Lords decision on the Chagos Islanders. | | (245423) | 359
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244705) | 360
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have reported that they are compliant with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245323) | 361
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245344) | 362
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; when the appointment was made; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245362) | 363
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245386) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 364
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 have been made to his Department since 2005; how many such requests were (a) agreed to and (b) refused in each of those years; how many refusals were subject to appeal to the Information Commissioner in each of those years; how many appeals were successful; if he will place in the Library copies of the material subsequently provided in each case; how much was spent by his Department opposing each appeal; which (i) consultants and (ii) law firms were employed by his Department in connection with each appeal; and if he will make a statement. | | (245078) | 365
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what pilot schemes on dispensing of the morning-after pill through pharmacies have taken place in each of the last five years; and what assessment he has made of the outcomes of each scheme. | | (245079) | 366
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the Government's dementia strategy; and if he will make a statement. | | (245279) | 367
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to control the illegal re-sale of diazepam; and if he will make a statement. | | (245280) | 368
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2008, Official Report, column 229W, on elderly: abuse, what each of the 15 reports of serious case reviews was; and what account was taken of them in the drafting of the consultation document. | | (245234) | 369
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children under the age of 16 had (a) type one and (b) type two diabetes in the Bexley Primary Care Trust area in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (244753) | 370
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions to hospital in which the patient had a primary or secondary diagnosis which was alcohol related at the start of his or her stay there were in 2007-08, broken down by primary care trust. | | (244788) | 371
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on (a) cognitive behavioural treatment, (b) aerobic exercise and (c) mitochondrial testing for patients diagnosed with myalgic encephalopathy/chronic fatigue syndrome in each year since 1997. | | (244737) | 372
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent research his Department has conducted or evaluated on the relationship between mitochondrial damage and (a) the use of certain medications such as anti-inflammatories, anaesthetics, angina medications, antibiotics, anti-depressants, statins, mood-stabiliser lithium and (b) chemotherapy. | | (244738) | 373
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent research his Department has conducted or evaluated on the relationship between myalgic encephalopathy/chronic fatigue syndrome and mitochondrial damage. | | (244739) | 374
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time between a patient being accepted for NHS gender reassignment surgery and completion of the operation was in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (244893) | 375
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are waiting for NHS gender reassignment surgery in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. | | (244894) | 376
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have unsuccessfully applied for NHS gender reassignment surgery in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each of the last five years. | | (244895) | 377
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of those diagnosed with HIV and AIDS have received treatment in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each of the last five years. | | (244896) | 378
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were on waiting lists for NHS treatment in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997. | | (244897) | 379
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of hospitals in meeting hygiene and cleanliness standards. | | (245003) | 380
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the proposed NHS Constitution will guarantee mental health service users a choice of hospital. | | (245014) | 381
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that social care needs are met. | | (245018) | 382
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to encourage a healthy lifestyle amongst teenagers in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. | | (245019) | 383
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many births per whole-time equivalent NHS midwife there were in each year since 2001, broken down by primary care trust area. | | (243628) | 384
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of each sexually transmitted infection were confirmed in each month of the last four years. | | (243629) | 385
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in his Department earned a salary over £100,000 in each year since 1997. | | (243630) | 386
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) adults and (b) children were admitted to accident and emergency departments in England as a result of drinking alcohol in each month of the last four years. | | (243707) | 387
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines his Department provides to GPs on the treatment of pernicious anaemia. | | (244915) | 388
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what quantitative data his Department has compiled on the incidence of pernicious anaemia by (a) geographical location, (b) age and (c) presence of existing auto-immune disease. | | (244916) | 389
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons the guideline thresholds for vitamin B12 levels set by his Department and the World Health Organisation differ; and if he will make a statement. | | (244917) | 390
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has commissioned into treatments for pernicious anaemia. | | (244918) | 391
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase (a) prevention and (b) diagnosis of pernicious anaemia in infants and juveniles. | | (244919) | 392
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of awareness among medical professionals of the prevalence of pernicious anaemia. | | (244920) | 393
| Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase public awareness and understanding of national social care needs. | | (244765) | 394
| Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to improve information provision for people with a learning disability who require social care; and if he will make a statement. | | (244766) | 395
| Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission research to analyse potential financial savings to the Department of Health of greater investment in employment provision for people with a learning disability. | | (244767) | 396
| Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission research to analyse potential financial savings to the Department of Health of providing preventative care services to people with low and moderate needs. | | (244768) | 397
| Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance is given to local authorities to ensure that their resource allocation systems achieve a fair and effective allocation of resources for people with learning disabilities; and if he will make a statement. | | (244769) | 398
| Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of tuberculosis cases notified in England were of (a) homeless persons, (b) problem drug-users and (c) prisoners in the last 12 months; and what proportion of such people in each category received directly-observed therapy from the start of their treatment in that period. | | (245427) | 399
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the performance of NHS bodies in making payments to suppliers within 10 days of receiving an invoice; and if he will make a statement. | | (244583) | 400
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to publish the responses made to his Department's consultation on the Future of Tobacco Control; and if he will make a statement. | | (244755) | 401
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the weighted cap funding for health used by his Department includes weighting for the number of (a) houses of multiple occupation, (b) caravan parks and (c) other forms of housing associated with transient populations. | | (244847) | 402
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1516W, on social services: coastal areas, if he will consider the merits of collecting statistics on the placements of vulnerable people by social services departments, broken down by (a) county, (b) town, (c) ward and (d) lower super output area. | | (244991) | 403
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his most recent estimate is of the number of drug and alcohol support personnel employed in each of the principal seaside towns of England. | | (245006) | 404
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244706) | 405
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to publish a response to the Stakeholder Advisory Group on Electro-Magnetic Radiation report on high voltage power lines and health; and if he will make a statement. | | (244745) | 406
