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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Thursday 18 December 2008
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 18 December 2008
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Thursday 18 December of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Thursday 18 December of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Thursday 18 December see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent discussions he has had with Tata Industries on the long-term future of the steel industry in the UK. | | (245676) | 2
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the remuneration package of the chief executive of Royal Mail is; and what proportion of his remuneration is paid from public funds. | | (245697) | 3
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246027) | 4
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what plans he has to negotiate access for Royal Mail to the (a) Dutch, (b) German and (c) French postal systems. | | (246058) | 5
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what representations he has received from (a) Ofcom, (b) mobile telephone operators and (c) other parties on the original timetable outlined by Ofcom to ensure the time taken to move a telephone number betwen mobile telephone operators is reduced from two days to two hours for UK consumers by September 2009. | | (244972) | 6
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the recent Competition Appeals Tribunal ruling on mobile number portability and the consequent delay in the move to faster and more efficient mobile telephone portability for consumers. | | (244973) | 7
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the likely effects on mobile telephone users of Ofcom's original deadline of September 2009 for two hour recipient-led mobile number portability not being met. | | (244974) | 8
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent discussions he has had with Ofcom on ease of transfer for consumers from one mobile telephone operator to another. | | (244975) | 9
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will seek to increase the cost charge for private companies on bulk mail deliveries. | | (245819) | 10
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the cost of necessary Royal Mail plant modernisation. | | (245820) | 11
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to meet the Select Committee on Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to discuss the Hooper report. | | (245821) | 12
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of bulk mail deliveries undertaken by private companies in the last period for which figures are available. | | (245822) | 13
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many small to medium-sized enterprises were registered in (a) the North West, (b) Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council area and (c) Cheadle constituency in each year since 1997. | | (244812) | 14
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many small and medium-sized enterprises operating in (a) the North West, (b) Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council area and (c) Cheadle constituency have been declared bankrupt in each year since 1997. | | (244813) | 15
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps he is taking to support the motor manufacturing industry in the North East. | | (245804) | 16
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps the Government has taken to ensure that private companies are socially responsible in their actions. | | (245865) | 17
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245708) | 18
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, on how many occasions (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department have (i) met and (ii) talked on the telephone to representatives of (A) Anglo American plc, (B) BHP Billiton plc, (C) Rio Tinto plc, (D) Vedanta plc and (E) Xstrata plc since April 2007; and how many staff from each such company have been seconded to his Department in that period. | | (245899) | 19
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment his Department has made of the value for money provided by regional development agencies. | | (245971) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 20
N | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to adjust the rate of vehicle mileage allowances in line with fuel prices. | | (244808) | 21
N | Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of money laundering prevention measures on the availability of UK bank accounts to UK citizens living and working abroad. | | (244994) | 22
N | Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what mechanisms there are to protect depositors in UK banks and building societies whose accounts are transferred to financial institutions outside UK jurisdiction without their consent. | | (244995) | 23
N | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) his Department and (b) any of its agencies has had (i) correspondence and (ii) discussions with (A) Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander Ltd and (B) another bank or intermediary relating to the withdrawal by customers of deposits in the 10 days before 8 October 2008. | | (245434) | 24
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations his Department has received about retailers miscalculating the reduction in the rate of value added tax. | | (245574) | 25
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HM Revenue and Customs is taking to ensure that the reduction in the rate of value added tax is passed on to customers. | | (245576) | 26
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246016) | 27
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many cases relating to tax credits the Parliamentary Ombudsman has found maladministration as part of the Adjudicator's Office in each year for which figures are available. | | (245587) | 28
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have been awarded consolatory payments in respect of tax credits by HM Revenue and Customs in each of the last five years; what the average size of consolatory payments for tax credit errors was in each of the last five years; what the amount paid for consolatory payments in respect of tax credits was in each of the last five years; on what basis consolatory payments were awarded in that period; and if he will make a statement. | | (245588) | 29
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cases relating to tax credits the Adjudicator's Offie has handled under the process assurance procedure in each year for which figures are available; how many of these cases were subsequently referred to the Parliamentary Ombudsman; and if he will make a statement. | | (245589) | 30
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many cases related to tax credits and resolved since March 2008 the Adjudicator's Office has recommended that (a) an overpayment be written off and (b) a consolatory payment be made. | | (245590) | 31
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much in relation to tax credits cases the Adjudicator's Office has recommended that HM Revenue and Customs (a) pay in compensation to claimants, (b) forego in tax and interest and (c) write off in overpaid tax credits since March 2008. | | (245591) | 32
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cases related to tax credits have been taken on by the Adjudicator's Office since March 2008; and how many of these have been settled. | | (245592) | 33
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff the Adjudicator's Office employed in each of the last five years; and how many of those worked on tax credit disputes. | | (245593) | 34
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit cases taken on by the Adjudicator's Office related to complaints where overpayments had been made due to awards based on incorrect information in each of the last five years; and in how many of those cases the complaint was upheld. | | (245594) | 35
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his comments of 15 December 2008, Official Report, column 856, in the debate on the Queen's Speech, when the Bank of England base rate was last at 17 per cent. | | (244983) | 36
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations he has received on the affordability of public sector pension schemes; and if he will make a statement. | | (245817) | 37
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effects on small businesses of administering the temporary change to the rate of value added tax announced in the Pre-Budget Report. | | (244976) | 38
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which organisation has managed each project funded by his Department in Helmand province since 2005; what the budget of each was; how much has been spent in each case; what monitoring, impact assessments and evaluations have been undertaken; and if he will make a statement. | | (245777) | 39
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what changes there have been in projections of (a) gross public debt on a Maastricht treaty basis and (b) net public debt since the Pre-Budget Report projections resulting from (i) the use of automatic stabilisers, (ii) policy changes announced in the Pre-Budget Report and (iii) other causes. | | (244984) | 40
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will increase the stamp duty holiday threshold to above £175,000. | | (245872) | 41
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the stamp duty holiday in stimulating the market for properties priced below £175,000. | | (245873) | 42
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of levels of tax evasion amongst white-collar workers; and what steps his Department has taken (a) to recover revenue from taxes which have been evaded and (b) to reduce levels of evasion. | | (245840) | 43
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of changes in consumer spending behaviour attributable to the reduction in the rate of value added tax. | | (245842) | 44
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the reduction in the rate of value added tax has met his objectives for the policy. | | (245844) | 45
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to encourage businesses to reduce immediately prices in line with the new rate of value added tax. | | (245845) | 46
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has to introduce a national loan guarantee scheme. | | (245851) | 47
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245723) | 48
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the circumstances and extent of the overpayment of public sector pensions by Xafinity Paymaster. | | (245208) | 49
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will terminate the contract of Xafinity Paymaster in relation to the administration of public sector pensions. | | (245209) | 50
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps are being taken to obtain repayment from Xafinity Paymaster in respect of the overpayment by them of public sector pensions. | | (245213) | 51
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to announce a decision on the value added tax liability of unitised hotel projects following his review of the matter. | | (244697) | 52
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken in response to the collapse of Landsbanki Guernsey; and if he will make a statement. | | (244698) | 53
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 5 November 2008, Official Report, column 542W, on housing: valuation, if he will publish the multiple regression methodology which the automated valuation model uses to apply a value significance to the 10,000 localities. | | (245916) | 54
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 30 October 2008, Official Report, column 1259W, on council tax: valuation, what the monetary value was of payments made to Tenet Technology by the third party representatives of the Valuation Office Agency for goods, licences and services from Tenet which the Valuation Office Agency uses. | | (245919) | 55
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the agreement between Cole Layer Trumble/Tyler Technologies and the organisation which acts as the agent of the Valuation Office Agency, redacting any commercially confidential information. | | (245959) | 56
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of falling house prices on the ability of families to meet inheritance tax liabilities when they inherit a home from a deceased parent or relative. | | (245961) | 57
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) training and (b) guidance manuals the Valuation Office Agency has producd to assist in the use of the council tax banding support tool. | | (245962) | 58
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what working groups there are in the Valuation Office Agency's Local Taxation and Data and Information Technology divisions. | | (245963) | 59
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the effect on the economy of the changes to business rates in ports made by the Valuation Office Agency. | | (245977) | 60
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what changes have been made to the tax treatment of lump sum payments made by businesses surrendering onerous leases in the last 12 months. | | (245978) | 61
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Valuation Office Agency has targets for inheritance tax yields. | | (246059) | 62
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what dates he held meetings with (a) HBOS, (b) Nationwide, (c) Abbey, (d) Lloyds TSB, (e) Northern Rock, (f) Barclays, (g) RBS and (h) HSBC on the Government's repossessions policy before its announcement on 3 December 2008. | | (245608) | 63
N | Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of lending by the banking sector to small-and-medium-sized enterprises. | | (244643) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 64
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of schools are involved in the Healthy Schools Programme. | | (245753) | 65
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246026) | 66
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding is available to primary schools in (a) the Ribble Valley, (b) Lancashire and (c) England for children diagnosed with specific learning difficulties in 2008-09. | | (243268) | 67
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children between the ages of four and 11 years have been (a) suspended and (b) suspended more than once from school in (i) the Ribble Valley, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) England in 2008. | | (243269) | 68
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of physical attacks against people working in education in 2008. | | (243270) | 69
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teachers working in (a) the Ribble Valley, (b) Lancashire and (c) England were subject to physical attack in the workplace in 2008. | | (243271) | 70
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding is provided for special education schools operating in (a) the Ribble Valley, (b) Lancashire and (c) England in 2008-09. | | (243272) | 71
| Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans he has to take forward proposals for legislation affecting SureStart Children's Centres following the recent public consultation exercise; and when he expects the findings of the consultation to be published. | | (245772) | 72
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, for what reasons the meeting between the National Assessment Agency and Ofqual requested in May did not take place until July, as referred to in paragraph 6.96 of the Sutherland Inquiry report HC 62. | | (245825) | 73
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the value is of the contract awarded to Edexcel to administer key stage 2 tests in 2009 . | | (245826) | 74
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which Minister approved the decision to establish the National Assessment Agency as a division of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority; and when that decision was taken. | | (245827) | 75
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what meetings took place between the Minister for Schools and officials at the National Assessment Agency during 2008. | | (245828) | 76
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what involvement Ofqual had in the procurement process that led to the award of the standard assessment test administration contract to ETS referred to at paragraph 2.50 of the Sutherland Inquiry report HC 62. | | (245829) | 77
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to his Oral Statement on the Sutherland Inquiry, whether Ken Boston and David Gee will receive full pay during the period of their suspensions. | | (245830) | 78
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority discovered that ETS had lost the contract to administer the Graduate Management Admissions Test in the US, referred to in paragraph 2.18 of the Sutherland Inquiry report, HC 62. | | (245831) | 79
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the cost of the relocating of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority headquarters to Coventry. | | (245832) | 80
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which key individuals from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority led Project Tornado referred to in paragraph 2.6 of the Sutherland Inquiry report HC 62. | | (245833) | 81
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in how many mosque schools the Islam and Citizenship Education programme is being piloted; in which cities these schools are located; how the pilot will be evaluated; and when he expects the programme to be rolled out nationally. | | (245536) | 82
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he plans to take to ensure that staff in schools where safer school partnership officers are in place know about the characteristics that may help identify individuals vulnerable to violent extremism, as referred to in paragraph 148 of the Audit Commission's November 2008 report Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise. | | (245695) | 83
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps the Government plans to take to increase funding for university (a) research and (b) staff costs. | | (245809) | 84
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools he and his predecessors have designated as being of a religious character in each of the last 10 years. | | (245852) | 85
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment his Department has made of the amount of homework appropriate to be assigned to (a) infants and (b) juniors at primary school. | | (245910) | 86
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many looked after children in each local education authority (LEA) have been permanently excluded by the head teacher of their school since 2005; how many of those in each LEA while officially permanently excluded remain on their original schools' rolls; and how many of them in each LEA are being educated at other establishments while permanently excluded from their original school. | | (245604) | 87
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools have received money for introducing new diploma courses; and if he will make a statement. | | (245597) | 88
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which local authorities he expects to join the Building Schools for the Future programme after 2010; and if he will make a statement. | | (245598) | 89
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of rural secondary schools (a) are offering new diploma courses, (b) will offer new diploma courses starting in September 2009 and (c) have joined consortia to offer new diploma courses in each of the next four years; and if he will make a statement. | | (245599) | 90
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what he expects the level of revenue spending for (a) 11 to 16 provision and (b) 16 to 19 provision in school academies to be each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11; and if he will make a statement. | | (245600) | 91
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many calls there have been to the Parent Know-How helpline in each month since it was established; what the cost of the helpline has been; and if he will make a statement. | | (245601) | 92
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many 16 to 19 year olds are enrolled on an entry to employment programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (245602) | 93
