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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 9 February 2009

Notes:
* Indicates a Question for Oral Answer.
+ Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled.
[N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered.
[R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared.
 


 

Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 9 February 2009
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 9 February 2009


This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 9 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 9 February of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 9 February see Part 2 of this paper.


Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
1
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps he is taking to inform older people of the risks they incur through borrowing too much.
(255764)
2
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of levels of broadband access for pensioners; and if he will make a statement.
(255469)
3
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many households have access to broadband in (a) Leeds West constitunecy, (b) Leeds Metropolitan area and (c) West Yorkshire.
(255470)
4
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps his Department is taking to increase levels of access to broadband for lower-income households.
(255471)
5
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate his Department has made of the number of households with (a) a computer and (b) access to broadband in Leeds West constituency.
(255477)
6
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of levels of fire cover provided by retained firefighters of the provisions of the EU Working Time Directive.
(255388)
7
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what progress has been made on allowing small businesses to access the £1 billion fund announced in December 2008.
(255888)
8
N
Mr Stephen Byers (North Tyneside): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what his Department's latest estimate is of the number of (a) UK nationals employed in other EU member states and (b) citizens of other EU member states employed in the UK under the terms of the EU Posted Workers Directive.
(255463)
9
N
Mr William Cash (Stone): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to provide equal rights in employment for UK nationals in the United Kingdom to those afforded under (a) the EU Posted Workers Directive and (b) other EU legislation.
(255449)
10
N
Mr William Cash (Stone): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps the European Commission has taken since the Forum on Workers' Rights and Economic Freedom in October 2008 to safeguard the rights of posted workers within the UK.
(255450)
11
N
Mr William Cash (Stone): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the conclusions of the expert committee on the posting of workers established after the meeting of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council on 9 June 2008.
(255663)
12
N
Mr William Cash (Stone): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what discussions the Secretary of State has had with his EU counterparts on (a) the application of the EU Posted Workers Directive in respect of the rulings of the European Court of Justice on cases C-438/05, C-346/06 and C-319/06 and (b) proposals for new legislation related to EU Directive 96/71/EC and Article 49 of the EC Treaty.
(255664)
13
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many staff were employed in his Department's Energy Change Group on 1 October 2008.
(255936)
14
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256038)
15
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will direct Ofcom to take steps to ensure that deaf and hard-of-hearing people have (a) equal access to mobile and internet telecommunication services and (b) access to modernised relay services.
(254297)
16
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much Royal Mail has set aside for modernisation projects.
(256074)
17
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will place in the Library a copy of Royal Mail's Strategic Plan.
(256076)
18
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the cost of modernisation of Royal Mail's sorting machines.
(256078)
19
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what proportion of Royal Mail the Government plans to sell to a private sector partner; and what price the Government intends to charge for that stake.
(256080)
20
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many Consumer Focus staff work principally on postal services issues.
(256082)
21
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much will be paid annually to the new Chairman of Royal Mail in (a) salary, (b) pension contributions and (c) other expenses and allowances; and what the equivalent remuneration figures for his predecessor were.
(256083)
22
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, on how many occasions the Ministerial Committee on the Post Office Network has met since its formation; and if he will make a statement.
(256084)
23
Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many people his Department employs.
(255656)
24
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many applications have been made to the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme.
(256176)
25
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the monetary value of secured loans under the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme is.
(256177)
26
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many applications have been made to the Capital Enterprise Scheme.
(256178)
27
N
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps his Department takes to ensure the co-ordination of its support for business with that provided by local councils and chambers of commerce.
(255509)
28
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to regional development agencies of paying national non-domestic rates in respect of empty commercial properties in 2009-10.
(255740)
29
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256138)
30
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on access to credit for small businesses.
(255830)
31
N
Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Woking of 25 November 2008 on Cookson Electronics.
(254707)
32
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will take steps to assist the furniture industry adjust to the withdrawal of credit insurance.
(255833)
33
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will monitor the effects on the furniture industry of the withdrawal of credit insurance.
(255834)
34
Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the number of bed and breakfast establishments in (a) rural areas and (b) urban areas in each year since 1997.
(255743)
35
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256217)
36
Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will consider the merits of taking steps to help medium-sized businesses improve payment rates to employees on short-time work.
(255522)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
37
N
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many claimants in West Chelmsford constituency were overpaid tax credits in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
(254716)
38
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Statement of 15 January 2009, Official Report, columns 377-80, on Equitable Life, what his estimate is of the length of time it would take to make compensation payments as recommended by the Ombudsman; and what estimate he has made of the time it will take for all compensation in accordance with the Government proposals to be made.
(255751)
39
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of raising the income tax personal allowance to £11,000 and raising the higher rate of income tax by (a) one per cent., (b) two per cent., (c) three per cent., (d) four per cent. and (e) five per cent. in 2009-10.
(255673)
40
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of raising the income tax personal allowance to £11,000 and lowering the higher rate of income tax by (a) one per cent., (b) two per cent., (c) three per cent., (d) four per cent. and (e) five per cent. in 2009-10.
(255674)
41
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of raising the income tax personal allowance to (a) £8,000, (b) £9,000, (c) £10,000, (d) £11,000 and (e) £12,000 and raising the basic rate of income tax by (i) one per cent., (ii) two per cent., (iii) three per cent., (iv) four per cent. and (v) five per cent. in 2009-10.
(255687)
42
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of raising the income tax personal allowance to (a) £8,000, (b) £9,000, (c) £10,000, (d) £11,000 and (e) £12,000 and lowering the basic rate of income tax by (i) one per cent., (ii) two per cent., (iii) three per cent., (iv) four per cent. and (v) five per cent. in 2009-10.
(255688)
43
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of raising the earnings threshold on national insurance contributions to (a) £5,000, (b) £6,000 and (c) £7,000 and lowering the class one employee main rate of national insurance contributions to (i) five per cent., (ii) six per cent., (iii) seven per cent., (iv) eight per cent., (v) nine per cent. and (vi) 10 per cent. in 2009-10.
(255689)
44
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of raising the upper earnings level on national insurance contributions to £45,000 and raising the class one employee additional rate to (a) two per cent., (b) three per cent., (c) four per cent., (d) five per cent. (e) six per cent., (f) seven per cent., (g) eight per cent. and (h) nine per cent. in 2009-10.
(255691)
45
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of raising the Class 1 employee additional rate on national insurance contributions by (a) one percentage point, (b) two percentage points, (c) three percentage points, (d) four percentage points, (e) five percentage points, (f) six percentage points, (g) seven percentage points, (h) eight percentage points, (i) nine percentage points and (j) 10 percentage points in 2009-10.
(255692)
46
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of raising the upper earnings level on national insurance contributions to (a) £45,000, (b) £46,000, (c) £47,000, (d) £48,000, (e) £49,000, (f) £50,000, (g) £51,000, (h) £52,000, (i) £53,000, (j) £54,000 and (k) £55,000 and lowering the Class 1 employee main rate to (i) two per cent., (ii) three per cent., (iii) four per cent., (iv) five per cent., (v) six per cent., (vi) seven per cent., (vii) eight per cent., (viii) nine per cent and (ix) 10 per cent. in 2009-10.
(255694)
47
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of raising the upper earnings level on national insurance contributions to (a) £45,000, (b) £46,000, (c) £47,000, (d) £48,000, (e) £49,000, (f) £50,000, (g) £51,000, (h) £52,000, (i) £53,000, (j) £54,000 and (k) £55,000 in 2009-10; and what estimate he has made of the cost of lowering the level to (i) £40,000, (ii) £41,000, (iii) £42,000 and (iv) £43,000 in 2009-10.
(255696)
48
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of raising the upper earnings level on national insurance contributions to (a) £45,000, (b) £46,000, (c) £47,000, (d) £48,000, (e) £49,000, (f) £50,000, (g) £51,000, (h) £52,000, (i) £53,000, (j) £54,000, and (k) £55,000 and raising the Class 1 employee main rate to (i) 12 per cent., (ii) 13 per cent., (iii) 14 per cent. and (iv) 15 per cent. in 2009-10.
(255697)
49
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of raising the income tax personal allowance to £12,000 and lowering the higher rate of income tax by (a) one per cent., (b) two per cent., (c) three per cent., (d) four per cent. and (e) five per cent. in 2009-10.
(255698)
50
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of raising the income tax personal allowance to £8,000 and lowering the higher rate of income tax by (a) one per cent., (b) two per cent., (c) three per cent., (d) four per cent. and (e) five per cent. in 2009-10.
(255699)
51
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of raising the income tax personal allowance to (a) £8,000, (b) £9,000, (c) 10,000, (d) 11,000 and (e) £12,000 in 2009-10.
(255714)
52
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of raising the income tax personal allowance to (a) £8,000, (b) £9,000 and (c) 10,000 and raising the higher rate of income tax by (i) one per cent., (ii) two per cent., (iii) three per cent., (iv) four per cent. and (v) five per cent. in 2009-10.
(255715)
53
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports in respect of each property occupied by HM Revenue and Customs.
(255932)
54
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256040)
55
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reduce the level of liability for national non-domestic rates of empty business properties; and if he will make a statement.
(255675)
56
N
Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of (a) child tax credit and (b) working tax credit paid to EU nationals in respect of family members resident in other EU member states in the last 12 months.
(255297)
57
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date the decision to nationalise Bradford and Bingley was made.
(255440)
58
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many organisations providing public services in Wales have received a total of £200,000 or more from public funds in the last five years.
(254706)
59
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on (a) businesses and (b) the Exchequer of the doubling of value added tax (VAT) turnover threshold for the VAT cash accounting scheme in 2007.
(255464)
60
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit claimants in Wimbledon constituency were overpaid tax credits in each of the last five years.
(255953)
61
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the UK's net financial contribution to funding the Common Agricultural Policy in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009 to 2011.
(256103)
62
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total monetary value of funds drawn down against the Bank of England Special Liquidity Scheme has been to date.
(256179)
63
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what monitoring his Department has put in place to determine whether additional bank recapitalisation may be necessary.
(256180)
64
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value of lending guaranteed by the Interbank Lending Scheme is.
(256181)
65
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress his Department has made in ensuring that invoices for public sector contracts are paid within 10 days.
(256182)
66
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the expected exposure range for the Government's insurance scheme for banks for expected bad debts is.
(256183)
67
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Bank of England has received requests to buy assets in all sectors.
(256184)
68
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the status of the consultation on regulation by the Financial Services Authority of house sale and rent-back schemes is; and when a decision is expected.
(256185)
69
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether all of the re-profiled capital expenditure from 2010-11 has been allocated to specific projects in 2008-09 and 2009-10.
(256186)
70
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any banks have submitted applications for cover to the Government insurance scheme for banks for expected bad debts.
(256189)
71
N
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recommendations were made to the Prime Minister by the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit between 1 July and 31 December 2008.
(255392)
72
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the (a) domestic assets and (b) foreign assets of (i) the UK banks in which UK Financial Investments has taken a significant stake and (ii) the regulated banking sector are non-performing.
(255384)
73
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on cut flowers in each of the last three years.
(256174)
74
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost of extending the availability of Saving Gateway accounts to recipients of carer's allowance.
(255723)
75
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his most recent estimate is of the number of inaccurate records held on HM Revenue and Customs tax credit database.
(256071)
76
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256152)
77
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter of 24 October 2008 from the hon. Member for North Norfolk.
(256011)
78
N
John Mason (Glasgow East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on private pensions of the recent stock market downturn.
(255180)
79
N
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications have been made under the working capital scheme for small and medium-sized businesses to date.
(255607)
80
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy that the liability for value added tax in respect of construction projects should be the same for (a) maintained schools and (b) further education institutions.
(255815)
81
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people who are worse off as a result of the abolition of the 10p rate of income tax; and if he will make a statement.
(255818)
82
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce unnecessary expenditure across Government departments.
(255838)
83
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps the Government has taken to stimulate the housing market.
(255839)
84
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Icelandic government on Icelandic banks in respect of UK depositors and creditors.
(255848)
85
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the US administration on the global economic downturn.
(255849)
86
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256198)
87
N
Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire dated 11 November 2008 on pay for PCS members.
(255350)
88
N
Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire dated 14 October 2008 on small business costs, PO Ref: 1/61608/2008.
(255351)
89
N
Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire dated 4 December 2008 on the duty on red diesel fuel, PO Ref: 1/64261/2008.
(255352)
90
N
Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire dated 6 November 2008 on charities, PO Ref: 1/62894/2008.
(255353)
91
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect of a single five per cent. value added tax rate for all types of construction work on the construction industry.
(255327)
92
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to extend the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme beyond the end of March 2011.
(255766)
93
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the merits of using future National Insurance Fund surpluses to fund an increase in the state pension.
(255767)
94
Mr Ian Taylor (Esher & Walton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will assess the merits of providing financial assistance to small and medium-sized businesses to meet their costs in respect of making redundancies during the recession.
(255581)
95
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the child element of child tax credit by (a) £10, (b) £20, (c) £30, (d) £40, (e) £50 and (f) £60 per year above indexation in 2010-11 in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
(255657)
96
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of increasing child benefit for the first child by (a) £1, (b) £1.50, (c) £2, (d) £2.50, (e) £3, (f) £3.50 and (g) £4 per week above indexation in 2010-11 in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
(255658)
97
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of the increase in the tax credits income disregard from £2,500 to £25,000 in each financial year between 2009-10 and 2014-15; and if he will make a statement.
(255659)
98
Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HM Revenue and Customs spent on consultants in (a) total, (b) England, (c) Wales, (d) Scotland and (e) Northern Ireland in each of the last three years.
(255606)
99
Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the effect on HM Revenue and Customs expenditure of the closure of its office in Brecon, identifying (a) costs and (b) savings separately; and if he will make a statement.
(255829)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
100
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department spent on measures to reduce levels of teenage pregnancy in Nottingham in the last 12 months.
(255583)
101
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many students in Leeds West constituency received education maintenance allowance in each year since 2005.
