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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Thursday 26 February 2009
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 26 February 2009
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Thursday 26 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 Thursday 26 February of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Thursday 26 February see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
N | Adam Afriyie (Windsor): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much and what proportion of their budget was spent by each regional development agency on supporting (a) high technology businesses, (b) science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills, (c) innovative procurement and (d) social innovation and social enterprise in each year since 2005. | | (258999) | 2
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the review undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers into the activities of HRH the Duke of York in his capacity as UK Special Representative for International Trade and Investment. | | (259351) | 3
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will estimate the cost of introducing a de minimis rule in relation to business compliance with the requirements of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive. | | (259654) | 4
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which projects for which his Department is responsible receive funding from the Environmental Transformation Fund; how much each has received from the Fund since its inception; and what new projects are planned. | | (259359) | 5
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many small and medium-sized enterprises were registered in (a) North Wiltshire constituency, (b) Wiltshire and (c) Swindon in each year since 1997. | | (259504) | 6
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much his Department has spent in hiring UBS to evaluate interest from prospective bidders for a stake in Royal Mail. | | (259658) | 7
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259701) | 8
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259702) | 9
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259703) | 10
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259704) | 11
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what restrictions there are on the export of television sets forming part of a local authority's household waste under the provisions of the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive. | | (259287) | 12
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent assessment has been made of levels of compliance with the provisions of the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive. | | (259288) | 13
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what procedures are in place under the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive to ensure that the independent audit of transfrontier shipments complies with the terms of the Directive. | | (259342) | 14
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2009 to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar, Official Report, column 1464W, on regional development agencies: consultants, if he will place in the Library a copy of the report and analysis produced by Linstock Communications for the National Secretariat of Regional Development Agencies. | | (259461) | 15
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much funding the North West Regional Development Agency has provided to Migrant Workers Northwest for employment support for migrant workers in 2008-09 to date. | | (259652) | 16
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the names are of the trade union representatives appointed to each regional development agency. | | (259687) | 17
N | Mr Brooks Newmark (Braintree): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many businesses have received assistance from the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme; and how much funding has been committed to date. | | (259007) | 18
N | Mr Brooks Newmark (Braintree): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many businesses have received assistance from the Capital for Enterprise Fund; and how much funding has been committed to date. | | (259008) | 19
N | Mr Brooks Newmark (Braintree): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many businesses in Braintree have received assistance from the (a) Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme, (b) Capital for Enterprise Fund and (c) Working Capital Guarantee Scheme; and how much funding has been committed to businesses in Braintree under each scheme. | | (259009) | 20
N | Mr Brooks Newmark (Braintree): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many businesses have received assistance from the Working Capital Guarantee Scheme; and how much funding has been committed to date. | | (259010) | 21
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much his Department spent on staff surveys in each of the last five years; and which company was contracted to conduct each such survey. | | (259683) | 22
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the cost to the public purse was of the motor industry summit held on 28 January 2009. | | (259748) | 23
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what timetable he has set for consultation on the implementation of the EU Agency Workers Directive. | | (258850) | 24
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what progress he has made on the implementation of the EU Agency Workers Directive. | | (258851) | 25
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will consult trade unions and employers on an extension of statutory periods of notice for agency workers. | | (258895) | 26
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what progress his Department has made in discussions with the automotive industry on assistance for motor companies and their subsidiaries in the provision of finance for vehicle purchases. | | (258896) | 27
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many businesses have entered administration in (a) Cornwall, (b) the south west region and (c) England in the last 12 months. | | (259638) | 28
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259444) | 29
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259571) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 30
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward financial measures to assist local authorities in delivering their capital programmes in circumstances where anticipated finance from capital receipts is reduced owing to falls in property and asset values. | | (259600) | 31
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will discuss with (a) the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and (b) local government representatives measures to relax (i) capital financing and (ii) tendering rules for local government expenditure as measures to support the economy; and if he will make a statement. | | (259604) | 32
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of (a) the contribution of UK non-bank lenders to the mortgage market and (b) the effect on levels of mortgage lending of the levels of activity of UK non-bank and specialist lenders in the last 12 months. | | (259418) | 33
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what response he has made to the recommendation in the Crosby Report on mortgage finance markets for the introduction of a new guarantee scheme for residential mortgage-backed securities available to banks, building societies and specialist lenders. | | (259419) | 34
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many meetings he has had with representatives of (a) banks, (b) building societies and (c) non-bank lenders to discuss measures to stimulate mortgage lending in the last three months. | | (259420) | 35
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effects of the Government's lending support initiatives on (a) competition among banks, building societies and non-banks in the mortgage market and (b) the availability of mortgage finance to consumers in the last 12 months. | | (259421) | 36
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to encourage a competitive and diverse market for mortgage finance. | | (259422) | 37
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Statement of 19 January 2009, Official Report, columns 483-86, on financial markets, what recent steps his Department has taken to support lending by the non-bank sector. | | (259519) | 38
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Statement of 19 January 2009, Official Report, columns 483-86, on financial markets, which of the lending support facilities announced will be open to non-bank lenders. | | (259522) | 39
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that any in-house training undertaken by employees of HM Revenue and Customs offices at (a) Regian House, Liverpool, (b) Dukes House, Southport and (c) Birchen House, Birkenhead results in recognised accreditation for those employees. | | (259473) | 40
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to increase the household incomes of pensioners. | | (259325) | 41
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people on half (a) mean and (b) median income have paid income tax in each of the last 12 years. | | (259410) | 42
N | Anne Main (St Albans): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what IT security strategy his Department has in place; what steps are being taken to ensure the strategy is being followed; what policy is in place on the use of encryption when data are sent externally; and what sanctions are in place for use should the policy not be followed. | | (259006) | 43
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259713) | 44
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259714) | 45
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259715) | 46
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259716) | 47
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) subsidiaries and (b) branches each bank regulated by the Financial Services Authority has in (i) Jersey, (ii) Isle of Man, (iii) Guernsey, (iv) the Cayman Islands, (v) the Bahamas and (vi) Bermuda. | | (259375) | 48
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the amount of additional revenue that would have been raised from (a) employees and (b) employers by abolishing the upper limit on the income assessed for national insurance contributions in 2008-09. | | (259376) | 49
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax avoidance schemes are marketed by banks regulated by the Financial Services Authority. | | (259619) | 50
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the change in tax revenue which would occur if incomes at £100,000 and above were taxed at a marginal rate of 50 per cent. in 2009-10. | | (259620) | 51
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the additional revenue which would accrue to the Exchequer if capital gains were taxed at the basic rate of income tax in 2009-10. | | (259673) | 52
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to provide for a tax of one per cent. on all derivative products written by banks regulated by the Financial Services Authority. | | (259674) | 53
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of raising income tax personal allowances to provide for those earning no more than the national minimum wage to be exempt from income tax in 2009-10. | | (259675) | 54
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) funding and (b) other resources HM Revenue and Customs has provided to each regional equality and diversity partnership in the last 12 months. | | (259529) | 55
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead of 12 December 2008 on economic regulation and small businesses. | | (259686) | 56
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in respect of what provisions of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 the management and administration of is outsourced; what controls there are on companies to ensure the protection of data collected under the Regulations; and if he will make a statement. | | (259290) | 57
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to protect pensioners from the effects of recent reductions in interest rates on savings income. | | (259592) | 58
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses in each parliamentary constituency in the South West did not pay the full rateable liability for national non-domestic rates in 2008-09. | | (259597) | 59
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints relating to (a) mortgages and (b) mortgage endowments the Financial Ombudsman Service received in each year since 2001; and what percentage of such complaints the Ombudsman investigated. | | (259676) | 60
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259430) | 61
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259700) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 62
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much has been spent on the Electronic Learning and Mobility Programme to date; how many laptops have been provided to qualifying pupils under this scheme; and how many laptops issued (a) are out on loan, (b) have been returned damaged and (c) have not been returned and are considered lost or stolen. | | (259531) | 63
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schoolchildren were injured whilst at work in England in each of the last four years. | | (259217) | 64
| Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if his Department will provide funding to support the Council of Europe's Raise your hand against smacking campaign in England. | | (259283) | 65
| Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what grants his Department and its predecessors made to Westminster City Council in each year since 2005-06; and what grants are planned for 2009-10. | | (259527) | 66
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) children and (b) families are receiving services at each Sure Start children's centre in Hendon constituency; how many have received services at each centre since its inception; what estimate he has made of the number of children and families which will receive services at each planned centre; and if he will make a statement. | | (259740) | 67
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many Sure Start children's centres there are in the London Borough of Barnet; and if he will make a statement. | | (259741) | 68
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what Sure Start children's centres there are in Hendon constituency; when each opened; which centres are planned in Hendon constituency; when each is planned to open; and if he will make a statement. | | (259742) | 69
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the capital start-up cost of each Sure Start children's centre in Hendon constituency was; what the revenue costs of each have been in each year since it opened; what the current annual revenue cost of each is; how much (a) his Department, (b) the NHS and (c) local authorities contributed to the (i) capital start up costs and (ii) annual revenue costs of each; what estimate he has made of the (A) capital start up costs and (B) annual revenue costs of each planned centre in Hendon constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (259743) | 70
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the performance against objectives of each Sure Start centre in Hendon constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (259744) | 71
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which local authorities have applied for school funding brought forward in the 2008 Pre-Budget Report. | | (259102) | 72