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) care homes and (b) care home places for people suffering from dementia there were in each local authority area in Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (244683) | 407
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number and percentage of children under the age of 16 who are clinically obese in the East Riding of Yorkshire PCT area; and if he will make a statement. | | (244781) | 408
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to make Lyme disease a notifiable disease. | | (245187) | 409
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will institute a national register of those who have contracted Lyme disease. | | (245188) | 410
| Dr Desmond Turner (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether local NHS trusts will be allowed to retain any surpluses made this financial year to spend on local health services in future years. | | (245076) | 411
| Dr Desmond Turner (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much local NHS trusts spent on training in each of the last five years for which records are available. | | (245077) | 412
N | Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people required kidney dialysis in (a) Halton, (b) Cheshire and (c) Merseyside in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (243149) | 413
N | Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost has been of purchasing kidney dialysis by the National Health Service in each year since 1997. | | (243150) | 414
N | Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many kidney dialysis units there were in the North West of England in each year since 1997. | | (243151) | 415
N | Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients are being treated in medium secure mental health services. | | (243152) | 416
N | Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the arrangements put in place by primary healthcare trusts to inform health practitioners of veterans' priority treatment entitlement. | | (243224) | 417
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have reported that they are compliant with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245324) | 418
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245345) | 419
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; when the appointment was made; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245363) | 420
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245387) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 421
| Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with how many faith-based organisations her Department has contracts to provide public services. | | (244839) | 422
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria are used to determine whether police constables in Essex Police receive a bonus; and if she will make a statement. | | (244866) | 423
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much each police officer in Essex Police has received in bonuses in each of the last three years; and what the rank of each such officer was. | | (244867) | 424
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average salary of a serving police officer of each rank in Essex police force was in each year since 2001. | | (244868) | 425
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) discussions she has had with and (b) representations she has received from Essex Police on areas of budgetary (i) overspend and (ii) underspend by Essex police force since January 2008; and if she will make a statement. | | (244869) | 426
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) operational police officers per head of population there were in Essex Police on average in 2008 to date; what discussions she has had with the Chief Constable of Essex police force about this issue; and if she will make a statement. | | (244870) | 427
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers employed by Essex Police will be made (a) voluntarily and (b) compulsorily redundant in 2008-09; at what cost; and if she will make a statement. | | (244871) | 428
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of levels of job satisfaction of officers in Essex Police in each year since 1997; what assessment she has made of trends in such levels; and if she will make a statement. | | (244872) | 429
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) civilian staff of each age group and sex were employed by Essex Police and its predecessor bodies in (i) 1979, (ii) 1989, (iii) 1999 and (iv) each year since 2001. | | (244873) | 430
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that information kept by Essex Police is (a) accurate and up-to-date and (b) kept securely; what recent discussions she has had with the Chief Constable of Essex Police on this; and if she will make a statement. | | (244874) | 431
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers of each rank have voluntarily ceased employment, other than through redundancy, in Essex Police since June 2007. | | (244875) | 432
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much each police officer in Essex Police has received in bonuses in each of the last three financial years; and what the rank of each was. | | (244876) | 433
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals to require the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to inform her Department of the number of complaints to the IPCC which have been (a) made and (b) upheld; if she will publish such information on receipt; and if she will make a statement. | | (244877) | 434
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 17 November 2008, Official Report, columns 155-6W, on police complaints, if she will obtain this information from the Independent Police Complaints Commission and place it in the Library; and if she will make a statement. | | (244878) | 435
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 have been made to her Department since 2005; how many of them were (a) agreed to and (b) refused in each of those years; how many refusals were subject to appeal to the Information Commissioner in each of those years; how many appeals were successful; if she will place in the Library copies of the material subsequently provided in each case; how much was spent by her Department opposing each appeal; which (i) consultants and (ii) law firms were employed by her Department in connection with each appeal; and if she will make a statement. | | (244887) | 436
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials at each grade (a) are employed and (b) were employed in each of the last five years in her Department's Parliamentary Unit. | | (244888) | 437
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent by Essex police force defending actions brought against them by victims of crime in each year since 2001. | | (244942) | 438
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent by Essex police force defending itself against vexatious litigation in each year since 2001. | | (244943) | 439
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) barristers' chambers and (b) solicitors' firms have undertaken work for Essex police force in each of the last two financial years; and what the reason for the work and the fees paid were in each case. | | (244944) | 440
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which 10 barristers instructed by Essex Police received the highest sums for this work in the last two financial years; how much each received; and if she will make a statement. | | (244945) | 441
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average annual rate of sickness absence was in (a) Southend police and (b) Essex Police in each year since 2001. | | (244946) | 442
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of working days were lost due to (a) sickness and (b) stress, anxiety or depression in (i) Southend police and (ii) Essex police in each year since 2001. | | (244947) | 443
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in Essex Police of each sex took early retirement in each year since 2001. | | (244948) | 444
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers who were facing disciplinary charges in Essex Police retired on grounds of ill health (a) before and (b) after disciplinary hearings were completed in each of the last five years. | | (244949) | 445
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average response time to calls made to the police in (a) Essex and (b) Southend was in each year since 1997; what guidance her Department has given on average response times; what steps her Department takes to monitor police force response times; and if she will make a statement. | | (244950) | 446
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications there were for licences for animal experimentation in each year since 1997; how many licences were granted in each such year; and how many applications were rejected. | | (245066) | 447
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on EC Directive 86/609/EEC on the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes; what recent representations she has received on this Directive; if she will publish copies of the representations she has received, together with her replies; and if she will make a statement. | | (245067) | 448
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made in the replacement of animals in scientific procedures; what effect Government action to promote such replacement had on numbers of animals used in scientific procedures in the most recent year for which figures are available; what recent discussions she has had with representatives of the scientific community about this issue; and if she will make a statement. | | (245068) | 449