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he last (a) met and (b) spoke to Mr Ken Boston of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) about the QCA's work; and if he will make a statement. | | (245705) | 94
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245710) | 95
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, for what aspects of the Children's Health Strategy his Department will have responsibility. | | (245274) | 96
N | Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many childcare places are (a) available in each region and (b) planned in the next three years; and how many lone parents in each region have at least one child under seven years of age. | | (244966) | 97
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what inspections of Haringey Council Ofsted has undertaken since 2000. | | (245922) | 98
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter received by his Department's predecessor on 16 February 2007 arising from an employment tribunal and containing allegations concerning child protection procedures in the London Borough of Haringey, redacting sensitive personal information as appropriate. | | (245966) | 99
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he expects a decision to be made on a replacement contractor for next year's key stage tests; and if he will make a statement. | | (245440) | 100
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much has been paid on average in bonuses to officials at the (a) National Assessment Agency and (b) Qualification and Curriculum Authority in 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (245571) | 101
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the performance levels in single level tests undertaken under the Making Good Progress pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (245572) | 102
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Making Good Progress pilot scheme. | | (245573) | 103
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils are receiving hardship payments as a result of a delay in receiving their education maintenance allowance payments; and if he will make a statement. | | (245575) | 104
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many education maintenance allowance payments for 2008 he expects will have been made by 1 January 2009; how many such payments for 2007 had been made by 1 January 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (245650) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 105
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246028) | 106
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which organisation has managed each project funded by his Department in Helmand province since 2005; what the budget of each was; how much has been spent in each case; what monitoring, impact assessments and evaluations have been undertaken; and if he will make a statement. | | (245778) | 107
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245709) | 108
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 1255W, on Admiralty House, what catering services were provided by the Cabinet Office's provider on a re-charge basis. | | (245887) | 109
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 1258W, on departmental property, how many home information packs his Department has purchased to date; and how many of these included home condition reports. | | (245888) | 110
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what role the Commission for the Compact has in relation to local government. | | (245925) | 111
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the timetable for the Census rehearsal is. | | (246060) | 112
N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will formally request the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden to return to the authorities all material which he has received as a result of unauthorised disclosure to him and which he considers so sensitive it cannot be put into the public domain; and if he will make a statement. | | (244693) | Questions to the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners 113
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what estimate the Church Commissioners have made of the aggregate effect of new water charges on the finances of Church of England churches. | | (245924) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 114
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment she has made of her Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246025) | 115
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 25 June 2008, Official Report, column 340W, on community relations: religion, when she expects to announce an independent review to examine with communities how to build the capacity of Islamic seminaries; who she expects to carry out the review; when she plans that it should report; what she estimates it will cost; and if she will make a statement. | | (245509) | 116
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Preventing Violent Extremism Community Leadership Fund will distribute in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11, broken down by (i) community capacity building, (ii) supporting young people, (iii) supporting women, (iv) building the capacity of faith leaders and (v) supporting local forums against Islamophobia. | | (245510) | 117
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which grievances referred to on page 36 of the report The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England published in June 2008 resonate most at (a) a local level and (b) a regional or national level; and which local authorities are most affected. | | (245511) | 118
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how she plans to ensure that councils are providing the tailored support through targeted prevent approaches to people who are at risk of, or are moving towards extremism, referred to in paragraph 36 of the Audit Commission report Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise. | | (245512) | 119
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how her Department plans to analyse and disseminate the learning of partnerships who have dealt with the direct impact of violent extremism in order to learn from their experience. | | (245513) | 120
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what work her Department has undertaken to establish which local authorities in receipt of funding from the Preventing Violent Extremism Pathfinder Fund have robust processes for commissioning and performance managing prevent projects; and how she intends to ensure that those areas which do not have robust processes in place will put them in place. | | (245514) | 121
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to develop a suite of information sources to enable Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships to have a clear process for mapping their communities and identifying vulnerability to violent extremism, as referred to in paragraph 60 of the Audit Commission report Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise. | | (245515) | 122
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that the Security Service, the Association of Chief Police Officers and regional government offices will develop an agreed structure for information sharing at an appropriate level between police, councils and other partners, as referred to on page 22 of the Audit Commission report Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise. | | (245516) | 123
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department plans to take to provide partnerships with more information identifying the factors that make some people vulnerable to becoming involved in violent extremism, as mentioned on page 23 of the Audit Commission report Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise; and if she will make a statement. | | (245517) | 124
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with respect to the Audit Commission report Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise, how she plans to rectify the absence of relevant information to determine the extent of local vulnerability referred to in paragraph 27. | | (245518) | 125
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how she plans to ensure that local Prevent partnerships develop the appropriate narrative referred to in paragraph 27 of the Audit Commission report Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise. | | (245519) | 126
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many staff in each Government Office work on cohesion and integration related issues; and what the cost of employing these staff is expected to be in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the two subsequent years. | | (245520) | 127
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many staff the Local Government Association employs; and how many of these work on issues relating to cohesion and integration. | | (245523) | 128
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the National Community Forum's main priorities are for 2008-09; how many staff the Forum employs; and what the annual running cost of the Forum will be in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the two following years; and if she will make a statement. | | (245524) | 129
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the expected running cost of the Homes and Communities Agency will be in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the two subsequent years; how many staff the Agency will employ; how many staff will work on cohesion-related issues; and if she will make a statement. | | (245525) | 130
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost of running her Department's Cohesion Directorate is expected to be in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the following two years; and what the costs are expected to be for the (i) Cohesion and Faiths Preventing Violent Extremism, Race Equality and Divesity divisions and (ii) Gypsy and Traveller unit. | | (245526) | 131
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many staff work in her Department's (a) Migration Directorate and (b) Cohesion Directorate, broken down by unit. | | (245527) | 132
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many staff the Improvement and Development Agency employs; how many staff work on cohesion, integration and migration issues; and what the cost of employing staff working on cohesion, integration and migration issues is expected to be in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the subsequent two years. | | (245528) | 133
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding the Improvement and Development Agency will receive from her Department in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the following two years. | | (245529) | 134
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many staff the Institute of Community Cohesion employs; and what funding her Department will provide to the Institute in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the following two years. | | (245530) | 135
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many staff the Community Development Foundation employs; how many of these work on cohesion and integration; and what funding her Department will provide to the Foundation in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the following two years. | | (245531) | 136
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many staff are employed by regional improvement efficiency partnerships (RIEPs) in each region; and how many staff in each RIEP work on cohesion-related issues. | | (245532) | 137
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much each regional improvement efficiency partnership will spend on cohesion and integration issues in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the following two years. | | (245533) | 138
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she plans to publish an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Preventing Violent Extremism Pathfinder fund. | | (245534) | 139
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what basis funding in support of work to prevent violent extremism has been allocated to local authorities for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (245535) | 140
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when her Department plans to publish its response to Lord Patel's review of community approaches to preventing violent extremism. | | (245537) | 141
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost of the Islam and Citizenship Education project will be in (a) 2008-09 and (b) the two following years; how many staff the project employs; and if she will make a statement. | | (245538) | 142
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the remit of the Young Muslim Advisory Group is; what the criteria will be for selecting its members; what she expects its running costs to be; what funds have been allocated to the group for the three years from 2008-09; and if she will make a statement. | | (245539) | 143
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 23 June 2008, Official Report, column 19W, on community relations: Islam, what the cost was of developing the framework of minimum standards for all imams and Muslim chaplains engaged in public service; and how much the pilots will cost in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the two subsequent years. | | (245541) | 144
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in which areas she plans to pilot a framework of recruitment standards for Muslim faith leaders in chaplaincy roles in public institutions; how the pilots will be evaluated; when this framework will be rolled out nationally; and if she will make a statement. | | (245542) | 145
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the Radical Middleway expects to announce the next phase of its programme; how many locations Radical Middleway plans to visit in 2008-09; and what funding will be allocated to the programme in the three years from 2008-09. | | (245543) | 146
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made in the roll out of Specialist Cohesion Team pilots; how much the teams (a) have cost to date and (b) are expected to cost in (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10 and (iii) 2010-11; how the pilots will be assessed; and if she will make a statement. | | (245544) | 147
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress the Equality and Human Rights Commission has made in convening forums with employers' networks, the CBI and the TUC to formulate action plans on cohesion. | | (245545) | 148
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects the National Community Forum to publish research on the experience of poor white communities, referred to on page 29 of the report, The Government's Response to the Commission on Integration and Cohesion. | | (245546) | 149
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects to publish the feasibility study regarding the provision for the integration of migrants referred to on page 43 of the report, Managing the Impacts of Migration: a Cross Government Approach. | | (245547) | 150
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects the National Community Forum to publish a report on what works to promote interaction between neighbourhoods, as referred to on page 46 of the report, The Government's Response to the Commission on Integration and Cohesion. | | (245548) | 151
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which Muslim organisations have received funding from the Preventing Violent Extremism Community Leadership Fund since June 2007. | | (245549) | 152
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have set up the multi-agency tension monitoring groups referred to in the document, Guidance for local authorities on community cohesion, contingency planning and tension monitoring, published in May 2008; what the estimated running cost will be of such monitoring groups is; and if she will make a statement. | | (245550) | 153
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have submitted to their Government Office monthly tension monitoring reports referred to in paragraph 66 of the publication, Guidance for local authorities on community cohesion, contingency planning and tension monitoring, published in May 2008; and what use the Government makes of these monthly reports. | | (245551) | 154
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her Department's definition is of political extremism, as referred to on page 18 of the report, Guidance for local authorities on community cohesion, contingency planning and tension monitoring. | | (245552) | 155
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what safeguards exist to prevent people from misusing the tension monitoring groups referred to in the report, Guidance for local authorities on community cohesion, contingency planning and tension monitoring, published in May 2008, in relation to local grievances. | | (245553) | 156
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what procedures will exist to enable individuals to appeal against inaccurate data about themselves gathered under the tension monitoring arrangements referred to in the report, Guidance for local authorities on community cohesion, contingency planning and tension monitoring, published in May 2008. | | (245554) | 157
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what further research she plans to commission to develop the Government's understanding of radicalisation and enhance its analytical powers; and what the timescale is for such research. | | (245555) | 158
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the regional conferences with young people to debate extremism issues referred to on page 8 of the report Preventing Violent Extremism: A Strategy for Delivery will be held; where they will be held; and if she will make a statement. | | (245556) | 159
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which are the countries with strong links to the UK referred to on page 7 of the report Preventing Violent Extremism: A Strategy for Delivery; and how these countries will implement work to support their communities overseas. | | (245557) | 160
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how the Government plans to promote the UK as a standard setter for Islamic studies outside the Islamic world, as referred to on page 4 of the report Preventing Violent Extremism: A Strategy for Delivery. | | (245558) | 161
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the Government plans to set up the centre of excellence to improve understanding between Muslim communities and cultural and sporting bodies referred to on page 33 of the report The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England; what the centre's remit will be; how many people it will employ; what its annual budget will be in the three years from 2008-09; and if she will make a statement. | | (245561) | 162
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost of the national de-radicalisation programme referred to on page 29 of the report The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England is expected to be in the three years from 2008-09; how many such schemes are currently operational; and if she will make a statement. | | (245562) | 163
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many vulnerable individuals have been referred to the Channel Project referred to on page 28 of the report The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England. | | (245563) | 164
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, who has responsibility for creating the points of referral for vulnerable individuals cited on page 27 of the report The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England; where these points of referral will be; who will refer vulnerable individuals to these points of referral; what support will be available to those individuals referred; what safeguards will exist to ensure that individuals are not referred mistakenly; what rights of appeal individuals will have against erroneous referrals; and if she will make a statement. | | (245564) | 165
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which towns in England the British Library's Sacred exhibition is visiting. | | (245565) | 166
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have mapped the denominational backgrounds of local communities as part of the programme to develop a deeper understanding of local communities referred to on page 12 of the report, The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England. | | (245566) | 167
