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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 2 February 2009
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 2 February 2009
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 2 February of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 2 February of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 2 February see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what progress has been made against the Government's target announced in the 2006 Budget to reduce the 3,000 business support schemes to 100 by 2010; and how many of those 3,000 schemes have been (a) ended and (b) merged with other schemes. | | (254002) | 2
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agencies. | | (253604) | 3
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what representation UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) has in Iran; and what services UKTI offers in that country. | | (253950) | 4
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when the Secretary of State plans to reply to the letter of 18 December 2008 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Thomas Stocker, transferred from the Ministry of Defence. | | (253872) | 5
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when the Secretary of State plans to reply to the letter of 22 December 2008 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr M. Gutteridge. | | (253873) | 6
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer of 10 January 2008, Official Report, column 782W, on regional development agencies: South East Region, when the evaluation of the effects of the South East England Development Agency's spending was completed; and if he will place a copy of the evaluation report in the Library. | | (253486) | 7
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 41W, on departmental expenditure limits (2008-09), for what reason there was a re-allocation of £2.5 million from the London Development Agency to the regional development agencies. | | (253487) | 8
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 25 November 2008, Official Report, columns 43-4WS, on Regional Development Agency (Board appointments), what political activity has been declared by each of the listed Board members. | | (253488) | 9
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 1114W, on the Regional Development Agency National Secretariat, on which external public affairs firms or consultants spending was incurred; and for what purposes each was engaged. | | (253516) | 10
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much each regional development agency spent on external consultants in 2007-08. | | (253768) | 11
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what allocations his Department has made to each regional development agency for (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11. | | (253769) | 12
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether the workplace parking charges being introduced by Nottingham City Council will be required to be paid in whole or in part by members of staff in respect of (a) Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service offices and (b) East Midlands Regional Development Agency offices located within the workplace parking charging zone. | | (253773) | 13
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what land holdings each regional development agency owns. | | (253777) | 14
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much each regional development agency has budgeted to pay in empty property business rates in 2008-09. | | (253778) | 15
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much has been spent on promoting the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme to potential borrowers since its creation; and if he will make a statement. | | (253632) | 16
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many firms have applied for funding under the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme since its creation; and how much has been lent under the scheme to date. | | (253633) | 17
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many applications for funding have been made to the Aspire fund since its creation; and what proportion of (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful applications made to the fund were from female entrepreneurs. | | (253634) | 18
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many firms have received funding from each of the Regional Venture Capital Funds (RVCFs) in each year since the funds were established; how much was lent by each RVCF in each of those years; how many applications for funding were declined by each RCVF in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (253635) | 19
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many contracts have been awarded through the supply2.gov website in each year since its creation; and what proportion of them were awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises. | | (253636) | 20
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many contracts have been awarded through the CompeteFor website in each year since its creation; what proportion of those contracts were awarded to small and medium-sized companies; and if he will make a statement. | | (253637) | 21
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the cost of running the (a) CompeteFor website and (b) supply2.gov website was in each of the last three years; how many unique visitors each site received in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (253638) | 22
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many meetings of the (a) Small Business Lending Monitoring Panel, (b) Small Business Lending Forum, (c) Regional Risk Finance Forum, (d) West Midlands Council of Economic Advisers and (e) Joint Economic Commission for the North West have taken place to date; who the members of each of the bodies are; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of each meeting. | | (253639) | 23
| Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps his Department is taking to improve the flow of credit to small businesses. | | (253480) | 24
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254068) | 25
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254093) | 26
| Mr Richard Shepherd (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many responses to letters received in his Department from hon. Members were outstanding in each month since September 2008. | | (253813) | 27
N | Sir Robert Smith (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the availability of mobile phone signals in rural areas. | | (253666) | 28
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether he expects the Doha round of trade negotiations to resume in 2009; and whether he expects them to include negotiations on a General Agreement on Trade in Services. | | (253504) | 29
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether the EU's proposals for Mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services include numerical limits in regard to the number of workers who could be granted entry to the UK. | | (253505) | 30
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether the EU/India free trade agreement under negotiation includes provision for movement of workers from India into the UK. | | (253508) | 31
| Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which arms export licences for arms sales to Israel have been approved in each of the last five years; and which of those licences were for components intended to be incorporated into larger equipment for onward export to third countries. | | (254161) | 32
| Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the evidence of the Economic and Business Minister to the Committee on Arms Export Controls on 21 January 2009, HC 178-i, how many licence applications (a) have been made and (b) are still current for head-up display units since 2002, broken down by country of destination; and how many such applications have been approved by country of destination. | | (254162) | 33
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what consideration the Government has given to a review of daylight-saving arrangements throughout the year; and if he will make a statement. | | (254037) | 34
N | Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether (a) the Secretary of State and his predecessor and (b) officials in his Department have received any (i) written and (ii) oral representations from Lord Taylor of Blackburn in the last 12 months. | | (253443) | 35
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what percentage of 18 to 21 year olds in (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment are being paid the national minimum wage; and if he will make a statement. | | (254122) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 36
N | Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of recent vehicle excise duty changes on car dealership businesses. | | (253699) | 37
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to reduce HM Revenue and Customs' 6.5 per cent. interest charge for late returned self-assessment tax returns. | | (254001) | 38
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much household debt there was in the UK in December 2008. | | (253087) | 39
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps UK Financial Investments Ltd is taking to monitor the use to which the recapitalisation funds provided by the Government to the banking industry are being put. | | (253482) | 40
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to outsource the provision of security at offices and operations of HM Revenue and Customs. | | (253484) | 41
| Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many non-UK born individuals have been in (a) public and (b) private sector employment in each year since 1978; and how many such individuals were in employment in each year. | | (253923) | 42
| Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will meet representatives of the bingo industry to discuss the levels of taxation upon their activities. | | (253927) | 43
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter of 18 October 2008 from the hon. Member for Romsey on provisions for the banking sector. | | (253511) | 44
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what administrative financial penalties may be levied by HM Revenue and Customs. | | (253601) | 45
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agencies. | | (253602) | 46
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date HM Revenue and Customs office in Chorley is planned to be closed. | | (253941) | 47
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what average payment has been made by parents into existing child trust fund accounts in (a) Houghton and Washington East constituency, (b) Sunderland, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since the scheme's inception. | | (254009) | 48
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to reduce levels of stamp duty for individuals in shared purchaser arrangements when they are purchasing the share of a house not in their possession. | | (253166) | 49
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to allow house purchasers to pay stamp duty only on the proportion of the house not in their ownership under shared purchaser arrangements. | | (253167) | 50
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, columns 468-9W, in relation to what other groups (a) HM Revenue and Customs and (b) its predecessor bodies have conducted similar sample surveys. | | (254108) | 51
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people in the UK without a bank or building society account, broken down by (a) age and (b) sex. | | (254148) | 52
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether a public authority advertising a contract in the Official Journal of the European Union may specify that preference will be given to a bidder who can demonstrate delivery of a local multiplier effect in the local economy; and if he will make a statement. | | (254181) | 53
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will reply to the letter sent to his Department by the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead dated 29 October 2008, regarding tax credits. | | (253972) | 54
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many offences of smuggling of illegal and counterfeit tobacco were recorded in each of the last five year. | | (253974) | 55
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses in each local authority area occupy premises with rateable values between £10,000 and £14,999; and if he will make a statement. | | (253628) | 56
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses occupy premises with rateable values below £10,000 are receiving small business rate relief; and if he will make a statement. | | (253629) | 57
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy to reduce the impact of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254065) | 58
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254094) | 59
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost was of the jobs summit held on 12 January 2009 at the Science Museum. | | (254106) | 60
| Mr Richard Shepherd (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many responses to letters received in his Department from hon. Members were outstanding in each month since September 2008. | | (253812) | 61
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to (a) reduce levels of alcohol and tobacco smuggling and (b) implement Article 15 of the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on illicit trade in tobacco products; and if he will make a statement. | | (253581) | 62
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what mechanisms are in place to monitor the effectiveness of HM Revenue and Customs in tackling the smuggling of alcohol and tobacco products; and if he will make a statement. | | (253664) | 63
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what evaluation he has made of the effectiveness of (a) tobacco and (b) alcohol industries' responses to smuggling of their products; and if he will make a statement. | | (253665) | 64
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the UK has taken at EU level to reduce the smuggling of alcohol and tobacco products; and if he will make a statement. | | (253667) | 65
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with EU counterparts on the smuggling of alcohol and tobacco products; and if he will make a statement. | | (253668) | 66
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of smuggling of (a) alcohol and (b) tobacco products. | | (253675) | 67
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the estimated losses to the Exchequer from (a) tobacco and (b) alcohol smuggling were in each of the last five years. | | (253676) | 68
N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to publish all reports submitted to him by Sir John Chadwick in the course of his work on support for Equitable Life policyholders; and if he will make a statement. | | (253208) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 69
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 6 October 2008, Official Report, columns 518-20W, on truancy, how many (a) fathers and (b) mothers were (i) fined and (ii) imprisoned for their children's non-attendance at school in 2007. | | (253395) | 70
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will give guidance to schools on the nomination of a named staff contact for parents who are concerned about bullying incidents in school and on the journey to and from school. | | (253397) | 71
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 26 January 2009, Official Report, columns 10-11, on child abuse, what steps his Department is taking to encourage parents and others who provide childcare to use non-physical means of modifying a child's behaviour. | | (253615) | 72
N | Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when Miss Emma Roberts of West Lancashire constituency will begin receiving education maintenance allowance payments; and whether those payments will be backdated to September 2008. | | (252783) | 73
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 26 January 2009, Official Report, column 165W, on pupils: English language, if he will provide the same information for (a) 2004 and (b) 1999. | | (253398) | 74
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the core subjects referred to in the second bullet point of page 4 of the National Strategies Annual Plan Summary 2008-09 document published by his Department are. | | (253939) | 75
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many individuals gained (a) Level 1 and (b) Level 2 numeracy qualifications through Allan Tests in the last five years. | | (253393) | 76
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many mathematics specialists have been officially appointed in primary schools since 1 June 2008. | | (253394) | 77
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many individuals gained mathematics GCSE at grade C or higher through passing equivalent tests or examinations in the last five years. | | (253396) | 78
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what type of training teachers providing drugs education in secondary schools are required to undertake; and what the duration of such training is. | | (254036) | 79
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his policy is on the provision of funding for children in their final year of secondary school who have repeated a year. | | (253700) | 80
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his Department's policy is on allowing children born in August to delay starting school until after they have reached the age of five. | | (253701) | 81