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many students aged 16 to 18 years in receipt of an education maintenance allowance there are at each educational institution in North Wiltshire constituency. | | (259503) | 73
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of children aged 16 years or under are attending a school participating in the National Challenge in each local education authority. | | (259484) | 74
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many of his Department's staff received bonus payments in each year since his Department was established; and if he will make a statement. | | (259485) | 75
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he expects building work under the primary strategy for change programme to commence; and if he will make a statement. | | (259486) | 76
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department has spent on the Key Stage 2 single level tests in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (259487) | 77
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many statutory instruments have been laid before the House by his Department in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (259488) | 78
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many English children in care were placed in children's homes in (a) Wales, (b) Scotland and (c) Northern Ireland in each year since 1997. | | (259291) | 79
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment Ofsted has made of standards of education in the juvenile secure estate in the last five years. | | (259292) | 80
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many young people in the secure estate achieved (a) one GCSE at A* to G, (b) five GCSEs at A* to G, (c) five GCSEs at A* to G including English and mathematics, (d) five GCSEs at A* to C and (e) five GCSEs at A* to C including English and mathematics in each year since 1997. | | (259293) | 81
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many young people in the secure estate sat GCSE examinations in each year since 1997. | | (259294) | 82
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps the Training and Development Agency for Schools is taking to improve the educational achievement of children in care. | | (259295) | 83
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many standard letters his Department has written to headteachers of special schools since September 2007; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each. | | (259296) | 84
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many non-maintained special schools had (a) between 100 and 200 pupils, (b) between 201 and 300 pupils, (c) between 301 and 400 pupils and (d) over 400 pupils in 2008. | | (259297) | 85
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) dually registered and (b) other pupils attended pupil referral units in each local authority area in each year since 1997. | | (259298) | 86
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many independent special schools there were in each local authority area in each year since 1997. | | (259299) | 87
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2009 to Question 256435, what high scores for both deprivation and crime were used to determine which estates were selected. | | (259305) | 88
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2009 to Question 256859, what other ways of obtaining information on looked after children are being explored; and when he expects this process to have been completed. | | (259306) | 89
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2009 to Question 256442, which school had more than 400 pupils. | | (259307) | 90
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what contracts his Department has had with Capgemini since 1997. | | (259397) | 91
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much Capgemini has been paid for its work on ContactPoint in each year since the inception of the project. | | (259398) | 92
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills about the training of social workers for children. | | (259326) | 93
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259784) | 94
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259785) | 95
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259786) | 96
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259787) | 97
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259858) | 98
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, for what purpose he has commissioned an analysis of academy schools from PriceWaterhouseCoopers; what skills and capabilities provided by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for this purpose are not available in his Department; and how much his Department has paid to PriceWaterhouseCoopers for this project. | | (259670) | 99
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to page 28 of the Department for Education and Skills Resource Accounts 2001-02, for what reason Mr Peter Housden received an interest-free housing loan; and for how many years he received such a loan from the Department for Education and Skills. | | (259582) | 100
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether his Department encourages schools to provide extra-curricular activities in the interests of promoting and educating pupils on animal welfare issues. | | (259535) | 101
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department is taking to ensure access for disabled children to childcare facilities in each local authority area. | | (259281) | 102
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what factors have been identified by his Department as contributing to the decline in the number of applications for post-graduate certificate of education courses in modern languages between 2000 and 2008; and what steps his Department is taking in response to this decline. | | (259585) | 103
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the causes of the disparity in GCSE attainment between boys and girls. | | (259594) | 104
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department is taking to make Sure Start centres accessible at evenings and weekends. | | (259598) | 105
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department and its predecessor spent on staff surveys in each of the last five years; and which company was contracted to conduct each such survey. | | (259681) | 106
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259438) | 107
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259574) | 108
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of providing (a) special needs education and (b) social care for children diagnosed with foetal anti-convulsant syndrome resulting from mothers receiving sodium valproate treatment during pregnancy in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (259372) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 109
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what period of time elapses before his Department's electronic records are (a) archived and (b) destroyed; and what percentage of such records created in (i) 2007 and (ii) 2008 have been destroyed. | | (259352) | 110
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's policy statement on the management of its electronic records. | | (259388) | 111
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on what date his Department's policy on the management of its electronic records first took effect; and on what dates it has subsequently been reviewed. | | (259389) | 112
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many leaks of Government information to the media the Cabinet Office has investigated in the last year. | | (259454) | 113
| Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what estimate he has made of the number of children of school age who undertook part-time employment in each region in (a) 1990, (b) 2000 and (c) 2007. | | (259757) | 114
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what private sector support has been provided to his Department's Real Help Now website. | | (259457) | 115
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what budget has been assigned to his Department's Real Help Now website for each of the next three years; and whether other Government departments have provided funding. | | (259523) | 116
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much the Cabinet Office spent on staff surveys in each of the last five years; and which company was contracted to conduct each such survey. | | (259682) | 117
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many members of staff (a) employed by the Cabinet Office and (b) seconded from other departments have responsibility for the Real Help Now website. | | (259747) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 118
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects to reply to the letter of 19 January 2009 from the hon. Member for Billericay on business rates. | | (258993) | 119
| Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the percentage change in the rate support grant settlement for each London local authority in (a) cash and (b) real terms has been since 1990. | | (259570) | 120
| Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what grants her Department has given to Westminster City Council in each year since 2005-06; what sums were awarded; in what category of expenditure each grant fell; and what grant allocations have been made for 2009-10. | | (259753) | 121
| Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of all social home lettings were made to people other than homeless applicants in (a) each region and (b) each London local authority area were in each year since 2000-01. | | (259758) | 122
| Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of social housing tenants in each region not in receipt of housing benefit who are (a) pensioners and (b) of working age. | | (259759) | 123
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the (a) geographical distribution, (b) quality and (c) effectiveness of (i) refuges for victims of domestic violence and (ii) services for victims of rape in England; and if she will make a statement. | | (259603) | 124
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of persons entitled to claim housing benefit where rents are set in line with her Department's guideline rent changes; and if she will make a statement. | | (259605) | 125
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of (a) the contribution of the private rented sector to meeting housing need and (b) the availability of mortgage finance for the provision of privately-rented accommodation. | | (259423) | 126
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on the availability of mortgage finance to private landlords. | | (259518) | 127
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what timetable has been set for the South West Councils' Strategic Leaders' Board to be designated as a regional planning body. | | (259760) | 128
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the South West Council's Strategic Leaders' Board plans to assume the functions of the South West Regional Assembly. | | (259761) | 129
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what arrangements she plans to make for public consultation on the constitution of the proposed Strategic Leaders' Board of the South West Council; and what the timetable for the introduction of the board is. | | (259762) | 130
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether hon. Members representing constituencies in the South West will have any role in relation to the South West Council's Strategic Leaders' Board. | | (259763) | 131
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance she has issued on (a) the composition of the proportion of a decision-making body designated as a regional planning body under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 to be comprised of stakeholders and (b) the treatment of hon. Members as stakeholders for the purposes of the 2004 Act. | | (259764) | 132
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the level of affordability of individual access to broadband internet which will be achieved under the Digital Britain plan. | | (259642) | 133
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will commission research into the effect of changes to council tenants' rights since 2005 in Crosby; and if she will make a statement. | | (259480) | 134
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Audit Commission charged each fire and rescue authority in each region in (a) value added tax, (b) fixed element fees, (c) fees based on gross expenditure and (d) total in respect of audit fees in each year since 2003. | | (259568) | 135
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Audit Commission charged each public service in each region in (a) value added tax, (b) fixed element fees, (c) fees based on gross expenditure and (d) total in respect of audit fees in each year since 1997. | | (259569) | 136
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2009, Official Report, column 246W, on Radical Middleway, how much the Radical Middleway Programme will cost in 2008-09; and how much her Department will contribute towards this. | | (259189) | 137
| John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding her Department plans to release as part of round one of the Faiths in Action programme in 2009-10; how much it has allocated to the programme for that financial year; and if she will make a statement. | | (259330) | 138
| Mr Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 17 July 2008, whether the Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber has completed its investigation into the circumstances of the award of EU Objective 1 funding to Cambridge Online Learning Ltd; and if she will make a statement. | | (259282) | 139
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell of 16 October 2008, Official Report, column 1410W, on pensioners: low incomes, what the 2007 Indicies of Multiple Deprivation data on emergency admissions to hospital are, broken down by parliamentary constituency. | | (259515) | 140
N | Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what IT security strategy her Department has in place; what steps are being taken to ensure the strategy is being followed; what policy is in place on the use of encryption when data are sent externally; and what sanctions are in place for use should the policy not be followed. | | (259004) | 141
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259705) | 142
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what auditing her Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259706) | 143
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of her Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259707) | 144
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what scanning for vulnerabilities her Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259708) | 145
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued to social landlords on (a) the implementation of rent rises under the target rent regime and (b) the effects of the regime on tenants for whom such rises may cause financial hardship. | | (258842) | 146
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1697-8W, on Lord Truscott, whether Baroness Andrews was involved in decisions on the application for the development of a natural gas storage facility at Preesall Saltfield, Fleetwood, Lancashire. | | (259456) | 147
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1697-8W, on Lord Truscott, what information was given to Lord Taylor by her Department following his request for information on Newark as a growth point and related planning cases. | | (259460) | 148