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of whether the threshold of moderate pain in animal experimentation is being adhered to; how her Department defines moderate pain in relation to animal experimentation; what representations she has received since January 2008 about that definition; and if she will make a statement. | | (245071) | 450
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department (a) is taking and (b) plans to take in the next 12 months to reduce the number of animals used in scientific procedures; what recent representations she has received about this issue; and if she will make a statement. | | (245072) | 451
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations she has received on the Animals (Scientific Purposes) Act 1986; and if she will make a statement. | | (245074) | 452
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) statutory instruments, (b) departmental circulars and (c) other documents she (i) has issued in the last 12 months and (ii) plans to issue in the next 12 months consequent on the provisions of the Animals (Scientific Purposes) Act 1986; and if she will make a statement. | | (245075) | 453
| John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent research she has commissioned on the links between prostitution and trafficking. | | (244675) | 454
| John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she intends to make changes to the legal status of brothels. | | (244764) | 455
| John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the immigration status is of the 167 victims of human trafficking recovered during Operation Pentameter 2. | | (244770) | 456
| John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration her Department has given to research on the likely effects of criminalising prostitution in preparing the Crime and Policing Bill. | | (244771) | 457
| John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research her Department has commissioned on the links between migration and human trafficking. | | (244772) | 458
| John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to assess the social impact of the planned Crime and Policing Bill on those groups likely to be affected by it. | | (244951) | 459
| John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what protection is made available to trafficked persons following the conviction of those responsible for their trafficking. | | (244952) | 460
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum-seeking children below the age of 18 years old are without parents or guardians. | | (245286) | 461
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to limit the use of 0800 non-emergency telephone numbers operated by police forces. | | (244864) | 462
| Mr Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines have been issued to police forces regarding the use by officers of batons, with particular reference to whether there is any part of the body that should not be struck. | | (244789) | 463
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been granted work permits in the last 12 months, broken down by (a) country of origin and (b) duration of work permit. | | (244722) | 464
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what compensation scheme is in place for (a) teachers and (b) other educational staff who require Criminal Records Bureau clearance who have experienced loss of earnings while their application for a criminal record check was under consideration by the Criminal Records Bureau in each of the last four years. | | (244627) | 465
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much compensation has been paid by the Criminal Records Bureau for delays in processing criminal record checks to (a) applicants, (b) employers and (c) others in each of the last four years; to which types of disclosures such payments related; and how many (i) applicants and (ii) employers were so compensated in each year. | | (244628) | 466
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 19 June 2008, Official Report, column 1047W, on alcohol: young people, if she will provide figures for 2007 on (a) prosecutions, (b) convictions and (c) penalty notices for disorder issued. | | (244775) | 467
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were proceeded against at magistrates' courts for the offence of sale of alcohol to a drunken person under section 141 of the Licensing Act 2003 in 2007; how many were found guilty of the offence in all courts; and how many were issued with a penalty notice for disorder for the offence, broken down by police force area. | | (244846) | 468
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 5th November 2008, Official Report, column 2226W, on departmental consultants, how many security passes her Department has issued to contractors providing consultancy services in the last 12 months; and if she will put in place measures to record the number of external consultants contracted to provide services for her Department. | | (244836) | 469
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is given to police on the application of (a) section 62 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 and (b) Articles 10 and 11 of the Human Rights Act 1998. | | (245032) | 470
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of detainees held at Oakington immigration removal centre are eligible for legal aid-funded advice. | | (245314) | 471
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reported incidents of violence there were against (a) male and (b) female betting shop workers in (i) England and Wales, (ii) the North East, (iii) Tees Valley district and (iv) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in the last two years. | | (244889) | 472
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many betting shop robberies there were in (a) England and Wales, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each of the last five years. | | (244892) | 473
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many victims of crime have benefited from the Youth Crime Action Plan in (a) England and Wales, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. | | (245011) | 474
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her most recent estimate is of the levels of domestic burglary in (a) England and Wales, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency, in each of the last five years. | | (245021) | 475
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her most recent estimate is of the levels of vehicle-related crime in (a) England and Wales, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency, in each of the last five years. | | (245022) | 476
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many violent crimes have been reported in (a) England and Wales, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency, in each of the last five years. | | (245023) | 477
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children in Sussex have profiles recorded on the National DNA Database. | | (245236) | 478
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Violent Crime Unit plans to publish responses to its consultation letter on proposals for prostitution legislation dated 26 September 2008. | | (244913) | 479
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to hold a public consultation on the proposals contained in her Department's review Tackling the Demand for Prostitution. | | (244914) | 480
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's definition of a prostitute working for another person's gain applies where the other person is (a) a receptionist, (b) also working as a prostitute, (c) working as a prostitute on the same premises, (d) a partner or a flatmate who shares premises with the prostitute woman or man, (e) a landlord letting the premises where the prostitute woman or man is working and (f) a dependant. | | (244923) | 481
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's definition of a prostitute working for another person's gain applies in circumstances where the prostitute has entered into a working relationship with another person in the absence of force or coercion. | | (244924) | 482
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average age of people working as prostitutes; on what research that estimate is based; and if she will place in the Library a copy of that research. | | (244925) | 483
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of prostitutes working in the UK who are (a) women, (b) men, (c) under the age of 16, (d) suffering from a drug addiction, (e) homeless, (f) supporting dependants and (e) working for another person's gain; on what research each estimate is based; and if she will place in the Library a copy of that research. | | (244926) | 484
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's definition is of a person who has been trafficked. | | (244928) | 485
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been trafficked who are (a) in the UK and (b) working as prostitutes in the UK. | | (244929) | 486
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research her Department is using to ascertain the number of people who have been trafficked into the UK; and if she will place in the Library a copy of that research. | | (244930) | 487
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average age of those first entering into prostitution. | | (244931) | 488
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what use her Department has made of (a) private investigators and (b) Risk Analysis UK Ltd since May 2005. | | (244795) | 489