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made in the development of the Continuous Professional Development Programme for Faith Leaders referred to on page 18 of the report, The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England; when this will be rolled out nationally; and how this project will be funded. | | (245567) | 168
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she plans to set up the team to analyse Prevent issues referred to on page 41 of The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England; how many people the team will comprise; and what estimate she has made of the annual cost of operating the team in the three years from 2008-09. | | (245595) | 169
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to assess information relating to international issues for their relevance to specific local communities as referred to in paragraph 125 of the Audit Commission's November 2008 report Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise; and if she will make a statement. | | (245694) | 170
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) children and (b) adults in the Peterborough City Council area were in temporary accommodation on 30 September (i) 2005, (ii) 2006, (iii) 2007 and (iv) 2008. | | (245797) | 171
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to improve the guidance her Department has issued on the changes to domestic permitted development rights; and if she will make a statement. | | (245605) | 172
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidelines her Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245711) | 173
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2008, Official Report, column 141W, how much housing stock (a) North Yorkshire local authority districts and (b) the City of York hold. | | (245677) | 174
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homelessness applications were made in each of the last three years (a) in total, (b) by those aged between 16 and 24 years old and (c) by those aged 24 years old and more in (i) Vale of York constituency, (ii) North Yorkshire and (iii) England. | | (245678) | 175
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many organisations her Department has contacted asking them to pay suppliers within 10 days of receiving an invoice. | | (244695) | 176
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1312W, on council tax: Wales; if she will publish details of council tax list alterations by local authority area in England in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 on the same basis, based on data held by the Valuation Office Agency. | | (245896) | 177
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what timetable her Department has set for council tax bills to be issued which include efficiency information. | | (245902) | 178
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the geographical barriers score of each Parliamentary constituency in the Indices of Deprivation 2007 was, ranked from highest to lowest. | | (245903) | 179
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the status of the revision of Planning Policy Statement 4 is; and if she will make a statement. | | (245904) | 180
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has given to local planning authorities on the application of dwelling space standards. | | (245905) | 181
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department holds records of individual transactions made in respect of her Department using the Government Procurement Card. | | (245906) | 182
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the specification for the Valuation Office Agency's council tax banding support tool. | | (245907) | 183
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding has been agreed for each of her Department's executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies for the period 2008-09 to 2010-11. | | (245908) | 184
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3 November 2008, Official Report, column 122W, on eco-towns, how much funding has been (a) provided to date and (b) committed for the future to the Town and Country Planning Association in relation to work on eco-towns; and for what purposes. | | (245926) | 185
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 29 October 2008, Official Report, column 1155W, on waste disposal, what (a) advice and (b) guidance has been issued to local authorities by (i) her Department and (ii) the Audit Commission on achieving efficiency savings by moving to alternate weekly collections of household waste. | | (245927) | 186
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1326W, on departmental training, what foreign language or languages she has undertaken training in to assist her in her Ministerial capacity; and how much the training has cost. | | (245928) | 187
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 958W, on Greater Manchester, how much funding has been given to the Community Network for Manchester through (a) the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and (b) the Working Neighbourhoods Fund. | | (245931) | 188
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 351W, on non-domestic rates: ports, what the aggregate rateable value in respect of each port in England and Wales affected by the change in valuation was (a) before and (b) after the change. | | (245932) | 189
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 13 October 2008, Official Report, column 983W, on local authorities: surveillance, which local authorities are now undertaking tension monitoring according to records held by her Department. | | (245937) | 190
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 13 October 2008, Official Report, column 971W, on Departmental accountancy, to which firms the sum of £3.1 million for the provision of furniture and fittings in 2007-08 was paid. | | (245938) | 191
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 13 October 2008, Official Report, column 990W, on urban areas: research, what account her Department has taken of proposals for polycentric mega-city regions in the formulation of its policy. | | (245939) | 192
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 22 July 2008, Official Report, columns 1152-3W, on the Communities in Control White Paper, what steps her Department is taking to implement the proposals on voting incentives. | | (245940) | 193
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 28 October 2008, Official Report, columns 887-88W, on non-domestic rates: valuation, what steps (a) her Department and (b) the Valuation Office Agency has taken to raise awareness amongst the licensees of licensed premises of the change of policy on material changes of circumstances arising from the prohibition of smoking on licensed premises. | | (245965) | 194
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new local authority and housing association dwellings were started in England in each year since 1979-80. | | (245979) | 195
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) purpose and (b) remit of her Department's Small Area Data programme is. | | (245980) | 196
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many firefighters in England and Wales have been trained (a) at the Fire Service College and (b) in Texas in the last 36 months. | | (245981) | 197
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether automated valuation model techniques are to be utilised in the proposed business rates revaluation in 2010. | | (245987) | 198
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with what frequency local authorities are required to conduct place surveys, broken down by authority (a) type and (b) tier; and what estimate she has made of the average cost of a survey to a local authority. | | (245988) | 199
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's 2005 publication, Citizen Engagement and Public Services, what progress has been made on plans to introduce neighbourhood improvement districts. | | (245989) | 200
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what exemptions from business rates have been applied to properties damaged by the Buncefield oil storage depot explosion. | | (245990) | 201
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the annual administration costs of the London Pensions Fund Authority are. | | (245991) | 202
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of new valuations of British ports for business rates by the Valuation Office Agency (a) have been completed and (b) remain incomplete. | | (245992) | 203
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on using semi-rural and rural land to provide Traveller sites. | | (245993) | 204
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans her Department has to publish the final version of the South East Plan by the end of 2008. | | (245994) | 205
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what working groups there are within her Department's Local Government Finance division. | | (245995) | 206
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which recommendations of the Pitt Review (a) her Department and (b) its agencies have implemented. | | (245996) | 207
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of numbers of data losses by local authorities in the last 12 months. | | (246007) | 208
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the proposed change in the (a) scale and (b) extent of the green belt around York arising from proposal YH9 of the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Spatial Strategy. | | (246008) | 209
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what arrangements are in place for (a) collection and (b) enforcement of business rates levied on ports. | | (246009) | 210
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effect of commission structures on the quality of investment advice to local authorities, with particular reference to advice to local authorities on investment in Icelandic banks. | | (246010) | 211
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the statement by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 236WH, on allotments, if she will make it her policy to extend the legislative protections which prevent allotments from being classified as previously developed land to residential gardens. | | (246036) | 212
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 10 November 2008, Official Report, House of Lords, column WA97, on housing: repossession, on what dates each regional summit was held; which local authorities attended each summit; and if she will place in the Library a copy of each of the handouts and presentations from the summits. | | (246037) | 213
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 22 April 2008, Official Report, column 1903W, on Travelling people: council tax, what guidance has been given to local authorities on whether unauthorised Traveller sites should receive rubbish collection services. | | (246039) | 214
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East paid rent in respect of his residence in Admiralty House during the period of time he resided there whilst not holding ministerial office. | | (246041) | 215
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) name and (b) address of each regional observatory is; and whether these bodies are classified as public authorities for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. | | (246042) | 216
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local planning authorities have made it their policy to recommend to householders that they obtain a certificate of lawfulness before exercising their permitted development rights in respect of household extensions. | | (246043) | 217
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consideration she has given to the need for further reform of legislation on rent reviews; and if she will make a statement. | | (246044) | 218
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the purpose of the Valuation Office Agency's notification change code CL26 is. | | (246045) | 219
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many eco-towns she expects to be constructed. | | (246046) | 220
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the letter sent by her Department to local authorities on the take-up of small business rate relief. | | (246047) | 221
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions she has had with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury on the subject of empty property business rates. | | (246048) | 222
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what changes have been made to the methodology used to (a) calculate and (b) count rough sleeping in the last 36 months; and what changes her Department is considering. | | (246049) | 223
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her Department's policy on earned autonomy is. | | (246050) | 224
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what (a) internal and (b) external legal opinions her Department has received on (i) changes to business rates for ports and (ii) associated new forms of valuation. | | (246051) | 225
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what (a) inspections and (b) audits the Tenants Service Authority plans to undertake in respect of local authorities; and what data it plans to collect from such authorities. | | (246052) | 226
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what dates she held meetings with (a) HBOS, (b) Nationwide, (c) Abbey, (d) Lloyds TSB, (e) Northern Rock, (f) Barclays, (g) RBS and (h) HSBC on the Government's repossessions policy before its announcement on 3 December 2008. | | (245610) | 227
N | Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge & Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, column 505W, on council tax: pensions, what proportion of local authority revenue went towards meeting pension liabilities and costs in the latest period for which information is available. | | (244484) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 228
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much National Lottery funding Arts Council England has (a) received and (b) distributed in each year since its inception. | | (245889) | 229
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much National Lottery funding Arts Council England has distributed for use on theatre projects in each year since its inception. | | (245909) | 230
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246024) | 231
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to give local authorities powers in relation to the siting of betting shops. | | (245144) | 232
N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what percentage of people aged 16 years and over (a) from black and ethnic minority groups, (b) with a limiting disability, (c) from lower socio-economic groups, (d) who were female and (e) from the total population, (i) did and (ii) did not regularly engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity level sport on at least three days a week in each of the last three years, broken down by region; and what assessment he has made of his Department's progress towards its Public Service Agreement targets in this area. | | (244956) | 233
N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what percentage of people aged 16 years and over (a) from black and ethnic minority groups, (b) with a limiting disability, (c) from lower socio-economic groups, (d) who were female and (e) from the total population, (i) did and (ii) did not participate in at least one active sport every four weeks in each of the last three years, broken down by region; and what assessment he has made of his Department's progress towards its Public Service Agreement targets in this area. | | (244957) | 234
N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what percentage of people aged 16 years and over (a) from black and ethnic minority groups, (b) with a limiting disability, (c) from lower socio-economic groups, (d) who were female and (e) from the total population, (i) did and (ii) did not (A) participate in two arts activities and (B) attend two arts events in each 12 months in each of the last three years, broken down by region; and what assessment he has made of his Department's progress towards its Public Service Agreement targets in this area. | | (244958) | 235
N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what percentage of people aged 16 years and over (a) from black and ethnic minority groups, (b) with a limiting disability, (c) from lower socio-economic groups, (d) who were female and (e) from the total population, (i) did and (ii) did not access at least one museum or gallery in each 12 months in each of the last three years, broken down by region; and what assessment he has made of his Department's progress towards its Public Service Agreement targets in this area. | | (244959) | 236
N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what percentage of people aged 16 years and over (a) from black and ethnic minority groups, (b) with a limiting disability, (c) from lower socio-economic groups, (d) who were female and (e) from the total population, (i) did and (ii) did not visit at least one designated historic environment site in each of the last three years, broken down by region; and what assessment he has made of his Department's progress towards its Public Service Agreement targets in this area. | | (244960) | 237
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 1 November 2006, Official Report, column 421W, on playing fields, how many planning applications have been approved affecting sites which either were too small or of the wrong shape to accommodate a playing pitch as currently defined in each year since 2004-05. | | (245462) | 238
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council plans to publish its final guidance on controversial publications in public libraries referred to on page 25 of Preventing Violent Extremism: Next Steps for Communities. | | (245585) | 239
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support the Government plans to provide to ensure that British production of television drama and film will not be disadvantaged in the current economic climate. | | (245806) | 240
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking in conjunction with Sport England to promote sport participation projects in the North East to meet regional priorities on health and well-being. | | (245859) | 241
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245712) | 242
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which organisations his Department consulted on the initiative to give free access to swimming for over 60s in the 12 months prior to announcing this programme. | | (245725) | 243
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funds (a) the Amateur Swimming Association and (b) Sport England provide for (i) the teaching of basic swimming and (ii) increasing swimming participation among people on low incomes. | | (245726) | 244
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who the members of the Swimming Advisory Group are; what work they have undertaken to date; and if he will make a statement. | | (245727) | 245
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all children under 14 are educated about water safety. | | (245728) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 246
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246015) | 247
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which organisation has managed each project funded by his Department in Helmand province since 2005; what the budget of each was; how much has been spent in each case; what monitoring, impact assessments and evaluations have been undertaken; and if he will make a statement. | | (245775) | 248
N | Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the active military sites located in Wales. | | (244797) | 249
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total defence budget is planned to be in each of the next two years. | | (245869) | 250
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 17 June 2008, Official Report, on influenza: disease control, what lessons to enhance the robustness and resilience of the system were identified in Operation United Endeavour II; in what ways these lessons are being addressed; and if he will make a statement. | | (245606) | 251
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 20 June 2008, Official Report, column 1205W, on armed forces: influenza, what proportion of the A/H5N1 vaccine stockpile held by the Department of Health is reserved for use by the armed forces. | | (245611) | 252
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 20 June 2008, Official Report, column 1204W, on armed forces: influenza, at which overseas locations antivirals are currently held; and what the total number of antiviral courses at each location is, broken down by type of antiviral. | | (245612) | 253