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to pages 9-10 of her Department's publication of January 2009, Annex to the Planning Bill Impact Assessment: Royal Assent, for what reasons the expected remuneration of the chairman of the Infrastructure Planning Commission will be significantly higher than the £150,000 a year originally estimated; and whether the salaries of the deputy chairs will be similarly increased. | | (259516) | 149
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding (a) her Department and (b) each Government Office for the Regions has provided to each regional faith community to date. | | (259528) | 150
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to pages 22-3 of her Department's Resource Accounts 2007-08, for what reason Mr Peter Housden receives an interest-free housing loan; and for how many years he has received such a loan from her Department and its predecessor. | | (259578) | 151
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many private sector dwellings were (a) started and (b) completed in each quarter of each of the last 30 years. | | (259581) | 152
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 10 February 2008, Official Report, column 1844W, on Travelling people: caravan sites, what targets for the number of pitches to be provided by each local authority have been included in the most recent draft regional spatial stategies. | | (259583) | 153
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued to local planning authorities on the use of compulsory purchase powers to obtain land for new authorised Traveller pitches. | | (259606) | 154
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 5 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1436-7W, on Partnerships UK, and with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 16 July 2008, Official Report, column 17WS, on Housing Challenge document, if she will place in the Library a copy of the contract between her Department and Partnerships UK. | | (259607) | 155
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the Local Authority Guidance on including humanists and non-religious people in local authority religion and belief equality work produced by the Community Development Foundation. | | (259637) | 156
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether Migrant Workers Northwest has received funding from (a) her Department, (b) the Government Office for the North West and (c) the North West Regional Assembly since 2007. | | (259651) | 157
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which organisations other than faith-based groups received grants under Round (a) one and (b) two of the Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund programme; and how much each such organisation received. | | (259653) | 158
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the application of small business rate relief and the non-domestic multiplier is planned to be revenue neutral (a) in each year and (b) over the five year revaluation cycle. | | (259745) | 159
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will introduce an element of transitional rate relief for non-domestic rates for the 2009-10 financial year. | | (259595) | 160
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to measure the number of day visitors to local authority areas in order to facilitate the provision of funding for concessionary bus fares through Formula Grant. | | (259596) | 161
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many developers have submitted bids to the Homes and Communities Agency to participate in the HomeBuy Direct scheme; and if she will make a statement. | | (259429) | 162
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many individuals had applied for assistance under the HomeBuy Direct scheme at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (259521) | 163
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects the HomeBuy Direct scheme to be fully operational; and if she will make a statement. | | (259524) | 164
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department spent on staff surveys in each of the last five years; and which company was contracted to conduct each such survey. | | (259680) | 165
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, by what date she expects the first properties to be purchased via the HomeBuy Direct scheme. | | (259684) | 166
| Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, by what date her Department has required Plymouth City Council to provide permanent sites for Travellers; and if she will make a statement. | | (259685) | 167
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in her Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259440) | 168
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many public consultations her Department has carried out in the last 12 months; for how long each consultation was open; how many responses were received to each consultation; and what the cost was of conducting each consultation. | | (259729) | 169
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she plans to reply to the letter of 12 January 2009 from the hon. Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey. | | (258841) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 170
| Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the contribution made by tourism to the economies of (a) South West England, (b) Cornwall and (c) South East Cornwall in the last five years. | | (259416) | 171
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) domestic and (b) overseas visitors visited (i) North Wiltshire constituency, (ii) Wiltshire and (iii) the South West in each year since 1997; and what the average spend per person per day was in each case. | | (259489) | 172
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much Government grant funding has been provided for the arts in (a) Wiltshire and (b) the South West in each year since 1997. | | (259501) | 173
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the source is for the funding for his Department's free swimming initiatives for those aged over 60 and under 16 years in Chorley. | | (259672) | 174
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259788) | 175
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259789) | 176
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259790) | 177
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259791) | 178
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259857) | 179
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Big Lottery Fund has provided for projects to assist Traveller groups since the fund was established; and what projects have been supported by such expenditure. | | (259425) | 180
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 25 June 2008, Official Report, column 331W, on regional planning and development: electronic government, how much the Big Lottery Fund has provided for each regional equality and diversity partnership to date; and for what purposes such funds have been provided. | | (259608) | 181
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public swimming pools have closed in each of the last five years. | | (259279) | 182
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the growth in digital media upon levels of (a) community stability and cohesion and (b) participation in democratic political activities. | | (259593) | 183
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on staff surveys in each of the last five years; and which company was contracted to conduct each such survey. | | (259679) | 184
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) summits, (b) conferences and (c) seminars his Department has hosted since January 2008 at which a primary subject of discussion was the effect of the economic situation on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (259751) | 185
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259436) | 186
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259693) | 187
N | Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what further reports he intends to submit to the World Heritage Committee on UK World Heritage sites in advance of its 2009 session; and what the timetable for submission is. | | (259116) | 188
N | Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which UK World Heritage sites he is evaluating in advance of the World Heritage Committee's 2009 session. | | (259117) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 189
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with international counterparts on levels of NATO deployment in Southern Afghanistan in the next two years; and if he will make a statement. | | (259455) | 190
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2009 to the hon. Member for Chesterfield, Official Report, column 872, on departmental data protection, in what format his Department records information on staff dismissal for loss of departmental property. | | (259599) | 191
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what private finance initiatives have been entered into by his Department since 1997, indicating in each case (a) the total value of each contract, (b) the name of the contractor and (c) whether each contract has been subject to refinancing arrangements; what the monetary value of the refinancing arrangement was in each such case; and what the extent of the clawback has been. | | (259549) | 192
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what reasons are most frequently identified as causing service personnel to be absent without leave; and if he will make a statement. | | (259492) | 193
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel who were absent without leave at some point in each of the last 10 years were subsequently dismissed from each of the armed services. | | (259502) | 194
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department plans to make funds available for the refurbishment of the proposed Territorial Army Centre in Rylston Road, Fulham. | | [R] (259371) | 195
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2009 to the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, what modifications will be made to the Merlin helicopters; and which company he expects to undertake such modifications. | | (259451) | 196
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will break down his Department's Spring Supplementary Estimates 2009-10 on the same basis as in the Answer of 14 July 2008 to the hon. Member for Aldershot, Official Report, column 167W, on departmental public expenditure. | | (259452) | 197
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel are currently deployed in Pakistan; in which roles; and if he will make a statement. | | (258849) | 198
N | Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what IT security strategy his Department has in place; what steps are being taken to ensure the strategy is being followed; what policy is in place on the use of encryption when data are sent externally; and what sanctions are in place for use should the policy not be followed. | | (259003) | 199
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259792) | 200
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259793) | 201
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259794) | 202
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259795) | 203
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259856) | 204
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British troops have served in Iraq since 2003. | | (259493) | 205
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British troops have served in Afghanistan since 2001. | | (259499) | 206
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) summits, (b) conferences and (c) seminars his Department has hosted since January 2008 at which a primary subject of discussion was the effect of the economic situation on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (259750) | 207
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259439) | 208
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259699) | 209
N | Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the schedule of payments is for the Future Stategic Tanker Aircraft under the private finance initiative contract; and when each payment is due to be made. | | (258997) | 210
N | Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the private finance initiative contract signed with the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft consortium requires the armed forces to use the consortium to undertake all air-to-air refuelling tasks for the period of the contract. | | (258998) | 211
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Merlin helicopters are being upgraded for operations in Afghanistan; and what the average cost of the upgrade is. | | (259664) | 212
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria the armed forces use to determine whether to report and make public instances of individual service personnel who have been (a) wounded, (b) seriously wounded and (c) killed. | | (259665) | 213
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate the number of service personnel who have survived their injuries following treatment in medical facilities in theatre in each of the last two years. | | (259666) | 214
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the contract specification for delivery dates for the A400M aircraft is; and what penalty clauses there are for late delivery in the contract. | | (259667) | 215
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the original expected usage was of each type of Hercules airlift aircraft airframes; when each type came into service; what the expected length of their service life was on entry into service; and what the present rate of airframe usage is. | | (259668) | 216
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what formula has been used to calculate the cost of the contract for the A400M aircraft. | | (259669) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 217
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme in the light of the recession. | | (259356) | 218
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which projects for which his Department is responsible are receiving funding from the Environmental Transformation Fund; how much each has received from the Fund since its inception; and what further projects are planned. | | (259357) | 219
| Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what changes have been made to the estimates of UK carbon dioxide emissions for each year from 1990 to 2006 as a result of the methodological changes that have been adopted since January 2008. | | (259284) | 220
| Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what methodological changes in the measurement of carbon dioxide emissions the Government has adopted since January 2008. | | (259285) | 221
| Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, for what reasons Eaga is not party to the contract for the supply of heating materials used in Warm Front scheme installations. | | (259286) | 222
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259796) | 223
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259797) | 224
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259798) | 225
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259799) | 226
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259855) | 227
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, upon how many wind farms he expects to begin being constructed in each of the next five years. | | (259459) | 228
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many nuclear power stations he expects to be decommissioned in each of the next 10 years. | | (259496) | 229
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on (a) wind, (b) tidal, (c) solar and (d) geo-thermal power development in the last five years. | | (259497) | 230