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 3rd April 2008 to the hon. Member for North West Cambridgeshire, Official Report, column 1314W, on control orders, how many individuals are currently subject to control orders; and how many of those are receiving benefits administered by the Department for Work and Pensions, broken down by type of benefit. | | (244725) | 490
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on (a) accommodation, (b) council tax, (c) utility bills, (d) telephone line rental, (e) pre-paid telephone cards and (f) any other necessary subsistence payments, for individuals subject to control orders who have been prevented from gaining employment or rendered ineligible for benefits in each year since 2005. | | (244726) | 491
| Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals currently subject to control orders have been prevented from gaining employment or have been rendered ineligible for benefits due to their terms of their control order; and how many of those individuals are currently receiving subsistence payments from her Department, broken down by type of subsistence payment. | | (244727) | 492
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications of the recent judgement of the European Court of Human Rights on the legality of retaining the DNA records of people who have not been convicted of any crime. | | (245017) | 493
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Japanese citizens visited the UK in (a) 2007 and (b) 2006. | | (245289) | 494
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former Chagossians have been granted British citizenship in the last 10 years. | | (245422) | 495
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reasons are for the time taken to deal with the application for indefinite leave to remain of the constituent of the hon. Member for Torbay (Home Office reference: B2192246). | | (245101) | 496
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by her Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244707) | 497
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to collect information on the (a) number of and (b) circumstances in which speed cameras are damaged; and if she will make a statement. | | (243085) | 498
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) her Department and (b) its agencies have reported that they are compliant with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245325) | 499
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contracts (a) her Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245346) | 500
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; when the appointment was made; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245364) | 501
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) her Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245388) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 502
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many new higher education students in (a) Leeds West and (b) Leeds Metropolitan District will receive a maintenance grant in 2008-09. | | (245433) | 503
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what plans are in place to (a) develop training schemes for people who wish to join the shipping industry and (b) improve employment prospects for seafarers at the end of their training. | | (244733) | 504
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the greater integration of higher education with business and industry. | | (245005) | 505
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many (a) Swedish and (b) Danish nationals are engaged in full-time study in English universities. | | (245270) | 506
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many Japanese students are studying in English universities. | | (245292) | 507
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of skilled railway engineers. | | (245135) | 508
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244708) | 509
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what guidelines are in place for telephone calls by employees of the Learning and Skills Council to telephone numbers at the Palace of Westminster. | | (245186) | 510
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have reported that they are compliant with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245326) | 511
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245347) | 512
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; when the appointment was made; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245365) | 513
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245389) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 514
| Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with how many faith-based organisations his Department has contracts to provide public services. | | (244838) | 515
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reason the targets for the recruitment of (a) women to top management posts, (b) ethnic minority staff and (c) disabled staff in his Department differ from those set for the Civil Service overall. | | (244907) | 516
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what work his Department has undertaken to reduce deaths by drowning in the developing world; and if he will make a statement. | | (245250) | 517
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the number of deaths by drowning in the developing world in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (245251) | 518
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many external consultants work for his Department. | | (244728) | 519
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) page hits and (b) visitors his Department's website received in 2007-08. | | (244729) | 520
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the cost was of maintaining his Department's website for the 2007-08 financial year; and what the forecast cost is of maintaining websites within his responsibility in the 2008-09 financial year. | | (244865) | 521
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his most recent estimate is of the length of time which will be required for the proposed airport on St Helena to be brought into service once approval has been granted. | | (244744) | 522
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the reasons were for the decision that search and rescue capability for disasters overseas will be provided to his Department by UK fire and rescue services; and if he will place in the Library the terms of the agreement between his Department and UK fire and rescue services on the provision of this service. | | (244758) | 523
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the meetings that officials from his Department have had with (a) the UK International Search and Rescue Group and (b) UK fire and rescue services on the provision of overseas search and rescue services in the last 12 months. | | (244759) | 524
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what processes are in place to co-ordinate the (a) overall management and (b) operational management of overseas search and rescue services between his Department and UK fire and rescue services. | | (244760) | 525
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will publish a breakdown by main budget heading of his Department's expenditure on overseas search and rescue operations for each of the past three years; and how much is expected to be spent on such operations in each of the next three years. | | (244761) | 526
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Ilford North of 20 November 2008, Official Report, columns 755-6W, how much was spent under each resource account code in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. | | (244774) | 527
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what payments his Department had made on behalf of CDC to (a) LM, (b) Financial Dynamics, (c) Cubitt Consulting, (d) Bell Pottinger and (e) Merlin in each of the last five years; and what the purpose of each payment was. | | (244822) | 528
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Selby of 6 February 2007, Official Report, column 768W, if he will place in the Library a copy of the corporate communications strategy. | | (245031) | 529
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what payments his Department has made to Corporate Communications in each of the last five years. | | (245038) | 530
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library a copy of the list of contents of his Department's PRISM database. | | (245233) | 531
| Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the likely effects on the population of St Helena of a delay in the development of an airport on the island. | | (244814) | 532
| Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs before taking the decision to pause the negotiations on the development of the airport on St Helena. | | (244815) | 533
| Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what reassessment he has made of the likely effects of the delay in developing the airport on St Helena on his Department's future expenditure on assisting the people of that island. | | (244816) | 534
| Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the effect on the economy of St Helena of a delay in the development of the airport. | | (245026) | 535
| Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reasons there have been a pause in negotiations on the development of the airport on St. Helena. | | (245027) | 536
| Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions he has had with the Foreign Secretary on the decision to pause the negotiations on the development of the airport on St Helena. | | (245028) | 537
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if his Department will assist Pakistan to broaden the curriculum of madrassahs; and if he will make a statement. | | (245016) | 538