(255474)
102
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which schools in Leeds West constituency have broadband access.
(255476)
103
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils with special educational needs are in maintained (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) special schools in Leeds West constituency.
(255482)
104
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what guidance providers of healthy eating his Department has issued to Early Years settings.
(255638)
105
N
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children received free school meals in West Chelmsford constituency in (a) 1997 and (b) each of the last five years.
(254715)
106
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by his Department.
(256041)
107
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what additional capital grant funding is available during the 2007 comprehensive spending review period for local authorities facing a funding shortfall owing to an unexpectedly high increase in demand for new pupil places in reception years; and if he will make a statement.
(255437)
108
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many reception pupils in each London borough had not been allocated a primary school place by September in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008; and if he will make a statement.
(255489)
109
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of (a) primary schools for (i) infant and (ii) junior pupils and (b) secondary schools in each London borough were (A) community, (B) Church of England, (C) Roman Catholic and (D) other types of school at the last date for which figures are available.
(255706)
110
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimates he has made of the number of parents of reception-age pupils in each London borough who obtained (a) their first preference, (b) their second preference, (c) their third preference and (d) none of their three preferences in respect of their child's primary school placement in (i) 2005, (ii) 2006, (iii) 2007 and (iv) 2008; and if he will make a statement.
(255707)
111
Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children received free school meals in the London Borough of Bexley in each of the last five years.
(255717)
112
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children entered primary schools in each local education authority (LEA) in (a) 2000 and (b) 2005; what estimate he has made of the number of children who will enter primary schools in each LEA in (i) 2010, (ii) 2013, (iii) 2015, (iv) 2017 and (v) 2020; and what estimate he has made of the (A) number and (B) cost of primary school places required in each LEA in each of those years compared with 2009 requirements.
(255716)
113
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate his Department has made of the percentage of children entering primary school for whom English will be a second or other language in each of the next five years.
(255721)
114
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of primary school children in England did not have English as a first language in each year since 1997.
(255722)
115
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what account (a) his Department and (b) local education authorities took of the effect of projected population increases in their estimates of the number of children entering primary schools in (i) 2000 and (ii) 2005; and what plans there are to take account of population increases in (A) 2010, (B) 2013, (C) 2015, (D) 2017 and (E) 2020.
(256006)
116
N
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many literacy advisers are employed by the National Strategies for early years, primary and secondary teachers, practitioners and managers.
(254728)
117
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of secondary schools allow all pupils to leave school premises at lunchtime.
(256008)
118
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary school premises have a dining hall.
(256009)
119
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of maintained mainstream secondary schools have a lunchtime break of one hour or more.
(256010)
120
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils left secondary school without a GCSE at grade D or above in mathematics and English in (a) North Wiltshire, (b) Swindon, (c) London and (d) England in each of the last 10 years.
(255330)
121
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he has taken to ensure that people who do not have access to the internet are able to respond to his Department's consultation on home educators.
(255910)
122
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he has taken to inform home educators about his Department's consultations on home education.
(255912)
123
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what representations he has received from local authorities about his Department's consultations on home education; and if he will make a statement.
(255913)
124
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much has been spent on the Music Standards Fund in each year since 1999, expressed in 2008-09 prices.
(255911)
125
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many specialist (a) mathematics, (b) arts, (c) sport, (d) science, (e) music, (f) technology, (g) business, (h) engineering and (i) humanities schools there were at the start of each of the last three school years.
(255917)
126
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many people qualified as music teachers in each of the last five years.
(255918)
127
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many staff were responsible for musical instrument teaching in (a) headcount and (b) full-time equivalent terms in maintained (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in each year since 1997.
(255921)
128
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much has been spent from the public purse on the fund established for the professional development of music teachers in each year since it was established.
(255922)
129
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what reports his Department has received on the effectiveness of the Professional Development Fund for music teachers; and if he will make a statement.
(255923)
130
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils in maintained schools received specialist instrumental and vocal tuition in each year since 2001.
(255924)
131
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effects of the £2 million fund for professional development of music teachers on standards of instrumental and vocal tuition in maintained schools; and if he will make a statement.
(255925)
132
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he is taking to assess demand for specialist instrumental or vocal tuition amongst (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils in maintained schools on a continuous basis.
(256066)
133
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much has been allocated to the Music Standards Fund in each of the next three years.
(256085)
134
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the development costs of ContactPoint have been; and what the estimated maintenance costs are for ContactPoint in 2009.
(256072)
135
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256145)
136
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January, Official Report, columns 648-9W, on children: databases, if he plans to make the monthly assessments of early adopter local authorities public.
(255624)
137
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January, Official Report, columns 833-4W, on children: databases, how much of such spending was incurred in each local authority area in each year.
(255625)
138
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January, Official Report, columns 672-4W, on special educational needs, in which schools children in care represented more than six per cent. of pupils.
(255626)
139
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2009, Official Report, column 837W, on children: protection, if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter.
(255636)
140
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils with statements of special educational needs attended (a) maintained and (b) non-maintained special schools in each year since 1997.
(255709)
141
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils with non-statemented special educational needs attended (a) maintained and (b) non-maintained special schools in each year since 1997.
(255710)
142
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children who left care in 2008 in each local authority area had had more than (a) three, (b) five, (c) 10, (d) 20, (e) 30, (f) 40 and (g) 50 foster placements whilst they were in care.
(255711)
143
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the membership is of the panel for the second serious case review of the child known as Baby P.
(255712)
144
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of children whose information will be shielded on ContactPoint.
(255713)
145
Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment the Secretary of State has made of the effect of the judgement in Wright v Secretary of State for Health on the implementation of the provisions of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 which relate to children.
(255565)
146
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of health risks to children from incorrectly-sized or poor quality school furniture.
(255438)
147
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will take steps to ensure that furniture purchased under the Building Schools for the Future programme conforms with the European Furniture Standard EN1729.
(255742)
148
Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what discussions he has had with the Association for Physical Education (aFPE) on the development of the Physical Education and Sport Strategy for Young People; and what plans he has to involve aFPE in the future development of the strategy.
(255720)
149
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256215)
150
N
Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 16 December 2008 on the NSPCC's submission to Lord Laming's review of the Child Protection System in England.
(254712)
151
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the monetary value of his Department's contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers to provide support to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority in procuring the 2009 National Curriculum tests is.
(255654)
152
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many full-time equivalent school nurses there were in each local authority area in each year since 1997.
(255655)
153
Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps will be taken to ensure that recipients of teaching pensions who have been overpaid receive clear information explaining (a) the reasons for the past miscalculation and (b) the new pension payment figures.
(255759)
154
N
Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the (a) transport, (b) staff and (c) administrative costs were of the visit made by the Minister of State for Schools to Bristol West constituency on 12 May 2008.
(255389)
Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
155
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people aged between 18 and 24 years old were claiming jobseeker's allowance in each of the last five years in Sutton and Cheam.
(255371)
156
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Guildford of 3 February 2009, Official Report, column 1180W, on deaths: asthma; if he will set out the figures by (a) age and (b) sex; and if he will make a statement.
(255827)
157
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much household debt there was in each (a) parliamentary constituency, (b) county and (c) Government office region in September (i) 2005, (ii) 2006, (iii) 2007 and (iv) 2008.
(255852)
158
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) the Cabinet Office and (ii) its agency.
(256059)
159
Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many staff are employed in No. 10 Downing Street.
(255677)
160
Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people the Cabinet Office employs.
(255678)
161
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much has been spent on (a) pot plants and (b) cut flowers for No. 10 Downing Street in each of the last three years.
(256171)
162
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) males and (b) females in each age group committed suicide in the last year for which records are available.
(255546)
163
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) males and (b) females (i) under the age of 18, (ii) aged between 18 and 25 and (iii) over the age of 25 years committed suicide each year since 1992.
(255551)
164
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people flowed from jobseeker's allowance into paid employment in each year since 2001.
(255649)
165
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many non-departmental public bodies there have been in each year since 1980.
(255681)
166
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people flowed off jobseeker's allowance in each year since 2001.
(255682)
167
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people flowed off jobseeker's allowance onto incapacity benefit in each year since 2001.
(255686)
168
Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what his Department's (a) procurement and (b) tendering policy is in respect of social enterprises.
(255693)
169
N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what estimate he has made of the proportion of new jobs created since 1997 which attract salaries paid for out of public funds.
(255507)
170
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed in No. 10 Downing Street.
(256202)
171
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256216)
172
Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 16 December 2008, Official Report, columns 111-2WS, on guaranteed minimum pension calculations, how the errors in payments in some public service pensions were discovered.
(255756)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
173
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many housing association properties there were in each of the wards of Leeds West constituency in each year since 2005; and what percentage of all dwellings in each ward they represented.
(255483)
174
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to her Department of conducting comprehensive performance assessments has been each year since the assessments were introduced.
(255592)
175
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people have been employed to work on comprehensive performance assessments in each year since the assessments were introduced.
(255593)
176
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate she has made of the average cost of constructing affordable housing units in London; and what the projected average cost is of constructing such units in 2010.
(256121)
177
Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what Westminister City Council's housing revenue account subsidy position (a) was in each of the last 10 years and (b) is expected to be in 2009-10.
(255875)
178
Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much (a) Westminster City Council and (b) CityWest Homes contributed to the housing revenue account in each of the last 10 years; and how much they are expected to contribute to it in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
(255876)
179
Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average weekly rent for local housing was in each local housing authority in the latest period for which figures are available, listed from highest to lowest; what the percentage change in average weekly rent in each authority was in (a) cash and (b) real terms between (i) 1987 and 1997 and (ii) 1997 and 2007-08, listed from highest to lowest in each case.
(256135)
180
N
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much local authority housing stock in West Chelmsford constituency has been sold under the right-to-buy scheme in each year since 1997.
(254718)
181
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will estimate the effect on the change in the level of rents in each local housing authority in 2009-10 if the relevant month for the purpose of including inflation in her Department's guideline rent increase was (a) October, (b) November and (c) December 2008.
(255372)
182
Mr Stephen Byers (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much European regional aid structural funding was allocated to England between 2000 and 2006; how much of this funding had been spent by 31 December 2008; whether a request was made to the European Commission to extend the spending deadline beyond that date; and if she will make a statement.
(255462)
183
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proposals for gas storage facilities have (a) been granted planning permission and (b) have had planning permission rejected in each of the last five years.
(255985)
184
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proposals for gas storage facilities have been made in respect of which planning permission is still being considered.
(255987)
185
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) her Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256042)
186
John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many employees of Durham County Council have salaries in the range (a) £80,000 to £89,999, (b) £90,000 to £99,999, (c) £100,000 to £149,999, (d) £150,000 to £199,999 and (e) £200,000 and above.
(255310)
187
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the new rules for parish councils on the procedures to be followed for the appointment of additional members will come into effect; and what guidance is available if these rules are not met.
[R] (255485)
188
Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people are on the council house waiting list in (a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster; and what the equivalent figures were (i) five and (ii) 10 years ago.
(255828)
189
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) chief executives of local authorities and (b) local authority employees in Lancashire earned more than £100,000 in 2007.
(254571)
190
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the costs of renovating social housing which does not meet the decent homes standard in (a) Ribble Valley, (b) Lancashire and (c) nationally to a condition which does meet the standard.
(254572)
191
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she plans to publish the Green Paper on park home owners.
(255909)
192
N
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the official engagements were for the Minister for (a) London, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber, (c) the South East, (d) the North West; (e) the East of England, (f) the East Midlands, (g) the South West, (h) the North East and (i) the West Midlands in their roles as regional ministers from 1 to 31 January 2009; and what the length of time spent on each engagement was.
(254961)
193
N
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the official engagements were for (a) the Minister for the North West, (b) the Minister for the East of England, (c) the Minister for the East Midlands, (d) the Minister for the South West, (e) the Minister for the North East and (f) the Minister for the West Midlands in their roles as regional ministers from (i) 1 to 31 October, (ii) 1 to 30 November and (iii) 1 to 31 December 2008; and what the length of time spent on each engagement was.
(255323)
194
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions the Minister for Housing has had with Lambeth Council on rent increases from 1 April 2009.
(255822)
195
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the extent to which Lambeth Council's proposed rental charges from 1 April 2009 comply with her Department's guidance to local authorities on social rents.
(255823)
196
N
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood of 26 January 2009, Official Report, column 810W, on Fire Service: contracts, what legal advice her Department sought prior to any advice given to contracting parties in respect of non-inclusion of break clauses in the contracts for regional fire control centres; and if she will make a statement.
(254624)
197
N
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her Department's policy is on the inclusion of break clauses in the contracts for regional control centres; and if she will make a statement.
(254729)
198
Susan Kramer (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people selling their homes she estimates will be required to renew their home information pack in 2009.
(255441)
199
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the cost of paying business rates on empty commercial properties to local government in 2009-10.
(255741)
200
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) her Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256149)
201
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what financial incentives are available to improve the efficiency of low carbon building projects in (a) England and (b) Buckinghamshire.
(255385)
202
Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many contracts have been awarded by her Department to social enterprises in each of the last three years.
(255695)
203
Mr Brooks Newmark (Braintree): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans have been made for the (a) provision and (b) development of affordable housing in Braintree.
(255309)
204
N
Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the change in revenue which will result from the planned revaluation of national non-domestic rates in April 2010.
(254731)
205
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the costs incurred by local authorities which have a proposed eco-town site in their area arising from the eco-town initiative to date.
(255668)
206
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department has spent on its eco-towns initiative to date; under what budget headings such expenditure has been incurred; and what estimate she has made of such expenditure incurred in 2008-09.
(255669)
207
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by her Department.
(256214)
208
Mr Ian Taylor (Esher & Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the funds allocated to local authorities under the local authority business growth incentive scheme will be ring-fenced for the provision of assistance to local businesses.
(255584)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
209
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on arrangements to increase the consistency of regulation of content on television and on the internet; and if he will make a statement.
(255478)
210
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agency.
(256044)
211
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance his Department provides for television broadcasters on the use of bad language after the nine o'clock watershed.