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether any administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department. | | (253600) | 82
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether officials of his Department who have lost laptops that were the property of his Department have been charged the full replacement value of the item in each case. | | (253640) | 83
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the teaching of history includes the history of other countries, including their perception of the UK. | | (253725) | 84
N | Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the merits of teaching intercultural competencies. | | (253726) | 85
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether his Department plans to issue guidance to its agencies on the use of the descriptors of key competencies for intercultural communication in the design and implementation of curricula at all levels of education, including teacher training. | | (253754) | 86
| Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the merits of the observance in educational institutions of a day of remembrance for crimes against humanity. | | (253756) | 87
| John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what funding provision his Department makes for schools in England where the proportion of children of service personnel is over 90 per cent; and if he will make it his policy to ensure that such schools receive funding on a basis similar to that applicable to schools serving HM Forces bases overseas. | | (253814) | 88
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he is taking to ensure that children in care are provided with stable accommodation. | | (253624) | 89
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the (a) original expected completion date and (b) current expected completion date is of each unfinished Building Schools for the Future project; and what the reasons are for delay in completion of each delayed project. | | (253948) | 90
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his policy is on the framework for the primary curriculum laid out in Sir Jim Rose's interim report. | | (254182) | 91
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he expects the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority to complete its work on progression statements and programmes of learning for the framework for the primary curriculum proposed in Sir Jim Rose's interim report. | | (254183) | 92
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what consideration he plans to give in his response to the Rose Review to the final report from the Cambridge Primary Review. | | (254184) | 93
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to his letter of correction, Deposited Paper 2008-2997, to the Answer of 28 October 2008, Official Report, column 596W, on teachers: males, how many maintained (a) primary and (b) secondary schools had fewer than (i) 10 per cent. (ii) 20 per cent. and (iii) 30 per cent. qualified male teachers in 2008. | | (253227) | 94
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much was spent on recruiting children's social workers in 2008. | | (253392) | 95
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, who preceded Paul Gray as Director of Children's Services in Doncaster. | | (253476) | 96
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department has spent on funding Sure Start centres in Blackpool since 1997. | | (253966) | 97
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many people used Sure Start centres in Blackpool in the last year for which figures are available. | | (253967) | 98
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many young people in Blackpool South constituency received education maintenance allowance in each year since the scheme was established. | | (253969) | 99
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many full-time vacancies there were in local authority maintained nurseries in each year since 1997; and what the rate of such full-time vacancies was in each of those years. | | (253623) | 100
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 936W, on Social Services: Haringey, if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of each Ofsted inspection of Haringey Council's children's social services since 2000. | | (253515) | 101
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether the workplace parking charges being introduced by Nottingham City Council will be required to be paid by members of staff in whole or in part in respect of National College for School Leadership offices located within the workplace parking charging zone. | | (253775) | 102
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the merits of re-introducing Serbo-Croat as a GCSE option in schools. | | (254180) | 103
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the proportion of students in receipt of free school meals is in (a) religious and (b) non-religious schools. | | (253493) | 104
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment was made of the previous record of ETS Global BV before granting it the key stage tests marking contract. | | (253496) | 105
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department is taking to encourage an increase in uptake of music (a) GCSE and (b) A level courses. | | (253497) | 106
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department is taking to provide facilities in schools for (a) sporting activity and (b) participation in the arts for young people in the South West. | | (253498) | 107
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what mechanisms his Department uses to assess the relevance of qualifications offered in schools and colleges to the requirements of employers. | | (253578) | 108
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what factors he has identified as the primary causes of the disparity between children from different ethnic groups in GCSE attainment. | | (253619) | 109
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the interim report of the Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum. | | (253620) | 110
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what funding his Department has provided to improve education about recycling in schools in the last five years. | | (253695) | 111
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effects of the implementation of the recommendation in the Faith in the System report on education as a whole; and what costs to his Department arose in the production and distribution of the report. | | (253696) | 112
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will make it his policy to implement online marking for Key Stage 2 national curriculum tests. | | (253697) | 113
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, by what means his Department plans to evaluate school-level indicators of well-being. | | (253743) | 114
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what research his Department has commissioned on pupils' and parents' views of testing in schools in the last two years. | | (253744) | 115
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he is taking to encourage and improve (a) individual, (b) parental and (c) community responsibility in improving education standards. | | (253804) | 116
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he is taking to encourage the study of history at GCSE and A-level. | | (253806) | 117
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether he has any plans to remove the requirement for a daily act of worship in schools. | | (253807) | 118
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254050) | 119
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many staff in his Department and its predecessor were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254092) | 120
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department is taking to improve the level of first aid training available to school children. | | (253852) | 121
N | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans his Department has to prevent 17 to 19 year-olds becoming unemployed during the current economic downturn. | | (252901) | 122
N | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many 16 to 19 year-olds have been recruited into apprenticeships in each of the last three years. | | (252902) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 123
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1126-27W, on v, how many (a) full-time, (b) part-time and (c) short-term opportunities have been created by v to date; and how many volunteers on average have filled each of these opportunity types. | | (254099) | 124
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, according to what criteria funds are allocated from the Community Assets Fund for councils to renovate community assets in preparation for the transfer of their management or ownership to community groups. | | (253713) | 125
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many and what proportion of people aged (a) over 50 and (b) 16 to 24 years were employed in the fourth quarter of 2008. | | (254049) | 126
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people aged 16 to 24 years in each region (a) in total and (b) per 100,000 population were unemployed in (i) last quarter for which figures are available and (ii) the same quarter of the previous year, in rank order from highest to lowest. | | (254173) | 127
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many and what proportion of (a) UK nationals, (b) people born in the UK, (c) foreign nationals, (d) non-UK EU nationals, (e) EU A8 nationals and (f) non-EU nationals of working age in the UK were in employment in the fourth quarter of 2008. | | (254174) | 128
| Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what percentage of live births were to (a) non-UK born and (b) foreign national mothers and fathers in each (i) primary care trust and (ii) strategic health authority are in each year since 1997. | | (253925) | 129
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what steps his Department has taken to determine which agency takes the lead role in responding to national flood emergencies since the publication of the Pitt Report on flooding. | | (253761) | 130
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many live births there were in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by the age of the mother. | | (254149) | 131
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what estimate he has made of the cost of the property database being created for the 2011 census. | | (253765) | 132
N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will bring forward legislation to establish a mandatory register of lobbyists as recommended by the Public Administration Select Committee; and if he will make a statement. | | (253509) | 133
N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many freedom of information requests refused in whole or in part by his Department are subject to further review by the Information Commissioner. | | (253510) | 134
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many staff in (a) the Prime Minister's Office and (b) the Leader of the House's Office were disciplined for (i) bullying and (ii) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254077) | 135
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who attended the Cabinet Office Leadership Conference on 17 March 2008; who the speakers were; and what the agenda was. | | (253503) | 136
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what proportion of their income was spent by (a) the poorest 10 per cent. and (b) the richest 10 per cent. of the population on (i) food and (ii) fuel in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (254113) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 137
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in each category of housing need were on local authority waiting lists in each London borough in each of the last 10 years. | | (253861) | 138
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) terms of reference and (b) timetable are for the review of the brownfield designation of garden land; and if she will make a statement. | | (253900) | 139
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what percentage of (a) all newly constructed dwellings were constructed on previously-developed land, (b) all dwellings on previously-developed land were newly constructed dwellings on previous residential land and (c) all newly-constructed dwellings were new dwellings on previously-residential land in each (i) region, (ii) county and (iii) local authority area in each of the last three years. | | (253940) | 140
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued to local community groups on accepting community transfer of libraries and other facilities. | | (253739) | 141
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on the transfer of facilities to community groups. | | (253741) | 142
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the target maximum period of time is for a council to conduct an anti-fraud investigation. | | (253752) | 143
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of recent levels of brownfield development in (a) the City of Southampton, (b) Test Valley borough and (c) Eastleigh borough. | | (254015) | 144
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who were homeless in (a) the City of Southampton, (b) the ceremonial county of Hampshire, (c) Test Valley borough and (d) England in each of the last five years. | | (254018) | 145
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Government has spent on organisations to help the homeless in (a) the City of Southampton, (b) the ceremonial county of Hampshire, (c) Test Valley borough and (d) England in each of the last five years. | | (254019) | 146
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the expected (a) level of Housing Revenue Account Subsidy and (b) number of households in social housing is in each local authority area in England for (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10. | | (253237) | 147
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the guideline social housing rent increase for (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11 is for each local authority in England. | | (253238) | 148
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she plans to announce (a) the results of the Housing Revenue Account Subsidy Review and (b) the Government response to the Taylor Review; and if she will make a statement. | | (253239) | 149
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what percentage of new homes built in each year since 1990 have been in each council tax band. | | (253240) | 150
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have applied for PFI contracts in each of the last five years; and what the value of each of these contracts was. | | (253241) | 151
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects local authorities to recover funds which they had deposited in Icelandic banks; and what proportion of those funds she expects will be recovered. | | (253571) | 152
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she plans to respond to the hon. Member for Truro and St Austell's report on rural economy and affordable housing; and if she will make a statement. | | (253627) | 153
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes were sold under the Social HomeBuy Scheme in (a) each region and (b) each London borough in (i) 2006-07, (ii) 2007-08 and (iii) 2008-09. | | (253569) | 154
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) landlords, (b) housing associations and (c) local authorities participated in the Social HomeBuy Scheme in (i) each region in England and (ii) each London borough in (A) 2006-07, (B) 2007-08 and (C) 2008-09. | | (253570) | 155
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what administrative financial penalties may be levied by her Department and its agencies. | | (253599) | 156
N | Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which Minister is responsible for overseeing the progress of the South West Regional Spatial Strategy. | | (253652) | 157
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consultations she had with (a) local authorities, (b) regional development agencies and (c) other stakeholders prior to the decision not to agree to an extension in respect of unspent Objective 1 and 2 European Regional Development Fund monies for England; and if she will make a statement. | | (253083) | 158
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she made of the merits of accepting the European Commission's proposed extension to the deadline for disbursement of unused monies from the 2000 to 2006 European Regional Development Fund Objectives 1 and 2 in respect of England; and if she will make a statement. | | (253084) | 159
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her most recent estimate is of the proportion of public buildings, schools and social housing which have been equipped with a fire safety water sprinkler system; and if she will make a statement. | | (253746) | 160
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many fire authorities participate in co-responding schemes enabling firefighters to administer first aid emergency treatment. | | (253748) | 161
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the merits of applying transitional relief to lower retrospective increases in business rates levied on businesses in the registered ports. | | (253244) | 162
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the statement of the Minister for Local Government of 19 January 2009, Official Report, column 600, whether changes to the ratings system of businesses in the registered ports will be revenue-neutral. | | (253471) | 163