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 20 February 2008, Official Report, column 698W, on Armed Forces: influenza, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance note entitled Recovery of operational capability in the aftermath of a pandemic; what the titles are of all other guidance notes on which work was ongoing; whether work is ongoing on other guidance notes; and if he will make a statement. | | (245699) | 254
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245713) | 255
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) British citizens and (b) UK residents have been killed by unmanned drones operated by US forces since January 2002. | | (245445) | 256
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any official in his Department was given notice by any representative of (a) the Pakistan government and (b) the US administration of the US air strike on the village of Ali Khel on or before 22 November 2008. | | (245652) | 257
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he was first informed of the suspected death of Mr Rashid Rauf following a US air strike on the village of Ali Khel on 22 November 2008. | | (245656) | 258
N | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Engineer Depot at Long Marston has been used for dumping, burying or otherwise disposing of (a) asbestos and (b) other hazardous materials. | | (245147) | 259
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what monetary value his Department assigns to one life in its economic appraisals of (a) troop safety measures and (b) defence equipment; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245680) | 260
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much has been spent on ammunition for operations in Helmand province in each month since 2001; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (245682) | 261
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for how many months Royal Navy ships undertaking anti-piracy patrols have been located in the Gulf of Aden in the last 24 months. | | (244961) | 262
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cases of bullying within the Armed Forces have been reported in the last 24 months, broken down by armed service. | | (244962) | 263
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Christmas mail packages sent to armed forces personnel have incurred a penalty charge to the sender in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (244963) | 264
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) businesses and (b) individuals provided consultancy services to his Department in each of the last three years; and what the top 10 contracts by monetary value were in each case. | | (244964) | 265
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the effect on his Department's costs of the decision to put back the in-service date of HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. | | (245216) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 266
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of paragraphs 34 and 35 of the adjudication of the High Court on 17 October 2008 in respect of a case brought by Help the Aged and Friends of the Earth on enforcements of the Warm Homes Act 2000, in terms of the duty placed upon the responsible Secretary of State under section 3 of the Act. | | (245457) | 267
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 15 December 2008, Official Report, column 76WS, on the EU Energy Council, if he will (a) place in the Library and (b) post on his departmental website copies of the documents presented to the meeting by the Presidency and European Commission respectively; and if he will make a statement on the Government's responses to the proposals. | | (245607) | 268
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the robustness of the UK MARKAL model on least cost optimisation of energy use, as used by his Department; and whether the MARKAL model is made available to (a) academic institutions, (b) non-governmental organisations and (c) other external bodies. | | (245614) | 269
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the effect of carbon reduction commitments on energy prices. | | (245874) | 270
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many people his Department employs who receive a salary of over £100,000 per annum. | | (245875) | 271
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that energy suppliers in (a) the UK, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency do not increase their distant profits through increases to direct debit payments. | | (245841) | 272
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department and its predecessors have spent on the development of (a) renewable fuels and (b) clean engines in the last three years. | | (245868) | 273
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people with a cancer diagnosis who are living in fuel poverty. | | (245814) | 274
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will seek discussions with energy suppliers regarding the availability of social tariffs to cancer patients. | | (245815) | 275
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245714) | 276
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the fund established to assist fuel poor individuals has been spent to date. | | (244696) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 277
N | Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the evidential basis is for the Environment Agency's recommendation that a 250 metre buffer zone between a windrow composting site and the nearest residential dwelling is adequate for the protection of public health; and whether the same size of buffer zone applies where the composting process includes food waste. | | (244243) | 278
N | Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions the Environment Agency has had with the Health and Safety Executive on its 250 metre buffer zone between windrow composting sites and the nearest residential dwellings. | | (244244) | 279
N | Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Environment Agency has carried out wind turbulence modelling of the dispersion of bioaerosols in formulating its recommendations on the width of the buffer zone required between a windrow composting site and the nearest residences in different topographical conditions. | | (244245) | 280
N | Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many composting sites have been closed in England because of the potential impact of (a) bioaerosols, (b) odours, (c) environmental factors and (d) other factors on the health of residents living nearby in each of the last three years. | | (244246) | 281
N | Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will require the Environment Agency to provide guidance to local authorities on the most suitable type of waste management treatment facility appropriate to the geography of the area in which it is to be sited, taking account of the nearness to residents, topography and the local flora and fauna. | | (244247) | 282
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246023) | 283
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has spent on the development of (a) water and (b) waste recycling facilities in each of the last three years. | | (245867) | 284
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what sites in England contaminated by activities during the Second World War have yet to be cleaned up. | | (245603) | 285
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245715) | 286
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his policy is on advertisements for products produced with meat from EU countries other than Britain carrying the British tractor assured label; and what guidance he has issued to food retailers on the use of the label on foodstuffs produced elsewhere in the EU. | | (245707) | 287
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department has provided to Manchester is my Planet in the last 24 months. | | (245892) | 288
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many local authorities on average he expects to comprise each joint waste authority. | | (245893) | 289
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) name and (b) address of each regional technical advisory board is; and whether these bodies are classified as public authorities for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. | | (245894) | 290
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) name and (b) address of each regional climate change partnership is; and whether such bodies are classified as public authorities for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. | | (245895) | 291
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the speeches and presentations made by representatives of the Environment Agency at the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee Conference in November 2008. | | (245900) | 292
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the methodology approved for use by water companies to estimate assessed charges for water bills. | | (245901) | 293
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 13 October 2008, Official Report, column 923W, on domestic waste: waste disposal, how much funding has been given to each local authority from the Behaviour Change Local Fund; and on what date each payment was made. | | (245917) | 294
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 13 October 2008, Official Report, column 923W, on domestic waste: waste disposal, whether monies from the Behaviour Change Local Fund have been used to provide information about the case for alternate weekly collections. | | (245918) | 295
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 1229W, on religious buildings: fees and charges, whether an assessment of the effect on the voluntary sector of changes to charges on places of worship was made. | | (245920) | 296
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 1229W, on religious buildings: fees and charges, what estimate his Department has made of the average water bill for church premises. | | (245921) | 297
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 1010W, on domestic waste: waste disposal, what the (a) title and (b) date of publication of each item of guidance issued to local authorities on the use of fixed penalty notices in relation to household waste is. | | (245929) | 298
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 1015W, on geographical information systems, which Government bodies will participate in the provision of data to the national geo-portal. | | (245933) | 299
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which recommendations of the Pitt Review (a) his Department and (b) the Environment Agency have implemented. | | (245972) | 300
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 1229W, on religious buildings: fees and charges, what checks Ofwat undertakes; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that water companies do not gain additional revenue from new methods of charging. | | (246038) | 301
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to promote and increase the recycling of tyres. | | (245436) | 302
N | Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many demands to repay overpayments have been made against single farm payment scheme claimants in each of the last three years; and how many repayments have been made. | | (244977) | 303
N | Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) mean, (b) median, (c) highest and (d) lowest demand has been to repay overpayments made against single farm payment claimants in each of the last three years. | | (244978) | 304
N | Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total amount received is as a result of overpayment claims for the single payment scheme in each of the last three years. | | (244979) | 305
N | Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons reclaims of single farm payment overpayments were made in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (244980) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 306
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last (a) assessed the political situation in the Western Sahara and (b) considered the different options in the UN Security Council. | | (245757) | 307
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246018) | 308
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1794W, what the (a) duration and (b) cost was of the training he received; and which organisations supplied the training. | | (245793) | 309
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will discuss with his French counterpart the termination of Russian language broadcasts by EU member states to (a) Russia, (b) Belarus, (c) Azerbaijan and (d) Uzbekistan. | | (245877) | 310
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had on the restriction of Russian broadcasters to the UK since 1990. | | (245878) | 311
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of staff employed by the Russian Service of the BBC World Service were previously employed in media posts in the former USSR. | | (245879) | 312
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which organisation has managed each project funded by his Department in Helmand province since 2005; what the budget of each was; how much has been spent in each case; what monitoring, impact assessments and evaluations have been undertaken; and if he will make a statement. | | (245776) | 313
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement. | | (245145) | 314
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of governance structures in place in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement. | | (245146) | 315
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245716) | 316
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Prime Minister's meeting with the hon. Member for Belfast North and others on 10 December, whether he plans to press the government of Libya to reopen the question of compensation to victims of terrorism in the UK; and if he will make a statement. | | (244967) | 317
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy towards the People's Mojahedin of Iran is in the light of the recent judgment by the European Court of First Instance. | | (245442) | 318
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British citizens were imprisoned in Pakistan in 2006; and how many such citizens received consular assistance. | | (245443) | 319
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether Mr Rashid Rauf was contacted by consular officials in Pakistan during 2006. | | (245444) | 320
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether any official in his Department was given notice by any representative of (a) the Pakistan government and (b) the US administration of the US air strike on the village of Ali Khel on or before 22 November 2008. | | (245651) | 321
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether any official in his Department had any contact with Mr Rashid Rauf in (a) Pakistan and (b) Afghanistan during 2006. | | (245654) | 322
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to the Pakistan government on the suspected death of Mr Rashid Rauf following a US air strike on the village of Ali Khel on 22 November 2008. | | (245655) | 323
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has received confirmation of the death of Mr Rashid Rauf in the US air strike on the village of Ali Khel on 22 November 2008. | | (245657) | 324
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he was first informed of the suspected death of Mr Rashid Rauf following the US air strike on the village of Ali Khel on 22 November 2008. | | (245658) | 325
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the United States government on the suspected death of Mr Rashid Rauf following a US air strike on the village of Ali Khel on 22 November 2008. | | (245663) | 326
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department have (i) met and (ii) spoken on the telephone to representatives of (A) Anglo American plc, (B) BHP Billiton plc, (C) Rio Tinto plc, (D) Vedanta plc and (E) Xstrata plc since April 2007; and how many staff from each such company have been seconded to his Department in that period. | | (245891) | 327
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what use his Department is currently making of the property at 1 Carlton Gardens; whether negotiations over the lease with the Crown Estate Commissioners have now concluded; and whether the lease will be extended. | | (245923) | 328
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on political developments in Zimbabwe. | | (245465) | 329
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the Czech Republic's agenda for its Presidency of the EU. | | (245466) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 330
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department's carers' information service and helpline have been established. | | (245731) | 331
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which local councils received a preventative technology grant in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. | | (245732) | 332
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many user-led organisations have become user-led action and learning sites. | | (245733) | 333
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been allocated to the User-led Organisations Development Fund for 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (245734) | 334
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the extent of local use of his Department's resource tool National Support for Local Implementation in relation to long-term conditions. | | (245735) | 335
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made towards achieving the 11 quality requirements to improve treatment, care and support from diagnosis to end of life for people with neurological conditions in 2008. | | (245736) | 336
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the LinkAge Plus Programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (245737) | 337
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the Partnership for Patients Programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (245738) | 338
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in meeting the targets set by Local Area Agreements to which Ministers in his Department have subscribed; and if he will make a statement. | | (245739) | 339
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Choose and Book system is now operational throughout England. | | (245740) | 340
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish his national support programme for primary care trust board development. | | (245741) | 341
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the support and development framework for commissioners developed by strategic health authorities. | | (245742) | 342
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of NHS (a) acute and (b) mental health trusts have become NHS foundation trusts. | | (245743) | 343
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the role of the Maternity Matters Implementation Group in his Department is. | | (245744) | 344
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department plans to meet the commitment to enable all women to have choice over where and how they have their baby by 2009. | | (245745) | 345
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much he expects the Social Enterprise Investment Fund to spend in 2008-09. | | (245746) | 346
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on each of the 26 social enterprise pathfinder projects set up by his Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (245747) | 347
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for the Section 64 scheme and the Opportunities for Volunteering scheme of his Department's strategic review of funding and investment in the third sector. | | (245748) | 348
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress the Third Sector Funding and Investment Review has made on the development of a strategic framework for investment in the third sector by his Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (245749) | 349
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date his Department's report on developing effective responses for Asian women experiencing domestic violence was published. | | (245750) | 350
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the 17 capital funded projects designed to help eliminate the inappropriate use of adult psychiatric wards for children and young people. | | (245751) | 351