(255366)
212
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether Colette Bowe's role in the Westland affair was taken into account in the procedure for appointing her as Chair of Ofcom.
(255996)
213
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to promote the UK as a tourist destination to those overseas.
(255562)
214
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of people under the age of 16 who have (a) performed music live to an audience, (b) taken part in a theatre production, (c) visited an art gallery, (d) visited a library and (e) visited an historic building in each of the last three years.
(255897)
215
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people have taken out loans for musical instruments as part of the Take It Away scheme in each of the last three years; and what the monetary value of the loans was in each year.
(255899)
216
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what percentage of those who have taken advantage of the Take It Away instrument loan scheme fall into each of the eligibility criteria.
(255900)
217
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what percentage of those who have taken advantage of the Own Art loan scheme fall into each of the scheme's eligibility criteria.
(255904)
218
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people have taken out loans as part of the Own Art scheme in each of the last three years; and what the total value of the loans was in each year.
(255905)
219
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) adult and (b) peer mentors have been appointed as part of the Music Mentoring scheme in each of the last three years.
(255906)
220
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many young people were mentored as part of the Music Mentoring initiative in each of the last three years.
(255907)
221
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, in respect of which projects each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies will receive ring-fenced funding in each of the next three years; and what the cost of each such project will be.
(255930)
222
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department paid to the designated moderator at the event which it hosted at the Walker Art Gallery on 20 November 2008.
(255966)
223
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what payments have been made to Creative and Business International Network ambassadors to date.
(255968)
224
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been spent on the Find Your Talent pilot projects to date; and how much he expects to be spent on them in each year to 2011.
(256086)
225
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the Creative Sparks initiative.
(256087)
226
Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what consideration he gave to including the Swimming Teachers Association in the range of stakeholders consulted on the Free Swimming Programme.
(256191)
227
Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will consult the Swimming Teachers Association when drawing up the new Whole Sport Plans; and if he will make a statement.
(256192)
228
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256142)
229
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256213)
230
N
Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to make a decision on the listing of the Edinburgh Sports Dome at Malvern St James School.
(254708)
231
N
Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, in respect of which World Heritage sites he has submitted a progress report to the World Heritage Committee for examination at its 2009 session; and on what dates such reports were submitted.
(255601)
232
N
Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which World Heritage sites he expects to be considered by the World Heritage Committee for inclusion on its list of world heritage in danger in 2009.
(255602)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
233
Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the store of cluster bombs at RAF Welford has been removed since the Government signed the Oslo convention; and whether any cluster bombs remain in the UK.
(255603)
234
Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who meets the costs of policing outside the perimeter of RAF Menwith Hill.
(255672)
235
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256045)
236
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2009, Official Report, column 1116W, on Netherlands: military exercises, how many Royal Marines he expects to participate in the 2009 UK/Netherlands Amphibious Landing Force training exercise.
(255587)
237
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 14 October 2008, Official Report, column 1016W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, when he expects the review to be completed.
(255588)
238
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many training sorties for the (a) Hercules C-130, (b) Tristar, (c) VC-10 and (d) C-17 Globemaster were cancelled in each of the last two years.
(255627)
239
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and which (a) troops and (b) military assets the United Kingdom has contributed to each EU Force Catalogue in each year since 2000.
(255628)
240
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average number of training hours spent by fast jet pilots in each aircraft type in the Royal Air Force was in each (a) year since 2003 and (b) month of 2008.
(255629)
241
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average number of training hours spent by personnel serving in each type of tanker and transport aircraft in the Royal Air Force has been in each (a) year since 2003 and (b) month of 2008.
(255630)
242
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many training sorties for each Royal Air Force fast jet type have been cancelled in the last two years.
(255631)
243
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 3 Feburary 2009, Official Report, column 1116W, on Netherlands: military exercises, where the 2009 exercise will take place.
(255639)
244
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Orion laser is capable of (a) developing the nuclear warheads for the new generation of nuclear submarines and (b) producing warheads compatible with future US-designed missiles.
(256194)
245
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256140)
246
N
Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how long it will take to modify Merlin helicopters for use in Afghanistan; and how much this will cost.
(254831)
247
Mr Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will request NHS Blood and Transplant to supply pathogen inactivated blood products for military personnel use.
(255760)
248
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether British citizens stationed in the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia are entitled to vote.
(255861)
249
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what dates he has had meetings with the Leader of Essex County Council on the involvement of the Ministry of Defence in either a military academy school or a military vocational college at Colchester; and if he will make a statement.
(256077)
250
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has met the hon. Member for North Essex to discuss the involvement of his Department in a military academy school or a military vocational college at Colchester; and if he will make a statement.
(256079)
251
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256212)
252
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions his Department has had with (a) Odyssey Marine Exploration, (b) English Heritage and (c) Ministerial colleagues on the discovery of the wreck suspected to be that of HMS Victory; and if he will make a statement.
(255703)
253
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to establish the identity of the wreck reported by Odyssey Marine Exploration suspected to be that of HMS Victory.
(255704)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
254
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will place in the Library of the House a copy of the minutes of each meeting held by officials in his Department at which smart meters have been discussed since the creation of his Department.
(255847)
255
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he expects the first householders to receive assistance from the Community Energy Saving Programme.
(255853)
256
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the budget of the Community Energy Saving Programme is for (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the next five years.
(255854)
257
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate he has made of the number of households in each (a) Government Office region, (b) local authority area and (c) parliamentary constituency which are not connected to the gas grid.
(255855)
258
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate he has made of the number of households in each (a) Government Office region, (b) local authority area and (c) parliamentary constituency which are not connected to the electricity grid.
(255856)
259
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his most recent estimate is of the effect of changes in domestic energy prices in the last 12 months on the number of people in fuel poverty.
(255857)
260
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what public engagements each of the Ministers in his Department have attended since its creation.
(255858)
261
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average time has been between the payment of a top-up fee and the completion of installation work in cases where Warm Front installations have required a householder top-up to be paid in each year since the introduction of top-ups to the scheme.
(255873)
262
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many energy efficient light bulbs have been provided under the Warm Front scheme in each of the last 10 years; and what the cost to the public purse was in each such year.
(255874)
263
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many requests under the (a) Freedom of Information Act 2000 and (b) Environmental Information Regulations 2004 his Department has (i) received and (ii) responded to since its inception.
(255877)
264
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assumptions his Department makes in calculating the carbon abatement accruing from the provision of energy efficient light bulbs under the Warm Front scheme.
(255882)
265
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the budget for the Renewables Advisory Board in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the next five financial years is.
(255933)
266
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what funding the Government has given to the Bio-energy Capital Grants scheme in each financial year since its inception.
(255934)
267
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the budget for the Bio-energy Capital Grants scheme in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the next five financial years is.
(255935)
268
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how frequently payments to eaga are made in respect of its management of the Warm Front scheme.
(255937)
269
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, columns 453-4W, on the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, by what date he expects the discussions on the role of the bodies referred to to be completed.
(255938)
270
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what payments the Carbon Trust has made to (a) Fishburn Hedges, (b) Grayling Political Strategy, (c) Weber Shandwick Public Affairs and (d) Citigate Public Affairs in each of the last five years; and on what date and for what purpose the payment was made in each case.
(255939)
271
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what payments the Energy Saving Trust has made to (a) Positif Politics Ltd, (b) Strategem, (c) Weber Shandwick Public Affairs and (d) Consolidated Communications in each of the last five years; and on what date and for what purpose the payment was made in each case.
(255940)
272
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with which public affairs companies (a) the Carbon Trust and (b) the Energy Saving Trust had contracts in 2008.
(255941)
273
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department takes to monitor complaints about the operation of the Warm Front scheme.
(255944)
274
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, until what date the Government's contract with eaga to manage the Warm Front scheme runs.
(255946)
275
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what requirements have been placed on EDF regarding the disposal of potential nuclear sites as a result of the sale of British Energy.
(255947)
276
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the Government's policy is on hypothecating the receipts from the auctioning of EU Emissions Trading Scheme permits for expenditure on low-carbon energy projects.
(255948)
277
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department has lead responsibility for (a) the Advisory Committee on Carbon Abatement Technologies, (b) the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group, (c) the Renewables Advisory Board, (d) the Civil Nuclear Police Atomic Authority, (e) the Coal Authority and (f) the UK Police Atomic Energy Authority.
(255949)
278
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2008, Official Report, column 705W, on departmental buildings, how many staff have been moved into 3 Whitehall Place since his Department was created; and how many have yet to be moved there.
(255956)
279
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2009, Official Report, column 118W, on energy supply, whether he received advice on competition issues from officials prior to the meeting he held with the main energy supply companies on 17 November 2008.
(255957)
280
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what IT projects (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are undertaking; what his most recent estimate of the total cost of each project is; and what the projected completion date of each is.
(255958)
281
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2009, Official Report, columns 1431-2W, on nuclear power: consultants, what role (a) Mr David Hughes, (b) Professor John Raine, (c) Mr Bernard Whittle and (d) Mr Phillip Woodward have in the generic design assessment.
(255963)
282
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2009, Official Report, columns 1431-2W, on nuclear power: consultants, what the total monetary value is of the contracts with each of the consultants engaged in connection with the generic design assessment.
(255964)
283
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what databases are (a) held and (b) maintained by his Department.
(255965)
284
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will publish the full version of Dr Tim Stone's recommendations to his Department on nuclear regulation following his nuclear regulatory review.
(255969)
285
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the address of his Department's Nuclear Directorate is.
(255970)
286
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, by what date he expects his Department's Nuclear Directorate office in Cheltenham to be operational.
(255971)
287
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many staff of his Department are based at its Nuclear Directorate's offices in London; and how many are in each civil service pay band.
(255972)
288
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much funding the Government has allocated to nuclear fusion research (a) in the UK and (b) internationally in each of the last five years.
(255973)
289
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what climate models his Department (a) has access to and (b) uses, with particular reference to the climate model used by Lord Stern in his Review on the Economics of Climate Change.
(255977)
290
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate he has made of the number of domestic (a) gas and (b) electricity meters in UK households that are (i) less than five years old and (ii) between five and 10 years old.
(255980)
291
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate he has made of the number of households in each (a) Government region, (b) local authority area and (c) Parliamentary constituency who have not switched their electricity supplier since taking up residence in their property in each of the last three years.
(255981)
292
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will place in the Library a copy of the report by Veredus on the pay and conditions of nuclear inspectors.
(255983)
293
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much has been paid from the public purse to the Franco-British Nuclear Forum in each year since its inception.
(255984)
294
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the Energy Saving Trust is subject to the provisions of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
(255986)
295
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the budget of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme is.
(255988)
296
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the latest date is on which applications for grants from (a) homeowners and (b) charities and public sector bodies under the Low Carbon Buildings Programme will be accepted.
(255989)
297
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department publishes a staff magazine.
(255990)
298
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, by what date he expects EDF's purchase of British Energy to be completed.
(255991)
299
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what (a) organisations and (b) individuals, officials in his Department have met to discuss smart meters since his Department's inception.
(255992)
300
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) asset and (b) liability value of the UK's plutonium holdings.
(255993)
301
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on what date a Minister last attended a meeting of the Franco-British Nuclear Forum.
(256002)
302
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on what date the Franco-British Nuclear Forum last met.
(256003)
303
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of natural gas used in the UK in 2008 came from (a) UK Continental Shelf production, (b) imports from Norway, (c) imports from the Russian Federation and (d) other sources.
(256004)
304
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of households eligible to receive assistance under the Warm Front scheme.
(256005)
305
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256047)
306
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average cost to his Department of employing a press and media officer is.
(256060)
307
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many press officers are employed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies.
(256061)
308
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many Warm Front installations there have been in each of the last five years; what the cost to the public purse of such installations was in each such year; how many such installations have been undertaken by eaga and its subsidiaries in each such year; and at what cost.
(256068)
309
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many staff in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies (i) are classified as Government commuicators and (ii) have access to the Government Communication Network.
(256073)
310
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what consideration he has given to using installers approved by the manufacturers of central heating boilers for installations under the Warm Front scheme.
(255633)
311
N
Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effects of increases in energy prices on levels of fuel poverty among pensioners who use coal as their main source of domestic heating.
(255599)
312
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to eradicate sales malpractices by gas and electricity suppliers.
(255331)
313
N
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much the Government is spending on (a) nuclear fusion research and (b) research into renewables in 2008-09.
(254880)
314
N
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans the Government has to meet the EU's 20 per cent. carbon dioxide emissions reduction target by 2020; and if he will make a statement.
(255391)
315
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proposals his Department has put forward for an international financing mechanism to fund the UN Climate Change Adaptation Fund; what discussions he has had with the (a) Prime Minister and (b) Chancellor of the Exchequer on these proposals; and if he will make a statement.
(255731)
316
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the UK's level of financial support for the UN Climate Change Adaptation Fund; and if he will make a statement.
(255732)
317
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he plans to meet (a) the US Energy Secretary and (b) the White House Energy Co-ordinator to discuss (i) the outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, (ii) a funding mechanism for the UN Climate Change Adaptation Fund and (iii) the transfer of carbon-neutral and clean technologies to the developing world; and if he will make a statement.
(255733)
318
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much funding from the public purse was provided to the (a) Carbon Trust and (b) Energy Saving Trust in each of the last five years.
(255860)
319
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his most recent estimate is of the number of smart meters installed in domestic properties.
(255862)
320
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what data his Department (a) collects and (b) compiles on (i) spot and (ii) future wholesale gas prices.
(255863)
321
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256211)
322
N
Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when the Minister of State plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 2 December 2008 about an application for a Government grant.
(254709)
323
N
Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 12 December 2008 transferred to him from the Prime Minister on the Renewable Energy Strategy.
(254710)
324
N
Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when the Minister of State plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 4 November 2008 on Flogas and the price of liquefied petroleum gas.
(254711)
325
N
Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire dated 2 December 2008 on cancer patients' fuel bills.