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the statement of the Minister for Local Government of 19 January 2009, Official Report, column 600, what the estimated increase in net revenue in business rates from the changes to rateable values made over the 2005 to 2009 period is; and whether the revenue was taken into account in the business rate revenue estimates prepared for the Pre-Budget Report 2008. | | (253472) | 164
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the statement of the Minister for Local Government of 19 January 2009, Official Report, column 600, whether the £9 million increase in net rateable value was set as an international objective of the change in the way in which rates on businesses in the registered ports are calculated. | | (253473) | 165
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in what way the Local Authority Business Growth Incentive Scheme is being built systematically into the business rates system. | | (253650) | 166
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the timetable for publication of the new rateable values for each local business based on the 2010 rating list arising from the 2010 business rates revaluation is; and in which month she expects new bills be sent to local firms. | | (253651) | 167
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations her Department has received on the abolition of empty property tax relief for commercial premises in the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement. | | (253866) | 168
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding her Department plans to provide for the (a) establishment and (b) running costs of local authority leaders' boards. | | (253867) | 169
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what procedures apply to refunding by local authorities of overpayments of council tax in cases where a domestic property has been incorrectly banded by the Valuation Office Agency. | | (253868) | 170
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her estimate is of the average change in per capita Government funding in (a) district councils, (b) county councils, (c) London boroughs, (d) metropolitan councils, (e) existing unitary councils and (f) new unitary councils between 2008-09 and 2009-10. | | (253869) | 171
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her (a) powers and (b) responsibilities are to (i) approve and (ii) amend the final versions of the integrated regional strategies. | | (253870) | 172
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her estimate is of the average business rate bill in England in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10. | | (253876) | 173
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her estimate is of the percentage change in the level of business rates bills in England between 2008-09 and 2009-10. | | (253877) | 174
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which banks and building societies have agreed to participate in the Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme; and on what dates each agreed to do so. | | (253879) | 175
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what procedures apply to planning applications made to themselves by local planning authorities. | | (253880) | 176
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how the transitional relief in the 2010 business rates revaluation will be financed. | | (253881) | 177
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to make an assessment of the appropriateness of the legislative requirements on local authorities to place statutory notices in local newspapers. | | (253883) | 178
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department has taken to adopt Plain English standards in its publications. | | (253884) | 179
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the timetable is for the revision of the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Government Publicity. | | (253885) | 180
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what role regional ministers are playing in the development of regional spatial strategies. | | (253886) | 181
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average Band D council tax in each billing authority in Lincolnshire was in 2008-09 (a) before and (b) after the designation of the Lincolnshire police authority and the issuing of new bills. | | (253887) | 182
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether workplace parking spaces are valued for business rates purposes. | | (253888) | 183
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the reason is for the time taken by her Department to publish a consultation document on local spending reports. | | (253889) | 184
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department owns the property at 62 South Eaton Place, London for the purposes of the Land Registry. | | (253890) | 185
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what requirements there are on local authorities to provide (a) cashable and (b) non-cashable efficiency savings in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11. | | (253891) | 186
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether account is taken of the level of local authority reserves in allocating central grants to local authorities. | | (253892) | 187
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) home information packs and (b) home condition reports have been subsidised through central funding. | | (253893) | 188
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will ensure that Valuation Tribunal decisions relating to council tax liability cases are published in full on the Valuation Tribunal Service website, with personal information redacted. | | (253894) | 189
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release of 15 December 2008 on Homebuy, from which such budget the extra £100 million of funding from the project will come. | | (253895) | 190
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate has been made of the level of exposure of local authorities' (a) pension funds and (b) deposits with funds operated by Mr Bernard Madoff. | | (253896) | 191
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the timetable is for the publication of national policy statements (NPSs); and what subject topics each NPS will cover. | | (253898) | 192
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 303W, on departmental procurement, what the purpose was of the expenditure incurred by the Deputy Prime Minister's Office in respect of (a) Oddbins, (b) BMI Health Screening, (c) RAF Northolt, (d) Ecovert FM Ltd and (e) Apollo Photographers Ltd. | | (253938) | 193
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons new burdens funding will not be provided in relation to Project Fireguard. | | (254008) | 194
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): 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 23 June 2008, Official Report, column 24W, on departmental procurement, how much expenditure was incurred on each organisation listed in the chart in 2007-08, based on purchase order data held in the departmental financial system. | | (254011) | 195
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 351W, on non-domestic rates: ports, how the figure of approximately £200 million for the aggregate rateable value was calculated. | | (254012) | 196
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 111W, on non-domestic rates: empty property, if she will place in the Library a copy of the written representation from the urban regeneration companies. | | (253519) | 197
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much small business rate relief was claimed in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2005-06; and if she will make a statement. | | (253630) | 198
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions she has had with local authorities on the provision of local authority documents and other publications in translation. | | (253704) | 199
| Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the merits of establishing further community-based advisory groups modelled on the Young Muslim Advisory Group. | | (254178) | 200
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions she has had with representatives of the Fire Brigades Union on the safety of firefighters. | | (253557) | 201
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, further to the Answer of 20 November 2008, Official Report, column 760W, on deprivation indicators, which lower layer super output areas (LSOAs) fell within the 15 per cent. most deprived wards on the Index of Multiple Deprivation in each of the principal seaside towns in England in (a) 2004 and (b) 2007 for each field of the Index, listed (i) alphabetically by name of the town and (ii) by most to last deprived LSOA. | | (253556) | 202
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made towards gathering information on homes in multiple occupation and the employment status of people who live in such accommodation in order to address the gap in evidence identified in her Department's second response to the Communities and Local Government Committee's Report on coastal towns. | | (253609) | 203
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which seaside towns were included in the first wave of multi-area agreements; and which seaside towns she expects to enter into agreements as part of future waves of the multi-area agreement scheme. | | (253611) | 204
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made towards the development of an indicator to monitor numbers of benefit claimants in defined small areas under the new Local Government Performance Framework; and which bodies will be responsible for (a) data collection and (b) distribution of information on performance against the indicator. | | (253612) | 205
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made towards implementing the recommendations of the Communities and Local Government Committee in its report on Coastal Towns, that the Government undertake further research into the challenges facing coastal communities; and what timetable she has set for undertaking research in each policy area. | | (253613) | 206
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many vulnerable (a) adults and (b) children have been placed out-of-area in each year since 2005; and which were the most common destinations for such placements in each year. | | (253614) | 207
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many completed Social Homebuy sales there have been to date. | | (254023) | 208
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions her Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within her Department's responsibility. | | (254051) | 209
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many staff in her Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254091) | 210
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much it cost to set up the website http://ecotownsyoursay.direct.gov.uk; and what the monthly maintenance costs of the website are. | | (254126) | 211
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people visited each eco-town roadshow; and how much each roadshow cost to provide, broken down by cost category. | | (254128) | 212
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people have (a) written to her Department and (b) used her Department's online consultation to express their views about eco-towns; and how many representations by each method have been (i) favourable and (ii) not favourable to the Government's proposals. | | (254129) | 213
N | Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether (a) she and (b) her officials have received any representations from Lord Taylor of Blackburn in the last 12 months. | | (253444) | 214
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what area of land in each (a) constituency and (b) region of England was used as allotments in each of the last three years. | | (254112) | 215
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what further financial support she will make available to local authorities to help first-time home buyers. | | (253220) | 216
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities offer mortgage facilities for home buyers. | | (253221) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 217
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many disputes between a National Lottery player and a retailer referred to (a) Camelot and (b) the Lottery Commission were resolved in favour of (i) the player and (ii) the retailer in each of the last three years. | | (253085) | 218
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on procedures for public consultation on proposals to close a public library. | | (253673) | 219
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many local authorities have informed his Department that they have closed one or more public libraries in the last (a) six months, (b) 12 months and (c) two years. | | (253674) | 220
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of public library closures were preceded by a consultation period longer than six weeks in the last two years. | | (253742) | 221
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the proportion of public library closures reported to his Department before the closure takes place. | | (253747) | 222
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his Department's policy is on the development of community libraries. | | (253760) | 223
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has reviewed (a) the legal duties on and (b) guidance for local authorities on the closure of public libraries by local authorities in the last (i) 12 months, (ii) two years and (iii) five years. | | (253762) | 224
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what definition his Department uses of comprehensive and efficient in relation to library services. | | (253786) | 225
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of English Heritage's performance in facilitating the conservation of churches and places of worship. | | (253910) | 226
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has established (a) minimum consultation periods and (b) processes for public library closures by local authorities. | | (253912) | 227
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the proportion of public library closures which was preceded by effective consultation in the last two years. | | (253913) | 228
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effects of the Big Lottery Fund's scheme for libraries on the development of community libraries since October 2006. | | (253914) | 229
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department takes when it considers that a library has been closed without an effective consultation process. | | (253915) | 230
| Jim Dowd (Lewisham West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the cost of relocation of BBC staff to Media City, Salford; what discussions he has had on the subject with (a) the Director General of the BBC and (b) the BBC Trust; and if he will make a statement. | | (254032) | 231
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to review the number of Category B3 machines in adult gaming centres. | | (253232) | 232
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to bid for EU funding schemes for tourism in England during the current financial year. | | (253233) | 233
| Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will introduce measures to assist the bingo industry through regulation; and if he will make a statement. | | (253926) | 234
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether any administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agency. | | (253598) | 235
N | David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what role his Department is playing in relation to the Homecoming Scotland 2009 initiative. | | (253089) | 236
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to provide facilities for (a) sporting activity and (b) participation in the arts for young people in the South West. | | (253499) | 237
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of listed buildings which will be lost as a result of the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport. | | (253693) | 238
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254052) | 239
N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make it his policy to ensure that consumers seeking to purchase home broadband services have the option of purchasing such services without voice services; and if he will make a statement. | | (253209) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 240
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding his Department makes available to service personnel injured on operations. | | (252612) | 241
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps are being taken to increase levels of retention of service personnel. | | (252613) | 242
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps are being taken to improve the standard of personal protective equipment issued to service personnel. | | (252614) | 243
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve service accommodation. | | (252615) | 244
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department provides to service families remaining in the UK while service personnel are on overseas operations. | | (252616) | 245
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the UK armed forces are working as part of NATO training forces in Iraq. | | (253206) | 246
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what formal statement of co-operation in relation to UK forces operations and activities in Afghanistan has been approved by (a) NATO and (b) the EU. | | (253207) | 247
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2009, Official Report, column 35W, on Iraq: peace keeping operations, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of co-operation between his Department and the Department for International Development on conflict prevention immediately prior to the invasion of Iraq. | | (253210) | 248