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many homes were without electricity supply for a period of more than four hours during January 2009. | | (259498) | 231
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many wind turbines he expects to begin being constructed in each of the next five years. | | (259507) | 232
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) gas, (b) coal and (c) oil-fired power stations he expects to begin being constructed in each of the next five years. | | (259508) | 233
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many nuclear power stations he expects to begin being constructed in each of the next five years. | | (259509) | 234
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what percentage of the UK's power is generated by (a) wind farms, (b) solar, (c) nuclear power stations, (d) coal-fired power stations, (e) clean coal-fired power stations, (f) gas-fired power stations, (g) oil-fired power stations, (h) tidal sources and (i) geo-thermal power stations. | | (259544) | 235
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what percentage of gas consumed in the UK is sourced from the Ukraine. | | (259545) | 236
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans his Department has to promote energy efficiency in public sector buildings. | | (259280) | 237
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to improve the security of gas supply from non-EU sources. | | (259586) | 238
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the reduction in domestic production of natural gas on security of energy supply; and if he will make a statement. | | (259587) | 239
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to increase the capacity of storage facilities for gas. | | (259588) | 240
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of domestic gas consumption was obtained from domestic sources in each of the last 15 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (259589) | 241
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what (a) summits, (b) conferences and (c) seminars his Department has hosted since its inception at which a primary subject of discussion was the effect of the economic situation on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (259749) | 242
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many pensioners resident in Cornwall have (a) been eligible for and (b) received a grant from the Warm Front scheme in each year since it was launched. | | (259615) | 243
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259434) | 244
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259691) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 245
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the efficacy of the operation of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991; and if he will make a statement. | | (259350) | 246
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much late payment compensation has been paid under the Single Farm Payment scheme since its establishment; and what guidance his Department provides to farmers on the procedure for claiming such compensation. | | (259453) | 247
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which projects for which his Department is responsible are receiving funding from the Environmental Transformation Fund; how much each has received from the Fund since its inception; and what new projects are planned. | | (259358) | 248
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the European Commission on electronic tagging of sheep in the last two years. | | (259649) | 249
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effects on the environment of the disposal of batteries. | | (259329) | 250
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to which countries beef reared in the UK may be exported; and how much was exported to each such country in each of the last 10 years. | | (259494) | 251
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of litres of bottled (a) sparkling and (b) still water consumed in England in each year since 2000; and what percentage was supplied in bottles made of (i) plastic, (ii) glass and (iii) other materials. | | (259495) | 252
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cattle have been issued with cattle passports in each of the last three years. | | (259500) | 253
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many horse passports have been issued by each of the issuing bodies in each of the last five years. | | (259505) | 254
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2009, Official Report, column 1082W, on horses, in what percentage of the samples taken from horses entering the UK evidence of inappropriate usage of veterinary medicinal products has been found in the last 12 months. | | (259659) | 255
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2009, Official Report, column 1082W, on horses, what percentage of abattoirs in England slaughter horses for human consumption. | | (259660) | 256
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2009, Official Report, column 1082W, on horses, what estimate he has made of the number of horses which have entered the human food chain in the UK in each of the last 10 years. | | (259661) | 257
N | Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what IT security strategy his Department has in place; what steps are being taken to ensure the policy is being followed; what policy is in place on the use of encryption when data are sent externally; and what sanctions are in place for use should the policy not be followed. | | (259005) | 258
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259721) | 259
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259722) | 260
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259723) | 261
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259724) | 262
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, column 401W, on the Waste and Resources Action Programme, what assessment the Waste and Resources Action Programme has made of the effectiveness of using Chelgate to improve engagement outside its established stakeholder group. | | (259579) | 263
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 4 November 2008, Official Report, column 401W, on the Waste and Resources Action Programme, what (a) reports and (b) written briefing documents Chelgate produced for the Waste and Resources Action Programme as part of its engagement exercise. | | (259580) | 264
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) summits, (b) conferences and (c) seminars his Department has hosted since January 2008 at which a primary subject of discussion was the effect of the economic situation on matters within his Department's responsibility. | | (259766) | 265
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will meet representatives of the small and under-10 metre fishing fleet from the Thames Estuary and East Anglia Coast to discuss his Department's policy on inshore fishing. | | (259609) | 266
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made of the effect on the flood plain of the works planned in the flood risk area of Canvey Island in relation to the Roscommon Way Extension; and if he will make a statement. | | (259639) | 267
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department and its associated public bodies are taking to prevent the discharge of fats, oils and greases into the sewerage system from commercial hot food premises; and if he will make a statement. | | (259317) | 268
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of local voluntary schemes for installing control measures in commercial hot food premises as a means of preventing the discharge of fats, oils and greases into the sewerage system. | | (259318) | 269
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will introduce to require commercial hot food premises to have a grease control system to prevent the entry of fats, oils and greases into the sewerage system. | | (259319) | 270
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259445) | 271
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259576) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 272
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2009, Official Report, column 2204W, on Tibet: politics and government, what consideration he gave to seeking specific undertakings from the Chinese government in advance of the change of UK policy on Tibet. | | (259345) | 273
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government gave permission to the US to share UK intelligence with the Moroccan intelligence services in relation to (a) the interrogation of Binyam Mohamed and (b) other matters between 2001 and 2004; and if he will make a statement. | | (259361) | 274
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government shared UK intelligence relating to (a) the interrogation of Binyam Mohamed and (b) other intelligence matters directly with the Moroccan intelligence services between 2001 and 2004; and if he will make a statement. | | (259362) | 275
N | Mr David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the use by Moroccan intelligence services of intelligence gathered by (a) UK and (b) US authorities during the interrogation of Binyam Mohamed; whether he authorised the release of such information to the Moroccan intelligence services; what discussions he has had with the US administration on the release of such information (i) prior and (ii) subsequent to its release; and if he will make a statement. | | (259028) | 276
N | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to respond to Question 253469, tabled by the hon. Member for Hendon on 27 January 2009 for named day answer on 2 February 2009, on casualties from fighting in Sri Lanka. | | (258909) | 277
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff in his Department have been subject to internal disciplinary procedures in relation to the use of religiously or racially offensive language during each of the last five years. | | (259000) | 278
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has budgeted for hospitality to be provided to (a) Secretaries of State and Ministers, (b) civil servants, (c) special advisers, (d) foreign heads of state and government and (e) ministers of foreign governments at the G20 summit in London in April 2009. | | (259364) | 279
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate has been made of the cost of accommodation for (a) foreign heads of state and government and (b) foreign delegations attending the G20 summit to be held in London in April 2009. | | (259365) | 280
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library copies of proposed menus for meals to be provided to participants in the G20 summit in London in April 2009. | | (259366) | 281
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what consideration he gave to designating (a) China and (b) Russia as countries where there is an absence of free and independent media for the purposes of his Department's 2007 Operational Agreement with the BBC World Service. | | (259367) | 282
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to use stocks of (a) champagne, (b) white wine, (c) red wine, (d) beer and (e) spirits from the Government Wine Cellar for the G20 summit in London in April 2009. | | (259369) | 283
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how frequently he meets managers at the BBC World Service; at how many such meetings the political and media environment in Russia has been discussed; and what information his Department provides to the BBC World Service on developments in such environments. | | (259370) | 284
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the management of the BBC World Service on its features programming in its broadcasts across its vernacular services. | | (259752) | 285
N | Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports (a) his predecessors and (b) officials in his Department received on the location of Mr Binyam Mohamed between May 2002 and May 2004; and what steps the Government took to ascertain (i) his whereabouts and (ii) the conditions in which he was being held during that period. | | (259029) | 286
N | Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to paragraph 9 (ix) of the High Court judgement in the case of R (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of 21 August 2008, whether the legal adviser to his Department was requested to give an opinion on UK responsibilities in Afghanistan consequent upon the observations made about the treatment of persons detained by or on behalf of the United States in Afghanistan by an officer of the Secret Intelligence Service. | | (259030) | 287
N | Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to paragraph 9 (ix) of the High Court judgement in the case of R (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of 21 August 2008, on what other occasions officers of the UK security services have made observations on the treatment of persons detained by or on behalf of the United States in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement. | | (259031) | 288
N | Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to paragraph 9 (ix) of the High Court judgement in the case of R (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of 21 August 2008 on what date officials of his Department were first informed that an officer of the Secret Intelligence Service had made observations about the treatment of persons detained by or on behalf of the United States in Afghanistan. | | (259032) | 289
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the policy of the Government is in respect of the cases of (a) Shaker Aamer, (b) Ahmed Belbacha and (c) Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed currently detained at Guantanamo Bay. | | (259026) | 290
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has had discussions with the government of Ethiopia on the return of Mr Binyam Mohamed to that country. | | (259027) | 291
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to seek the release of Roy Bennett, designated Deputy Minister of Agriculture on the National Unity Government of Zimbabwe to (a) the government of Zimbabwe, (b) other states in the region and (c) international organisations; and if he will make a statement. | | (258839) | 292
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259800) | 293
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259801) | 294
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259802) | 295
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259803) | 296
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259854) | 297
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what UK armed forces are currently based in (a) Belize, (b) the British Indian Ocean Territory and (c) Ascension Island. | | (259328) | 298
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times he has visited (a) the United States, (b) Paris and (c) India on official business in the last 12 months. | | (259536) | 299
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times he has visited Brussels on official business in the last 12 months. | | (259537) | 300
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times he has visited the European Parliament on official business in the last 12 months. | | (259538) | 301
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of (a) closures of churches in Pakistan and (b) the treatment of Christians in that country; what recent representations he has made to the government of Pakistan on the matter; and if he will make a statement. | | (259539) | 302
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of (a) closures of churches in India and (b) the treatment of Christians in that country; what recent representations he has made to the government of India on the matter; and if he will make a statement. | | (259540) | 303