(255349)
326
Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he plans to take to encourage community groups to install low-carbon energy and energy efficiency technologies in their buildings after the end of phase two of the Low Carbon Buildings programme; what steps he is taking to assist community groups to use such technologies; and if he will make a statement.
(255456)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
327
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256046)
328
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what provisions of EU directives within his Department's area of responsibility have not yet been transposed into law; in respect of the provisions of which such directives the UK has been subject to infringement action by the European Commission since January 2005; and what stage has been reached in such action in each case.
(255490)
329
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he or Ministers from his Department last met the Mayor of London to discuss air quality and the western extension of the congestion charging zone.
(255491)
330
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which stretches of London's roads are expected to breach EU air quality legislation on particulate matter in 2011; and if he will make a statement.
(255492)
331
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to discuss the regulation of the slaughter of farm animals with his EU counterparts.
(255536)
332
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that the derogation on the ritual slaughter of farm animals for human consumption will continue in any revision of EU Directive 93/119.
(255537)
333
Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people his Department employs.
(255685)
334
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2009, Official Report, column 548W, on Western Sahara: fisheries, what plans there are for UK-registered fishing vessels to fish in waters of the Western Sahara in the next 12 months.
(255452)
335
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which UK producer organisations have been funded from EU budget line 05 02 08 03 in 2008; and how much has been awarded to each.
(256100)
336
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what expenditure is funded under EU budget line 05 02 08 11, Aid to Producer Groups for Preliminary Recognition; and which UK bodies have been granted an award under this budget line from the 2008 budget.
(256101)
337
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which UK (a) projects and (b) programmes have been funded under EU budget line 05 02 04 01, Programmes for Deprived Persons in 2008; what percentage of each programme's funding was funded from the EU budget; and if he will make a statement.
(256102)
338
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what expenditure is funded under EU budget line 05 02 08 10, Free Distribution of Fruits and Vegetables; which UK bodies received support under this line in 2008; and whether disbursements have been made from this budget line to (a) political bodies and (b) trades unions.
(256137)
339
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256141)
340
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with local authorities on charges for the collection of household waste.
(255782)
341
N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2009, Official Report, column 707W, on birds: nature conservation, if he will take steps to monitor the effectiveness of sales controls provided for in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as measures to protect species removed from Schedule 4.
(255705)
342
N
Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many claims were made for investment aid for young farmers under the Rural Development Fund in each of the last three years.
(254827)
343
N
Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding was allocated for young farmers under the Rural Development Fund in each of the last three years.
(254828)
344
N
Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2009, Official Report, column 316W, on agriculture: subsidies, under which common agricultural policy schemes payments were made to each listed recipient.
(254829)
345
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons the January meeting of the Inter-Departmental Ministerial Group on Biodiversity was postponed; how often meetings of the group are scheduled to be held; when the group's next meeting will be held; and what matters will be considered at that meeting.
(255919)
346
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256210)
347
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward funding to enable British Waterways to undertake (a) necessary maintenance of its grade D and grade E assets and (b) projects to improve the standard of towpaths to create a national towpath network.
(256123)
348
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will estimate how many (a) employment and (b) training opportunities a programme of maintenance and towpath network improvement undertaken by British Waterways would provide.
(256127)
349
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance is given under the Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative to purchasers of pork in the public sector on procurement of pork products bearing the quality standard mark.
(255347)
350
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he last reviewed Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative guidance on pork purchases.
(255348)
351
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with food retailers on the labelling of pork products with information on the countries of origin and rearing of the pigs concerned.
(255360)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
352
N
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects to answer Question 247757 about the seminar on stem cell research, tabled on 12 January 2009; what the reason is for the time taken to reply; and if he will make a statement.
(254971)
353
N
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects to answer Question 242696 about terrorism in Israel, tabled on 8 December 2008; what the reason is for the time taken to reply; and if he will make a statement.
(254972)
354
N
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what official contacts there have been in the last four weeks between the Government and (a) Hezbollah and (b) Hamas.
(254721)
355
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his most recent assessment of the political situation in East Timor is; and if he will make a statement.
(255466)
356
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe.
(255373)
357
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many embassy and consular staff of each grade work in posts in (a) Germany, (b) France, (c) Russia, (d) China, (e) India, (f) Brazil and (g) the US.
(255374)
358
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2009, Official Report, column 893W, on Tony Blair, how much expenditure has been (a) incurred by and (b) reimbursed to the Quartet Representative in each year since his appointment.
(255378)
359
N
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Sri Lankan government on the provisions of the Prohibition of Forcible Conversions Bill restricting religious conversions.
(254830)
360
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256048)
361
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what occasions since January 2008 (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department have discussed with their Israeli counterparts Israel's possession of nuclear weapons.
(255772)
362
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many meetings of the UK-China Bilateral Group on arms control and disarmament have been held since its inception; what (a) matters have been discussed and (b) decisions have been taken by the group; and if he will publish (i) each paper discussed by the group and (ii) the minutes of each meeting on his Department's website.
(255773)
363
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many copies of his Departmental report, Lifting the Nuclear Shadow: Creating the Conditions for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, have been published; what methods he has used to publicise and distribute the paper; who was present at the launch of the paper at the International Institute for Strategic Studies on 4 February 2008; and which non-governmental organisations were consulted in preparation of the report.
(255774)
364
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to monitor the political situation in the Nuba Mountains; and what steps his Department is taking to support the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in the region.
(255534)
365
N
Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in India and Pakistan on the situation in Kashmir; what steps his Department is taking in support of a bilateral resolution between India and Pakistan; and if he will make a statement.
(255558)
366
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of the presence in the Gaza Strip of Iranian-made weapons; what assessment he has made of such reports; and what assessment he has made of the extent of the (a) cognisance of and (b) involvement in such activity by the Iranian government.
(256062)
367
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to instigate quarterly reports to Parliament of (a) UK strategy and objectives in Afghanistan and (b) UK performance against those objectives.
(256063)
368
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what role the National Security Committee has had in (a) the review of Afghanistan strategy led by the Prime Minister and (b) the 2008 periodic assessment of Afghanistan strategy; and on how many occasions since July 2007 the Committee has convened to discuss Afghanistan.
(256064)
369
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what date he plans to inform Parliament of the findings and implications of his Department's periodic review of Afghanistan strategy for 2008; and what form he expects this presentation to take.
(256065)
370
Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what date the 2008 periodic review of British strategy in Afghanistan was completed.
(256067)
371
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many letters received by his Department more than (a) one month and (b) three months ago have not been answered.
(255495)
372
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the average time was for his Department to reply to hon. Member's correspondence in the last 12 months.
(255496)
373
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 his Department received in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) from January to July 2008.
(255497)
374
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many members of staff are employed to deal with requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in his Department.
(255498)
375
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 his Department (a) agreed to and (b) refused (i) in 2006, (ii) in 2007 and (iii) between January and July 2008.
(255499)
376
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the average time was for his Department to respond to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in the last 12 months.
(255500)
377
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how long on average it took his Department to send a substantive response to correspondence from members of the public in the latest period for which figures are available.
(255589)
378
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the average cost to his Department of responding to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 has been since 2006.
(255679)
379
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost to his Department of replying to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) January to July 2008 was.
(255680)
380
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256150)
381
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe; and if he will make a statement.
(255650)
382
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions the Government has had with the new unity government of Zimbabwe; and if he will make a statement.
(255651)
383
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has imposed sanctions against (a) companies and (b) individuals in Zimbabwe for breaching their international responsibilities.
(255739)
384
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will seek to include the Arms Trade Treaty process on the agenda for the forthcoming G20 summit in London.
(255730)
385
Mr Elliot Morley (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the (a) progress of and (b) completion date of the inquiry in Thailand into the plane crash in Phuket in September 2007 to be completed.
(255609)
386
Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Kinshasa and Bas Congo; what guidance he has issued to the UK Border Agency on the safety of unsuccessful asylum seekers removed to the Democratic Republic of Congo; and if he will make a statement.
(255513)
387
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2009, Official Report, column 884W, on Falkland Islands dependencies, how much it cost to maintain the two year-round research stations at South Georgia in the last 12 months.
(256120)
388
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256209)
389
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the treatment of gay and lesbian people in Iraq in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
(256122)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
390
N
Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered mental health nurses were employed in the NHS in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
(255632)
391
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on initiatives to reduce teenage pregnancy levels in Nottingham in the last 12 months.
(255582)
392
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what Government funding has been provided for research into mesothelioma in the last 10 years; and what funding for such research is planned over the next five years.
(255475)
393
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the implications of the findings of the (a) MS101 trial, (b) MALCS study, (c) MARS study and (d) VATS study for treatment of mesothelioma; and if he will make a statement.
(255479)
394
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of treatment of heroin addicts with morphine; and if he will make a statement.
(255480)
395
N
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practitioner referrals to independent sector treatment centres there were in each year since such centres were established.
(255590)
396
N
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued to general practitioners on the referral of patients to independent sector treatment centres.
(255591)
397
N
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many independent sector treatment centres there are.
(255613)
398
N
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 6 November 2008, Official Report, column 693W, on general practitioners, what reasons have been identified for the reduction in numbers of GP referrals to consultants between 2003-04 and 2007-08.
(255620)
399
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his latest projection is of the age-specific mortality rates of thalidomiders.
(255889)
400
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the programmes run by his Department to raise awareness of prostate cancer.
(256124)
401
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on programmes to raise awareness of prostate cancer in each of the last five years.
(256125)
402
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice his Department offers to the public on potential symptoms of prostate cancer; and what plans he has to initiate further public awareness campaigns.
(256126)
403
Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will include provisions for care for thalassaemia within his Department's standards for clinical care.
(255387)
404
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) male and (b) female patients were on clinical disease registers in (i) each primary care trust in London and (ii) each strategic health authority area in each of the last three years; what proportion of the total number of patients on practice lists in each area such patients represented in each year; and if he will make a statement.
(255836)
405
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times St John Ambulance provided an emergency response on behalf of the South East Coast Ambulance Service in each of the last 12 months.
(255851)
406
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256049)
407
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve provision of the cancer services in Coventry.
(255354)
408
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve the provision of mental health services in Coventry.
(255355)
409
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve the provision of healthcare for people with dementia in Coventry.
(255356)
410
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve the provision of health services to victims of sexual crime in the West Midlands.
(255357)
411
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve standards of geriatric medicine in Coventry.
(255358)
412
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the funding made available under the community hospitals programme (a) had and (b) had not been allocated at the latest date for which figures are available; what timetable he has set for considering further applications for funding under the programme; and if he will make a statement.
(255457)
413
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the development costs of the NHS Summary Care Record database have been; and what the estimated annual running costs of the database are.
(256075)
414
Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to improve services for young people who require (a) mental health support, (b) bereavement counselling and (c) individual counselling in the North East.
(255311)
415
Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for young people to obtain (a) mental health support services, (b) bereavement counselling and (c) individual counselling services was in the North East in the latest period for which information is available.
(255312)
416
Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps have been taken to increase awareness of safe drinking levels and the health risks associated with alcohol dependency amongst (a) adults aged over 45 years and (b) young people under 18 years living in the North East.
(255313)
417
Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for (a) adults and (b) young people in each strategic health authority area to obtain (i) community-based and (ii) in-patient services to reduce severe alcohol dependency in the latest period for which information is available.
(255314)
418
Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many in-patient beds there are in each strategic health authority area for patients who require medical support and intervention to reduce severe alcohol dependency.
(255315)
419
Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what specialist training is available for general practitioners to ensure that primary care services respond to the health needs of patients presenting with severe alcohol dependency.
(255316)
420
Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to assess the effectiveness of alcohol rehabilitation services in each strategic health authority area.
(255317)
421
Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his estimate is of the number of patients in the London Borough of Bexley who have had operations cancelled within a week of the scheduled date in the last 12 months.
(255718)
422
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of maternity ward places needed in England in (a) 2010, (b) 2015 and (c) 2025; and what estimate he has made of the cost of any increase.
(255724)
423
Dr Hywel Francis (Aberavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many carers in each county were (a) offered and (b) provided with an assessment of their needs in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(255542)
424
N
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the official engagements of Ministers in his Department were from 1 November to 30 November 2008.
(255553)
425
N
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the next stage of the NHS co-payments review will examine means of reducing inequality between patients who can and cannot afford to co-pay for treatments which are unavailable on the NHS.
(254719)
426
N
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanism will be put in place to ensure that the possibility for patients to co-pay for a treatment does not act as a disincentive for NHS primary care trusts to fund that treatment.
(254722)
427
N
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department's Clean Safe Care strategy for reducing MRSA infections and deaths.
(254964)
428
N
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of NHS clinical staff who are carriers of MRSA.
(254965)
429
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2009, Official Report, column 627W, on PatientPak, on how many occasions in the last 12 months NHS hospitals have provided in-patients with special soap and shampoo to prevent viral and bacterial infections.
(255621)
430
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2009, Official Report, column 627W, on PatientPak, which proven antimicrobial formula is contained in the special soap and shampoo provided to in-patients by NHS hospitals to prevent viral and bacterial infections.
(255622)
431
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2009, Official Report, column 627W, on PatientPak, under which circumstances NHS hospitals provide in-patients with special soap and shampoo to prevent viral and bacterial infections when such an infection (a) has and (b) has not been detected in a hospital.
(255623)
432
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff were dismissed from NHS hospitals in 2008 for failing to follow hygiene procedures.
(255967)
433
N
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will conduct an investigation of the effects of the banding of charges for dentistry on the NHS.
(254975)
434
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to achieve a reduction in the number of suicides; and if he will make a statement.
(255547)
435
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what non-governmental organisations working towards the prevention of suicide have received funding from his Department since 1997.
(255548)
436
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on the prevention of suicide in each year since 1992.
(255549)
437
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each primary care trust spent on the prevention of suicide in the latest year for which records are available.
(255550)
438
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department has provided to local government for work related to the prevention of suicide since 1997.
(255552)
439
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256147)
440
N
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff were directly employed by his Department in each of the last 10 years; and how many self-employed workers were engaged by the Department in each such year.