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department plans to take to improve the UK's position in the Centre for Global Development's Commitment to Development Index. | | (245267) | 539
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what projects his Department funded aimed at protecting endangered species in developing countries in 2007. | | (245413) | 540
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding his Department allocated to overseas conservation organisations in 2007. | | (245414) | 541
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what programmes exist in the British Indian Ocean Territories to promote biodiversity and conservation. | | (245418) | 542
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244709) | 543
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to his Department have reported that they are compliant with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245308) | 544
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many contracts his Department has which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245336) | 545
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; when the appointment was made; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245366) | 546
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what percentage of the IT systems in his Department is fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245376) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 547
| Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will issue guidance to the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to prevent religious groups and individuals working or volunteering in NOMS from promoting their religions. | | (244674) | 548
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 were made to his Department since 2005; how many requests were (a) agreed to and (b) refused in each of those years; how many refusals were subject to appeal to the Information Commissioner in each of those years; how many appeals were successful; if he will place in the Library copies of the material subsequently provided in each case; how much was spent by his Department opposing each appeal; which (i) consultants and (ii) law firms were employed by his Department in connection with each appeal; and if he will make a statement. | | (244831) | 549
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many enforcement restriction orders have been granted by the county courts in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (245428) | 550
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many single mothers were in prison on the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (245431) | 551
N | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines imposed by courts in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06, (d) 2006-07 and (e) 2007-08 remain unpaid. | | (244239) | 552
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what percentage of claims the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (a) received and (b) processed where a civil claim was also outstanding in (i) 2007 and (ii) 2008. | | (245039) | 553
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what percentage of Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority claims where a civil claim was also outstanding were completed before the civil claim was completed in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008. | | (245040) | 554
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority practice of continuing to process applications when other claims are being pursued will be discontinued. | | (245041) | 555
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in what schemes operated by or on behalf of his Department other than the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority the decisions of one officer are reviewed by an officer at the same level as the one who made the original decision. | | (245042) | 556
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the tariffs applied by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority were last increased. | | (245043) | 557
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consideration was given to increasing the tariffs applied by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in the recent review of the scheme. | | (245044) | 558
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consideration was given to increasing the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority's 1996 cap of £500,000 in line with inflation or otherwise in the recent review of the scheme. | | (245045) | 559
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority cases the cap has been applied in each year since its introduction. | | (245046) | 560
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many final Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority awards have been paid to those injured in the 7 July 2005 bombings. | | (245047) | 561
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority applications by those injured in the 7 July 2005 bombings (a) remain unfinalised, (b) have resulted in interim payments and (c) have not resulted in payments; and how many of those applicants received a payment in excess of £500,000. | | (245048) | 562
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what factors the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority considered when setting the appropriate level of compensation for the loss of one kidney at £11,000. | | (245058) | 563
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the UK will implement Article 4 of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (2004/48/EC); and what assessment he has made of the recommendations of the Civil Justice Council that it should be implemented. | | (245150) | 564
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were unable to attend workshops, courses or other rehabilitative sessions due to wing refurbishment or other building works in each prison in England and Wales in the last year for which figures are available; for how many days prisoners were made to attend such courses in that period; and if he will make a statement. | | (245152) | 565
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons are at more than 150 per cent. of in use certified normal accommodation. | | (245153) | 566
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average population of (a) the open prison estate and (b) the entire prison estate in England and Wales was in each of the last five years. | | (245154) | 567
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have escaped from police, Prison Service or contracted agents' custody whilst in transit or otherwise whilst under escort outside the secure custodial estate in each of the last 10 years. | | (245155) | 568
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many adult prisoners serving indeterminate sentences for public protection were in custody on 15 December 2008 beyond their minimum tariff. | | (245156) | 569
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many adults were serving indeterminate sentences for public protection on 15 December 2008. | | (245157) | 570
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to his Answer of 11 December 2008, Official Report, column 300-1W, on open prisons: prisoner escapes, what plans he has to reduce the number of absconds from open prisons. | | (245207) | 571
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward amendments to legislation governing offences of treason so that such offences are defined as crimes against the state. | | (244672) | 572
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the Government's policy is on the future constitutional relationship between the UK and the Crown Dependencies. | | (244825) | 573
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) Swedish and (b) Danish nationals are serving sentences in prisons in England and Wales. | | (245263) | 574
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244710) | 575
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will develop a strategy for dealing with civil cases in the county courts in Essex; and if he will make a statement. | | (244676) | 576
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what percentage of correspondence from hon. and right hon. Members he (a) personally answered, (b) passed to Ministerial colleagues and (c) asked officials to answer in the last 12 months. | | (244910) | 577
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have (a) instigated legal proceedings and (b) received compensation from (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies under the Human Rights Act 1998; and what rights were concerned in each case in which legal proceedings have been completed. | | (245256) | 578
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have reported that they are compliant with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245327) | 579
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245348) | 580
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; when the appointment was made; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245367) | 581
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245390) | Questions to the Leader of the House 582
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Leader of the House, whether she plans to provide Government time on the Floor of the House to debate (a) assisted suicide and (b) euthanasia during (i) Session 2008-09 and (ii) Session 2009-10; what representations she has received on the matter since July 2008; and if she will make a statement. | | (244883) | 583