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent assessment of the strength and capabilities of the (a) Afghan national army and (b) Afghan national police is. | | (253714) | 249
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel went absent without leave in each month of 2008. | | (253715) | 250
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the size of the Defence Intelligence Staff was in each year since 1997. | | (253716) | 251
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what percentage of personnel in each pinch point trade are exceeding their harmony guidelines for (a) tour intervals and (b) individual separated service in each service and trade type. | | (253717) | 252
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) requirement and (b) actual crew number for each ship type in the Royal Navy is. | | (253718) | 253
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2009, Official Report, column 40W, on warships, what the (a) required and (b) actual level of spare part availability has been for each (i) frigate, (ii) destroyer and (iii) submarine type in the Royal Navy in each year since 2001. | | (253787) | 254
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what percentage of service personnel (a) went absent without leave and (b) deserted in each of the last 10 years. | | (254034) | 255
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agencies. | | (253597) | 256
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of proposed job losses at Corus on the construction of the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers. | | (253477) | 257
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effects of his Department's procurement practices on British defence manufacturers. | | (253732) | 258
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) officers and (b) personnel in other ranks in each regular infantry and Royal Marine battalion were unfit for duty at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (253658) | 259
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2009, Official Report, column 486W, on departmental catering, which ethically traded products the Defence Food Services Integrated Project Team has introduced; and if he will make a statement. | | (254100) | 260
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2009, Official Report, column 486W, on departmental catering, what recommendations the Sustainability Working Group has made on the procurement of Fairtrade goods for use in (a) his Department's London headquarters and (b) the military establishment; and if he will make a statement. | | (254101) | 261
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2009, Official Report, column 23W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, how long the training will take; and what personnel will be involved in the training. | | (253215) | 262
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2009, Official Report, column 23W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, where the training of personnel will take place. | | (253216) | 263
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2009, Official Report, column 23W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, what aspects of the flying training will be conducted. | | (253217) | 264
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was spent in total by his Department on operations in the Falkland Islands in each of the last five years. | | (253218) | 265
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of Merlin helicopters have been fit for service in each year since 2003. | | (253219) | 266
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254089) | 267
N | Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will update the figures given on detainee numbers as set out in his letter of 17 November 2008 to the right hon. Member for North East Hampshire; and if he will make a statement | | (253242) | 268
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his plans for the future of the Gurkha regiments are. | | (254133) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 269
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether Ofgem has received notifications from energy supply companies of intentions to reduce domestic energy prices since British Gas last reduced its prices to domestic consumers. | | (253911) | 270
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make arrangements for steel manufacturers to have access to energy supplies at sub-market prices. | | (253485) | 271
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions (a) he and (b) his officials have had with private equity firms on the provision of future funding for (i) the UK Atomic Energy Authority and (ii) the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate. | | (253921) | 272
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many secondees from the nuclear industrial sector (a) within the UK and (b) abroad have been recruited to the Office of Nuclear Development; for what period each is seconded; who pays their salary; and what criteria were used in their appointment. | | (253931) | 273
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) project managers and (b) administration managers have been recruited to the generic design assessment (GDA) team for new nuclear build; and what the cost has been to date of conducting the nuclear GDA. | | (253965) | 274
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when phase 2 of the low carbon buildings grant will end; and what arrangements have been put in place for a replacement. | | (253788) | 275
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proposals for capture of carbon dioxide emissions the Government has approved in each of the last five years; what recent assessment he has made of the commercial viability of carbon capture technology; and if he will make a statement. | | (253698) | 276
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether any administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department. | | (253595) | 277
| Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what consideration his Department gave to extending the availability of Low Carbon Buildings Programme grants to commercial and public sector applicants to mid-2010. | | (254102) | 278
| Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much of the £50 million allocated to the Low Carbon Buildings Programme phase 2 has been committed to projects. | | (254103) | 279
| Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect on the renewables sector of the planned closure of phase 2 of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme in June 2009. | | (254104) | 280
| Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what timescale has been established for the introduction of the feed-in tariff scheme. | | (254105) | 281
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he next expects to release up-to-date figures on the number of people living in fuel poverty. | | (253731) | 282
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he plans to reply to the letter of 23 December 2008 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Councillor Mike Amesbury. | | (253875) | 283
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many grant applications the low carbon buildings programme has received from households in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire since the programme was established. | | (253784) | 284
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many applications for Warm Front grants have been (a) made and (b) refused in the last 12 months. | | (253605) | 285
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254053) | 286
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254090) | 287
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many one-stop advice centres have been set-up through the Energy Saving Trust; and how many people have used each. | | (254123) | 288
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many communities have had environmentally-friendly improvements sponsored by the Green Neighbourhoods Initiative. | | (254124) | 289
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many of the 100 million (a) free and (b) subsidised low-energy light bulbs which the Government undertook to provide under the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target have been distributed. | | (254125) | 290
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the (a) set-up and (b) maintenance costs of the Act on CO2 advice line are; and how many calls have been received on the line since its establishment. | | (254127) | 291
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many people aged (a) under and (b) over 60 years in each (i) region and (ii) local authority area (A) were offered a Warm Front grant, (B) were required to pay a top-up to a Warm Front grant and (C) did not take up a Warm Front grant offer in each of the last five years. | | (253606) | 292
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make it his policy to provide guidance to local authorities on the sale of surplus electricity generated by such authorities back to the National Grid; and if he will make a statement. | | (253579) | 293
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of UK greenhouse gas emissions from (a) travel, (b) domestic use and (c) agriculture in each of the last three years. | | (254132) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 294
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the percentage of sewer blockages caused by used cooking oil, fat, soils and greases in the last 12 months. | | (253712) | 295
| Mr Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the European Commission's proposals for an EU-wide regulatory approach on non-native invasive species in its Communication entitled Towards an EU Strategy on Invasive Species. | | (253810) | 296
| Mr Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the Convention on Biological Diversity's proposals for a global approach on non-native invasive species. | | (253811) | 297
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions are planned with his European Union counterparts on the draft Soil Framework Directive. | | (253922) | 298
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proposals he has to link schemes with environmental benefits to the single farm payment. | | (253899) | 299
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to improve country of origin labelling. | | (253937) | 300
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his policy is on (a) proposals to increase the amount of land currently farmed for crops being set aside and (b) proposals for the location of such land within (i) farm holdings and (ii) individual fields. | | (253808) | 301
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the reasons are for the time taken to announce the location of the Maritime Management Organisation Headquarters; and if he will make a statement. | | (253737) | 302
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to make an announcement on the location of the Marine Management organisation headquarters; and if he will make a statement. | | (253738) | 303
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average farm income was in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland for each of the last 10 years. | | (254033) | 304
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agencies. | | (253596) | 305
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to strengthen the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species licensing system following the recent changes to Schedule 4 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. | | (253749) | 306
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what process his Department has put in place for the use of DNA testing to track the movement of peregrine falcons and merlins suspected of having been taken illegally from the wild after they have been sold on to new owners. | | (253750) | 307
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the latest timetable is for the establishment of joint waste authorities. | | (253878) | 308
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which measures outlined in Articles 20 to 65, Title IV of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1698/2005 on support for rural developments by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development have been adopted as measures within the Rural Development Programme for England 2007 to 2013; for what reasons those measures not included in the Programme were omitted; and if he will make a statement. | | (253685) | 309
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what dredging of the River Severn between Gloucester and Tewkesbury has taken place over the last five years; what the Environment Agency's policy is on the dredging of rivers; and if he will make a statement. | | (253558) | 310
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which Government department and Minister has overall responsibility for ensuring that the (a) River Severn and (b) River Avon remain navigable; and if he will make a statement. | | (253559) | 311
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has been collected in licence fees from users of (a) the River Avon and (b) the River Severn in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (253560) | 312
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what dredging has taken place of the River Avon between Tewkesbury and Eckington in the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (253561) | 313
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what national targets his Department has for the reduction of levels of food waste; and if he will make a statement. | | (253621) | 314
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department provided for the Waste and Resources Action Programme in each of the last nine years. | | (253622) | 315
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254054) | 316
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254088) | 317
| Ms Angela C. Smith (Sheffield, Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2009, Official Report, column 320W, on birds, about what elements of the report there were uncertainties; what the reasons are for the time taken to resolve such uncertainties; and whether the contract made provision for financial penalties for late or sub-standard delivery. | | (253683) | 318
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effects of simultaneous discharges of slurry in nitrate vulnerable zones at the end of the closed season; and if he will make a statement. | | (254070) | 319
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the cost to farmers of compliance with the new nitrate vulnerable zones. | | (253928) | 320
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the nitrate vulnerable zone regulations on the sustainability of the farming industry; and if he will make a statement. | | (253929) | 321
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of cases of bovine tuberculosis in the South West. | | (253930) | 322
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the set-aside mitigation measures in cross-compliance on the farming industry. | | (253945) | 323
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the cost to farmers of compliance with the new measures for electronic identification of sheep. | | (253946) | 324
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the new measures for electronic identification of sheep on the sustainability of the farming industry; and if he will make a statement. | | (253947) | 325
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the EU sea fishing quotas for 2008 on the profitability of the British fishing industry; and if he will make a statement. | | (254073) | 326
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the food consumed in the UK in each of the last three years was (a) produced domestically and (b) imported. | | (254074) | 327
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the (a) fruit and (b) vegetables sold by domestic retailers was produced in the UK in each of the last three years. | | (254075) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 328
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to seek to ensure that the people of Western Sahara have a referendum on self-determination before 2010. | | (253663) | 329
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the declaration of an exclusive economic zone by the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic concerning the waters off Western Sahara. | | (254097) | 330
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received on the observance in the UK of the Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories pursuant to UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/63/110; and if he will make a statement. | | (254098) | 331
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of (a) closures of churches in Burma and (b) the treatment of Christians in that country; what recent representations he has made to the government of Burma on the matter; and if he will make a statement. | | (254176) | 332
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of (a) attacks on the Abu Fana monastery in Egypt and (b) the risk of attacks on the Coptic community in Egypt; and if he will make a statement. | | (254177) | 333
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the reply to the right hon. Member for Devizes of 27 January 2009, Official Report, columns 390-1W, on what date in December 2008 he was first made aware that rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza. | | (254038) | 334
N | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to seek to bring about a ceasefire in Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement. | | (253467) | 335
N | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Sri Lankan government to stop its offensive in Tamil areas and to ensure that government forces respect human rights; and if he will make a statement. | | (253468) | 336
N | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) civilian and (b) military casualties in the recent fighting in the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement. | | (253469) | 337
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the governments of (a) the Democratic Republic of Congo and (b) Rwanda on the serving of the International Criminal Court warrant on Bosco Ntganda; and whether MONVC has also been tasked to take part in such an operation. | | (253994) | 338
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to assist in the resolution of the boundary disputes between Croatia and Slovenia. | | (253751) | 339
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of EU disbursements for (a) operations and (b) other commitments in Afghanistan is met from UK contributions. | | (253204) | 340
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether any administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agencies. | | (253594) | 341
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent proposals the UK has put forward to resolve the political situation in Zimbabwe; and what plans he has to place the situation in Zimbabwe on the formal agenda of the UN Security Council. | | (253951) | 342
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made in securing additional (a) personnel, (b) resources and (c) airlift capability for the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1843 on 20 November 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (253952) | 343
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he next expects the foreign ministers of the P5+1 to meet to discuss a new UN Security Council Resolution on Iran; and if he will make a statement. | | (253953) | 344
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received from the government of Iran on the decision to de-proscribe the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran as a terrorist organisation within the European Union; and if he will make a statement. | | (253954) | 345
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the security situation in the Somali capital in the light of reports that Islamist forces have entered the city. | | (253955) | 346
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to seek agreement on the extension of the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia beyond 19 March 2009. | | (253956) | 347
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recommendations the Cabinet Office review of the UK's civilian expert capability made in relation to the operation of his Department; and what steps are being taken to implement them. | | (253957) | 348
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications of the decision by Miroslav Lajcak, High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, to step down from that post; and if he will make a statement. | | (253958) | 349
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to propose a UK candidate for the position of High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | | (253959) | 350
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the appointment of a new High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | | (253960) | 351
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2009, Official Report, columns 598-600W, how many policy positions in his Department were (a) created and (b) deleted in each financial year since 1997. | | (253963) | 352
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2009, Official Report, column 1519W, on armed conflict: reconstruction, if he will place a copy of the Cabinet Office review of the UK's civilian expert capability in the Library. | | (253964) | 353
N | Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions took place between members of the Quartet on proposals to stop the flow of weapons into Gaza (a) before and (b) after the appointment of Tony Blair as Envoy. | | (253213) | 354
N | Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) his US counterpart, (b) his Israeli counterpart and (c) others to discuss the flow of weapons into Gaza. | | (253214) | 355
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his US counterpart on the US administration's support for the Arms Trade Treaty process; and if he will make a statement. | | (254030) | 356
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much funding the Government has provided for research on the ways in which Muslims are perceived in the UK; which Departments have allocated funds for this purpose; and which of the Government's international counterparts have co-operated with the UK in funding the research. | | (253702) | 357
| Sir Malcolm Rifkind (Kensington & Chelsea): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 17 July 2008, Official Report, columns 680-1W, on British nationality: torture, what estimate he has made of the costs involved in the central collation of statistics relating to the allegations of ill treatment or torture made by British nationals. | | (253909) | 358
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many serving Ambassadors and High Commissioners were born in (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) England. | | (253616) | 359
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254055) | 360
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254087) | 361
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the Indian media coverage of his recent visit to India. | | (253706) | 362
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many officials in his Department are on secondment, broken down by (a) job title, (b) grade and (c) department or institution from which they are seconded. | | (253707) | 363
N | Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether one of the detainees rendered through Diego Garcia is still being held in the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. | | (253243) | 364
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the current political situation in (a) Somalia, (b) Ethiopia and (c) the surrounding region; and if he will make a statement. | | (254116) | 365
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the likelihood of success of current attempts to form a coalition government in Zimbabwe. | | (254117) | 366
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received from the United Arab Emirates government on the disputed sovereignty of the Abu Musa, Tunb and Lesser Tunb islands in the Strait of Hormuz; and if he will make a statement. | | (254006) | 367
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations the Government has made to (a) the government of Iran and (b) the recent Iranian delegation to London comprising five members of the Iranian-British Parliamentary Group on the disputed sovereignty of the Abu Musa, Tunb and Lesser Tunb islands in the Strait of Hormuz; and if he will make a statement. | | (254007) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 368
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the first meeting of the new National Quality Board to take place; and whether the terms of reference and membership for the group have been (a) agreed and (b) published. | | (253708) | 369
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what definition his Department uses of a quality standard, as referred to in the NHS Next Stage Review. | | (253709) | 370
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to take responsibility for developing clinical strategies; and if he will make a statement. | | (253710) | 371
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the resources needed to implement the forthcoming National Service Framework for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; and whether there will be ring-fenced funding from his Department for this purpose. | | (253711) | 372
| John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dual energy X-ray absorptiometry scanners used to carry out NHS-commissioned scans there are in each (a) strategic health authority and (b) primary trust in England; and what the location of each is. | | (253576) | 373
| John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department provides to primary care trusts on referring patients for dual energy X-ray absorptiometry scans; and if he will make a statement. | | (253577) | 374
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children under the age of 18 years have been admitted to hospital with (a) acute asthma, (b) acute emphysema, (c) acute bronchitis and (d) other acute respiratory disorders within (i) one mile, (ii) three miles, (iii) five miles and (iv) 10 miles of Heathrow Airport in each year since 1997. | | (253850) | 375
| Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by what means his Department plans to ensure that the evaluation of the individual budgets' pilots will capture people with specific conditions; and if he will make a statement. | | (253678) | 376
| Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how people with autism were classified in the recent individual budget pilots. | | (253679) | 377
| Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether data from the recent individual budgets pilots can be used to determine the effect of individual budgets on people with (a) autism and (b) sensory impairments. | | (253680) | 378
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any NHS patient wishing to choose (a) homeopathic treatment and (b) other forms of complementary medicine is able to receive it from an NHS homeopathic hospital. | | (254003) | 379
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment the Government has made of the potential for use of complementary and alternative medicines in place of conventional drugs on the NHS. | | (254004) | 380
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the side-effects of (i) Vioxx, (ii) SSRI antidepressants and (iii) Salmeterol and (b) the use of complementary and alternative medicines to treat the conditions such drugs were developed to address. | | (254114) | 381
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in each Government region (a) under 18 years old and (b) in total were treated for steroid-related health problems in each of the last five years. | | (253949) | 382
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy on the treatment of thalassaemia is. | | (253735) | 383
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the variation in funding of oral iron chelation drugs for the treatment of thalassaemia patients between primary care trusts. | | (253740) | 384
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department's review of anti-psychotic prescribing in care settings will be concluded; and if he will make a statement. | | (253865) | 385
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS interpreters in Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust cost for (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008. | | (253753) | 386
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will amend the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989 to specify HIV as a condition exempt from charging. | | (253512) | 387
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will undertake an assessment of the potential effects on the (a) availability of medicines and (b) budgetary provision for the NHS of the transition of the UK from being a net importer to a net exporter of medicines. | | (253568) | 388
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate has been made of the number of student nurses working 10 or more hours a week in addition to their placements and lectures; and what assessment he has made of the impact of external paid work on the performance of students of nursing and allied health professions in their studies. | | (253607) | 389
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of primary care trusts are taking part fully in the national screening programme for chlamydia; and if he will make a statement. | | (254021) | 390
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the rates of asthma in (a) children aged four years and under, (b) children aged five to 14 years and (c) adults in each London borough per 1,000 population; and if he will make a statement. | | (253212) | 391
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) months and (b) years on average patients with HIV/AIDS have survived following their diagnosis with HIV in the last 20 years. | | (253653) | 392
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what scheduled capital expenditure in the NHS his Department is planning to delay. | | (253470) | 393
N | Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost per week was of (a) private nursing home care, (b) private residential care and (c) domiciliary social care for those needing care for at least 20 hours per week in the last 12 months. | | (253236) | 394
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what conditions each type of specialist nurse is trained to deal with. | | (253573) | 395
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many specialist nurses there were in each specialty in each year between 2001 and 2008. | | (253574) | 396
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has for reducing levels of late diagnosis of chronic renal failure. | | (253575) | 397
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2009, Official Report, columns 402-3W, on heart diseases: medical treatments, at which hospitals the treatment is available. | | (253489) | 398
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the table showing the number of accident and emergency departments by type from his Department's Quarterly Monitoring of Accident and Emergency for (a) 1997, (b) 2002, (c) 2008 and (d) in the earliest year for which his Department holds records. | | (254022) | 399
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2009, Official Report, columns 1372-8W, on injuries: firearms, how many cases of incidents classified under the (a) X93, (b) X94 and (c) X95 code there were in each hospital in each year. | | (254107) | 400
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2009, what proportion of the repayment costs for each trust reflect (a) repayment of the capital value and (b) service and other charges; and what the total for each trust is of the additional charges which have been levied through the relevant private finance initiative contract. | | (254109) | 401
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the planned target for blood donation was in each year since 1992; how many units of blood were collected in each year; and what percentage of demand the National Blood Service met in each year. | | (254150) | 402
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many care homes in each region did not comply with minimum infection control standards in each of the last three years. | | (254151) | 403
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the report to his Department from PriceWaterhouseCoopers on the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. | | (254152) | 404
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to include proposals on the Supporting People programme in his forthcoming Green Paper on social care. | | (254153) | 405
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many organs were successfully transplanted in each year since 1997, broken down by (a) type of organ and (b) transplant centre. | | (254154) | 406
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of slots on the Choose and Book system were reported to be unavailable when requested by patients in the last 12 weeks for which figures are available. | | (254155) | 407
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people used Choose and Book in each (a) primary care trust and (b) strategic health authority in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (254156) | 408
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which trusts have chosen to procure and implement an IT system different from the one selected for them by their local service provider; and what costs each has incurred in that process, broken down by cost category. | | (254157) | 409
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy is on trusts which choose to implement IT systems not provided by the local service provider for their region. | | (254158) | 410
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2009, Official Report, columns 827-32W, on transplant surgery: figures, if he will break down by year the figures given for organ and ocular tissue transplants in the UK. | | (254159) | 411
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2009, Official Report, columns 144-5W, on general practitioners: finance, in which practices the minimum practice income guarantee comprises more than 25 per cent. of total NHS income. | | (254160) | 412
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions were made to hospital wards on referral from accident and emergency units in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) England in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (253610) | 413
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people undergoing NHS alcohol treatment courses in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire (i) have and (ii) have not completed the treatment successfully in each of the last five years. | | (253785) | 414
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions were dispensed for subutex to persons held in prison in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (253971) | 415
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prisoners have (a) been treated and (b) successfully completed a course for drug addiction using subutex in each of the last five years. | | (253993) | 416