(254833)
441
N
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many penalties have been imposed on suppliers for security breaches under the NHS national programme for IT in the last 12 months; and what the total monetary value of those penalties was.
(255359)
442
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to extend the vascular checks programme beyond GP surgeries.
(255744)
443
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how people aged between 40 and 74 years old will be notified that they are eligible for vascular risk assessments and measurements.
(255745)
444
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the merits of carrying out vascular risk assessments and measurements in the workplace as part of the health, work and well-being strategy.
(255746)
445
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to measure the level of uptake of vascular risk assessment and measurements amongst people between the ages of 40 to 74 years.
(255747)
446
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking in the implementation of the vascular checks programme (a) to ensure that hard-to-reach groups receive checks and (b) to evaluate uptake amongst these groups.
(255748)
447
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of student nurses are studying for a (a) diploma and (b) degree.
(255749)
448
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support is available to nursing students studying for a (a) diploma and (b) degree.
(255750)
449
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) males and (b) females aged (i) 18 years and more and (ii) 17 years and less were admitted to each hospital in England in each of the last five years with an alcohol-related reason for the admission, broken down by primary care trust.
(255752)
450
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average premium paid by NHS trusts to the NHS Litigation Authority (a) was in each of the last five years and (b) is estimated to be in 2009-10; and if he will make a statement.
(255753)
451
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what role the vascular checks programme will have in reducing health inequalities; and if he will make a statement.
(256012)
452
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether all primary care trusts in England will be required to implement the vascular checks programme from 1 April 2009.
(256013)
453
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in what setting vascular risk assessments and measurements will be provided for people between the ages of 40 and 74 years.
(256014)
454
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which private contractors have withdrawn from NHS private finance initiative contracts in the last 12 months; what the contract was in each case; and what the monetary value of the contract was in each case.
(255300)
455
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, from which budget his Department's £100 million Privacy and Dignity Fund will be provided; and upon what criteria such funding will be allocated.
(255301)
456
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procedures will apply to the imposition of financial penalties for hospitals which do not meet required standards of privacy and dignity for patients.
(255302)
457
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) name and (b) postcode location of each maternity unit in England listed on the NHS choices website is.
(255303)
458
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) name and (b) postcode location of each (i) accident and emergency department, (ii) minor injuries unit and (iii) NHS walk-in centre in England listed on the NHS choices website is.
(255304)
459
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) name and (b) postcode location of each NHS dentist listed on the NHS choices website is.
(255305)
460
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were in receipt of NHS continuing care in each primary care trust in England per (a) 10,000 weighted heads and (b) 10,000 unweighted heads since 31 March 2007.
(255335)
461
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of the economic downturn on hospital private finance initiative projects.
(255336)
462
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what hospital building projects are planned to be completed in each of the next 10 financial years.
(255337)
463
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which hospital private finance initiative projects are waiting for approval from HM Treasury; and on what date each was first submitted to the Treasury for approval.
(255338)
464
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data his Department collects to monitor progress on hospital building projects.
(255339)
465
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what new hospitals have been built since 1997; when each was opened; how each was funded; and what the current capital asset value of each is.
(255340)
466
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what capital expenditure allocations to NHS organisations have been agreed for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11; which organisation will receive the funding in each case; and what the purpose of the funding is in each case.
(255341)
467
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of the 100 new hospitals referred to in the NHS Plan have opened; on what date each opened; and how much capital expenditure there was on each.
(255342)
468
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of the 100 new hospitals referred to in the NHS Plan have not yet opened; when each is expected to be opened; and how much capital expenditure there will be on each.
(255343)
469
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his announcement of 28 January 2009 on mixed-sex accommodation in the NHS, what definition of sharing of sleeping accommodation or toilet facilities is used in his Department's guidance to trusts.
(255367)
470
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his announcement of 28 January 2009 on mixed-sex accommodation in the NHS, what financial penalties hospitals may be liable for; and how he plans to define overriding clinical justification.
(255368)
471
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his announcement of 28 January 2009 on mixed-sex accommodation in the NHS; how many improvement teams there will be; what the size of each team will be; how much will be allocated to each team; what qualifications members of teams will have; and to which hospitals the teams will provide support.
(255369)
472
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his announcement of 28 January 2009 on mixed-sex accommodation in the NHS, how he plans to create a greater focus on measuring and improving patient experience of mixed-sex accommodation.
(255370)
473
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many community pharmacies there were (a) in total and (b) per 100,000 population in (i) England (ii) each primary care trust.
(255430)
474
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what percentage of calls to NHS Direct were referred to (a) 999, (b) accident and emergency, (c) an out-of-hours GP service, (d) self-care, (e) pharmacy and (f) another service in each quarter since January 2003.
(255432)
475
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) deprivation score, as recorded in the indices of deprivation, (b) forecast surplus in 2008-09 as a percentage of turnover, (c) revenue allocation in 2008-09 per unweighted head and (d) the number of GPs per 100,000 population is of each primary care trust.
(255436)
476
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of pharmacy consultations which result in referral to other healthcare services.
(255442)
477
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescription messages have been issued using the electronic prescription service in each quarter since the service became operational; how many prescription messages (a) were downloaded for dispensing, (b) resulted in a prescription being dispensed and (c) resulted in a prescription being dispensed expressed as a proportion of all prescriptions dispensed in the community in each such quarter.
(255443)
478
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the evidential basis is for the statement that the prevalence of long-term conditions across the country correlates with a range of factors that includes age and deprivation as referred to on page 24 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7341, with what other factors long-term conditions have been correlated; and if he will make a statement.
(255444)
479
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of prescription items dispensed by community pharmacists were dispensed to (a) people over 65 years old, (b) people under 18 years old, (c) people eligible for free prescriptions under the NHS low income scheme, (d) other people eligible for free prescriptions and (e) patients who can be charged for prescriptions (i) in England and (ii) in each primary care trust area in each year since 1997.
(255451)
480
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reasons he has identified for the change in the number of prescription items (a) dispensed in the community and (b) dispensed in hospital since 1997.
(255453)
481
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of pharmacies which provide an influenza vaccination service.
(255454)
482
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of prescription items dispensed in the community have been dispensed by (a) community pharmacists, (b) dispensing GPs and (c) others in each year since 1997.
(255455)
483
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made towards applying world-class commissioning competencies to the commissioning of pharmaceutical services, as referred to on page 23 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7341.
(255458)
484
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in discussions on appropriate measures to support adherence to medicines, as referred to on page 33 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255501)
485
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on research to establish the extent to which medicines are not used, as referred to on page 32 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255502)
486
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what methodology was used to calculate the figure of £100 million for the costs of unused and unwanted medicines referred to in his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431; and what estimate he has made of this cost in the last 12 months.
(255503)
487
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in developing further incremental implementations of repeat dispensing, as referred to on page 31 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255504)
488
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of all prescriptions issued (a) in England and (b) in each primary care trust area have been dispensed in instalments through repeat dispensing in each of the last two years.
(255505)
489
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of prescription items were dispensed through repeat dispensing arrangements (a) in England and (b) in each primary care trust area in the latest year for which figures are available.
(255506)
490
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the evaluation of patient drug record cards, referred to on page 35 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255508)
491
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which primary care trusts commission services from community pharmacies to stock medicines that people may need at the end of their life, as referred to on page 36 of his Department's Pharmacy White Paper, Pharmacy in England, CM 7431.
(255514)
492
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reasons he has identified for the decline in the number of local enhanced home delivery services commissioned by primary care trusts in England between 2006-07 and 2007-08, as referred to in table 6 of the General Pharmaceutical Services in England and Wales 1998-99 to 2007-08 bulletin.
(255525)
493
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reasons he has identified for the decline in the net ingredient cost of items dispensed by pharmacies over the last three years, referred to in the General Pharmaceutical Services in England and Wales 1998-99 to 2007-08 bulletin.
(255526)
494
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Public Health Leadership Forum for Pharmacy's work programme for 2008-10, referred to on page 52 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255527)
495
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made by NHS Connecting for Health in scoping arrangements for electronically capturing information about (a) interventions made and (b) advice given by pharmacists in promoting health lifestyles, as referred to on page 53 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255528)
496
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in incorporating minor ailments schemes within the community pharmacy contractual framework since 3 April 2008.
(255529)
497
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the extent to which pharmacies have been included in local schemes to help reduce unintended pregnancies, as referred to on page 56 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255530)
498
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contributions which pharmacies can make to the care of people with diabetes have been identified to date by the National Clinical Director for Diabetes and the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, as referred to on page 58 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm7431.
(255531)
499
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in introducing a support service for people who are newly prescribed a medicine to treat a long-term condition within the community pharmacy contractual framework, as referred to on page 65 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255532)
500
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to develop (a) professional and (b) contractual arrangements to ensure that people with symptoms from cancer are efficiently referred onwards by pharmacists, as referred to on page 67 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255533)
501
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what dates in 2008 the working group on pharmacy, medical and public representatives referred to on page 74 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431, met; if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) agenda for and (b) minutes from each of the meetings; what progress the working group has made in promoting more effective professional relationships between pharmacists and other healthcare professionals; and if he will make a statement.
(255545)
502
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made in planning communications which will (a) highlight the breadth of services and skills available in pharmacies, (b) illustrate the role that pharmacies can play in promoting good health, (c) raise awareness of the knowledge of the role that pharmacies can play in managing long-term conditions and reducing health inequalities and (d) increase the use of pharmacy services, as referred to on page 72 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431; what the target audience is for each strand of communications; what further qualitative research he has commissioned to develop a better understanding of the particular needs of these audiences as referred to on page 72 of the White Paper; when he plans to introduce the communications programme; what expenditure he estimates his Department will incur on the communications programme in (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10 and (iii) 2010-11; and if he will make a statement.
(255556)
503
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research the National Institute for Health Research has undertaken into pharmacy since its establishment; and what priorities have been identified for research into pharmacy by the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, as referred to on page 78 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255566)
504
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to utilise the pharmacy network to promote pharmacovigilance, as referred to on page 79 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255567)
505
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the availability of specialist pharmacy services across England; and if he will make a statement.
(255568)
506
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultant pharmacists worked in the NHS in each year since 2003.
(255569)
507
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the workforce planning for pharmacy undertaken to inform the NHS Next Stage Review, as referred to on page 99 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255570)
508
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress is being made in reviewing the requirements contained within pharmaceutical needs assessments, as referred to on page 106 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England; when he expects the review to be completed; whether the results of the review will be piloted; if he will make it his policy to ensure that primary care trusts are judged to be competent in conducting pharmaceutical needs assessments prior to doing so; and if he will make a statement.
(255571)
509
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, from what date his Department intends to include directed enhanced services within the community pharmacy contractual framework, as referred to on page 109 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England; what progress has been made in deciding which services to include in directed enhanced sevices; whether he plans to introduce an enhanced services expenditure floor for pharmacy services; and if he will make a statement.
(255572)
510
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements his Department has put in place to (a) identify and (b) address unwarranted variations in standards and quality of pharmacy service delivery, as referred to on page 111 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431.
(255573)
511
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the outcomes were of the annual pharmacy-based audit, as referred to on page 112 of his Department's White Paper, Pharmacy in England, Cm 7431 in each year since it became operational; what progress has been made in strengthening the clinical audit of pharmacy services; and if he will make a statement.
(255574)
512
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards from April 2009 on the revenue of NHS organisations; and if he will make a statement.
(255575)
513
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the methodology his Department used to calculate the amount dentists were paid per unit of dental activity at the point at which the new contract for NHS dentistry was introduced in 2006.
(255576)
514
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes his Department has made to the amount dentists are paid per unit of dental activity since the new contract for NHS dentistry was introduced in 2006.
(255577)
515
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many single bedrooms are provided for patient use by each NHS organisation according to estates returns information collection data.
(255578)
516
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many single bedrooms have been provided for patient use by each NHS organisation according to estates returns information collection data in each year since 1997-98.
(255579)
517
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) postcode, (b) expected service commencement date and (c) primary care trust area of each planned GP-led health centre is according to the most recent monthly update from primary care trusts.
(255580)
518
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many FP10 forms have been lost in transit from pharmacists to the Prescriptions Pricing Division of the NHS Business Services Authority in each year since 1997.
(255594)
519
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what percentage of care homes did not meet each of the National Minimum Standards for care homes in the year ended 31 March 2008.
(255595)
520
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many midwives worked in the NHS in each year since 1997; and how many worked in each NHS organisation in each of the last three years.
(255596)
521
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) physiotherapists and (b) speech therapists worked in the NHS in each year since 1997; and how many worked in each NHS organisation in each of the last three years.
(255597)
522
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) agenda and (b) minutes of the meeting he held with the chairs of strategic health authorities on 13 January 2009; and whether he holds meetings with this group on a regular basis.
(255598)
523
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what projections his Department has made of the number of doctors at each grade that will be needed to enable compliance with the European Working Time Directive in each of the next 10 years.
(255600)
524
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many attendances there were at (a) major accident and emergncy departments, (b) single specialty accident and emergency departments, (c) other types of accident and emergency departments, including minor injury units and (d) walk-in centres in each year since 2002.
(255605)
525
N
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many students were given NHS dental bursaries and (b) how much was paid out in NHS dental bursaries (i) in each of the last five years and (ii) in each primary care trust area in 2007-08.
(255611)
526
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medicines use reviews have been conducted by pharmacies in each year since 2005-06; what estimate he has made of the average cost of conducting a medicines use review; and if he will make a statement.
(255670)
527
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many community pharmacies were under contract with their local primary care trust on (a) 31 March 2006, (b) 31 March 2007 and (c) 31 March 2008 to provide local enhanced services (i) in England and (ii) in each primary care trust area; and how many in each category provided (A) all local enhanced services, (B) anti-coagulant monitoring, (C) diseases specific medicines management, (D) gluten-free food, (E) home delivery, (F) language access, (G) medication reviews, (H) medications assessment and compliance support, (I) minor ailment schemes, (J) needle and syringe exchanges, (K) on-demand availability of specialist drugs, (L) out-of-hours services, (M) patient group direction, (N) prescriber support, (O) screening, (P) stop smoking services, (Q) supervised administration and (R) supplementary prescribing.