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government's undertaking that by November 2008 no child under the age of 16 years would be treated on an adult psychiatric ward has been met. | | (245752) | 352
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in the pilot of the NHS Early Years LifeCheck; and if he will make a statement. | | (245754) | 353
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date the schedule to and guidance on the most recent update of the Child Health Promotion Programme was published. | | (245755) | 354
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in developing a series of practical human rights tools to improve service planning and delivery in the NHS; and if he will make a statement. | | (245758) | 355
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the work of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Advisory Group; and if he will make a statement. | | (245759) | 356
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many primary care trusts are taking part in the Race for Health Programme. | | (245760) | 357
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many strategic health authorities are taking part in the Pacesetters Programme. | | (245761) | 358
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the results of the national social care recruitment campaign; and if he will make a statement. | | (245762) | 359
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in developing a National Skills Academy for Social Care; and if he will make a statement. | | (245763) | 360
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on modernising the regulation of healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement. | | (245764) | 361
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were employed in the NHS in April 2008. | | (245765) | 362
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions the People Matters Executive Group has met. | | (245766) | 363
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the work of Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health, Research and Care; and if he will make a statement. | | (245767) | 364
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the first cohort of National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigators has been appointed. | | (245768) | 365
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the funding sources of the National Institute for Health Research Faculty; and if he will make a statement. | | (245769) | 366
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date the Cooperation and Competition Panel was launched; and if he will make a statement. | | (246054) | 367
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions he has sought the advice of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel in relation to local (a) maternity and (b) accident and emergency services. | | (246055) | 368
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the result of the independent research programme commissioned by his Department to evaluate the impact of health sector reform is; and if he will make a statement. | | (246056) | 369
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in developing his better-targeted approach to payment for specialised services; and if he will make a statement. | | (246057) | 370
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246021) | 371
N | Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to discourage the use of food and drinks packaging containing bisphenol A. | | (244954) | 372
N | Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the safety of food and drinks packaging containing bisphenol A. | | (244955) | 373
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to (a) ensure equitable payment to dispensing appliance contractors and pharmacy contractors for equivalent services under Part IX of the Drug Tariff proposals and (b) extend the expensive prescription fee to dispensing appliance contractors. | | (245704) | 374
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department plans to allow patients with paranoid schizophrenia who have a history of violence to choose their own treatment options. | | (245730) | 375
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Caernarfon of 30 October 2008, Official Report, column 1245W, how many of the 926 prisoners with mental illness who were transferred from prison to hospital in 2007 (a) remain in hospital, (b) were returned to prison and (c) absconded. | | (245964) | 376
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many instances of tuberculosis have been recorded in (a) Gravesham, (b) Kent and (c) England in each quarter of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (246003) | 377
N | Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines exist for the isolation of patients being checked for C. difficile infection before a diagnosis has been reached. | | (244996) | 378
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15th December 2008, Official Report, column 450W, on food: safety, where the 21 public analyst laboratories are located. | | (245679) | 379
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which public analyst laboratories were open in 1997. | | (245803) | 380
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding has been made available to primary care trusts to assist them in fulfilling their statutory obligation to commission independent mental health advocates for people who have been detained under the Mental Health Act; and how that funding has been calculated. | | (245945) | 381
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department plans to issue to primary care trusts on responsible commissioning of independent mental health advocates services; and when guidance will be issued. | | (245946) | 382
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) adults and (b) children were admitted to accident and emergency departments in the North East after drinking alcohol in each of the last four years. | | (245805) | 383
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were harmed as a result of an error or missed diagnosis in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constitutency in the last 12 months. | | (245807) | 384
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the use of the contraception pill by female teenagers. | | (245846) | 385
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the numbers of teenage pregnancies in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. | | (245847) | 386
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support his Department plans to give to hospices in the next two years. | | (245853) | 387
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) children's hospices and (b) all hospices have received from the Government in each of the last five years. | | (245854) | 388
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase awareness of Down's syndrome. | | (245855) | 389
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on research into Down's syndrome in each of the last five years. | | (245856) | 390
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to provide (a) extra support for and (b) incentives to those attempting to give up smoking since the entry into force of the smoking ban. | | (245862) | 391
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 9 January 2008, Official Report, column 596W, on influenza, to which private sector organisations the National Capabilities Survey is sent. | | (245503) | 392
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 14 July 2008, Official Report, columns 203-4W, on influenza, whether plans for separate antiviral distribution channels to reach (a) hard-to-reach groups and (b) others for whom the Flu Line will not be suited have now been developed; how he defines (i) hard-to-reach groups and (ii) others for whom the Flu Line will not be suited; and if he will make a statement. | | (245504) | 393
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 14 July 2008, Official Report, columns 203-4W, on influenza, whether the antiviral stockpile referred to in the Answer has now been procured; over what period he intends the antiviral stockpile to be built; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the tender for the procurement. | | (245505) | 394
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 14 July 2008, Official Report, columns 203-4W, on influenza, what further consideration his Department has given to a policy of using antivirals for (a) household and (b) other prophylaxis. | | (245506) | 395
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which primary care trusts responded to the survey of exceptional funding requests described in appendix 1 of the report to him by the National cancer Director, Improving access to medicines for NHS patients, published on 4 November 2008; and, for each primary care trust, what the (a) number of exceptional circumstances requests made in the last 12 months was, (b) number of exceptional circumstances requests made for cancer treatment in the last 12 months was, (c) proportion of all exceptional circumstances requests made in the last 12 months which were approved was and (d) proportion of all exceptional circumstances requests made in the last 12 months for cancer treatments which were approved was. | | (245619) | 396
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many courses of zanamivir have been stockpiled to protect pregnant women in the event of an influenza pandemic. | | (245620) | 397
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints by patients relating to the refusal by a primary care trust to fund (a) a cancer and (b) a non-cancer treatment have been made (i) in the NHS, (ii) to the Healthcare Commission and (iii) to the Health Service Ombudsman in each year since 1997-98. | | (245621) | 398
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's presentation to the Cancer Policy Forum by Teresa Moss of June 2008. | | (245622) | 399
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer who have received HER2 testing. | | (245623) | 400
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on the process for appointing the new Strategic Health Authority Medical Directors as announced in the NHS Next Stage Review, High Quality Care for All, published on 30 June 2008. | | (245624) | 401
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what spending on the NHS in England has been in (a) real terms and (b) nominal terms in each year since 1990; and what estimate he has made of expenditure on the NHS in (i) real terms and (ii) nominal terms in England in each year until 2010-11. | | (245625) | 402
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the names are of all suppliers with which the NHS Direct NHS Trust holds contracts. | | (245626) | 403
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, to what proportion of primary care trust revenue allocations for the 2009-10 financial year the health inequalities formula has been applied, with the meaning described on page 28 of his Department's Report of the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation published 8 December 2008. | | (245627) | 404
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what variables are included in the weighted capitation formula used to inform primary care trust revenue allocation for 2009-10; and what the data sources are for each. | | (245628) | 405
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the weighted capitation targets per (a) unweighted and (b) weighted head are for (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10 (A) for England on average and (B) for each primary care trust. | | (245629) | 406
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the illustrative assessment of the impact of an influenza pandemic on the economy referred to on pages 21 to 22 of his Department's national framework for responding to an influenza pandemic. | | (245630) | 407
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what modelling work on the effects of an influenza pandemic has been undertaken by his Department in the last 12 months. | | (245631) | 408
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who the members of the independent committee which developed an ethical framework to inform the response to an influenza pandemic are, as referred to on page 14 of his Department's National Framework for responding to an influenza pandemic. | | (245632) | 409
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he next intends to issue an updated national framework for responding to an influenza pandemic. | | (245633) | 410
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department has received from (a) members of the public and (b) healthcare professionals on the supply of seasonal influenza vaccines for the 2008-09 winter. | | (245634) | 411
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure an adequate supply of seasonal influenza vaccines for the winter 2008-09 seasonal influenza immunisation programme; what discussions he has had with vaccine manufacturers on their capacity to supply adequate stocks of vaccine; which manufacturers are supplying vaccine to the UK; what information he has received about vaccine manufacturers encountering difficulties in (a) manufacturing and (b) delivering vaccines; and if he will make a statement. | | (245635) | 412
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the cost-benefit analysis of the vaccination of pregnant women against seasonal influenza referred to in the minutes of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's meeting of 14 February 2007. | | (245636) | 413
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Health Protection Agency will complete its work examining the impact of influenza on pregnant women referred to in the minutes of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's meeting of 14 February 2007; whether he intends to place a copy of the work in the Library; and if he will make a statement. | | (245637) | 414
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in what ways his Department is communicating to healthcare workers the importance of seasonal influenza immunisation, as stated in the minutes of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's meeting of 13 February 2008. | | (245638) | 415
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) people aged over 65, (b) people in other at risk groups, (c) healthcare workers and (d) poultry workers who received the seasonal influenza immunisation in each of the last five winters. | | (245639) | 416
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the 2008 National Capabilities Survey. | | (245640) | 417
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria will be used to assess whether an individual should be admitted to (a) secondary and (b) critical care in the event of an influenza pandemic. | | (245641) | 418
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what work has been undertaken by the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Behaviour and Communication sub-group since it was established; on what dates it has met since it was established; and if he will place in the Library copies of (a) papers considered by the sub-group and (b) minutes of all its meetings. | | (245642) | 419
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the antiviral stockpile for use in the event of an influenza pandemic is for use by (a) adults and (b) children. | | (245643) | 420
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the mass in milligrammes of oseltamivir stockpiled for use in the event of an influenza pandemic is; what the assumed dose in milligrammes of an individual course of treatment for (a) an adult and (b) children is; and if he will make a statement. | | (245644) | 421
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doses of A/H5N1 vaccine are held by his Department; what proportion of the stockpile is reserved for the (a) armed forces, (b) healthcare workers and (c) other groups; and if he will make a statement. | | (245645) | 422
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Eddisbury of 6 October 2008, Official Report, columns 424-25W, on hepatitis, how many drugs were dispensed for the treatment of hepatitis B in each year since 1997 (a) for England in total, (b) in each strategic health authority area and (c) broken down by type of drug. | | (245646) | 423
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Eddisbury of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 422W, on hepatitis, how many notifications of hepatitis B have been made to the Health Protection Agency and its predecessor bodies in each year since 1997 (a) for England in total and (b) in each strategic health authority area; and what estimate he has made of the overall prevalence of hepatitis B in each strategic health authority area. | | (245647) | 424
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, columns 927-28W, on NHS: drugs, which primary care trusts responded (a) in full and (b) in part to the Department of Health survey on exceptional funding procedures; and if he will place in the Library copies of all responses. | | (245648) | 425
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 926W, on NHS: drugs, if he will place in the Library copies of all submissions made to Professor Mike Richards' review reported on in Improving access to medicines for NHS patients. | | (245649) | 426
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 9 January 2008, Official Report, column 597W, on influenza, what consideration has been given to the merits of stockpiling (a) aprons and (b) gloves in case of an influenza pandemic. | | (245698) | 427
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 13 December 2007, Official Report, columns 873-4W, on influenza disease control, when his Department's stockpile of Tamiflu will pass its shelf-life. | | (245811) | 428
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 27 November 2007, Official Report, column 422W, on influenza, which antibiotics will be needed to treat the bacterial complications of pandemic influenza; when he intends to begin to stockpile those antibiotics; and if he will make a statement. | | (245812) | 429
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 8 December 2008, Official Report, columns 30-8WS, on primary care trust revenue allocations/NHS operating framework, what assessment he has made of the pace of change policy relating to the new resource allocation formula; and in what year he expects primary care trusts will receive an actual revenue allocation equivalent to the target revenue allocation determined by the weighted capitation formula. | | (245813) | 430
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of social workers working with local authorities but employed by an agency; and if he will make a statement. | | (245568) | 431
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent by each local authority on employing social workers via agencies in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (245569) | 432
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on the employment of social workers via agencies; and if he will make a statement. | | (245570) | 433
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245717) | 434
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the Children's Health Strategy. | | (245272) | 435
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proposals relating to children's palliative care will feature in the Children's Health Strategy. | | (245273) | 436
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has had on proposals in the Pharmacy White Paper; and if he will make a statement. | | (245756) | 437
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to publish the National Strategy for Dementia Care. | | (245696) | 438
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 21 October 2008, Official Report, column 302W, on the British National Formulary, whether the distribution to hospital doctors has taken place. | | (245799) | 439
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will give consideration to the replacement of treatments of hydroxocobalamin with cyanacobalamin; and what research his Department has commissioned into such treatment. | | (245729) | 440
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the stage at which chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder is diagnosed in the UK; and what information it holds on the stage of diagnosis in other EU countries for benchmarking purposes. | | (245770) | 441
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will include lung spirometry testing in the health MOT screening programme. | | (245771) | 442