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of (a) closures of churches in Iran and (b) the treatment of Christians in that country; what recent representations he has made to the government of Iran on the matter; and if he will make a statement. | | (259541) | 304
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the government of Israel and (b) the United Nations on the loss of unexploded Israeli ordnance in Gaza. | | (259542) | 305
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Israel on funding for reconstruction in Gaza; and if he will make a statement. | | (259543) | 306
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to hold the local and provincial elections that have been delayed since 2006. | | (258847) | 307
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent progress has been made towards the eradication of poppy growing in Afghanistan. | | (259396) | 308
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259447) | 309
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259698) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 310
| John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to support people with myasthenia gravis; and if he will make a statement. | | (259343) | 311
| Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2009, Official Report, column 1349W, on autism, what plans he has to ensure that individual budgets are effective for people with (a) sensory impairments and (b) autism. | | (259611) | 312
| Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure local authority resource allocation systems for individual budgets reflect the needs of people with (a) sensory impairments, (b) autism and (c) complex needs. | | (259613) | 313
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to build capacity in the voluntary sector to support patients with sickle cell disease. | | (259335) | 314
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many donations of human organs were made in each region in each year since 2000. | | (258988) | 315
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people received a (a) heart, (b) lung, (c) kidney, (d) cornea, (e) tissue, (f) pancreas and (g) liver transplant in England in each year since 2000. | | (258989) | 316
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average post-operation life expectancy of a patient receiving a (a) heart, (b) lung, (c) kidney, (d) liver (e) cornea, (f) pancreas and (g) tissue transplant is. | | (258990) | 317
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many transplant co-ordinators were employed by each health authority in England in each year since 2000. | | (258991) | 318
N | Mr Jeremy Browne (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mandatory training is required of (a) intensive care and (b) accident and emergency medical staff on (i) obtaining consent for organ donation and (ii) organ donation procedures; and if he will make a statement. | | (258992) | 319
| Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what grants his Department has given to Westminster City Council in each year since 2005-06; what sums were awarded in each grant; in what categories the grant has been made; and how much has been allocated for grants in 2009-10. | | (259754) | 320
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the West Midlands have had to travel more than 50 miles to access neo-natal emergency treatment in each of the last 10 years. | | (259417) | 321
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many junior doctors in each NHS Trust worked more than 56 hours per week in the latest period for which information is available. | | (259360) | 322
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether NHS funding allocations to NHS Foundation Trust hospitals take into account the income each trust receives from land sales. | | (259737) | 323
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which categories of patient services NHS Foundation Trust hospitals have decided to (a) commence and (b) terminate since their inception. | | (259738) | 324
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS Hospital Foundation Trusts have sold land since their establishment; how much was sold in each case; and how much each trust received from the sale. | | (259739) | 325
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1497-8W, on cancer, what steps his Department is taking (a) to reduce the incidence of lung cancer and (b) to reduce the incidence of smoking by young people under the age of 16 years in the North West. | | (259469) | 326
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what private finance initiative projects his Department has entered into since 1997; what the total value of each contract was; who the successful contractor was; which projects have been subject to refinancing arrangements; what the monetary value of the refinancing arrangement was in each such case; and what the extent of the clawback has been. | | (259550) | 327
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people infected with HIV there were in (a) England and (b) Sefton in each year since 1996. | | (259562) | 328
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people resident in (a) the London Borough of Bexley and (b) Greater London have been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last five years. | | (259506) | 329
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase levels of awareness amongst GPs of bulimia and anorexia. | | (259400) | 330
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to reduce the frequency with which type 2 diabetes is acquired in Norfolk. | | (259401) | 331
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to increase levels of diagnosis and treatment of rarer diseases. | | (259402) | 332
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women in each (a) age group and (b) NHS trust area had subdermal implants removed in each of the last 10 years. | | (259643) | 333
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken in co-operation with voluntary sector organisations on (a) developing gender-sensitive policies and (b) reducing gender inequalities in the NHS in the last five years. | | (259644) | 334
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) role and (b) objectives are of each of his Department's equality champions. | | (259645) | 335
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women in each (a) age group and (b) NHS trust area were given prescriptions for an (i) intra-uterine system, (ii) intra-uterine device and (iii) sub-dermal implant in each of the last 10 years. | | (259646) | 336
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women in each age group were fitted with an intra-uterine (a) system and (b) device in each of the last 10 years. | | (259647) | 337
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) average and (b) maximum waiting time for (i) in-patient and (ii) day case admissions was at the Great Western Hospital in each year since 1997. | | (259490) | 338
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department's implementation update for the European Working Time Directive, published on 30 January 2009, what comprehensive position statements on Working Time Directive readiness by specialty for each trust his Department has received from strategic health authorities; and if he will place a copy of each in the Library. | | (259303) | 339
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the tariff uplift breakdown for 2009-10, published by his Department on 5 February 2009, and pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2009, Official Report, column 1378W, on maternity services: finance, under what tariff headings the additional funding his Department plans to provide for maternity services in 2009-10 is included. | | (259304) | 340
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS is recorded in Estates Return Information Collection data as spending on the reduction of backlog maintenance in each year since 2000-01. | | (259377) | 341
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each NHS organisation in England is recorded in Estates Return Information Collection data as spending on reducing its backlog of maintenance in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08; and what organisation code was provided on each occasion that such expenditure was incurred in the period. | | (259378) | 342
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of NHS organisations that will request exclusions and derogations from the requirements of the EU Working Time Directive in the next 12 months. | | (259379) | 343
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds there were in each NHS trust in England in each year from 2000-01 to 2007-08, with the data adjusted to reflect the current configuration of trusts. | | (259380) | 344
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors there were in each NHS Trust in each year from 2000 to 2007, with data adjusted to reflect the current configuration of trusts. | | (259381) | 345
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the percentage of hospital trusts which meet with the requirements of the European Working Time Directive with which they must comply by August 2009. | | (259382) | 346
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date his Department commissioned Sheffield University to conduct research on the effects of the EU Working Time Directive on the NHS; on what date the completed report was submitted to his Department; and if he will place in the Library a copy of that report. | | (259383) | 347
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what statistical analysis his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effects of the EU Working Time Directive on the NHS. | | (259384) | 348
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what measures and under what budgetary headings the funds allocated by his Department to support implementation of the EU Working Time Directive in 2009-10 will be spent. | | (259385) | 349
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors have been employed in the NHS in each year since 1997; and how many have been employed under what organisational code in each NHS organisation in each of the last three years. | | (259387) | 350
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children have been prescribed Ritalin in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (259483) | 351
N | Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what IT security strategy his Department has in place; what steps are being taken to ensure the policy is being followed; what policy is in place on the use of encryption when data are sent externally; and what sanctions are in place for use should the policy not be followed. | | (259002) | 352
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259717) | 353
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259718) | 354
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259719) | 355
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259720) | 356
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has issued guidance to local healthcare trusts on minimum arrangements for pre-hospital airway management care of trauma patients. | | (258844) | 357
N | Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2009, Official Report, columns 827-32W, on transplant surgery: foreigners, what the (a) NHS tariff and (b) private tariff is in each hospital for each type of transplant. | | (258898) | 358
N | Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients whose records are contained in the General Practice Research Database have at least one record of malnutrition (a) in total and (b) in the last year for which figures are available. | | (258900) | 359
N | Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the full statement his Department's spokesperson issued to the BBC in response to the story on the BBC website of 10 February 2009, entitled Malnutrition affecting three million in the UK; what further consideration his Department has given to the (a) findings and (b) recommendations contained in the report by the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, entitled Combating malnutrition: recommendations for action; and if he will make a statement. | | (258901) | 360
N | Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were recorded as having (a) an admission episode and (b) a discharge episode with a diagnosis of (i) malnutrition, (ii) nutritional anaemias and (iii) other nutritional deficiencies in NHS trusts in each year between 1997-08 and 2007-08 (A) in total and (B) broken down by NHS trust. | | (258902) | 361
N | Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which current and ongoing public finance initiative liabilities fall under the remit of his Department in (a) Hertfordshire and (b) the East of England Strategic Health Authority. | | (259109) | 362
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the General Dental Council of administering the annual registration fee for dental technicians was (a) in total and (b) per technician in 2008. | | (259776) | 363
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the net cost incurred by the General Dental Council in licensing each registered dental technician annually was in 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (259777) | 364
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2009, Official Report, column 2079W, on hospital beds, if he will make it his policy to collect and hold information from each NHS hospital trust on how many days each trust has been placed on its highest level of alert because of a shortage of beds; and if he will make a statement. | | (259289) | 365
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much on average was spent on treating a breast cancer patient by each primary care trust in each strategic health authority in each of the last five years. | | (259394) | 366
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259443) | 367
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259573) | 368
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) children and (b) adults have been diagnosed with foetal anti-convulsant syndrome resulting from their mothers receiving sodium valproate treatment during pregnancy; and if he will make a statement. | | (259374) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 369
| Hilary Armstrong (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many work permits were issued for (a) doctors and (b) nurses from Guyana in each of the last 15 years. | | (259458) | 370
| Hilary Armstrong (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many work permits were issued for (a) doctors and (b) nurses from each country in Africa in each of the last 15 years. | | (259662) | 371
N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the threat to UK security of the return to the UK of Binyam Mohamed; and if she will make a statement. | | (258910) | 372
N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether conditions have been (a) placed on and (b) agreed with Binyam Mohamed upon his return to the UK; and whether conditions have been attached to his freedom of (i) movement and (ii) action once in the UK. | | (258911) | 373
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people she plans to appoint to work with the Victims' Champion; what budget her Department will provide for the Victims' Champion for 2009-10; and what arrangements have been made to enable the public to contact the Victims' Champion. | | (259622) | 374
| Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of closed circuit television cameras in each local authority area in England (a) in total, (b) operated by or on behalf of local authorities and (c) operated by or on behalf of police forces. | | (259526) | 375
| Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what grants her Department has made to Westminster City Council in each year since 2005-06; what sums were awarded; in what category each grant was made; and how much has been allocated for grants in 2009-10. | | (259755) | 376
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice her Department's online secure home scorecard tool offers in respect of each score achieved. | | (259602) | 377
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much had been spent on the implementation of the Tackling Knives Action Programme in each of the participating areas at the latest date for which figures are available; and if she will take steps to implement the programme in other areas with high levels of knife crime. | | (259517) | 378
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) complaints and (b) items of correspondence have been received by (i) her Department and (ii) Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary on historical sex abuse investigations in the UK in each year since 2001. | | (259301) | 379
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal immigrants were deported in 2007-08 to each country of origin; what modes of transport were used in relation to each country; how many such people were refused entry to their destination country; and what happened to each such person. | | (259320) | 380
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on granting asylum to applicants who claim to have been persecuted by members of (a) another ethnic group and (b) armed groups operating unlawfully in their country of origin. | | (259321) | 381
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had at European level on (a) harmonisation of legislation on family re-unification, (b) medical assistance for illegal migrants and (c) admitting the children of illegal migrants to schools. | | (259323) | 382
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds statistics on the number of occasions Merseyside police officers have returned children aged 16 years or under to their homes after nine o'clock at night from a designated area since the introduction of this power. | | (259477) | 383
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many female victims of (a) murder and (b) manslaughter as a result of domestic violence there have been in each year since 2002. | | (259547) | 384
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children under the age of 16 years have been (a) murdered by their parents or carers and (b) subject to manslaughter as a result of domestic violence in each year since 2002. | | (259548) | 385
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what private finance initiatives her Department has entered into since 1997; what the total value of each contract was; who the name of the successful contractor was; which projects have been subject to refinancing arrangements; what the monetary value of the refinancing arrangement was in each such case; and what the extent of the clawback has been. | | (259551) | 386
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Government's policy is on measures to reduce rates of domestic violence. | | (259552) | 387
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals to amend legislation for which her Department is responsible to remove the term 'female defective' to define a woman with learning difficulties; and if she will make a statement. | | (259553) | 388
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of alternatives to use of the criminal justice system in reducing the incidence of begging and vagrancy. | | (259555) | 389
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the effectiveness of (a) secure remand and (b) tagging in reducing re-offending rates. | | (259556) | 390
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of those arrested subsequently tested positive for Class A drugs in 2008; and what the level of voluntary take-up for treatment was. | | (259557) | 391
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department allocated for programmes to counter the misuse of illegal drugs in each year since 1997; and whether she plans to increase the funding available for such programmes. | | (259558) | 392
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of community service alternatives to prison sentences in reducing rates of re-offending; and if she will make a statement. | | (259560) | 393
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what documentation her Department provides to asylum seekers when they claim asylum after arrival in the UK; and what services such people are entitled to receive on arriving in the country. | | (259655) | 394
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations she has received from non-governmental organisations on the operation of immigration removal centres in the UK. | | (259656) | 395
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with which countries of origin of migrants the UK has re-admission agreements; when each such agreement was signed; and with which countries her Department is negotiating such agreements. | | (259657) | 396
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure there are sufficient numbers of SCD5 child abuse investigation-trained police officers; and if she will make a statement. | | (259300) | 397
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Binyam Mohamed applied for asylum on his arrival to the UK on 23 February 2009; and if she will make a statement. | | (259395) | 398
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police community support officers operating in Chorley borough are (a) funded wholly by Lancashire Police, (b) funded in part by Chorley Borough Council and (c) funded wholly by Chorley Borough Council. | | (259671) | 399
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the statement of 10 January 2007, Official Report, column 285, on the criminal records backlog, how many of the paper records of crimes committed by British citizens in other EU member states had been entered on the Police National Computer at the latest date for which figures are available; how many of the subjects of such records were convicted of an offence in the period between the receipt of their record by her Department and its entry on the Police National Computer; and for which offences those individuals were convicted. | | (257742) | 400
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ethiopian citizens and their dependants (a) were removed or deported and (b) left the UK voluntarily as a result of (i) an unsuccessful application for asylum and (ii) a breach of immigration conditions in (A) each of the last five years and (B) at the latest date in 2009 for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement. | | (258994) | 401
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications made by Ethiopian citizens and their dependants were (a) granted and (b) refused (i) by the UK Border Agency and (ii) on appeal to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal in (A) each of the last five years and (B) at the latest date in 2009 for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement. | | (258995) | 402
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum were made by Ethiopian citizens and their dependants (a) on grounds of political opinion and (b) in total in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) at the latest date in 2009 for which figures are available. | | (258996) | 403
| Dr William McCrea (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the national property crime rate was in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) the last four months of 2008. | | (259428) | 404
| Dr William McCrea (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the national violent crime rate was in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) the last four months of 2008. | | (259514) | 405
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons solicitors acting for the applicant in Home Office case ref no. LR2184026425 have not received a substantive response to the application for their client's settlement under policy DP069/99; and if she will make a statement. | | (259034) | 406
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259804) | 407
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what auditing her Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259805) | 408
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of her Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259806) | 409
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what scanning for vulnerabilities her Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259807) | 410
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what IT security policy her Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what her Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259853) | 411
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided for each Regional Strategic Migration Partnership in the last 12 months. | | (259424) | 412
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in her Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259442) | 413
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many public consultations her Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259696) | 414
| Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nights she spent in hotels on official business in each (a) region and (b) overseas country in each month since July 2007. | | (259614) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 415
N | Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will take steps to enable hon. Members to connect their Blackberrys to the Parliamentary Information and Communications Technology system. | | (258897) | 416
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what discussions House of Commons officials have had with officials in the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales on systems for (a) reporting by members of their expenses to parliamentary authorities and (b) publication of information on members' expenses; and if he will make a statement. | | (258846) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 417
| Hilary Armstrong (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effects of the use of innovation vouchers by universities on the commercial design sector. | | (259327) | 418
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many residents of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne enrolled in higher education institutions on a (a) full-time and (b) part-time basis in (i) 1997, (ii) 2002 and (iii) 2008. | | (259689) | 419
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many (a) home and EU full-time students, (b) overseas non-EU full-time students and (c) home and EU part-time students enrolled at higher education institutions in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in (i) 1997, (ii) 2002 and (iii) 2008. | | (259690) | 420
N | James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment he has made of the (a) teaching, (b) research and (c) achievement against objectives of the Marine Institute at Plymouth University; and if he will make a statement. | | (258852) | 421
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259812) | 422
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259813) | 423
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259814) | 424
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259815) | 425
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259851) | 426
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259432) | 427
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259575) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 428
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps he is taking to ensure the availability of funds for African smallholders. | | (259188) | 429
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2009, Official Report, column 2118W, on loans, what assessment he has made of trends in interest rates on microfinance loans in Africa over the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (259190) | 430
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2009, Official Report, column 2118W, on loans, what annual percentage interest rates commercial banks are charging smallholders in Malawi; and what security they require. | | (259191) | 431
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the (a) dates of employment, (b) salary and (c) other costs of employment were of the interim HR Manager provided by Penna Consulting Plc to his Department in 2008, reference number 200808430. | | (259462) | 432
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the (a) date, (b) duration and (c) location was of the Joint Environment, Infrastructure and Livelihoods Retreat run by his Department and supported by HTSPE Ltd in 2008, reference number 200808420. | | (259463) | 433
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Policy note on economic growth and job creation for donor conference, Kosovo commissioned from the University of Manchester in 2008, reference numbers 200808402 and 200808318. | | (259464) | 434
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the (a) salary and (b) other costs of employment were for the Communications Officer provided for his Department to support the Sudan Darfur - Darfur Dialogue and Consultation by Coffey International Development Ltd in 2008. | | (259465) | 435
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Guidelines for incentives on aid effectiveness in donor agencies, produced for his Department by PricewaterhouseCoopers in February 2008, reference number 200808318. | | (259466) | 436
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Stakeholder survey - working across Whitehall, produced by PricewaterhouseCoopers for his Department in 2008, reference number 200708205. | | (259467) | 437
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, on what dates and on which channels the Nile Basin Documentary Film produced by Wild Dog Ltd with funding from his Department has been broadcast. | | (259468) | 438
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to increase its recruitment of people with disabilities in line with targets for the Civil Service for 2008-09. | | (259474) | 439
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how his Department's aid for reconstruction in Gaza is to be distributed. | | (259475) | 440
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2009, Official Report, column 1310W, on departmental video conferencing, where the video conferencing facilities are located (a) in the UK and (b) world-wide. | | (259476) | 441
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much (a) the World Bank, (b) multilateral development banks and (c) other international finance organisations have spent on (i) alternative sources of energy, (ii) energy efficiency and (iii) adaptation to climate change in developing countries in each of the last two years; what proportion of this spending was from funds provided by the UK; and if he will make a statement. | | (259411) | 442
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259816) | 443
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259817) | 444
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259818) | 445
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259819) | 446
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259850) | 447
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people his Department (a) sought for and (b) recruited into its general faststream in 2008; and how many of those recruited into its general faststream were undertaking first degree courses at university when they successfully applied to his Department. | | (259344) | 448