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Leader of the House, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 11 December 2008, Official Report, column 72WS, correcting the Answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 1129W, whether hon. Members from parties other than the Labour Party are able to subscribe to Computing for Labour's services under the terms of its agreement with the House authorities. | | (244909) | 584
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Leader of the House, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by her Office had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244711) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 585
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2007, Official Report, columns 267-8W, on the Attorney-General for Northern Ireland: public appointments, what consultations his Department had in respect of arrangements for the appointment of the Attorney General for Northern Ireland. | | (245013) | 586
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244712) | 587
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies has reported compliance with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245328) | 588
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245349) | 589
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245368) | 590
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245391) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 591
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, if she will invite the Dalai Lama to attend the London 2012 Olympics. | | (245235) | 592
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by her Office had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244714) | 593
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Olympic Delivery Authority accomplishes the dredging of the canal access routes to the Olympic sites. | | (244989) | Questions to the Prime Minister 594
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Prime Minister, whether he discussed the Iranian state shareholding in the French state Uranium Enrichment Company during the visit of President Sarkozy on 8 December 2008. | | (244884) | 595
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Prime Minister, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Office had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244713) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 596
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, columns 807-8W, on Departmental electronic equipment, how many flat screen televisions were purchased in 2007-08. | | (245268) | 597
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assets of his Department are planned to be sold in each financial year from 2007-08 to 2010-11; what the (a) description and (b) book value of each such asset is; what the expected revenue from each such sale is; and if he will make a statement. | | (245293) | 598
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department work to assist special advisers; and what the cost of employing such staff was in each of the last three years. | | (245294) | 599
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many and what proportion of written questions for answer on a named day his Department has answered on the due date in the current Session of Parliament. | | (245295) | 600
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which companies were used by his Department for providing temporary staff in each of the last five years; and what the value of contracts with each such company was in each of those years. | | (245296) | 601
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many press and communications officers are employed by his Department. | | (245299) | 602
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what IT projects his Department is undertaking; and what the most recent estimate of (a) the cost and (b) the completion date of each is. | | (245300) | 603
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent on wine in each of the last 24 months. | | (245301) | 604
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much has been spent by his Department on renovation and refurbishment of its properties in each of the last five years. | | (245302) | 605
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department has spent on Plain English Campaign training courses for its staff in each of the last five years. | | (245303) | 606
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what estimate he has made of the number of hours of work lost through sickness absence on the part of staff working in his Department in the last 12 months. | | (245304) | 607
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many and what percentage of new recruits to his Department were aged over (a) 55 and (b) 60 years old in 2007-08. | | (245305) | 608
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many civil servants working in his Department have pensions with a cash equivalent transfer value of over £1 million. | | (245395) | 609
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, for which websites his Department provides funding. | | (245396) | 610
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244715) | 611
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to his Department have reported that they are compliant with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245307) | 612
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many contracts his Department has which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245335) | 613
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; when the appointment was made; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245369) | 614
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what percentage of the IT systems in his Department is fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245378) | Questions to the Solicitor General 615
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Solicitor General, when the Serious Fraud Office is expected to complete its investigation into the sale of a radar system to Tanzania by BAE. | | (244823) | 616
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Solicitor General, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by the Law Officers' Departments had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244716) | 617
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Solicitor General, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) her Department and (b) its agencies has reported compliance with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245311) | 618
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Solicitor General, how many contracts (a) her Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245337) | 619
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Solicitor General, when her Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; when the appointment was made; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245353) | 620
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Solicitor General, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) her Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245379) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 621
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 were made to his Department since 2005; how many such requests were (a) agreed to and (b) refused in each of those years; how many refusals were subject to appeal to the Information Commissioner in each of those years; how many appeals were successful; if he will place in the Library copies of the material subsequently provided in each case; how much was spent by his Department opposing each appeal; which (i) consultants and (ii) law firms were employed by his Department in connection with each appeal; and if he will make a statement. | | (244834) | 622
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) front and (b) rear seat belt wearing rates were among (i) males and (ii) females in each age group in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (244835) | 623
| Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with Virgin Trains on passenger capacity on their West Coast Main Line services; what (a) legislative provisions and (b) guidance issued by his Department govern the number of persons who may be accommodated in one unit of passenger rolling stock, with particular reference to health and safety requirements; what sanctions apply to train operating companies which operate services on which such limits are exceeded; and if he will make a statement. | | (245090) | 624
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will consider strengthening the training requirement associated with the tonnage tax. | | (244740) | 625
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's policy is on the placement of bus stops for school transport alongside dual carriageways; and if he will make a statement. | | (244829) | 626
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government plans to take to alleviate congestion on (a) roads and (b) railways in the North East. | | (244890) | 627
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to promote high speed rail links to the North East. | | (245012) | 628
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles (a) used and (b) were predicted before the start of the year to use the Dartford River Crossing in each of the last 12 months which paid by (i) cash and (ii) Dart Tag; and how many used the crossing in each month of the previous 12 months and paid by cash. | | (245410) | 629
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his Department has had with rail operators in (a) the UK and (b) other European countries to discuss the potential for high speed rail in the UK. | | (244998) | 630