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make routine pernicious anaemia testing available to vulnerable groups. | | (245834) | 443
N | Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the effect advances in peri-natal and neo-natal care have had on the number of babies with profound and multiple learning disabilities surviving beyond infancy; and if he will make a statement. | | (244802) | 444
N | Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the mortality rate of people with a learning disability has been in each of the last 30 years. | | (244803) | 445
N | Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children have been born with (a) Down's Syndrome and (b) Fragile X Syndrome in each of the last 30 years. | | (244804) | 446
N | Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with a learning disability received state-funded social care in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (244805) | 447
N | Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure black and minority ethnic communities are aware of the social care available to support people with a learning disability; and if he will make a statement. | | (244806) | 448
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each healthcare trust spent on sending patient medical records by taxi in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (245681) | 449
| Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent consideration his Department has given to the variability of rates of exception reporting on quality and outcomes framework (QOF) indicator CHD 08; what his assessment is of the reasons for the range in rates of exception reporting for QOF indicator CHD 08 in each year since the introduction of the framework; and if he will make a statement. | | (245880) | 450
| Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the difference between the lowest and highest rate of exception reporting for quality outcomes framework indicator CHD 08 was in each year since the introduction of the framework. | | (245881) | 451
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many organisations his Department has contacted asking them to pay suppliers within 10 days of receiving an invoice. | | (244694) | 452
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what remuneration packages senior civil servants in his Department receive; and what benefits in kind each has received in the last 12 months. | | (245982) | 453
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many accident and emergency departments there were in NHS organisations in England in the most recent quarter since figures are available from his Department's Quarterly Monitoring of Accident and Emergency Services dataset. | | (245983) | 454
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS trusts (a) paid and (b) did not pay 95 per cent. or more of undisputed invoices within contracts terms or 30 days where no terms had been agreed in (i) 2005-06, (ii) 2006-07 and (iii) 2007-08; and what the monetary value of those invoices was in each case in each year. | | (245984) | 455
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been recorded as having a (a) profound and multiple, (b) complex and (c) severe learning disability in each of the last five years; and how many people had a learning disability at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (245985) | 456
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the provision of social care packages for those with (a) profound and multiple, (b) complex and (c) severe learning disabilities cost his Department in each of the last five years. | | (245986) | 457
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people with a learning disability there will be in 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (245997) | 458
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged between14 and 18 years had a profound and multiple learning disability in each of the last five years. | | (245998) | 459
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with a learning disability recorded as living with parents over the ages of (a) 60, (b) 70 and (c) 80 years there were in each of the last 10 years. | | (245999) | 460
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people with a learning disability who will be living with parents aged over (a) 60, (b) 70 and (c) 80 years in 2028. | | (246000) | 461
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether local authorities are required to set a financial limit on the amount awarded to an individual for social care under an Individual Budget. | | (246001) | 462
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, where the NHS-led community mental health pilots for ex-servicemen are located; and when he expects each pilot to report. | | (246002) | 463
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, on connecting for health, what the maximum potential sum for each contract is. | | (246029) | 464
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, on NHS: information and communications technology, if he will place in the Library a copy of each of the breach of contract notices sent to Fujitsu. | | (246030) | 465
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2008, on NHS: information and communications technology, how many contractor event of default notices have been issued; on what dates and to whom such notices have been issued; what the reasons for issue were in each case; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each such notice. | | (246031) | 466
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 371-76W, on cancer: drugs, what the eligible patient population for each treatment was in each (a) month and (b) year; and how many of the eligible patient population died in each (i) month and (ii) year. | | (246032) | 467
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 930W, on NHS: information and communications technology, how many one-off payments have been made. | | (246033) | 468
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 930W, on NHS: information and communications technology, what payments have been made to aid with suppliers' capital costs under Connecting for Health and the London Programme for IT. | | (246034) | 469
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 930W, on NHS: information and communications technology, what payments have been made in advance to aid with Fujitsu's capital costs; and what mechanism there is for recouping those payments in the case of work not completed. | | (246035) | 470
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, column 518W, on the elderly: mentally incapacitated, which of the care homes were run by (a) private sector companies, (b) local authorities and (c) third sector organisations. | | (246062) | 471
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of the responses to his Department's consultation on the future of tobacco control were from (a) retailers or shop owners and (b) organisations funded wholly or in part by his Department. | | (245508) | 472
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what inspections the Healthcare Commission and its predecessor inspectorates has undertaken into Haringey Council in relation to services that relate to children since 2000. | | (245967) | 473
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding is given from the public purse to regional innovation hubs in the last year for which figures are available. | | (245968) | 474
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) name and (b) address of each regional public health observatory is; and whether these bodies are classified as public authorities for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. | | (245969) | 475
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the address of each regional tobacco control manager is; and whether they are classified as public authorities for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. | | (245970) | 476
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has provided to hospital trusts on aseptic dispensing. | | (245613) | 477
| Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what external (a) inspection and (b) monitoring of maternity care at (i) Leeds General Informary and (ii) St James's Hospital has taken place in the last two years; what recommendations were made; and if he will make a statement. | | (245662) | 478
| Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints on maternity care provided at (a) Leeds General Infirmary and (b) St James's Hospital have been received by (i) Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and (ii) his Department in each month of the last two years. | | (245664) | 479
| Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many parentcraft sessions were provided at (a) Leeds General Infirmary and (b) St James's Hospital in each month of the last two years. | | (245665) | 480
| Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which districts in the Yorkshire and Humberside Strategic Health Authority area (a) have and (b) have not achieved the Healthcare Commission's recommended ratio of midwives to deliveries. | | (245666) | 481
| Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent midwife agency staff have been employed at (a) Leeds General Infirmary and (b) St James's Hospital in each month of the last two years. | | (245667) | 482
| Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent midwives were in post at (a) Leeds General Infirmary and (b) St James's Hospital in each month of the last two years. | | (245668) | 483
| Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mothers had babies delivered at NHS hospitals in each district of the Yorkshire and Humberside Strategic Health Authority area in each of the last five years. | | (245669) | 484
| Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mothers had babies delivered at (a) Leeds General Infirmary and (b) St James's Hospital in each month of the last two years. | | (245670) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 485
N | Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North & Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what compensation payments have been made by (a) her Department and (b) private contractors working for her Department to immigration detainees in (i) response to allegations of unlawful detention, (ii) response to allegations of assault and (iii) total since 2004; and if she will make a statement. | | (244559) | 486
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the Independent Safeguarding Authority is funded; what considerations underlay the appointment of the chair, chief executive and board of the authority; what work it has undertaken to date; and if she will make a statement. | | (246053) | 487
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the cost of crime to business. | | (245794) | 488
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has for future staffing levels in the Business Crime Team. | | (245795) | 489
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people within her Department work exclusively on tackling business crime. | | (245796) | 490
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ministerial (a) taskforces and (b) action groups she is a member of. | | (245941) | 491
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to publish her estimate of the likely security costs arising from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. | | (245942) | 492
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of the provisional findings of the evaluation of alcohol arrest referral pilots. | | (245943) | 493
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Security Investment Authority will conduct its cost-benefit assessment on the potential requirement for licence holders to provide evidence that they have kept their competency up-to-date when applying for a renewal of their licence. | | (245944) | 494
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much (a) heroin and (b) crack cocaine has been seized in each of the last 10 years. | | (245947) | 495
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the street price of (a) heroin and (b) cocaine. | | (245948) | 496
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what quantities of (a) Class A, (b) Class B and (c) Class C drugs have been seized by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency in each of the last two years. | | (245949) | 497
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what performance targets have been set by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency in respect of its asset recovery function following recommendation (b) of the National Audit Office report on the Assets Recovery Agency. | | (245950) | 498
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to publish information on the assets recovery function of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency to enable value for money assessments to be made. | | (245951) | 499
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what pilot projects to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour have been launched by her Department since 1 January 2006. | | (245952) | 500
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made in the implementation of the National Closed Circuit Television Strategy; and if she will make a statement. | | (245953) | 501
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget for her Department's Anti-social Behaviour Action Line is; how many people work on running the action line; and how many calls it received in the last 12 months. | | (245954) | 502
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visits the Effective Practice database on the crime reduction website received in each of the last 12 months. | | (245955) | 503
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many vessels have been intercepted in British waters by the cutter fleet operated by the UK Border Agency in each of the last five years; and what quantity of drugs have been seized in such operations. | | (245956) | 504
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) publishes guidance to assist its officers on the circumstances in which a drugs seizure conducted by another agency is to be treated as having been made principally as a result of SOCA activity and information supplied by SOCA. | | (245957) | 505
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect on the career prospects of individuals of having unsubstantiated allegations on their Criminal Records Bureau disclosures. | | (246040) | 506
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment she has made of her Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246019) | 507
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many residents of (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency, (b) the London Borough of Bexley and (c) London gained full citizenship in each year since 1997. | | (245461) | 508
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, at which sites the Channel Project has been rolled out to date; and at which sites she plans to roll out the project in the future. | | (245498) | 509
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the full evaluation of the Channel Project referred to on page 46 of the Audit Commission report Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise. | | (245499) | 510
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures she has put in place to (a) provide accountability and (b) maintain community confidence in relation to the Channel Project. | | (245500) | 511
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take on the dissemination of information and academic research on the causes of violent extremism following the Audit Commission's report on Preventing Violent Extremism of November 2008; and what steps she plans to take to provide such information to local partnerships. | | (245501) | 512
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to develop National Indicator 35 into a measure of the achievement of outcomes as recommended by the Audit Commission in its November 2008 report, Preventing Violent Extremism. | | (245502) | 513
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which areas (a) have set up multi-agency partnerships focused on preventing violent extremism, referred to on page 9 of the report The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England published in June 2008, (b) have set up groups focused specifically on the Prevent Strategy and (c) are using an existing group, such as a Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership or Local Strategic Partnership. | | (245559) | 514
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who will have overall responsibility at a local level for the regular assessment and reviews of the threat of individuals and communities becoming involved in violent extremism, referred to on page 12 of the report The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England; how often such assessments will be carried out; and if she will make a statement. | | (245560) | 515
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff at the UK Border Agency are engaged in delivering the Agency's third strategic objective; where such staff are based; and what forecast she has made of the costs that will be incurred by the Agency in working towards this objective in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (245579) | 516
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department work on cohesion related issues; and what forecasts she has made of the cost of employing such staff in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (245580) | 517
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff work in her Department's Research Information and Communication Unit; what forecast she has made of the unit's operation costs in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11; and if she will make a statement. | | (245581) | 518
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which constabularies have undertaken exercises with objectives similar to Operation Nicole referred to on page 29 of The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England. | | (245596) | 519
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Border Agency staff are employed in managing the Refugee Integration Strategy; how many she estimates will be employed in 2009-10 and 2010-11; how much that strategy is expected to cost in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11; and if she will make a statement. | | (245683) | 520
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much she expects the Refugee Integration and Employment Service will cost to run in 2008-09 and in each of the following two years; how many staff are engaged in running the service; how many will be so engaged in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11; and if she will make a statement. | | (245684) | 521
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Border Agency staff are responsible for managing the Gateway resettlement programme; what estimate she has made of the cost of the Gateway project in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11; and if she will make a statement. | | (245685) | 522
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Border Agency staff are responsible for (a) managing citizenship applications and (b) developing citizenship policy; and what estimate she has made of the cost of employing these staff in (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10 and (iii) 2010-11. | | (245686) | 523
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Border Agency staff are employed in the Case Resolution Directorate; and what estimate she has made of the Directorate's running costs in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (245687) | 524
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Border Agency staff are employed in processing asylum applications; and what estimate she has made of the costs of employing these staff in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (245688) | 525
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Border Agency staff are involved in running the Family Naturalisation Process; and what estimate she has made of the running costs of the programme in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (245689) | 526
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff the Advisory Board on Naturalisation and Integration employs; what its running costs are expected to be in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11; and if she will make a statement. | | (245690) | 527
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are employed in organising the Migration Advisory Committee; and what estimate she has made of the Committee's running costs in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (245691) | 528