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid the UK has provided for Liberia (a) bilaterally and (b) through the United Nations in each of the last five years; and how much is planned to be provided for Liberia in the next spending period for which figures are available. | | (258843) | 449
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on (a) standard and (b) business class rail travel in each of the last three financial years. | | (259621) | 450
| Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which hotels in Nairobi are designated as preferred for the purposes of his Department's officials' travel arrangements as set out in the departmental staff handbook. | | (259648) | 451
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what practical assistance his Department is providing to the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to facilitate the holding of the local and provincial elections originally scheduled for 2006. | | (258848) | 452
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259446) | 453
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259567) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 454
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) complaints and (b) items of correspondence have been received by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in relation to historical sex abuse investigations in the UK in each year since 2001. | | (259302) | 455
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent changes the Criminal Cases Review Commission has made to the way in which it (a) assesses cases and (b) determines which cases are (i) eligible and (ii) ineligible for review. | | (259481) | 456
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to raise awareness amongst the judiciary of community service alternatives to prison sentences. | | (259546) | 457
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the comparative rates of imprisonment of (a) black males and (b) white males; how these rates compare with the proportions in the overall population; and if he will make a statement. | | (259554) | 458
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will commission research on the effects on the re-offending rate of (a) penal custody, (b) restorative justice programmes and (c) local authority secure accommodation. | | (259559) | 459
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persistent young offenders were (a) arrested and (b) sentenced for a criminal offence at (i) magistrates' courts and (ii) the Crown Court in (A) the London Borough of Bexley and (B) London in each year since 1997. | | (259511) | 460
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions inquests have identified internet sites as a contributory cause of suicide in each of the last five years; and in how many such cases the suicide was committed by someone under the age of (a) 15, (b) 18, (c) 21 and (d) 25 years. | | (259491) | 461
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders re-offended within (a) six months, (b) one year, (c) two years and (c) three years of release from a custodial sentence in each of the last five years. | | (259616) | 462
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's report, Re-offending of adults: new measures of re-offending 2000-05, how many offenders have had multiple offender entries in each of the last five years. | | (259617) | 463
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's report, Re-offending of adults: new measures of re-offending 2000-05, how many individual offenders entered the cohort and committed a further offence and were discharged from prison or commenced a community sentence within the same quarter in each of the last five years. | | (259618) | 464
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) consultants and (b) other external staff were engaged to develop and maintain his Department's Youtube video channel. | | (259767) | 465
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent on video recording equipment for the purposes of providing content for his Department's Youtube video channel. | | (259768) | 466
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff in each pay grade work on his Department's Youtube video channel. | | (259769) | 467
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff work on (a) maintaining and (b) supplying content for his Department's Youtube video channel. | | (259770) | 468
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has paid to website designers for the design of its Youtube video channel. | | (259771) | 469
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost was of producing each video available for the Department's Youtube video channel. | | (259772) | 470
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform on (a) agency and (b) temporary staff in each financial year since its inception. | | (259773) | 471
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent by the National Offender Management Service on (a) agency and (b) temporary staff in each financial year since its inception. | | (259774) | 472
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much expenditure has been incurred by (a) prison governors and (b) his Department making subsistence payments to offenders on end-of-custody licence. | | (259775) | 473
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has received reports of the recent incident that took place at HM Prison Garth where a female visitor was locked in a visiting room for four hours. | | (258907) | 474
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will investigage the recent incident that took place at HM Prison Garth where a female visitor was locked in a visiting room for four hours. | | (258908) | 475
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259820) | 476
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259821) | 477
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259822) | 478
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259823) | 479
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259849) | 480
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 2 February 2009, Official Report, column 917W, on legal advice and assistance: Travelling people, in which planning inquiries the Legal Services Commission funded representation for Travellers through its exceptional funding scheme in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09; and what the case reference number was for each such inquiry. | | (259577) | 481
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how long on average it took to fill a staff vacancy at (a) prisons in England and Wales and (b) HM Prison Winchester in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (258845) | 482
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2009, Official Report, column 2094W, on prison accommodation, what the average period of time for which prisoners were detained in Winchester Prison was in each of the last three years; and how many prisoners detained in the prison had a registered home within 50 miles of the prison in each such year. | | (258912) | 483
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2009, Official Report, column 1332W, on dangerous dogs: convictions, how many of the offences for which persons were found guilty fell under (a) section 1 and (b) section 3 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. | | (259663) | 484
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for acts of assistance relating to housing the Legal Services Commission (LSC) received in each of the last five years; and what percentage of the total number of requests to the LSC relating to housing each figure represents. | | (259677) | 485
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for legal aid the Legal Services Commission received from firms working on behalf of persons under 16 in each year since 1997; and how many were accepted in each such year. | | (259678) | 486
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259441) | 487
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259572) | 488
| Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 his Department has received from the Howard League for Penal Reform in the last 12 months; in respect of how many a substantive response has not been provided to date; what the date of the oldest such request is; and if he will make a statement. | | (259363) | 489
N | Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many statutory instruments were made and not laid before Parliament in each year since 1997. | | (259025) | Questions to the Leader of the House 490
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Leader of the House, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in her Office has selected for display in a private office. | | (259450) | 491
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Leader of the House, how many public consultations her Office has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259688) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 492
| Dr William McCrea (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the property crime rate in Northern Ireland was in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) the last four months of 2008. | | (259412) | 493
| Dr William McCrea (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the violent crime rate in Northern Ireland was in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) the last four months of 2008. | | (259413) | 494
| Dr William McCrea (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the property crime rate in South Antrim constituency was in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) the last four months of 2008. | | (259414) | 495
| Dr William McCrea (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the violent crime rate in the South Area of Northern Ireland was in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) the last four months of 2008. | | (259415) | 496
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259824) | 497
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259825) | 498
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259826) | 499
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259827) | 500
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259848) | 501
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259435) | 502
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259695) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 503
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many people have undertaken training to NVQ skills level (a) one and (b) two as part of the construction project on the Olympic Park. | | (259331) | 504
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many people over the age of 21 defined by the Government Olympic Executive as local have undertaken training placements as part of the Olympic construction process. | | (259332) | 505
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, if she will include reduction of air pollution as an objective for the Olympic legacy. | | (259333) | 506
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what the monetary value was of contracts awarded to organisations in each region through the CompeteFor website at the latest date for whch figures are available. | | (259334) | 507
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, if she will make it her policy to require construction projects for the London 2012 Olympics to be zero carbon. | | (259399) | 508
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, for how long the £326 million grant from the Olympics Contingency Fund will enable construction of the athletes village to continue. | | (258903) | 509
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, whether she has made an assessment of UK public opinion on London 2012's contribution to the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony; and if she will make a statement. | | (258904) | 510
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, when Landlease's exclusivity agreement to build the athletes village expires. | | (258905) | 511
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, by what process the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games plans to design the opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics; and if she will make a statement. | | (258906) | 512
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2009, Official Report, column 2273W, on Olympic Games 2012: construction, whether the Olympics Delivery Authority predicted the cost implications for the velopark budget of moving the velodrome. | | (259001) | Questions to the Prime Minister 513
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Prime Minister, which foreign heads of state and government have signified their intention (a) to attend and (b) not to attend the G20 summit in April 2009. | | (259368) | 514
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 22 July 2008, Official Report, columns 111-2WS, on the national security strategy, what progress has been made on the establishment of a joint committee on the national security strategy; and if he will make a statement. | | (258838) | 515
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 22 July 2008, Official Report, columns 111-2WS, on the national security strategy, whether any changes will be made to the Intelligence Services Act 1994 in relation to (a) the Intelligence and Security Committee, (b) the Defence Select Committee and (c) the Foreign Affairs Select Committee following the establishment of a joint committee on the national security strategy. | | (258840) | 516
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Prime Minister, whether any electronic surveillance of hon. Members by (a) the police and (b) the intelligence and security services falling within the terms of the Wilson doctrine has taken place in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (259033) | 517
| John Mason (Glasgow East): To ask the Prime Minister, how many Ministerial residences have been (a) sold and (b) identified for sale since May 2005; and what steps the Government has taken to identify the notional rental value of each property. | | (259336) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 518
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259836) | 519
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259837) | 520
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259838) | 521
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259839) | 522
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259845) | 523
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259431) | 524
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259697) | Questions to the Solicitor General 525
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Solicitor General, how many cases of parental neglect have been brough by the Crown Prosecution Service in (a) England and (b) Northamptonshire in the last three years for which figures are available. | | (258913) | 526
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Solicitor General, whether the Law Officers' Departments use WPA2 encryption protocol on all their wireless networks. | | (259709) | 527
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Solicitor General, what auditing the Law Officers' Departments undertake to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259710) | 528
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Solicitor General, if she will place in the Library a copy of the Law Officers' Departments IT security hierarchy. | | (259711) | 529
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Solicitor General, what scanning for vulnerabilities the Law Officers' Departments conduct of each of their IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259712) | 530
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Solicitor General, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in the Law Officers' Departments has selected for display in a private office. | | (259449) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 531