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to promote and implement a trans-European high speed rail network. | | (244999) | 631
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration his Department has given to the introduction of Maglev technology in the British rail network. | | (245000) | 632
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to (a) re-open closed rail stations and (b) open new rail stations in the South West; and if he will make a statement. | | (245001) | 633
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the economic downturn on rolling stock operating companies; and if he will make a statement. | | (245002) | 634
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential economic effects of a north-south high speed rail line in the UK. | | (245136) | 635
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to ensure that any reduction of South West Trains services west of Exeter will be replaced by equivalent levels of rolling stock through other train operators. | | (245137) | 636
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244717) | 637
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the findings of the Humber Bridge Tolls Impact Assessment; and if he will make a statement. | | (244776) | 638
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects the public inquiry into the proposed increase in the cost of the Humber Bridge Tolls to be held; and if he will make a statement. | | (244777) | 639
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many reported deaths there were in (a) the East Riding of Yorkshire, (b) South Yorkshire, (c) North Yorkshire and (d) West Yorkshire as a result of traffic accidents in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (244778) | 640
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people in the East Riding of Yorkshire have a concessionary bus pass for over 60 year olds; and if he will make a statement. | | (244779) | 641
N | Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the planned West Coast Main Line improvements. | | (243223) | 642
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies has reported compliance with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245329) | 643
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245350) | 644
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245370) | 645
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245392) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 646
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent maintaining its website in each of the last five years. | | (245397) | 647
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which internet providers his Department uses. | | (245398) | 648
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department has spent on broadband internet in each of the last five years. | | (245399) | 649
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what proportion of written questions for answer on a named day his Department has answered on the due date in the current Session of Parliament. | | (245400) | 650
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which companies were used by his Department for providing temporary staff in each of the last five years; and what the value of contracts with each such company was in each of those years. | | (245401) | 651
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many press and communications officer are employed by his Department. | | (245402) | 652
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what IT projects his Department is undertaking; and what the most recent estimate of (a) the cost and (b) the completion date of each is. | | (245403) | 653
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent on Plain English Campaign training courses in each of the last five years. | | (245404) | 654
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many hours of work were lost through sickness absence on the part of staff working in his Department in the last 12 months. | | (245405) | 655
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what percentage of new recruits to his Department were aged over (a) 55 and (b) 60 years in 2007-08. | | (245406) | 656
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assets of his Department are planned to be sold in each financial year from 2007-08 to 2010-11; what the (a) description and (b) book value of each such asset is; what the expected revenue from each such sale is; and if he will make a statement. | | (245407) | 657
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department work to assist special advisers; and what the cost of employing such staff was in each of the last three years. | | (245408) | 658
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many civil servants working in his Department have pensions with a cash equivalent transfer value of over £1 million. | | (245409) | 659
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, for which websites his Department provides funding. | | (245411) | 660
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244719) | 661
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to his Department has reported compliance with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245306) | 662
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many contracts his Department has which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245334) | 663
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245372) | 664
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what percentage of the IT systems in his Department is fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245377) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 665
| Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, with how many faith-based organisations the Government Equalities Office has contracts to provide public services. | | (244843) | 666
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by the Government Equalities Office had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244720) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 667
| Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will ensure that his Department does not enter into contracts with faith-based organisations which have policies and procedures which do not comply with equalities legislation. | | (244673) | 668
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 were made to his Department since 2005; how many requests were (a) agreed to and (b) refused in each of those years; how many refusals were subject to appeal to the Information Commissioner in each of those years; how many appeals were successful; if he will place in the Library copies of the material subsequently provided in each case; how much was spent by his Department opposing each appeal; which (i) consultants and (ii) law firms were employed by his Department in connection with each appeal; and if he will make a statement. | | (244830) | 669
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what research his Department has (a) undertaken and (b) evaluated on the number of cancer patients in poverty; and if he will make a statement. | | (245069) | 670
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Health and Safety Commission prosecutions there were against directors and managers of companies alleged to have committed health and safety breaches in each of the last five years, broken down by sector; and if he will make a statement. | | (245278) | 671
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claimed pension credit in Leeds West constituency in each year since 2005. | | (245281) | 672
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to tackle child poverty in Leeds West constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (245284) | 673
| Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracts his Department and its executive agencies have made with the training provider Inspire2Independence; and if he will make a statement. | | (245230) | 674
| Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps Jobcentre Plus has taken to encourage the involvement of football clubs in Inspire2Independence's welfare to work programme. | | (245231) | 675
| Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the performance of Inspire2Independence's football-related contracts with his Department and its agencies in (a) involving people outside the working population and (b) helping such people into work. | | (245232) | 676
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the amount of winter fuel allowance overpaid in each of the last three years; and how much of the sum overpaid has subsequently been repaid. | | (244908) | 677
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of potential fraud were investigated where the Department considered there to be a high probability of prosecution in each of the last five years for which information is available; how many cases of potential fraud were taken to court; and how many cases achieved a conviction. | | (244731) | 678
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people (a) received a caution and (b) were convicted in respect of an offence of benefit fraud in each quarter of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many of those convicted were dealt with by way of (i) a discharge, (ii) a fine, (iii) a community sentence, (iv) a suspended sentence, (v) a custodial sentence, (vi) a custodial sentence of more than six months and (vii) a custodial sentence of more than 12 months. | | (244732) | 679
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which payments made to holocaust victims are exempted from the calculations made to determine eligibility for the pension credit. | | (244734) | 680