(255690)
528
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the supply of beds in hospital for elderly patients in North Yorkshire; and if he will make a statement.
(255832)
529
Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many items of correspondence he received relating to the Review of Part IX of the Drug Tariff from members of the public in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008.
(255652)
530
Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish his Department's response to the most recent consultation on changes to Part IX of the Drug Tariff.
(255653)
531
N
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's most recent assessment is of the effectiveness of trans catheter aortic valves.
(255020)
532
N
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times the NHS funded transcatheter aortic valve implants in each region in the last 12 months.
(255608)
533
N
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 27th January, Official Report, column 403W, on heart disease: medical treatments, which primary care trusts have permitted the funding of transcatheter aortic valve implants.
(255671)
534
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the net ingredient cost of prescriptions dispensed by dentists in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire was in each year since 1997.
(255642)
535
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescription items were dispensed by dentists in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire in each year since 1997.
(255643)
536
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent research he has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the efficacy of allowing clinical dental technicians to provide dentures directly to members of the public.
(255960)
537
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he has issued on the role of clinical dental technicians in the NHS.
(255961)
538
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the role of clinical dental technicians in improving oral health in England; and if he will make a statement.
(255962)
539
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors from Pakistan attached to the NHS are (a) studying for post-graduate medical qualifications and (b) undertaking further training of another kind.
(255382)
540
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS hospital re-organisations have been referred to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel since it was established; and how many of those were changed as a result.
(255819)
541
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many requests from overview and scrutiny committees for (a) proposed and (b) in progress NHS re-organisations to be referred to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel have been rejected since overview and scrutiny committees were established.
(255820)
542
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of tuberculosis (TB) patients received directly observed therapy in the last five years; what proportion of those had a treatment outcome of lost to follow up; and what steps NHS trusts take to encourage patients to complete the course of their treatment for TB.
(256088)
543
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the spread of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
(256089)
544
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of patients diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) are subsequently tested for HIV infection; and what proportion of those diagnosed with HIV are subsequently tested for TB.
(256090)
545
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of tuberculosis (TB) patients in England are co-infected with HIV; and what plans there are to reduce HIV-TB co-infection rates.
(256091)
546
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of those diagnosed with tuberculosis complete treatment; and what steps are being taken to increase treatment completion rates.
(256092)
547
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on treating drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) patients in the last five years; and if he will estimate the cost of treating those patients as if they had drug-susceptible TB.
(256097)
548
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what co-operation his Department undertakes with its counterparts in Scotland and Wales to combat tuberculosis in Great Britain.
(256098)
549
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outbreaks of tuberculosis have occurred in schools in (a) London and (b) England in the last five years.
(256099)
550
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the threat from extensive drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) to public health; and what capacity the NHS has to treat multiple XDR-TB patients.
(256104)
551
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve general practitioners' ability to detect tuberculosis at an early stage.
(256105)
552
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256208)
553
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many respite beds for people diagnosed with dementia there were in Devon in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
(255361)
554
Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provision is being made by the NHS to provide modern prosthetic technology to those people with thalidomide related impairments who rely on prosthesis for independent living and mobility.
(255523)
555
Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to produce guidance on the use of non-invasive ventilation in the care of those suffering from motor neurone disease.
(255344)
556
Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the use of non-invasive ventilation in the care of those suffering from motor neurone disease was first proposed as a subject for National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance.
(255345)
557
Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2009, Official Report, column 411W, on personal injury: compensation, on how many occasions a check produced evidence of error or misleading information in 2007-08.
(255769)
558
Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2009, Official Report, column 411W, on personal injury: compensation, on how many occasions a check led to prosecution in 2007-08.
(255770)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
559
N
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the Question from the hon. Member for Reigate, tabled on 22 January 2009 for named day answer on 29 January 2009, on assessments of threats to public order.
(254727)
560
N
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the individuals subject to the 15 control orders under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 on 15 December 2008 had been subject to the provisions of one or more control orders for (a) under six months, (b) between six and 12 months, (c) between 12 months and two years, (d) between two and three years and (e) over three years.
(255179)
561
N
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made by the Government in its policy of seeking to persuade the European Court of Human Rights to reconsider its jurisprudence on the deportation of terrorist suspects in the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement.
(255248)
562
N
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made in agreeing arrangements with other countries to protect the human rights of individuals deported from the UK to those countries in the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement.
(255249)
563
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of the police portal has been to date, including any costs associated with the termination of the contract for the creation of the portal.
(256095)
564
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to gather specific information from local police forces on the ages of victims of sexual crimes in order to (a) centrally record and (b) centrally analyse the data.
(255719)
565
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of the How secure is your home online score card.
(255619)
566
Mr William Cash (Stone): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who authorised the covert recording of discussions between police officers and the hon. Member for Ashford at and around the time of his arrest on 27 November 2008; and what the basis in law for such authorisation was.
(255837)
567
N
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many work permits were issued for (a) doctors and (b) nurses and auxiliary nurses from each African country in the last two years for which figures are available.
(254881)
568
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) her Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256039)
569
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) larvae, (b) embryos and (c) foetuses were used in animal scientific procedures in each of the last three years.
(255484)
570
N
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal hand guns are estimated to be in circulation in the UK.
(255379)
571
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of the security operation for the visit to the UK of the Chinese Prime Minister was; and if she will make a statement.
(254574)
572
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) quantity and (b) value of alcohol was confiscated under the Confiscation of Alcohol (Young Persons) Act 1997 in each year since its implementation.
(255635)
573
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have gone missing from local authority care in Southampton and the surrounding area in the last 12 months.
(255850)
574
N
Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether bonuses are paid to those employed to supervise the transportation of deportees to airports, on the removal of such deportees.
(255637)
575
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children under the age of 15 years have been cautioned or arrested for drunken behaviour in (a) North Wiltshire, (b) Wiltshire, (c) London and (d) England in each of the last 10 years.
(255328)
576
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce levels of (a) extortion and (b) trade in counterfeit goods in England; and if she will make a statement.
(255329)
577
N
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what work the Risk and Regulatory Advisory Council has undertaken on risk and policing.
(255021)
578
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many interviews at passport centres had resulted in the refusal of a passport as at 31 January 2009.
(255914)
579
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria are used to decide on the participating countries in the Youth Mobility scheme; and whether any countries not currently participating are seeking to participate.
(255916)
580
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent on consultants by (a) her Department and (b) each of its non-departmental public bodies in 2007-08, broken down by consultancy.
(255920)
581
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outstanding requests for (a) asylum and (b) indefinite leave to remain there are from applicants resident in Wimbledon constituency.
(255952)
582
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what standing advisory committees her Department has; and what the membership is of each.
(255318)
583
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many members of her Department's science advisory committee have (a) received and (b) applied for grants for research from her Department.
(255319)
584
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has paid in grants to research projects in which each member of the Department's science advisory committee has taken part in the last 12 months.
(255320)
585
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures there are for independent peer review of research undertaken by her Department before its publication.
(255321)
586
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how often yellow boxes at small ports are cleared; and how often their contents are analysed.
(255383)
587
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of the estimated 450,000 older cases backlog in the Case Resolution Directorate are estimated to be refused asylum seekers.
(255865)
588
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) administrative cost of appraising entitlement to section 4 support, (b) administrative cost of running an appeals system for those refused support under section 4, (c) the cost of printing, distributing and operating the use of vouchers for asylum seekers and (d) total cost of administering the voucher scheme for asylum seekers was in the last year for which figures are available.
(255866)
589
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average weekly cost of accommodating an asylum seeker on (a) section 4 and (b) section 95 support was in the last 12 months.
(255868)
590
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time an asylum seeker remained on (a) section 4 and (b) section 95 support was in the most recent period for which figures are available.
(255869)
591
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, fow which (a) countries and (b) regions of countries the Government does not carry out forced removals of refused asylum seekers because of conflict or generalised violence which makes it unsafe for them to be returned.
(255870)
592
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional average unit cost per asylum seeker is paid to accommodation providers to administer the provision of vouchers for those eligible for section 4 support.
(255871)
593
N
Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will obtain a copy of the final report of the review conducted by Chief Constable Ian Johnston of the British Transport Police of the arrest and investigation of the hon. Member for Ashford; and if she will place a copy of the report in the Library.
(254734)
594
Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civilian staff of (a) North Wales Police, (b) Gwent Police, (c) South Wales Police and (d) Dyfed-Powys Police have unspent criminal convictions.
(255884)
595
Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many serving policy community support officers with (a) North Wales Police, (b) Gwent Police, (c) South Wales Police and (d) Dyfed-Powys Police have unspent criminal convictions.
(255885)
596
Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many serving officers of (a) North Wales Police, (b) Gwent Police, (c) South Wales Police and (d) Dyfed-Powys Police have unspent criminal convictions.
(255887)
597
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to increase the conviction rate in rape cases; and what assessment she has made of effectiveness of those steps.
(255433)
598
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number and percentage of reported rapes that were categorised by the police as no crime in each of the last five years.
(255434)
599
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sexual assault referral centres will open in (a) the next 12 months and (b) the next five years.
(255617)
600
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce levels of sexual violence and abuse; and if she will make a statement.
(255618)
601
N
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2009, Official Report, column 704W, on driving offences: insurance, how many cars were seized for insurance offences and not returned in 2008; how many were sold; and how much was raised from their sale.
(255017)
602
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what studies her Department has conducted to assess the potential for human error when using the VASCAR system of speed detection.
(255896)
603
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what studies her Department has conducted to assess the impact of police radio waves on the VASCAR system of speed estimation.
(255898)
604
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent guidance her Department has given police forces on use of the VASCAR system of speed estimation in the light of their withdrawal from use in Scotland; and if she will make a statement.
(255901)
605
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces in England and Wales use the VASCAR system of speed estimation.
(255902)
606
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) her Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256151)
607
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance the UK Border Agency has issued to the police on reporting requirements for unsuccessful asylum seekers and their dependent children.
(255610)
608
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for the funding of policing in North Yorkshire; and if she will make a statement.
(255831)
609
Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the seven individuals who have absconded from control orders have been arrested or otherwise located and returned to control.
(255380)
610
Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when police forces will receive notification from the Olympic Delivery Authority of their funding entitlement for policing the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
(256129)
611
N
Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that police commanders co-operate with local authorities to maintain the effectiveness of local crime and disorder partnerships.
(254639)
612
Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the experience of unsuccessful asylum seekers removed to Kinshassa on 26 February 2007; and if she will make a statement.
(255512)
613
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 was retained by her Department in the (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c) first nine months of the 2008-09 financial year; to which projects such money was allocated in each year; how much money was allocated to each such project; and how much of the money allocated had not been spent at the latest date for which figures are available.
(255676)
614
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 was allocated for expenditure in Northern Ireland in the (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c) first nine months of the 2008-09 financial year.
(255683)
615
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money was recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 by each law enforcement agency in the first nine months of the 2008-09 financial year; how much of the money recovered was repaid to each such agency; and what steps she takes to monitor the purposes for which such money is allocated by law enforcement agencies.
(255684)
616
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged (a) between 17 and 24, (b) between 25 and 40 and (c) over 40 years old were (i) stopped on suspicion of, (ii) arrested for and (iii) charged with drink-driving offences in (A) Hemel Hempstead and (B) Hertfordshire in each of the last five years.
(255585)
617
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): 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 3am and 6am in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire in each year since 2000.
(255586)
618
N
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many orders under section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 have been served on football supporters; on how many such people those orders have been served; and if she will make a statement.
(254974)
619
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department has allocated to sexual assault referral centres for 2009-10.
(255362)
620
N
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support local anti-knife crime campaigns.
(255390)
621
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to reduce levels of trafficking of women for sexual exploitation.
(255431)
622
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to ensure that police forces have adequate resources to protect people in local communities from sex offenders.
(255821)
623
Clare Short (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when a reply will be sent to the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood's letter of 16 December 2008 to the UK Border Agency on behalf of Said Bouzinab (Home Office reference B493071, acknowledgement reference B41558/8).
(255765)
624
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by her Department.
(256207)
625
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to require police authorities to publish the number of police stations in their area and their opening times.
(256128)
626
N
Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1040-1W, on asylum, how many of the 500 Iraqi refugees identified for resettlement during 2008-09 under the Gateway Protection Programme are being or have been resettled from Syria.
(255377)
627
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who claimed to be gay or lesbian have been returned from the UK to (a) Iran, (b) Iraq, (c) Mauritania, (d) Nigeria, (e) Pakistan, (f) Saudi Arabia, (g) the United Arab Emirates, (h) Sudan and (i) Yemen since 1997.
(255872)
628
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people claimed asylum in the UK on grounds of their sexuality in each of the last five years.
(255886)
Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission
629
N
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2008, Official Report, columns 1343-4W, on parking, whether the rate of air change in the underground car park was changed to its original level by 21 April 2008; whether the rate of air change is currently at its planned level; and whether a major refurbishment of the ventilation system is planned for 2010-11.
(255018)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills
630
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many school students from Leeds West constituency went on to higher education in each academic year since 2001.
(255467)
631
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many people took a Skills for Life qualification in Leeds West constituency in each year since 2005.
(255472)
632
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many people were undertaking apprenticeships in Leeds West constituency in each year since 2005.
(255473)
633
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what plans he has to develop the Forward Commitment Procurement Model for wider use in public sector procurement.
(255915)
634
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what his policy is on funding for postgraduate courses in nuclear engineering.
(255942)
635
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, whether his Department has a strategy for skills in the nuclear industry.
(255943)
636
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256050)
637
N
Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what proportion of students from universities awarded a charter (a) before 1993 and (b) in 1993 or after offer at least one course leading to a post-graduate qualification.