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the workplace parking charges being introduced by Nottingham City Council will be required to be paid by staff of (a) NHS East Midlands and (b) the Commission for Social Care Inspection in whole or in part where those staff work in offices located within the workplace parking charging zone. | | (253776) | 417
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evidence his Department holds on the effects of habitual, long-term use of cannabis on (a) physical and (b) mental health. | | (253789) | 418
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to Cumbrian health services of addiction to and dependency on cannabis in the last five years. | | (253791) | 419
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints his Department has received on prices charged in retail outlets within NHS hospitals in each of the last 12 months. | | (253162) | 420
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had on his Department's policy on lease of retail spaces in hospitals; and if he will make a statement. | | (253163) | 421
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS hospitals receive (a) a percentage of retail outlet revenue and (b) a flat fee when leasing space within their buildings to retailers. | | (253170) | 422
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254056) | 423
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254086) | 424
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support is available to carers of those diagnosed with dementia. | | (253942) | 425
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered mental health nurses there were in Devon in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (253943) | 426
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many adult social carers there were in Devon in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (253944) | 427
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on medical research on (a) Alzheimer's disease and (b) dementia in the latest year for which figures are available; and what proportion of his Department's budget this represents. | | (253997) | 428
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on (a) child and adolescent mental health services and (b) adult mental health services in each of the last 10 years. | | (253998) | 429
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with (a) Alzheimer's disease and (b) dementia in (i) East Devon constituency and (ii) Devon in each of the last five years. | | (253999) | 430
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds for people diagnosed with dementia there were in Devon in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (254000) | 431
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department's review of prescription charges for long-term conditions will take into account the socio-economic profile of the patient group affected by individual conditions. | | (253728) | 432
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department's review of prescription charges for long-term conditions will take into account the views of patients with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia. | | (253730) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 433
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications from (a) India, (b) Sri Lanka and (c) Zimbabwe have had their applications refused in each of the last three years; of those how many have appealed; how many such appeals have succeeded; how many decisions have been withdrawn prior to determination of the appeal; and if she will make a statement. | | (253862) | 434
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures her Department uses to authorise officials to access electronic files and databases relating to an individual's (a) immigration status, (b) asylum application and (c) passport application; and if she will make a statement. | | (253863) | 435
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department collects on the use of appropriate adults to attend police questioning of minors. | | (253864) | 436
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time taken by the UK visa clearance authorities in (a) India, (b) Pakistan, (c) Sri Lanka and (d) Zimbabwe to process each stage of visa applications was in the last 12 months. | | (254111) | 437
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applicants from Pakistan have had their applications refused in each of the last three years; how many have appealed against the refusal; how many such appeals have succeeded; how many decisions have been withdrawn prior to determination of the appeal; and if she will make a statement. | | (254147) | 438
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) staff were employed on average in and (b) passports were issued by each of the passport offices in the UK in 2008. | | (253088) | 439
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-human primates from each overseas country were imported into the United Kingdom for use in research and testing in 2008. | | (253995) | 440
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of animals bred for use in animal scientific procedures but not used for such purposes and put down in 2008. | | (253996) | 441
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effects of the implementation of the Licensing Act 2003 on the shift patterns of police forces in (a) Lancashire and (b) England and Wales. | | (253222) | 442
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of alcohol-related crimes committed between the hours of 3 am and 6 am in (a) Lancashire and (b) England in each year since 2000. | | (253224) | 443
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged (a) between 17 to 25, (b) between 25 to 40 and (c) 40 and over were (i) stopped on suspicion of, (ii) arrested for and (iii) charged with drink-driving in (A) Ribble Valley, (B) Lancashire and (C) England and Wales in each of the last five years. | | (253225) | 444
N | Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many certificates were issued under Section 28 of the Data Protection Act 1998 in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008; and if she will make a statement. | | (252513) | 445
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the contribution to the local urban economy of passport offices; and if she will make a statement. | | (253669) | 446
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hours per week each passport office is open; and if she will make a statement. | | (253670) | 447
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent staff are employed in each passport office; what her Department's projections are of future staff numbers in each such office; and if she will make a statement. | | (253671) | 448
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visits to each passport office members of the public made in each of the last 10 years. | | (253672) | 449
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what definition her Department uses of front line duties in determining how police officer time is allocated. | | (253687) | 450
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with organisations representing women who have been victims of domestic violence about the registration of third parties' addresses on national identity cards. | | (253517) | 451
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what administrative financial penalties may be levied by her Department and its agencies. | | (253603) | 452
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners have been given leave to remain in the UK in the last 12 months. | | (254025) | 453
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the UK Border Agency does not collate information on the number of prisoners returned under the early removal scheme. | | (254026) | 454
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was paid from the Chief Police Officers' bonus scheme in each of the last three years; and what individual payments were made to each recipient. | | (253205) | 455
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests were made in (a) Chorley, (b) West Lancashire and (c) South Ribble in each quarter of the last three years. | | (253729) | 456
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 22 December 2008 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Folake Surat Odetunde. | | (253871) | 457
N | Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the merits of making it a statutory requirement that an appropriate adult be present at the police station in cases where the police have concerns about a suspect's mental state. | | (253686) | 458
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police station cells in England were closed for health and safety reasons in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) location and (b) police authority; how many are scheduled for closure; and how many are under review. | | (254144) | 459
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what timescale has been estimated for closure of all police station cells which have been classed as unsuitable to house detainees on health and safety grounds. | | (254145) | 460
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether police authorities have access to additional grant funding to cover the cost of providing replacement police cells for those closed on health and safety grounds. | | (254146) | 461
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions there have been between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk (a) police authorities and (b) constabularies on cross-border working involving Wisbech and King's Lynn police stations. | | (254163) | 462
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what police cell closures have taken place in the Central Division of Cambridgeshire constabulary in each of the last five years; and what cell provision is planned. | | (254164) | 463
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences of supply of illegal and counterfeit tobacco were recorded in each police authority area in each of the last five years. | | (253970) | 464
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) charges and (b) prosecutions were brought for offences relating to the supply of illegal and counterfeit tobacco in each of the last five years. | | (253973) | 465
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Beaconsfield of 18 December 2008, Official Report, column 1069W, on alcohol disorder zones, what assessment she has made of the reasons for no notice of the proposal to designate an alcohol disorder zone having been made to her Department by that date. | | (253520) | 466
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many convictions for refusal to comply with a Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 section 49 notice there were in 2008. | | (253771) | 467
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable for the publication of the (a) Interception of Communications Commissioner's Report for 2007 and (b) Intelligence Services Commissioner's Report for 2007 is. | | (253780) | 468
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of a refusal to comply with a Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act section 49 notice were notified to her Department in 2008. | | (253781) | 469
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions for refusal to comply with a Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 section 49 notice there were in 2008. | | (253782) | 470
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Transport on strengthening domestic security in relation to cruise ships under the (a) e-borders programme and (b) Government's counter-terrorism strategy. | | (253703) | 471
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what evidence her Department holds on the relationship between the use of cannabis and the level of criminal activity to fund such use within (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland in the last five years. | | (253792) | 472
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on the provisions in the draft EU Directive 86/609 relating to the use of great apes in scientific procedures. | | (253688) | 473
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within her Department's responsibility. | | (254057) | 474
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254085) | 475
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a resident labour market test will apply to the movement of workers to the UK under Mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services. | | (253506) | 476
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the definition is of a temporary worker under Mode 4 of the General Agreement in Trade in Services; how such workers will be identified; and how their departure from the UK at the end of their contract will be enforced. | | (253507) | 477
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many forensic scientists have (a) left and (b) joined the Forensic Science Service since 2001. | | (253168) | 478
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces do not employ the Forensic Science Service (FSS); and what the average duration of a FSS contract with the police was in each of the last five years. | | (253169) | 479
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the application of the two-year rule to the right of a spouse to apply to remain in the UK. | | (253495) | 480
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 2259W, on human trafficking, when she plans to write to the hon. Member for North West Cambridgeshire with the information referred to. | | (253745) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 481
| Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the House of Commons Commission has set a target for the time within which hon. Members' enquiries regarding their pensions are to be responded to. | | (253924) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 482
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many businesses in (a) the London Borough of Bexley, (b) London and (c) England have signed the Skills Pledge. | | (253916) | 483
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which colleges in (a) London and (b) Kent are affected by the Learning and Skills Council's decision to postpone capital projects by three months. | | (253917) | 484
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what plans he has to recruit scientifically-trained civil servants; and what timetable he has set for the recruitment process. | | (253513) | 485
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what proportion of parents aged between 16 and 19 years in (a) Southampton, (b) Test Valley borough, (c) the ceremonial county of Hampshire and (d) England were in education, employment or training at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (254020) | 486
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, whether any administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agencies. | | (253592) | 487
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agencies. | | (253593) | 488
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what percentage of Learning and Skills Council-funded work-based learning provision has been allocated to non-UK nationals in the academic years (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09. | | (254186) | 489
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many EU-domiciled undergraduate students are expected to begin courses at higher education institutions in 2009. | | (254187) | 490
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many university entrance applications were received from applicants in the lowest three socio-economic groupings in the academic years (a) 2007-08, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2005-06, (d) 2004-05 and (e) 2003-04. | | (254188) | 491
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many applicants from the lowest three socio-economic groupings were awarded places at university in the academic years (a) 2007-08, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2005-06, (d) 2004-05 and (e) 2003-04. | | (254189) | 492
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many applications for capital funding from the Building Colleges for the Future programme were made by (a) further education and (b) sixth form colleges (i) in the 2006-07 academic year and (ii) at the latest date for which figures are available | | (254190) | 493
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what capital expenditure from the Building Colleges for the Future programme in the (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09 academic years has been allocated to (i) further education and (ii) sixth form colleges. | | (254191) | 494
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many projects relating to (a) further education and (b) sixth form colleges were affected by the moratorium on decisions on capital spending under the Building Colleges for the Future programme. | | (254192) | 495
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what estimate he has made of the value of projects affected by the moratorium on decisions on capital spending under the Building Colleges for the Future programme. | | (254193) | 496
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what training schemes are available to car component company staff who have lost their jobs owing to reductions in car production during the economic downturn. | | (253815) | 497
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what direct access to training schemes is available to car component firms. | | (253816) | 498
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that skills shortages for the training of flood engineers are being addressed. | | (253817) | 499
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many pupils from schools in Blackpool South constituency went on to higher education in years (a) 1992 to 1997, (b) 1997 to 2002 and (c) 2002 to 2007. | | (253968) | 500