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are involved in running the Migration Impacts Forum; and what estimate she has made of the costs of running the Forum in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (245692) | 529
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how she plans to ensure that Independent Advisory Groups are able to deal with the aftermath of local counter-terror operations; and if she will make a statement. | | (245693) | 530
N | Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what security checks are carried out on (a) external companies contracted and (b) personnel employed to escort refugees being deported. | | (244686) | 531
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners held under immigration detention powers were held in (a) prison and (b) the immigration detention estate as at 1 December 2008. | | (245783) | 532
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners held under immigration powers in the immigration detention estate on 1 December 2008 had been given (a) a custodial sentence of more than four years, (b) a conviction for importation of class A drugs, (c) a conviction for a serious violent offence and (d) a conviction for a sexual offence that required them to be placed on the Sex Offender Register. | | (245784) | 533
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners with (a) custodial sentences of more than four years, (b) a conviction for importation of class A drugs, (c) a conviction for a serious violent offence and (d) a conviction for a sexual offence that required them to be placed on the Sex Offender Register have been granted immigration bail in each of the last five years. | | (245785) | 534
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners have been released into the community directly from Asylum and Immigration Tribunal hearings in each of the last five years. | | (245786) | 535
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden of 20 March 2008, Official Report, column 1275W, on alcoholic drinks: enforcement, how many people were (a) prosecuted, (b) convicted and (c) given a level two fine for the offence of failing to comply with a requirement by a constable regarding the consumption of alcohol in a designated public place in 2007. | | (244968) | 536
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bury St Edmunds of 30 June 2008, Official Report, column 710WA, on alcoholic drinks: young people, how many penalty notices for disorder for the offence of selling alcohol to a person aged under 18 years (a) were issued to persons aged 16 years and over in England and Wales in 2007, broken down by police force area; and how many such notices remain unpaid. | | (244969) | 537
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) warnings and (b) cautions have been issued related to the possession of knives in each of the last 10 years; how many prosecutions have been brought; and how many convictions have been secured for such offences. | | (244982) | 538
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) licensed and (b) unlicensed taxi drivers are on the National Sex Offender Register. | | (244597) | 539
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) licensed and (b) unlicensed taxi drivers have been charged with committing a sexual offence since 2001. | | (244598) | 540
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of police officers who committed suicide in each year since 2000. | | (246004) | 541
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what standards are in place for the provision of occupational health services for armed police officers; and what arrangements are made for the monitoring of the (a) physical and (b) mental health of such officers. | | (246005) | 542
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces do not have dedicated armed response units. | | (246006) | 543
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal weapons were confiscated by the Greater Manchester police force in each year since 1997. | | (244798) | 544
N | Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) successful prosecutions, (b) cautions and (c) issues of fixed penalty notices there were for use of a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008. | | (244799) | 545
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to address gun and knife crime in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. | | (245849) | 546
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines her Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245718) | 547
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department (a) has yet to make a decision on the immigration case of Mr W. H. of Aylesbury (reference: J1019588) following the representations from his solicitors on 20 October 2006 and (b) was unable, in its letter to the hon. Member for Aylesbury of 4 December 2008, to indicate any timescale for a decision. | | (245441) | 548
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any official in her Department had any contact with Mr Rashid Rauf in (a) Pakistan and (b) Afghanistan during 2006. | | (245653) | 549
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 30 October 2008, Official Report, columns 321-22W, on foreign workers: health services, how many economic migrants were working in each occupational category at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (246061) | 550
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 10 November 2008, Official Report, column 823W, on Ministers: official residences, if she will place in the Library a copy of the home information pack for the property at South Eaton Place; how much the pack cost; and whether a home condition report was purchased as part of the pack. | | (245930) | 551
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 17 March 2008, Official Report, columns 806-7W, on official residences, whether the right hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside paid rent in respect of his occupancy of the property at South Eaton Place during the two periods when he resided there whilst not holding Ministerial office. | | (245934) | 552
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 1374W, on surveillance: local authorities, how many of the determinations made in relation to the 554 complaints resulted in the complaint being upheld (a) wholly and (b) in part. | | (245935) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 553
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246022) | 554
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many staff in his Department are employed in (a) administering the English for Speakers of Other Languages programme and (b) developing content for citizenship courses; and what estimate he has made of the cost of employing such staff in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the next two financial years. | | (245584) | 555
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, when the Higher Education Funding Council for England plans to publish its report on means to increase the capacity for teaching Islamic studies. | | (245586) | 556
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 24 June 2008, Official Report, column 248W, on English language: education, when he expects to publish the independent impact assessment report on the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) measures introduced in August 2007; and what the expected cost of provision of ESOL is expected to be in (a) 2008-09 and (b) the two following years. | | (245706) | 557
| 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 provide opportunities for jobless people to learn new skills, with particular reference to the North East. | | (245866) | 558
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245719) | 559
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the economic impact of research in universities which have received less than £2 million of quality-related research funding in each year since 2002. | | (245616) | 560
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of research in universities with a strong profile in excellent research of national significance, as determined by the 2002 research assessment exercise, upon innovation and applied research in respect of (a) international companies, (b) the regional economies, (c) higher education exports, (d) the NHS and (e) other public and not-for-profit sectors. | | (245617) | 561
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what his Department's strategy is for ensuring that students in universities which are leaders in widening participation have equal access to a well-resourced research infrastructure in their university. | | (245618) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 562
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which organisation has managed each project funded by his Department in Helmand province since 2005; what the budget of each was; how much has been spent in each case; what monitoring, impact assessments and evaluations have been undertaken; and if he will make a statement. | | (245773) | 563
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the budget of his Department's provincial reconstruction team in Helmand province has been in each year since 2002; how much has been spent in each year; which organisations have managed the projects undertaken; what monitoring, impact assessments and evaluations have been undertaken in respect of each project in each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement. | | (245774) | 564
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the outcomes of each project undertaken by his Department in the areas of development and reconstruction in Helmand province were in each of the last three years. | | (245779) | 565
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which sectors in Afghanistan are covered by his Department's Helmand road map; how much is to be spent on the road map; how its effectiveness will be measured; and if he will make a statement. | | (245781) | 566
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's objectives in Helmand province are for the next two years. | | (245782) | 567
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245720) | 568
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, on how many occasions (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department have (i) met and (ii) spoken on the telephone to representatives of (A) Anglo American plc, (B) BHP Billiton plc, (C) Rio Tinto plc, (D) Vedanta plc and (E) Xstrata plc since April 2007; and how many staff from each such company have been seconded to his Department in that period. | | (245890) | 569
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many business class, work-related flights taken by members of his Department's staff through the flexible travel scheme were (a) eligible for downgrade to economy class and (b) downgraded to economy class in January 2008. | | (245463) | 570
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the (a) location, (b) duration, (c) purpose, (d) number of attendees and (e) date was of each of his Department's staff retreats in each of the last three years. | | (245464) | 571
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Wokingham of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 992W, on departmental pay, what the (a) total amount paid in bonuses was, (b) number of staff who were eligible for a bonuses and received (i) no bonus, (ii) a medium bonus and (iii) a maximum bonus was and (c) value of each of the five highest bonuses was; and what process is used to determine the level of bonus. | | (245700) | 572
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Wokingham of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 992W, on departmental pay, how many of the staff eligible for bonuses in 2007-08 were based (a) in the UK and (b) overseas. | | (245701) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 573
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246014) | 574
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what procedures must be followed to consult the governor of a prison on proposals to downgrade that prison. | | (245458) | 575
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the length of time between a prisoner's release and receipt of financial assistance. | | (245578) | 576
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1669-70W, on departmental public participation, when his Department will publish a response to each of the completed consultations still awaiting response. | | (245175) | 577
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment since 1997 have been released from custody. | | (245176) | 578
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to his Department of housing prisoners in court cells was in each of the last 24 months. | | (245177) | 579
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many former prisoners are employed by his Department; and what his Department's policy is on employing former prisoners. | | (245178) | 580
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the recent outbreak of sickness caused by a norovirus infection was first detected at HMP Young Offender Institute (YOI) Glen Parva; how many prisoners and staff have been infected since then; how many prisoners required medical treatment outside the YOI; how the infection was introduced into the YOI; when he expects the YOI to be clear of the infection; what effect the infection has had on (i) prison security and (ii) the provision of education and rehabilitation for the prisoners; and if he will make a statement. | | (245179) | 581
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Muslim prisoners there were in each prison in October (a) 2003, (b) 2004, (c) 2005, (d) 2006, (e) 2007 and (f) 2008; and what proportion of prisoners this represented in each prison. | | (245583) | 582
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners released from prison and subject to offender management programmes have breached the conditions and obligations of such programmes in each of the last five years. | | (245787) | 583
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions offender managers in cases involving foreign national prisoners whose cases fall within the scope of the victim contact scheme have not informed victim liaison officers of a prisoner's release into the community from custodial or immigration detention in each of the last three years. | | (245789) | 584
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners released on licence have failed to report to their offender manager in each of the last five years. | | (245790) | 585
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners granted immigration bail by Asylum and Immigration Tribunals have subsequently reoffended in each of the last five years. | | (245791) | 586
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what percentage of people convicted of carrying an illegal firearm under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 received the mandatory sentence established by the Act in each of the last five years, broken down by age group; and what the average length of sentence of those convicted of carrying an illegal firearm under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 was in each of the last five years. | | (244796) | 587
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people (a) were sentenced following conviction for the offence of possession of a knife in a public place in each of the last 10 years and (b) began to serve custodial sentences immediately, broken down by length of sentence. | | (244981) | 588
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were (a) charged, (b) convicted and (c) sentenced to immediate custody for offences relating to unlicensed taxis in each of the last five years. | | (244599) | 589
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245721) | 590
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings have taken place between the (a) National Offender Management Service and (b) Youth Justice Board and the Welsh Assembly Government to discuss the mental health needs of young offenders (i) in custody in Wales and (ii) in young offender institutions in England who have been assessed as requiring mental health services on release in each month of 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (245810) | 591
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of each of the responses to his Department's recent consultation on the implementation of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. | | (245975) | 592
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what timetable has been set for the completion of the cost-benefit assessment of e-counting in the 2008 London elections; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the assessment once it is completed. | | (245976) | 593
| Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which (a) publicly funded and (b) privately run women's prisons provide specialist help for inmates who have self-harmed; and in each case whether such help in each prison is made available on a permanent or temporary basis. | | (245671) | 594
| Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inmates there are in each (a) publicly funded and (b) privately run women's prison; and how many inmates in each had self-harmed in the last 12 months. | | (245672) | 595
| Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, at which prisons it is the practice to (a) photograph and (b) take fingerprint impressions from official visitors; and what action is taken in respect of such records following a visit. | | (245673) | Questions to the Leader of the House 596
N | 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, what the evidential basis was for the original calculation of expenditure on Computing for Labour. | | (244965) | 597
N | 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, what representations her Office received from (a) the Labour Party and (b) Computing for Labour following the publication of the original Answer. | | (244970) | 598
N | 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, if she will publish the individual expenditure by each hon. Member on payments to Computing for Labour in 2007-08. | | (244971) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 599
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many individuals there are in Northern Ireland who were released under the early release scheme in 1998 and following re-arrest or conviction are now in prison. | | (245138) | 600
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the latest estimate of the cost of (a) construction and (b) operation is of the new Police and Emergency Services Training facility at Cookstown in its first year of operation. | | (245139) | 601
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246013) | 602
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, for what reason he did not reply in writing to Question 212556 on prosecutions for offences involving agricultural vehicles tabled by the hon. Member for Thurrock on 17 June 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (245214) | 603
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many prosecutions for offences involving agricultural vehicles with inadequate lighting there have been in Northern Ireland in the last two years; and if he will make a statement. | | (245215) | 604
N | David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) EU and (b) non-EU foreign nationals have been resident in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years. | | (243979) | 605
N | David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the nature is of the implementation issues experienced by Access NI upon taking over background checks from the Police Service of Northern Ireland on 1 April 2008. | | (244809) | 606
N | David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what work was undertaken by Access NI in conjunction with other bodies in the UK to establish best practice prior to taking over background checks from the Police Service of Northern Ireland. | | (244810) | 607
N | David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what work has been undertaken to recitify the implementation issues experienced by Access NI upon taking over background checks from the Police Service of Northern Ireland; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of such work. | | (244811) | 608
N | David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what (a) resources and (b) personnel have been made available to Access NI in its first year of operation; and what assessment he has made of Access NI's ability to perform the functions it assumed from the Police Service of Northern Ireland regarding background checks. | | (245142) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 609