(255306)
638
N
Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, if he will increase the funding available for students from poorer backgrounds to pursue post-graduate studies.
(255307)
639
Dr Hywel Francis (Aberavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what discussions he has had with (a) the Secretary of State for Wales and (b) the Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Education on the results of the recent Universities Research Assessment Exercise; and if he will make a statement.
(255538)
640
Dr Hywel Francis (Aberavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what recent discussions he has had on UK science policy with (a) Scottish Executive Ministers, (b) Welsh Assembly Government Ministers and (c) Northern Ireland Executive Ministers; and if he will make a statement.
(255540)
641
Dr Hywel Francis (Aberavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what recent discussions he has had on UK science policy with the Secretary of State for (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales; and if he will make a statement.
(255541)
642
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what reports he has received on the skills requirements of the workforce at the Lindsey oil refinery; and if he will make a statement.
(256190)
643
Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what skills courses currently funded by his Department relate to posts which have been contracted to workers from other EU member states at the Lindsey oil refinery; and how many such courses are currently available in North East Lincolnshire.
(256193)
644
N
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of the number of apprenticeships there were in the public sector at 1 January 2009; and if he will make a statement.
(255511)
645
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much his Department has spent on (a) pot plants and (b) cut flowers in each year since it was established.
(256117)
646
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the future skills needs of low carbon, resource-efficient industrial sectors.
(255959)
647
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and its predecessor and (b) their agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256143)
648
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the average amount of debt of (a) full-time undergraduate, (b) part-time undergraduate and (c) postgraduate students was on leaving university in each year since 1997.
(255386)
649
N
Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what research his Department has funded on (a) ethical, (b) environmental and (c) social issues relating to the (i) use and (ii) safety of (A) nanotechnology and (B) nanoproducts; and if he will make a statement.
(255564)
650
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that when young offenders have previously been subject to a statement of special educational needs that the details of the statement are made available to the education department at the young offender's institution.
(255439)
651
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, when he plans to implement salary structures for lecturers in further education institutions equivalent to those for teachers in the maintained sector.
(255816)
652
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256222)
653
N
Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many Learning and Skills Council-funded adult learners in 2006-07 who were eligible for inclusion in statistics used to measure progress in the Skills for Life Public Service Agreement target were aged (a) 19 to 24 years and (b) 25 years and over, broken down by whether they were funded through (i) further education colleges and (ii) the University for Industry.
(254967)
654
N
Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many Learning and Skills Council-funded adult learners over the age of 16 years were eligible for inclusion in statistics used to measure progress against the Skills for Life Public Service Agreement target in (a) 2002-03, (b) 2003-04, (c) 2004-05, (d) 2005-06 and (e) 2006-07.
(254968)
655
N
Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what processes are in place to enable the Learning and Skills Council to prevent the halting of a further education college building project from resulting in significantly higher long-term costs.
(254969)
656
N
Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Learning and Skills Council on whether building projects halted as a result of decisions taken at the Learning and Skills Council's December 2008 board meeting are expected to restart following the March board meeting.
(254970)
657
N
Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment he has made of the merits of increasing the proportion of the training costs of adult apprentices paid by employers.
(254705)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
658
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to provide morphine supplies to developing countries for medical purposes; and if he will make a statement.
(255481)
659
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256051)
660
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the distribution of aid in Gaza.
(255926)
661
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions his Department has had with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency on the distribution of aid in Gaza.
(255927)
662
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to increase access to aid in Gaza.
(255928)
663
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, to what projects his Department has allocated the £27 million funding committed to meet the needs of the Palestinian people in Gaza; and if he will make a statement.
(255950)
664
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he plans to answer Question 246213, tabled by the hon. Member for Stroud on 17 December 2008, on UK National Action Plan on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and Afghanistan.
(255640)
665
N
Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding his Department has allocated for agricultural research and development in each of the last five years.
(254714)
666
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much and what percentage of the money provided by his Department for the reconstruction of Afghanistan in 2008-09 was given to (a) non-Afghan organisations and (b) non-Afghan companies.
(255332)
667
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid his Department provided to Afghanistan in 2008; what the projected figure is for 2009; and if he will make a statement.
(255333)
668
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of aid to Afghanistan for (a) refugees returning to the country, (b) schoolchildren and (c) antenatal care.
(255334)
669
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256139)
670
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent estimate he has made of the level of tax revenue lost in developing countries from the use by multinational companies operating in those countries of tax havens.
(255729)
671
Mr Brooks Newmark (Braintree): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding has been provided by his Department to the Central African Republic in each of the last three years; and what funding is planned in each of the next three financial years.
(255308)
672
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of tuberculosis (TB) patients being cared for in programmes funded by his Department are tested for HIV; and what proportion of HIV patients in such programmes are tested for TB.
(256131)
673
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis globally.
(256132)
674
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support his Department provides to organisations developing tuberculosis diagnostics for use in developing countries.
(256133)
675
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with which organisations his Department is working to develop a new vaccine against tuberculosis for use in developing countries.
(256134)
676
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all tuberculosis (TB) patients in developing countries have access to quality TB diagnostic services and treatment.
(256218)
677
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of extensively drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in developing countries on the prospects of fulfilment of the Global Plan to Stop TB.
(256219)
678
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256206)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
679
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256043)
680
Dr Hywel Francis (Aberavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had on the future of the Legal Services Commission in Wales with (a) the Secretary of State for Wales and (b) the First Minister; and if he will make a statement.
(255543)
681
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the United Kingdom has an official language.
(254736)
682
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to establish bail hostels in (a) Wimbledon constituency and (b) the London Borough of Merton.
(255951)
683
Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effects of sentences of imprisonment for public protection on (a) levels of discipline among and (b) the size of the prison population.
(255447)
684
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on cut flowers in each of the last three years.
(256175)
685
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many rape cases (a) reached court and (b) ended in the acquittal of the defendant in each of the last five years.
(255435)
686
Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average and (b) longest time was between a coroner being asked to hold a treasure inquest and the start of the inquest for finds from Wiltshire in 2007; and if he will make a statement.
(255535)
687
N
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to announce the Information Commissioner's budget for 2009-10.
(255445)
688
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256153)
689
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals have been made to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal in each of the last 10 years; and how many of those appeals were successful.
(255708)
690
N
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2009, Official Report, column 918W, on offenders: personal records, whether the Offenders Index is updated regularly; and when it was last updated.
(254832)
691
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy for court transcripts to be posted on the internet; and if he will make a statement.
(255381)
692
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256205)
693
N
David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken for a coroner to hold a treasure inquest, once requested, was for finds from Leicestershire in 2007; and if he will make a statement.
(254575)
694
N
David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the longest time taken by a coroner to hold a treasure inquest, once requested, was for cases reported in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008; and if he will make a statement.
(254576)
695
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in respect of which countries are registers of (a) same-sex marriages and (b) legal partnerships recognised in the UK.
(255825)
696
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in which overseas countries civil partnerships entered into in the UK are recognised.
(255826)
Questions to the Leader of the House
697
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Leader of the House, how much her Office has spent on (a) pot plants and (b) cut flowers in each of the last three years.
(256118)
698
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Leader of the House, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by her Office.
(256204)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
699
Mr Stephen Byers (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much in European regional aid structural funding was allocated to Northern Ireland for 2000 to 2006; how much of this funding had been spent by 31 December 2008; and whether a request was made to the European Commission to extend the spending deadline beyond this date.
(255461)
700
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256054)
701
Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of sentences of imprisonment for public protection on levels of discipline among the prison population in Northern Ireland.
(255446)
702
Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many incidents of burglary from (a) domestic and (b) commercial premises were recorded in each district command unit area in Northern Ireland in each of the last 12 months.
(255448)
703
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department has spent on (a) pot plants and (b) cut flowers in each of the last three years.
(256119)
704
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he next expects Her Majesty the Queen to visit Northern Ireland.
(255859)
705
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256203)
Questions to the Minister for the Olympics
706
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, who the owner of the media centre planned for the London 2012 Olympics will be once it has been completed.
(255363)
707
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many young people who have completed further education construction courses have undertaken job placements as part of the Olympic construction process.
(256093)
708
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many undergraduates are being sponsored to obtain a construction-related degree as part of the Olympic construction process.
(256094)
709
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many people are undertaking (a) trainee apprenticeships and (b) work placements at Olympic venues.
(256096)
710
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what penalties are payable under the contract with Lend Lease on early cancellation of the contract to construct and manage the Olympic Village contract.
(256115)
711
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, whether an independent value for money audit of the bid by Lend Lease to build the Olympic Village was conducted prior to the award of the contract.
(256116)
712
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how much her Department spent on (a) pot plants and (b) cut flowers in each of the last three years.
(256172)
713
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, if she will bring forward plans to ensure that the 2012 London Olympics sources all relevant products on a fairtrade basis; if she will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for International Development on the matter; and if she will make a statement.
(255734)
Questions to the Prime Minister
714
Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Prime Minister, when the Intelligence and Security Committee last visited RAF Menwith Hill; with whom the Committee had discussions during that visit; and which other military bases with a United States personnel presence in the UK the Committee has visited in 2007 and 2008.
(255604)
715
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Prime Minister, when he expects the Transfer of Functions Order establishing the Department for Energy and Climate Change to enter into force.
(255931)
716
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Prime Minister, what recent discussions he has held with the Chinese Prime Minister on (a) human rights in China and (b) increasing British exports to China.
(254573)
717
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Prime Minister, under what circumstances Ministerial appointments may be made for a fixed-term period at the request of the appointee.
(255817)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland
718
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by his Department.
(256055)
719
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent on cut flowers in each of the last three years.
(256170)
720
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256201)
Questions to the Solicitor General
721
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Solicitor General, if she will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) the Law Officers' Departments and (ii) their agency.
(256057)
722
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Solicitor General, how many Crown Prosecution Service prosecutions have been discontinued as a result of prosecution witnesses being unwilling to give evidence in each of the last three years; and if she will make a statement.
(255563)
723
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Solicitor General, how much the Law Officers' Departments spent on (a) pot plants and (b) cut flowers in each of the last three years.
(256169)
724
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Solicitor General, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by the Law Officers' Departments.
(256200)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
725
N
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many flight hours were expended by commercial aircraft in 2007-08 in stacking while awaiting clearance to land at Heathrow; and how much carbon dioxide was emitted by those aircraft while stacked.
(254720)
726
N
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to build increased resilience into key national transport networks for circumstances where temperatures drop below freezing.
(255181)
727
N
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of projected levels of traffic on the Dartford Crossing in each of the next 10 years.
(254675)
728
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of contingency plans made by Network Rail and train operating companies to minimise disruption to rail services caused by severe weather events; when he next plans to review the implementation of those plans; and if he will make a statement.
(255375)
729
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256052)
730
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the European Commission in relation to the alleged breaches of its legal duties referred to in paragraph four of his Department's letter to consultees in respect of its Consultation on Replacement Pollution Control Devices for Motor Vehicles; and if he will make a statement.
(255493)
731
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what provisions of EU Directives within his Department's responsibilities have not yet been transposed into United Kingdom law; in respect of the provisions of which such Directives the UK has been subject to infringement action by the European Commission since January 2005; and what stage has been reached in such actions in each case.
(255494)
732
Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many peak-time First Capital Connect train services ran to timetable on the Brighton to Bedford line in each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement.
(255700)
733
Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many peak-time First Capital Connect train services on the Brighton to Bedford line were cancelled in each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement.
(255701)
734
Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many peak-time First Capital Connect train services on the Bedford to Brighton line ran more than three minutes behind timetable in each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement.
(255702)
735
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff in his Department and its agencies (a) earned more than (i) £65,000, (ii) £120,000 and (iii) £190,000 in the last 12 months and (b) received a bonus payment in each of the last five years.
(255974)
736
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assumptions about (a) economic growth and (b) passenger volumes were made in the franchise agreements for the (i) East Coast Main Line, (ii) East Midlands, (iii) South West Trains, (iv) South Eastern and (v) East Anglian franchises.
(255979)
737
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what matters were discussed at his recent meeting with the Association of Train Operating Companies and chief executives of the train operating companies; and if he will make a statement.
(255982)
738
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria his Department set for determining whether South West Trains be allowed to close ticket offices within the terms of its franchise agreement; and what criteria will be applied in decisions on First Capital Connect's proposed closures of ticket offices.
(255995)
739
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the latest expected timing is of the (a) (i) start and (ii) completion of Stage 1 and (b) the delivery of the new units to the Thameslink franchise for Phase 1.
(255998)
740
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had any discussions with train operators about the effect on their businesses of a reduction in (a) UK GDP and (b) Central London employment levels.
(256007)
741
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the RP plus one per cent. formula for regulated fares may result in a negative number.
(256015)
742
N
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the adequacy of supplies of salt and grit for use on the non-trunk road network; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that supplies are adequate.
(255554)
743
N
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what contingency reserves for salt and grit the Highways Agency has; for how many days of adverse weather conditions he estimates such supplies would last; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that supplies are adequate.
(255555)
744
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road fatalities there have been on the A1 in (a) Tyne and Wear and (b) Northumberland in each of the last 10 years.
(255754)
745
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road accidents there have been on the A1 in (a) Tyne and Wear and (b) Northumberland in each of the last 10 years.
(255755)
746
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to reduce congestion on the A1 in (a) Tyne and Wear and (b) Northumberland.
(255768)
747
N
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the funding allocated to Chorley Borough Council for concessionary bus travel in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 was used on (a) concessionary travel, (b) subsidy to bus routes and (c) other purposes.
(254732)
748
N
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department provided to Chorley Borough Council for the purposes of concessionary bus travel in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08.
(254733)
749
Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on cut flowers in each of the last three years.
(256173)
750
Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles of each nationality of registration were (a) inspected and (b) prohibited following inspection at the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency checkpoint at Wylye on the A303(T) in the latest year for which figures are available; and for what reasons each vehicle was prohibited.
(255883)
751
N
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the findings were of the trial of heavy goods vehicle overtaking restrictions on the M42; what assessment he has made of those findings; and if he will make a statement.