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, if he will bring forward proposals to reimburse further education colleges for the interest they pay on money borrowed to finance their capital programmes; and if he will make a statement. | | (254013) | 501
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what estimate he has made of the interest payments made by further education colleges to finance their capital programmes in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (254014) | 502
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what plans he has to ensure that apprentices who become unemployed are able to complete their apprenticeships in alternative employment. | | (253500) | 503
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254058) | 504
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many staff in his Department have been disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues since its inception. | | (254084) | 505
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much the Government allocated to the student hardship fund in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2007-08 and (d) 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (254121) | 506
N | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many students whose places were co-funded with employers have been admitted to English universities in each of the past three years. | | (252849) | 507
N | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much funding is allocated per student for (a) full-time undergraduates, (b) part-time undergraduates, (c) full-time foundation degree students, (d) part-time foundation degree students, (e) advanced adult apprentices, (f) full-time level 3 students in further education colleges and (g) part-time students in further education colleges; and if he will make a statement. | | (252850) | 508
N | Phil Wilson (Sedgefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what his most recent estimate of the number of apprenticeship places in each local authority area is. | | (253481) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 509
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, who in his Department (a) has line management responsibility for the Director General Diversity Champion and (b) is responsible for making diversity plans publicly available. | | (253736) | 510
N | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka following the recent offensive by government troops on Tamil areas; and if he will make a statement. | | (253466) | 511
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, to which UN-sponsored conventions on watercourses the UK (a) is and (b) is not a signatory; and what plans he has to sign such conventions to which the UK is not presently a signatory. | | (253851) | 512
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department. | | (253591) | 513
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions he has had with the Israeli authorities to ensure continuous access for humanitarian relief into Gaza; and if he will make a statement. | | (253961) | 514
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment has been made of the availability of medicines and medical supplies in Gaza; and if he will make a statement. | | (253962) | 515
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department paid to staff in overtime payments in each of the last three financial years. | | (254028) | 516
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the entertainment allowance was for his Department's office in Malawi in the last financial year for which figures are available. | | (254029) | 517
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proposals his Department has brought forward for a Global Partnership for Agriculture and Food Security; how much funding his Department plans to provide to such a partnership; and if he will make a statement. | | (253991) | 518
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions he has had with his (a) EU and (b) G8 counterparts on the proposed Global Partnership for Agriculture and Food Security; which of these counterparts have (i) indicated a willingness to join the partnership and (ii) committed funds to it; and if he will make a statement. | | (253992) | 519
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254059) | 520
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254083) | 521
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) recent humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and (b) adequacy of the (i) UK's and (ii) international community's long-term aid efforts; and if he will make a statement. | | (254115) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 522
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the status of the UK's reservation to Articles 9 and 10 of the European Convention on the Legal Status of Children born out of Wedlock is in respect of matters relating to succession to the Crown; what attempts were made to renew the reservation in or prior to September 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (253843) | 523
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new prison places he plans to provide by 31 December 2009. | | (253677) | 524
| Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions in cases of sexual offences against children under the age of 18 there were in each of the last three years. | | (253853) | 525
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people per 10,000 of the population in each region of the UK were prosecuted for non-payment of television licence fees in each of the last three years. | | (253086) | 526
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of reckless driving offences during their first 12 months as licensed drivers in (a) Ribble Valley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK in each of the last five years. | | (253223) | 527
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in (a) the ceremonial county of Hampshire, (b) Test Valley borough and (c) the City of Southampton were prosecuted for not having a television licence in each of the last five years. | | (254017) | 528
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) courts and (b) hearing centres have closed in each year since 1997. | | (253582) | 529
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the likely effect of the creation of a Sentencing Council on the level of the prison population in England and Wales. | | (253583) | 530
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the budget of the Judicial Appointments Commission was in each of the last three years. | | (253584) | 531
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funding his Department provided to the National Mediation Helpline in each of the last three years. | | (253585) | 532
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the budget of the Victims' Champion is for the term of the appointment. | | (253586) | 533
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agencies. | | (253587) | 534
| John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many reparation orders under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 have been issued by each court in each year since 2005. | | (254179) | 535
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to reply to the letter of 22 December 2008 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr I. Laing. | | (253874) | 536
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average adult re-offending rate was for (a) men and (b) women ex-prisoners after their release in the last five years for which figures are available. | | (254010) | 537
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects the second bail hostel planned for Milton Keynes to be operational; and what its capacity will be. | | (253164) | 538
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the capacity of the bail hostel in Milton Keynes is. | | (253165) | 539
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to limit shoplifting offences in relation to which a penalty notice for disorder can be issued to first time offences. | | (253684) | 540
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans HM Courts Service has for Wisbech Magistrates' Court. | | (254005) | 541
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have a record held on the Government's Offender Index database. | | (253783) | 542
| Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish guidance to local authorities on (a) the length of time ashes should be retained by crematoria and (b) the methods to be used to dispose of ashes not claimed by the family of the deceased. | | (253654) | 543
| Stephen Pound (Ealing North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many suspended possession orders granted by county courts to mortgage lenders were re-activated and enforced during 2008 in cases where lenders obtained warrants for eviction after (a) three, (b) six and (c) 10 years or more had elapsed since the original possession order was made in a suspended form. | | (254071) | 544
| Stephen Pound (Ealing North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons HM Courts Service automatically disposes of all court records of suspended possession orders after six years' of inactivity. | | (254072) | 545
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many successful prosecutions for the possession of cannabis there have been in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland constituency in each of the last five years. | | (253618) | 546
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) arrests, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions there were of people from each district council ward in Copeland for (i) the possession and (ii) the supplying of cannabis in the last five years. | | (253757) | 547
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the successful prosecutions for the supplying of cannabis in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland involved (i) offenders resident outside of Cumbria and (ii) young offenders in the last five years. | | (253758) | 548
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many successful prosecutions for the supplying of cannabis there have been in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland in each of the last five years; how many of each resulted in a custodial sentence in each year; and how many resulted in offenders taking part in a drug rehabilitation programme in each year. | | (253759) | 549
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254060) | 550
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254079) | 551
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2009, Official Report, column 1554W, on approved premises; how many bail hostels other than those operated by ClearSprings (a) operate and (b) are planned to open in (i) Eastbourne and (ii) England. | | (254096) | Questions to the Leader of the House 552
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Leader of the House, what her Office's policy is on the employment of former prisoners. | | (253809) | 553
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Leader of the House, whether hon. Members whose constituency offices are located within the Nottingham City Council workplace parking charging zone will be able to claim the costs of workplace parking charges from their allowances. | | (253770) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 554
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East of 6 October 2008, Official Report, columns 86-87W, on departmental official residences, who pays the council tax bills for the mainland Britain residential accommodation. | | (253641) | 555
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254061) | 556
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254078) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 557
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what recent discussions her Office has had with outside organisations to discuss policies on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within her Office's responsibility. | | (254062) | 558
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, if she will consult residents of Hadleigh before any decisions are taken on the development of Hadleigh and the surrounding area to facilitate the Olympic mountain bike events; and if she will make a statement. | | (251063) | Questions to the Prime Minister 559
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will allow the recording and broadcast of lobby briefings given by his spokesman to lobby journalists. | | (253230) | 560
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will recommend to Her Majesty the Queen that the knighthood awarded to Sir Fred Goodwin for services to banking be withdrawn. | | (253483) | 561
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Prime Minister, whether his Office has incurred any expenditure on his behalf for (a) haircuts, (b) make-up, (c) hairdressers and (d) make-up artists. | | (253657) | 562
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Prime Minister, how much his Department spent on works and refurbishment to offices allocated to Ministers at Nos. 10 and 12 Downing Street in each month since July 2007. | | (253661) | 563
| Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Prime Minister, whether he has received representations from the Indian government on the recent visit by the Foreign Secretary. | | (253705) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 564
N | David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what role the Scotland Office is playing in relation to the Homecoming Scotland 2009 initiative. | | (253090) | 565
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy to reduce the impact of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254063) | 566
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254076) | Questions to the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 567
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what administrative financial penalties may be levied by the Electoral Commission. | | (253588) | 568
N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what representations from local authorities in Suffolk concerning its inquiry into the future structure of local government in Suffolk the Boundary Committee for England has received; and if he will make a statement. | | (252002) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 569
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on the specification of restaurant car services in rail franchises let by his Department, with particular reference to franchises held by National Express. | | (253228) | 570
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the train access charge regime for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, with particular reference to his policy of encouraging cross-border rail/freight movements. | | (253229) | 571
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to refuse paper requests to the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency for the release of driver information unless such requests meet the requirements applicable to requests submitted electronically. | | (253231) | 572
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what percentage of leisure journeys by (a) rail, (b) car and (c) bus or coach were made by people aged (i) under 16, (ii) between 18 and 19, (iii) between 20 and 24, (iv) between 25 and 34, (v) between 35 and 44, (vi) between 45 and 59, (vii) between 60 and 64, (viii) between 65 and 69 and (ix) 70 years and over in each year since 1997. | | (253844) | 573
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the percentage change in traffic levels (a) on English roads and (b) on roads in each county within England was in each year since 1997, taking 1997 levels as 100 per cent. | | (253845) | 574
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of noise levels in each London borough resulting from the establishment of the Heathrow third runway. | | (253847) | 575
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many individuals he estimates will live within the 57 decibel contour when the Heathrow third runway is expected to open. | | (253848) | 576
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles per day travelled between (a) junctions 3 and 4, (b) junctions 7 and 8, (c) junctions 8 and 11a, (d) junctions 11a and 15 of the M6 motorway and between (e) junctions 3a and 7, (f) junctions 7 and 9, (g) junctions 9 and 10 of the M42, (i) for each of the five years before and (ii) each year after the opening to traffic of the M6 Toll. | | (253849) | 577
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average (a) nitrogen oxide and (b) carbon dioxide emissions per passenger mile (i) were and (ii) are predicted to be for average aircraft using Heathrow Airport in (A) 1990, (B) 1995, (C) 2000, (D) 2005, (E) 2010, (F) 2015, (G) 2020 and (H) 2025. | | (253935) | 578
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of additional car journeys per day which will result from the establishment of a third runway at Heathrow, broken down by major road. | | (253936) | 579
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with the European Commission on the implementation of EC Regulations (a) 715/2007 and (b) 692/2008 on replacement catalytic converters. | | (254119) | 580
N | Mr Stephen Byers (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will introduce an ombudsman system to deal with complaints concerning the transport system. | | (252903) | 581
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people (a) took and (b) passed their driving test in (i) Ribble Valley, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) the UK in each of the last five years. | | (253226) | 582
N | Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to recover funds due to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency identified in the Central London employment tribunal case between Mr Geoff Topliss and NCP Services Ltd. | | (253474) | 583
N | Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what requirement there is for insurance of vehicles in storage or under repair and declared under statutory off-road notifications regulations. | | (253478) | 584
N | Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of scheduled driving tests have been cancelled by the Driving Standards Agency in each of the last five years. | | (253479) | 585
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what risk registers (a) are in use and (b) have been in use in the last two years in relation to projects within his Department's Aviation Directorate; and if he will make a statement. | | (253211) | 586
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agencies. | | (253590) | 587
| Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2009, Official Report, column 1432W, on public transport: Greater Manchester, how many high quality Transport Innovation Fund proposals he has received. | | (253860) | 588
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has received a request for a meeting with representatives of Chorley Borough Council to discuss the national concessionary bus fares scheme. | | (253681) | 589
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much grant Chorley Borough Council received for the national concessionary bus travel scheme for 2008-09. | | (253682) | 590
| Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on regular health checks for holders of driving licences; and if he will make a statement. | | (253608) | 591
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which of the milestones set out on page 7 of his Department's human resources Race Equality Action Plan 2005 to 2008 were not achieved. | | (253566) | 592
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what percentage of staff in his Department have recorded their ethnicity (a) in total and (b) in each bargaining unit. | | (253567) | 593
N | John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason the status of the tender notice entitled UK-London: Reward Strategy and Benefits Project detailed on his Department's Procurement Portal has changed to closed. | | (253234) | 594
N | John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will ensure that no changes affecting the terms and comditions of staff will be made to the contractual parts of any staff handbooks within his Department without the consent of a recognised trade union. | | (253235) | 595
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 1105W, on tolls, whether the local authorities in road pricing demonstration project areas were consulted about the decision to conduct the demonstrations in their areas. | | (253514) | 596
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the workplace parking charges being introduced by Nottingham City Council will be passed on to staff members in whole or in part of British Railways Board (Residuary) Ltd where those staff have offices located within the workplace parking charging zone. | | (253772) | 597
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what changes have been made to the guidance issued by his Department to local highways authorities on the design of pedestrian crossings since 2005. | | (253774) | 598
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to reduce the number of people who drive without insurance. | | (253502) | 599
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency on the performance of Moorcroft Debt Recovery Ltd; what conlusions he reached; and if he will make a statement. | | (253562) | 600
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has a statutory duty to issue an acknowledgement letter following receipt of a statutory off road notification or notice of a change of owner; and if he will make a statement. | | (253563) | 601
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much money the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has collected in fines from vehicle owners for failure to notify change of ownership in the most recent year for which figures are available; for what purpose this money has been used; and if he will make a statement. | | (253564) | 602
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of (a) demand for a high-speed rail link between London and Scotland and (b) the effect of such a rail link on levels of demand for domestic flights. | | (253501) | 603
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have held with the South West Regional Development Agency on rail transport in the last 12 months; and with what outcomes. | | (253689) | 604
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assumptions on the price of oil his Department used in developing its High Level Output Statement; and whether he plans to revise such assumptions. | | (253690) | 605
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department provides to regional and local authorities to plan and implement expenditure on new rail stations and lines. | | (253691) | 606
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make commission an assessment of the potential for high-speed rail links between (a) London and South Wales and (b) London and Cornwall. | | (253692) | 607
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of (a) the advantages and (b) the disadvantages of electrification of the main railway line between Taunton and Penzance; and if he will make a statement. | | (253694) | 608
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to establish a regional rail budget to allow local transport authorities to (a) re-open closed rail stations and (b) open new rail stations. | | (253805) | 609
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254064) | 610
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254095) | 611
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will consider the merits of holding an inquiry into the application to revise tolls charged at the south bank of the River Humber; and if he will make a statement. | | (253767) | 612
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries have been attributed to drivers speeding in the last (i) six months, (ii) 12 months and (iii) five years. | | (253855) | 613
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many deaths of children under 13 years old have been attributed to drivers speeding in the last (a) six months, (b) 12 months and (c) five years. | | (253856) | 614
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many deaths (a) in total and (b) of children under 13 years old have been attributed to drivers speeding in the last 12 months. | | (253857) | 615
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many roads in (a) Leicester East constituency and (b) England have a speed limit of 20mph. | | (253858) | 616
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Government has spent on television and radio advertisements to reduce speeding in (a) the last 12 months and (b) the last five years. | | (253859) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 617
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, with reference to the Answer of 16 July 2008, Official Report, column 458W, on non-domestic rates: Wales, whether the 2005 council tax revaluation in Wales was revenue-neutral excluding the effect of transitional relief. | | (253518) | 618
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254066) | 619
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254082) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 620
N | Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what estimate she has made of the cost to business of mandatory pay audits in the private sector; and if she will make a statement. | | (252773) | 621
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what funding (a) the Government Equalities Office and (b) the Equality and Human Rights Commission has given to regional equality and diversity partnerships to date. | | (253779) | 622
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many staff in the Government Equalities Office have been disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues since its inception. | | (254081) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 623
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons his Department does not provide (a) an income support, (b) an employment support allowance, (c) an incapacity benefit, (d) a winter fuel allowance and (e) a jobseeker's allowance hotline for hon. Members. | | (253733) | 624
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of the additional pension paid at the age of 80 would be if it had been indexed to (a) earnings and (b) prices since 1997. | | (253565) | 625
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what factors are taken into account in determining the interest rate assumption for calculating entitlement to benefits. | | (253642) | 626
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many written warnings have been issued to benefit claimants in (a) pilot and (b) other areas on sanctions in relation to refusal to engage in a rehabilitation programme in respect of anti-social behaviour or criminal behaviour under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 as amended by the Welform Reform Act 2007 in each month since November 2007; in how many cases benefit sanctions have been applied; what assessment he has made of progress in the pilot areas against the objectives of the pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (254031) | 627
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many vacancies were advertised by jobcentres in the (a) fourth quarter of 2008, (b) third quarter of 2008, (c) fourth quarter of 2007 and (d) fourth quarter of 2006. | | (254035) | 628
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1995W, on jobseeker's allowance, how many claimants were paid UK contribution-based jobseeker's allowance by the Employment Service in each EU member state in each of the last five years; and how much was spent on such payments to claimants in each EU member state. | | (254175) | 629
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on people with rheumatoid arthritis; whether rheumatoid arthritis is classified as a disability under the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Acts 1995 and 2005; and if he will make a statement. | | (253918) | 630
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made on the effect of the Disability Discrimination Acts 1995 and 2005 on access to employment for people with rheumatoid arthritis. | | (253919) | 631
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will bring forward proposals to strengthen the legal rights of people with rheumatoid arthritis in the workplace. | | (253920) | 632
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were living in poverty in (a) the City of Southampton, (b) Test Valley borough, (c) the ceremonial county of Hampshire and (d) the UK in each of the last five years. | | (254016) | 633
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioner households will receive the extra £60 winter fuel allowance payment in (a) January, (b) February and (c) March 2009; and whether these households will be informed when they can expect to receive the payment. | | (253625) | 634
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioner households in each constituency are entitled to receive the extra £60 winter fuel allowance payment. | | (253626) | 635
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for crisis loans from residents of each constituency were (a) made and (b) approved in each year since 1997; and what the average value of loan made was in each constituency in each of those years. | | (253662) | 636
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agencies. | | (253589) | 637
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid by his Department in subsistence payments to offenders on the end of custody licence scheme. | | (254027) | 638
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many referrals from Jobcentre Plus to Connexions services were made (a) in the 2007-08 academic year and (b) in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (254185) | 639
N | Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Treasury Minute entitled Progress in tackling benefit fraud, issued in response to the Committee of Public Accounts' Thirty-first Report of Session 2007-08, when his Department expects to set recovery targets for benefit overpayments as a result of fraud. | | (253047) | 640
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of version (a) one and (b) two of the impact assessment for the Welfare Reform Bill 2009. | | (253617) | 641
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department and its agencies have spent on informing the public of the extra one-off payment of £60 to Christmas bonus recipients; and in which publications and broadcasting outlets such advertisements have been placed. | | (253659) | 642
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department and its agencies spent on placing the advertisement which appeared in the Sunday Times on 11 January 2009 relating to the one-off payment of £60 to Christmas bonus recipients; what other publications this advertisement was placed in; at what cost; and whether he approved the text in the advertisement. | | (253660) | 643
| Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what definition his Department uses of respectful funeral, as referred to in his Department's technical guidance SB16. | | (253655) | 644
| Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what expenses can be claimed by benefit claimants under Other Funeral Expenses as referred to in his Department's technical guidance SB16. | | (253656) | 645
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 February 2008, Official Report, column 1383W, on departmental data protection, what types of sensitive personal data are exchanged between his Department and local authorities; and for what general purposes. | | (253494) | 646
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals have received support for mortgage interest in respect of mortgages taken out after October 2005 in each year since 2005-06. | | (253763) | 647
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to (a) increase the take-up of council tax benefit and (b) simplify the procedure for pensioners to claim. | | (253764) | 648
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's net expenditure on mortgage interest support for those on income support with mortgages taken out after October 2005 has been in each year since 2005-06. | | (253766) | 649
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long on average it took to process a claim for jobseeker's allowance in the last four weeks for which figures are available; and how many claims took over 14 days to process in this period. | | (253727) | 650
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the amount of local housing allowance paid to tenants since April 2008 which has not been paid to landlords; and if he will make a statement. | | (253755) | 651
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions his Department has had with outside organisations to discuss policy on reducing the effect of the recession on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (254067) | 652
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department were disciplined for (a) bullying and (b) harassment of colleagues in each of the last three years. | | (254080) | 653
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to raise public awareness of the fact that Corgi is no longer the body responsible for gas safety; and if he will make a statement. | | (249900) | 654
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what account is taken in calculating pensions of working years additional to those required for a full state pension if they occurred prior to an individual reaching retirement age. | | (253734) | 655
| Jeremy Wright (Rugby & Kenilworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of the Health and Safety Executive's Make the Promise campaign was; and if he will make a statement. | | (254069) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 656
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what internal guidance documents the Valuation Office Agency uses for valuing properties for inheritance tax purposes. | | [Transferred] (253897) | 657
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses there are on the ratings list in each local authority area occupying premises with rateable values below £10,000; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (253631) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 658
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 19 December 2008, Official Report, column 1076W, on driving under the influence, when she expects the statistics for the number of breathalyser tests by (a) month and (b) region for (i) 2007 and (ii) 2008 to be published. | | [Transferred] (254118) | 659
| Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children under the age of 18 were the victims of sexual crimes in each of the last three years. | | [Transferred] (253854) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 660
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost was of the 2006 recruitment campaign for a Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses. | | [Transferred] (254024) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 661
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many schools within the boundaries of areas surrounding Heathrow airport currently have air quality with a nitrogen dioxide level of 40 micrograms/m3 or greater. | | [Transferred] (254120) |
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