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what assessment she has made of the legacy to the North East from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. | | (245858) | 610
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what steps are being taken to ensure that (a) the North East and (b) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency are able to meet the goals and objectives set for the London 2012 Olympics. | | (245860) | 611
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what support is being provided to designated training facilities in the North East for athletes for London 2012 Olympics. | | (245861) | 612
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what assessment she has made of the effect of the current economic situation on the 2012 London Olympics. | | (245871) | Questions to the Prime Minister 613
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Prime Minister, what matters concerning (a) Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal and (b) Iran's nuclear programme, he discussed in his meeting with his Israeli counterpart on 16 December 2008. | | (245675) | 614
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 3 November 2008, Official Report, column 27W, on Imperial College London, whether the audience at the question and answer session he held on 27 October 2008 was selected solely at the discretion of Imperial College. | | (245780) | 615
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the effect of the current economic situation on the budgets of the security services. | | (245843) | 616
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 10 November 2008, Official Report, column 823W, on Ministers: official residences, what plans he has to bring forward proposals to repeal those provisions of the Greater London Highways and Road Traffic (Various Provisions) Order 2000 which exempt South Eaton Place from standard parking controls. | | (245936) | 617
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Prime Minister, on what dates he held meetings with (a) HBOS, (b) Nationwide, (c) Abbey, (d) Lloyds TSB, (e) Northern Rock, (f) Barclays, (g) RBS and (h) HSBC prior to the announcement of the Government's repossessions policy on 3 December 2008; and what matters were discussed. | | (245609) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 618
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246012) | 619
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent maintaining its website in each of the last five years. | | (245495) | 620
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department has spent on broadband internet in each of the last five years. | | (245496) | 621
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which internet providers his Department uses. | | (245497) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 622
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246020) | 623
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many residents of (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Bexley had driving licences suspended in each of the last three years. | | (245459) | 624
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new (a) provisional and (b) full driving licences were issued to residents of (i) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (ii) the London Borough of Bexley in each of the last three years. | | (245460) | 625
N | Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects to reply to the letter of 15 October 2008, sent by Mr Edward McMillan-Scott MEP, on the M.V. Coronia, Directive 98/18/EC and point 4.3 of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000. | | (244687) | 626
N | Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to make vehicle mileage readings taken as part of the MOT test available to organisations involved in tackling vehicle-related crime. | | (244692) | 627
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what effect the reduction in the rate of value added tax will have on the level of the Severn Bridges toll in 2009. | | (245210) | 628
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects to (a) make, (b) lay before Parliament and (c) bring into force the Severn Bridges Toll Order. | | (245211) | 629
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payment methods for the Severn Bridges toll are (a) permitted and (b) prohibited by the Severn Bridges Act 1992 and associated delegated legislation. | | (245212) | 630
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the level of the level of noise on the M27 between (a) junctions 11 and 12, (b) junctions 10 and 11, (c) junctions 9 and 10 and (d) junction 9 and the River Hamble; and whether this assessment has changed over the last 10 years. | | (245149) | 631
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has assessed the effects upon traffic congestion of the increase in tolls at the Dartford River Crossing; and if he will make a statement. | | (245883) | 632
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of exploring the option of a Manchester congestion charge. | | (245876) | 633
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245722) | 634
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has issued guidance to those local authorities involved in the cycling demonstration towns initiative on measuring changes in the use of cycling as a means of transport. | | (245882) | 635
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many children have been (a) killed and (b) seriously injured in road accidents when they were passengers in taxis in each of the last 10 years; and how many of those children in each case were not wearing seat belts or using child restraints. | | (245577) | 636
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what changes he expects the provisions of the Local Transport Act 2008 to make to the abilities of local authorities to subsidise local bus services for their community when brought into force; and what timetable he has set for the commencement of the Act's provisions. | | (245973) | 637
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which elected representatives (a) scrutinise the actions of safety camera partnerships and (b) determine their (i) policies and (ii) expenditure. | | (245974) | 638
N | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects work to start on a junction between the A12 and the Northern Approach Road at Colchester. | | (245148) | 639
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many modern operable train units are currently in storage. | | (245435) | 640
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that Network Rail meets its targets for renewal efficiency. | | (245437) | 641
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new carriages each train operating company has requested following his Department's announcement in January 2008 of its intention to increase rolling stock by 1,300 units. | | (245438) | 642
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what targets he has set for passenger satisfaction on each rail franchise; and how train operating companies performed against these targets in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. | | (245439) | 643
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of trends in the possession disruption indices for (a) passenger and (b) rail freight services over the next five years. | | (245702) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 644
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246011) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 645
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many staff in the Equalities and Human Rights Commission work on community cohesion issues; and what estimate she has made of the cost of employing such staff in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the following two financial years. | | (245582) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 646
N | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with Treasury Ministers on income support mortgage interest. | | (244807) | 647
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) disability, (e) sexual orientation and (f) religion or belief of its staff; and what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against its targets relating to diversity in its workforce. | | (246017) | 648
| Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2008, Official Report, column 420W, on social security benefits: overseas residence, how many of the 1,700 requests for payment of (a) the core component of disability living allowance, (b) attendance allowance and (c) carer's allowance from those who had previously lived in the UK and are now living in another EEA state or Switzerland have been granted. | | (245824) | 649
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the European Social Fund spending announced on 15 October 2008 and 4 November 2008 has been assigned to employment projects; what those projects are; and how much in total has been (a) assigned and (b) spent to date. | | (244800) | 650
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the European Social Fund spending announced on 15 October 2008 and 4 November 2008 came from funds already in his Department's budget for the spending period 2008-09 to 2010-11. | | (244801) | 651
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which constituencies are covered by each weather station used for the calculation of cold weather payments. | | (245140) | 652
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) payments and (b) recipients there were of cold weather payments in each constituency in each of the last five years. | | (245141) | 653
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average score and rank of multiple deprivation was for each constituency in England according to the Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2007. | | (245143) | 654
| Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time taken to process a funeral payment was in the latest period for which information is available; what the target time is; and if he will make a statement. | | (245816) | 655
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take in (a) the UK, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constitutency to ensure that his recently-announced policy on welfare reform will be effective. | | (245808) | 656
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effects of his recently-announced proposals for welfare reform on severely mentally and physically disabled people; and if he will make a statement. | | (245848) | 657
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on families in (a) the North East and (b) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency who have benefitted from the Government's policy on welfare reform. | | (245857) | 658
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have claimed pension payments from the Pension Protection Fund in (a) the UK, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each of the last five years. | | (245864) | 659
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness. | | (245724) | 660
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the policy of Jobcentre Plus on the employment of temporary staff (a) up to and (b) beyond 52 weeks is; and if he will make a statement. | | (245446) | 661
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, where each call centre used to answer telephone calls from members of the public to Jobcentre Plus helplines is located; and if he will make a statement. | | (245447) | 662
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what performance targets have been set to measure the quality of service given to members of the public calling Jobcentre Plus helplines; and if he will make a statement. | | (245448) | 663
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) staff and (b) full-time equivalent staff are employed to answer calls to Jobcentre Plus helplines; and if he will make a statement. | | (245449) | 664
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Social Fund cases are currently being handled clerically; and if he will make a statement. | | (245450) | 665
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) fixed-term and (b) casual temporary staff Jobcentre Plus employs. | | (245451) | 666
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many reported assaults there were on staff of (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's agencies in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (245452) | 667
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the policy of Jobcentre Plus is on the use of recorded messages on helplines used by members of the public. | | (245453) | 668
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to Jobcentre Plus of employing (a) fixed term temporary staff and (b) casual staff was (i) in each of the last three financial years and (ii) in 2008-09 to date. | | (245454) | 669
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much Job Centre Plus has spent on staff overtime payments (a) in each of the last three financial years and (b) in 2008-09 to date. | | (245455) | 670
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the monetary value of all social fund loans awaiting recovery. | | (245456) | 671
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what records Jobcentre Plus keeps of the (a) number, (b) direction, (c) content and (d) outcome of telephone calls to Jobcentre Plus helplines from members of the public; and if he will make a statement. | | (245660) | 672
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many days staff took as sick leave in (a) his Department and b) its agencies in each of the last three years for which figures are available; what the average number of days of sick leave per member of staff was in each year; and if he will make a statement. | | (245661) | 673
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) mean and (b) median number of days was for child maintenance to be sent to parents with care after the non-resident parent had made payment in (i) the most recent period for which figures are available and (b) over the last three years. | | (245228) | 674
| Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on rail warrants for customers to attend appointments required by the Department in the last year for which figures are available; and how many rail warrants were issued in this period. | | (245800) | 675
N | Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether restitution payments made to holocaust survivors are disregarded for the purposes of calculating entitlement to pension credit. | | (244953) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 676
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many staff in each regional development agency work on cohesion and integration; and what the cost of employing these staff is expected to be in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the two subsequent years. | | [Transferred] (245521) | 677
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much each regional development agency plans to spend on cohesion and integration work in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the two subsequent years. | | [Transferred] (245522) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 678
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 1084W, on borrowing: local authorities, how many local authorities have had their initial applications rejected for not meeting the lending terms in the last three years. | | [Transferred] (245897) | 679
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 1084W, on borrowing: local authorities, if he will publish the lending terms that local authorities must meet for applications to borrow to be approved. | | [Transferred] (245898) | 680
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the Chancellor will review the threshold turnover level for the Office of Government Commerce's facilities catalogue to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises whose turnover falls below £1 million are not discriminated against in favour of large companies. | | [Transferred] (245615) | 681
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations HM Revenue and Customs has received on the resources required to combat tax avoidance by major corporations. | | [Question Unstarred] (244648) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 682
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what role the Mosque and Imams National Advisory Body will play in assisting the UK Border Agency to develop pre-entry requirements for ministers of religion coming from abroad; what these requirements are likely to be; when they are likely to be implemented; and if she will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (245540) | 683
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding her Department has provided for Ordnance Survey to meet the costs of staff salaries in the last 12 months. | | [Transferred] (245960) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 684
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of security measures at British airports, with particular reference to those used for departures of flights transporting troops overseas. | | [Transferred] (245863) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 685
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Prime Minister's Statement on the EU Council Afghanistan, India and Pakistan of 15 December 2008, Official Report, columns 814-7, what the financial mechanism is to make available funds for the commercial demonstration of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology; how much of the nine billion euro of such funding will be contributed by the United Kingdom; and when he expects the first CCS demonstration project to be commissioned. | | [Transferred] (245507) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 686
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost per compost bin of the sales promotion under the Recycle Now Campaign was in each of the last two years. | | [Transferred] (245823) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 687
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the Prime Minister was first informed of the suspected death of Mr Rashid Rauf following the US air strike on the village of Ali Khel on 22 November 2008. | | [Transferred] (245659) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 688
| Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the competition implications of not extending the same prescription fee structure to dispensing appliance contractors and to pharmacies; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (245798) | 689
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the competition implications of not extending the same prescription fee structure to dispensing appliance and to pharmacies; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (245703) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 690
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners held under immigration detention powers have been granted bail in each of the last 10 years. | | [Transferred] (245792) | 691
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps the Government has taken to prevent domestic violence, with particular reference to the North East. | | [Transferred] (245870) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 692
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners released from prison and subject to offender management programmes and residency requirements (a) who have breached those residency requirements and (b) have whereabouts unknown to the National Offender Management Service there were in each of the last three years. | | [Transferred] (245788) | 693
| Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women are being held at Bronzefield Prison, Ashford, Middlesex; and how many of them are (a) on remand, (b) serving sentences of less than six months, (c) serving sentences of between six and 12 months, (d) serving sentences of between 12 months and five years, (e) serving time-limited sentences of more than five years, (f) serving life sentences and (g) foreign nationals. | | [Transferred] (245674) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 694
| Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the level of winter heating allowance which would need to be paid in order to prevent all excess winter deaths attributable to lack of heating. | | [Transferred] (245818) |
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