(254966)
752
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely effects on (a) levels of road safety and (b) numbers of road accidents of reducing the hours during which (i) street and (ii) motorway lighting is used; and if he will make a statement.
(255612)
753
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) studies and (b) modelling his Department has undertaken into the impact of extreme weather on the transport infrastructure.
(255903)
754
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with train operators about services which did not operate on 2 February 2009; and what steps are being taken to prevent a recurrence of those problems.
(255908)
755
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his most recent estimate is of the number of inaccurate records on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's vehicle system software.
(256070)
756
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256146)
757
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) injuries and (b) deaths have occurred in accidents on railway crossings in (i) Hemel Hempstead and (ii) Hertfordshire in each year since 1998.
(255644)
758
N
Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to oppose the application by First Capital Connect to reduce the opening hours of the ticket offices it operates; and if he will make a statement.
(254713)
759
N
Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the ticketing and settlement agreement produced by his Department.
(255364)
760
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256199)
761
N
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much grit the Highways Agency holds; and how many days use this amount represents.
(255660)
762
N
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the state of the wreck of SS Richard Montgomery in the Thames Estuary.
(254477)
763
N
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the dredge in the Thames Estuary for the London Gateway Port channel is proposed to start; for what reason the dredge is to be carried out; what safeguards against disturbances of munitions will be in place; what the shortest distance is between the wreck of SS Richard Montgomery and the area affected by the dredge; who is to carry out the dredge; and what consultation took place with (a) communities affected and (b) users of the Thames Estuary before the proposal was finalised.
(254478)
764
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2008, Official Report, column 613W, on vehicle number plates: flags, when he plans to make an announcement on the way forward.
(256130)
765
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which groups of people are exempt from paying tolls for crossing the Humber Bridge; what estimate he has made of the annual revenue foregone as a result of such exemptions; and if he will make a statement.
(255662)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales
766
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what steps are being taken to increase levels of digital inclusion in Leeds West constituency; and if he will make a statement.
(255468)
767
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by his Department.
(256056)
768
Dr Hywel Francis (Aberavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had on digital inclusion in Wales with the First Minister; and if he will make a statement.
(255539)
769
Dr Hywel Francis (Aberavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had on the future of the Legal Services Commission in Wales with (a) the Secretary of State for Justice and (b) the First Minister; and if he will make a statement.
(255544)
770
Dr Hywel Francis (Aberavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with the First Minister on Wales' contribution to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; and if he will make a statement.
(255559)
771
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will publish all legal opinions and advice obtained by his Department relating to the Welsh Language Legislative Competence Order.
(254735)
772
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what (a) features, (b) rights and (c) sanctions will accrue to the Welsh language when it acquires official status under the Welsh Language Legislative Competence Order.
(254737)
773
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256197)
Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality
774
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, if she will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by the Government Equalities Office.
(256058)
775
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many rape crisis centres have closed in each of the last five years; how much has ben spent on (a) services for rape victims and (b) rape crisis centres in each of the last five years; what steps she is taking to increase the (i) capacity and (ii) financial stability of rape crisis centres; and if she will make a statement.
(255614)
776
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what representations she has received from women on the effects of the economic downturn.
(255864)
777
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by the Government Equalities Office.
(256196)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
778
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department plans to increase access for older people to information on financial matters.
(255761)
779
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of whether improving financial literacy amongst older people would contribute to tackling poverty and promoting well-being under Public Service Agreement 17.
(255762)
780
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will provide support for voluntary sector initiatives which promote financial education amongst older people.
(255763)
781
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve his Department's financial advice for older people.
(255771)
782
N
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were in receipt of housing benefit in (a) West Chelmsford constituency and (b) Essex in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
(254717)
783
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Cardiff Central, Official Report, column 849W, on carer's allowance, if he will allocate resources to producing the estimates requested in the Question.
(255376)
784
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2009, Official Report, column 1010W, on bereavement benefits, how many payments of (a) bereavement allowance and (b) bereavement payment were (i) made within the target times and (ii) not made within the target times in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
(255835)
785
N
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 2 February 2009, Official Report, column 573, on jobseeker's allowance, what proportion of the increase since 1997 in (a) total employment and (b) employment of people of working age is accounted for by non-UK citizens.
(254882)
786
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many prosecutions have been brought under health and safety legislation in respect of fatal accidents in the construction industry in each year since 1997; and how many of them resulted in convictions.
(255867)
787
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the budget of the Nuclear Directorate of the Health and Safety Executive (a) was in each of the last five financial years, (b) is in 2008-09 and (c) will be in each of the next five financial years.
(255929)
788
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of the budget of (a) the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, (b) the Office for Civil Nuclear Security and (c) the Health and Safety Executive is allocated for administration costs in 2008-09.
(255945)
789
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households with more than (a) £100,000 and (b) £200,000 annual income were in receipt of a winter fuel payment in the most recent year for which figures are available.
(255975)
790
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints his Department has received regarding incorrect winter fuel payments in each of the last five years.
(255976)
791
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive plans to take in respect of the delays in Sellafield Ltd meeting the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate's specifications on safety at legacy ponds and silos at the Sellafield site.
(255994)
792
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter sent by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate to Sellafield Ltd on meeting the Inspectorate's specifications in respect of safety at legacy ponds and silos at the Sellafield site.
(255997)
793
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the budget of (a) the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, (b) the Office for Civil Nuclear Security and (c) the Health and Safety Executive Nuclear Directorate (i) is for 2008-09 and (ii) was for each of the last five financial years.
(256000)
794
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of the budget of (a) the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, (b) the Office for Civil Nuclear Security and (c) the Health and Safety Executive Nuclear Directorate is allocated to (i) staffing costs and (ii) transport costs.
(256001)
795
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.
(256053)
796
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff of his Department were working on the Post Office Card Account successor contract prior to its cancellation.
(256081)
797
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many companies submitted bids for the Post Office Card Account successor contract prior to the cancellation of the tendering process.
(256114)
798
N
Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to which allowances and benefits UK citizens living in other EU member states and Switzerland may be entitled; and when the Government plans to implement the decisions of the European Court of Justice on the matter.
(255298)
799
Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which medical examination centres in London are contracted by his Department to carry out medical assessments in relation to claims for benefits; which such centres have parking spaces for disabled people; and what requirements his Department makes in respect of the accessibility of such centres to people with disabilities.
(255459)
800
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants for (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) housing benefit, (c) incapacity benefit and (d) income support there were resident in Wimbledon constituency in each of the last five years; and how many of these were claiming more than one benefit in each year.
(255954)
801
N
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the letter recently sent by his Department to bidders for Flexible New Deal contracts regarding the Department's revised assumptions for customer volumes; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter.
(254959)
802
N
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what official engagements each of the Ministers in his Department undertook from 1 to 31 January 2009; and how much time was spent on each engagement.
(254960)
803
N
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2009, Official Report, column 436W, on discrimination: disabled, which stakeholders he held meetings with; when each meeting was held; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of each meeting.
(254962)
804
N
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2009, Official Report, columns 765-6W, on the Post Office card account, on what basis it was decided that the financial details of the contract will remain commercially confidential.
(254963)
805
N
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment has been made of the effectiveness of local employment partnerships in assisting jobseekers into employment; and if he will make a statement.
(255322)
806
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many orders for the confiscation of (a) driving licences and (b) travel documents were made by the Child Support Agency in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08.
(255878)
807
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications the Child Support Agency made to the courts for the confiscation of (a) driving licences and (b) travel documents in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08.
(255879)
808
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications from the Child Support Agency for the confiscation of (a) a driving licence and (b) travel documents were refused by the courts in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08.
(255880)
809
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many served orders for the confiscation of (a) a driving licence and (b) travel documents resulted in the full payment of child support arrears in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08.
(255881)
810
N
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he last reviewed his Department's procedures for providing assistance to those moving in and out of short-term employment.
(255510)
811
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people in receipt of carer's allowance who are over retirement age.
(255725)
812
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were (a) eligible to receive and (b) in receipt of carer's allowance in the last year for which figures are available.
(255726)
813
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the number of inaccurate records held on his Department's customer information system.
(256069)
814
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(256144)
815
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in the UK were unemployed in accordance with the International Labour Organization definition of unemployment in each year since 1997.
(255738)
816
Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions compensatory payments have been made by (a) the Pension Service and (b) the Child Support Agency in each of the last 12 months; and what the total monetary value of such payments was in each of those months.
(255757)
817
N
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of existing incapacity benefit claimants will take part in (a) a single work-focused interview, (b) three work-focused interviews and (c) mandatory work preparation activities in (i) 2009, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2011 and (iv) 2012.
(255182)
818
N
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the additional £3 million funding for the Jobcentre Plus Rapid Response Service will be available; how many additional staff will be employed by the Rapid Response Service as a result of the additional funding; and how the additional £3 million of funding will be allocated.
(255183)
819
N
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any changes have been made to the original performance and funding expectations of the flexible New Deal.
(255184)
820
N
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when phase one of the flexible New Deal is planned to commence.
(255185)
821
N
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what date (a) the preferred bidders for the flexible New Deal phase 1 will be announced and (b) will the contract be awarded.
(255186)
822
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of lone parents with children aged (a) under three, (b) three to six and (c) over six years old will be moved from income support on to jobseeker's allowance; and when such moves will take place.
(255515)
823
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the progression to work pathfinder programmes are to be delivered (a) wholly and (b) partially by (i) Jobcentre Plus, (ii) a private sector provider and (iii) a voluntary sector provider.
(255516)
824
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of people having received assistance under the Jobcentre Plus rapid response service were unemployed or on out-of-work benefits (a) two weeks, (b) one month, (c) three months, (d) six months, (e) 12 months and (f) 24 months after receiving response from the rapid assistance service in (i) each year since 1997 and (ii) in each month of the last five years.
(255517)
825
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of people engaged with the Jobcentre Plus rapid response service have found employment (a) within two weeks, (b) within one month, (c) within three months, (d) within six months and (e) within 12 months in each (i) year since 1997 and (ii) month of the last five years.
(255518)
826
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of existing incapacity benefits claimants will be covered by the invest to save pathfinders.
(255519)
827
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether all the people receiving Support for Mortgage Interest payments at a level below the standard interest rate of 6.08 per cent. as a result of IT systems' failures in his Department have been informed of the problem.
(255520)
828
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the average weekly underpayment of Support for Mortgage Interest for those not being paid at the standard interest rate of 6.08 per cent. as a result of the recent IT systems' failures in his Department.
(255521)
829
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to ensure that customers receiving underpayments of Support for Mortgage Interest (a) do not fall into arrears, (b) do not receive a poor credit rating and (c) are not put at risk of repossession as a result of IT systems' failure in his Department.
(255524)
830
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job vacancies were notified to Jobcentre Plus in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
(255641)
831
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of refusals of crisis loan applications were (a) subject to appeal and (b) overturned on appeal in each of the last four years.
(255324)
832
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long on average it took for successful crisis loan applicants to receive payment in each of the last four years.
(255325)
833
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long the process of appealing against refusal of a crisis loan application took on average in each of the last four years.
(255326)
834
N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has any plans to amend the processing of benefits claims by ending the requirement for documents to be physically moved or sent by fax between benefit offices.
(255365)
835
N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contribution-based claimants of jobseeker's allowance who were entitled to receive an income-based allowance after 182 days experienced a gap in payments before receiving an income-based allowance, in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
(255557)
836
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by his Department.
(256195)
837
Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefits applicants resident in (a) Aylesbury and (b) Milton Keynes were required to take a medical examination in each year since 2000; and how many of those examinations were undertaken in (i) Luton, (ii) Aylesbury and (iii) Euston.
(255634)
838
Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of recipients of pensions under the Teachers' Pension Scheme were receiving incorrect pension payments when the errors in payments to some public service pensioners were discovered.
(255758)
839
N
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he will publish details of the scheme under the Pensions Act 2008 allowing people to buy back additional years of Class 3 National Insurance contributions; from what date the new Act will apply; and if he will make a statement.
(255299)
840
N
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to (a) publish explanatory literature, (b) establish a telephone help contact point and (c) provide other public information on the terms of the scheme under the Pensions Act 2008 for people to buy back additional years of Class 3 national insurance contributions; what personalised advice services will be provided to individuals on making such payments; and if he will make a statement.
(255465)
841
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of allowing jobseeker's allowance claimants to train full-time for 13 weeks at the beginning of their claim period; and if he will make a statement.
(255665)
842
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of allowing jobseeker's allowance claimants under 24 to train full-time for (a) 13 and (b) 26 weeks at the beginning of their claim period; and if he will make a statement.
(255666)
843
N
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of women who have reached state pension age since April 2008 eligible to buy back one or more year of Class 3 national insurance contributions under the measures contained in the Pensions Act 2008; how many such women have taken up that option; whether people reaching state pension age are automatically notified of their rights under the Pensions Act 2008 when they are prompted to claim that state pension; and if he will make a statement.
(255667)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
844
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many applications have been made to the Homeowner Mortgage Protection Scheme.
[Transferred] (256187)
845
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homeowners are currently in receipt of assistance under the Homeowner Mortgage Protection Scheme.
[Transferred] (256188)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
846
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of (a) the ratio of rape crisis centres to the female population and (b) the average waiting list of rape crisis centres in (i) London, (ii) Birmingham, (iii) Manchester, (iv) Newcastle upon Tyne and (v) Norwich; and if she will make a statement.
[Transferred] (255615)
847
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many local authorities have a specialist support service for women who have suffered sexual violence.
[Transferred] (255616)
Questions to the Solicitor General
848
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Solicitor General, how many civil recovery actions against criminal assets have been initiated by the Public Prosecutions Service in Northern Ireland in the first nine months of the 2008-09 financial year.
[Transferred] (255661)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
849
N
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will review the effects of the Working at Height (Amendment) Regulations 2007 on the normal workplace activities of firefighters employed by fire and rescue services; and if he will make a statement.
[Transferred] (254730)

 
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