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 92 of the Pre-Budget Report, how much money his Department accrued in each of the last 10 years; and what proportion each year's contribution made to the stock of money not spent in earlier years. | | (245033) | 681
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 92 of the Pre-Budget Report, how much money was in his Department's stock of money not spent in earlier years, in each of the last six months. | | (245034) | 682
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the total net change in personnel in Jobcentre Plus in each of the next two calendar years. | | (245036) | 683
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total budget forecast for Jobcentre Plus for the next calendar year was (a) in August 2008 and (b) following the Pre-Budget Report. | | (245037) | 684
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people over the age of (a) 60 and (b) 80 years have claimed the winter fuel allowance in (i) the UK, (ii) the North East, (iii) Tees Valley district and (iv) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency since its introduction. | | (244898) | 685
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have claimed the minimum income guarantee in (a) the UK, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since its introduction. | | (244899) | 686
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are unemployed in (a) the North East and (b) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency; and what estimate his Department has made of projected trends in these levels in each of the next 12 months. | | (244932) | 687
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) letters and (b) e-mails received by his Department had not been responded to as at 15 December 2008. | | (244721) | 688
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) national insurance (NI) numbers in use, (b) unused NI numbers and (c) fake or fraudulently obtained NI numbers in each of the last five years. | | (245252) | 689
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of internal fraud there have been in (a) each section of his Department and (b) each of his Department's agencies in each of the last five years. | | (245253) | 690
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) staff and (b) contractors with (i) each section of his Department and (ii) each of his Department's agencies have been disciplined for fraudulent activity in each of the last five years. | | (245254) | 691
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been lost by (a) each section of his Department and (b) each of his Department's agencies because of internal fraud in each of the last five years. | | (245255) | 692
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department's customer information system was accredited to Government security standards in accordance with measures set out in the report Data Handling Procedures in Government: final Report and the document Cross Government Actions: Mandatory Minimum Measures. | | (245257) | 693
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of contractors and suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) its agencies has reported compliance with the Government's security standards following publication of the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government, and the accompanying document, Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action, on 25 June 2008. | | (245331) | 694
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; for which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas in the case of each such contract. | | (245352) | 695
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department appointed a senior information risk owner in accordance with the report, Data Handling Procedures in Government and the accompanying document Cross-departmental Actions: Mandatory Minimum Action; and what grade the person holds within the Department. | | (245373) | 696
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of the IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. | | (245394) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 697
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the performance of sterling; what comparative assessment he has made of the performance of the euro; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (244780) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 698
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when his Department plans to take forward recommendation 36 of the Gowers Review and match penalties for online and physical infringement of copyright. | | [Transferred] (245151) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 699
N | Mr Peter Atkinson (Hexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how his Department plans to assess the sustainability of large-scale wood biomass energy plants of 50 megawatts and over; and if he will take into account that assessment in the potential impact on UK wood processing industries of large biomass plants purchasing their feedstock from UK wood markets. | | [Transferred] (244240) | 700
N | Mr Peter Atkinson (Hexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether (a) the effect on existing wood industries and (b) the sustainability of material is taken into account in deciding whether to grant planning permission for large-scale biomass energy projects of 50 megawatts and over. | | [Transferred] (244241) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 701
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the out-of-area placement of people with learning disabilities in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (245007) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 702
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many retailers have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for the persistent sale of alcohol to a person under 18 years in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (244844) | 703
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there were for the offences of (i) drunkenness simple and (ii) drunkenness with aggravation in 2007. | | [Transferred] (244845) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 704
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what relevant specialist qualifications the Head of the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research holds; where the post was advertised; how many persons applied for the post; how many were short-listed for interview; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (245073) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 705
N | Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if his Department will consider providing increased assistance to the former Chagos Islanders. | | [Question Unstarred] (244085) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 706
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 4 December 2008, Official Report, columns 9-11WS, on the Justice and Home Affairs Council, what assurance the Government sought that member states operating the e-justice programme will have in place sufficiently high data security standards to meet UK standards; what assessment his Department has made of the potential for increased fraud as a result of implementation of the e-justice programme; and if he will make further representations on the matter at EU level. | | [Transferred] (244757) | 707
| Sir Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) male and (b) female former members of the (i) Royal Navy, (ii) Army, (iii) and Royal Air Force are in prison; and what studies his Department has (A) commissioned and (B) evaluated in links between service in the armed forces and subsequent behaviour leading to detention. | | [Transferred] (245189) | Questions to the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 708
| Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, on what grounds the Boundary Committee for England decides which bodies it is prepared to meet during its consultations on local government structural reviews. | | [Transferred] (244853) | 709
| Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, on what grounds Forest Heath District Council, Waveney District Council and St Edmundsbury Borough Council have been refused a meeting with the Boundary Committee for England during the consultation period for local government structural review in Suffolk. | | [Transferred] (244854) | 710
| Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what assessment he has made of whether the consultation process undertaken by the Boundary Committee for England in regard to the structural review of local government in Suffolk has so far met all the criteria set out in the Cabinet Office Code of Practice on consultation to date. | | [Transferred] (244855) | 711
| Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what his policy is on whether the Boundary Committee for England's structural review of Suffolk local government should consider the views of the general public in the form of petitions as evidence in its deliberations. | | [Transferred] (244856) | 712
| Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how much money the local government structural review in Suffolk has cost to date; how much of those costs are in respect of (a) the salaries of those conducting, (b) consultation and (c) other costs. | | [Transferred] (244857) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 713
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance his Department provides to local authorities on the road safety aspects of the placement of bus stops for school transport; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (244826) |
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