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, under what circumstances the owner of a vehicle may be held liable for a payment to release a wheel clamp where the vehicle in question had been parked by a person other than the owner. | | (259346) | 532
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many stretch limousines the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has registered in each year since 1997. | | (259347) | 533
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many stretch limousines have been registered following import from the United States in each year since 1997. | | (259348) | 534
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what regulations apply to the carriage of passengers in stretch limousines; and if he will make a statement. | | (259349) | 535
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what period of time elapses before his Department's electronic records are (a) archived and (b) destroyed; and what percentage of such records created in (i) 2007 and (ii) 2008 have been destroyed. | | (259353) | 536
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date his Department's policy on the management of its electronic records took effect; and on what dates it has been reviewed. | | (259354) | 537
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's policy on the management of electronic records. | | (259355) | 538
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward proposals to amend reform to the Chicago Convention to allow the market pricing of airport departure slots. | | (259390) | 539
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to encourage the provision of a direct high-speed rail service from London to Amsterdam to coincide with the completion of the Brussels-Amsterdam high-speed line. | | (259392) | 540
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to introduce additional rolling stock on the Newport-Hereford line to reduce passenger overcrowding. | | (259393) | 541
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Statement of 12 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1531-4W, on new trains (investments), by what date he expects the last of the 1,400 new carriages announced to be in service. | | (259610) | 542
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made for the purposes of policy formulation of the efficacy of the prohibition of wheel clamping on private land in Scotland. | | (259756) | 543
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps are being taken to increase the co-ordination of activity between the Highways Agency and (a) the Mersey Partnership, (b) Merseytravel and (c) local authorities in order to deliver greater integration and cost-efficiency. | | (259478) | 544
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many low floor wheelchair accessible buses are used on services funded by Merseytravel in (a) Merseyside and (b) Sefton (i) in total and (ii) as a proportion of the size of the fleet. | | (259479) | 545
| Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the powers available to him under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2006 in respect of proposed development sites. | | (259324) | 546
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many discrete views were expressed in responses to the Adding capacity at Heathrow Airport consultation, broken down by (a) the code allocated to the view under the code frame used by Detica and (b) the response type in which the view was expressed. | | (259110) | 547
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many responses to the Adding capacity at Heathrow Airport consultation were received in the form of (a) Justine Greening Petition and (b) Justine Greening your views of Heathrow Postcards, as categorised by Detica under its code frame; and how many of these responses included free-text. | | (259111) | 548
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of his meetings with (a) BAA on 15 October 2008, (b) British Airways on 20 October 2008 and (c) Virgin on 23 October 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (259113) | 549
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of his officials' meetings with (a) BAA on 26 August 2008, (b) BAA on 3 September 2008, (c) BAA on 18 September 2008, (d) BAA on 3 October 2008, (e) the Confederation of British Industry on 23 October 2008, (f) BAA on 6 November 2008, (g) the Airport Operators Association on 7 November 2008, (h) BAA on 14 November 2008 and (i) BAA on 24 November 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (259114) | 550
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of his predecessor's meetings with (a) BAA on 23 July 2008 and (b) BAA on 4 September 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (259115) | 551
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259828) | 552
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259829) | 553
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259830) | 554
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259831) | 555
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259847) | 556
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding the Government has provided to the rail industry in each of the last 12 years. | | (259590) | 557
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) research and (b) trialling his Department has conducted on the provision of (i) hydrogen supply and (ii) electric charge points networks for road vehicles powered by hydrogen and electricity in the last five years; and what (A) funding and (B) other resources his Department has provided for (1) local authorities and (2) regional development agencies to create such networks in that period. | | (259591) | 558
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) customer case and (b) other files containing personal information have been lost by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (259391) | 559
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259437) | 560
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259692) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 561
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259808) | 562
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259809) | 563
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259810) | 564
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259811) | 565
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259852) | 566
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259433) | 567
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many public consultations his Department has carried out in the last 12 months; for how long each consultation was open; how many responses were received to each consultation; and what the cost was of conducting each consultation. | | (259730) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 568
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, in which planning cases relating to Travellers the Equality and Human Rights Commission has made an intervention since it was established. | | (259426) | 569
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what (a) funding and (b) other resources the Government Equalities Office has provided to each Regional Equality and Diversity Partnership in the last 12 months. | | (259427) | 570
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how much funding the Equality and Human Rights Commission has given to the British Humanist Association since the Commission's inception; and for what purposes. | | (259520) | 571
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what the (a) timetable and (b) remit of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's inquiry into human rights in Britain is. | | (259530) | 572
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, when she expects the Expert Equality Taskforce to report; what the membership of the taskforce is; and what declarations of political activity have been made by each member. | | (259533) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 573
| Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many absent parents who are self-employed were subject to court action by the Child Support Agency in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and what percentage of such cases resulted in (a) a court order requiring payments to be made to the parent with care and (b) such payments being made. | | (259532) | 574
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are eligible for pension credit; and what estimate he has made of the number of additional people who would become eligible if the tariff income were set according to the Bank of England base rate. | | (259601) | 575
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job vacancies were notified to the Jobcentre Plus branch which serves residents of the London Borough of Bexley in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008. | | (259510) | 576
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the percentage of pensioners resident in (a) the London Borough of Bexley and (b) London living in poverty. | | (259512) | 577
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to review the provision of contribution-based out of work benefits; and if he will make a statement. | | (259119) | 578
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to maintain specialist expertise in the (a) procurement and (b) delivery of specialist disability employment services during the current consultation exercise. | | (259120) | 579
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what links the new specialist disability employment programme will have with (a) local health and social care services, (b) further education colleges and (c) Valuing People initiatives. | | (259121) | 580
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what equality impact assessment has been undertaken on the commissioning of a specialist disability employment programme; what risks have been identified in the procurement process; and if he will make a statement. | | (259122) | 581
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff currently working in his Department are on secondment from EDS; and what roles and responsibilities they have. | | (259123) | 582
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have (a) claimed and (b) received disability living allowance as a result of having a child with a behavioural problem in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement. | | (259482) | 583
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. | | (259832) | 584
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what auditing his Department undertakes to ensure that IT security policies are being followed; and on how many occasions (a) IT security policies have been breached by employees and (b) a member of staff has been sanctioned for a breach of such policies in the last 12 months. | | (259833) | 585
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy. | | (259834) | 586
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months. | | (259835) | 587
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy. | | (259846) | 588
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many nationals of each non-UK EU member state were in receipt of each rate of disability living allowance for the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (259650) | 589
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions the Health and Safety Executive has had with (a) the operators of the pipelines under the site, (b) OIKOS, (c) Calor Gas and (d) the Emergency Planning Authority on health and safety issues arising from the proposed extension to Roscommon Way, Canvey Island. | | (259746) | 590
| Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have made a late claim for (a) widowed parents allowance and (b) bereavement allowance in each of the last five years; how many people claiming bereavement allowance have been refused on the grounds that the claim was submitted after more than 12 months from the death of their partner in the last five years; and what estimate he has made of the proportion of those eligible for bereavement benefits to have claimed them in the last five years. | | (259765) | 591
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. | | (259448) | 592
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. | | (259694) | 593
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the amount paid by his Department in benefits in relation to children diagnosed with foetal anti-convulsant syndrome caused by mothers receiving sodium valproate treatment during pregnancy in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (259373) | 594
N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of recipients of the Christmas bonus received their additional £60 by the end of January; how many of the remaining payments he estimates will have been paid by (a) the end of February and (b) the end of March; and if he will make a statement. | | (259118) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 595
| Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the most recent five-year cancer survival rates are in each primary care trust. | | [Transferred] (259386) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 596
N | Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to maintain and increase biodiversity. | | [Question Unstarred] (258777) | 597
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, against how many people orders have been made under section 2 of the Dogs Act 1871 in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (259534) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 598
| Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the most recent occasion was on which a Government Minister visited the territory of St Helena; and when a ministerial visit will next take place. | | [Transferred] (259409) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 599
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many persons arrested were later released on police bail of (a) less than three months, (b) three to six months, (c) six to nine months, (d) nine to 12 months and (e) more than 12 months in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | [Transferred] (259470) | 600
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many persons were (a) arrested, (b) arrested and later released on police bail and (c) arrested but not charged in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | [Transferred] (259471) | 601
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many persons arrested and later released on police bail sought a court review of their bail conditions in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07; and how many such bail conditions were subsequently (i) varied and (ii) rescinded in each of those years. | | [Transferred] (259472) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 602
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to inform the public about work being undertaken by convicted criminals serving community service orders. | | [Transferred] (259561) | 603
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what research his Department has conducted into provision for interviews with (a) witnesses and (b) vulnerable witnesses since 2002. | | [Transferred] (259563) | Questions to the Solicitor General 604
N | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Solicitor General, how many successful prosecutions have been brought for offences of (a) theft and (b) burglary from shops in the last three months. | | [Question Unstarred] (258812) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 605
| Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) each region of England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland receive both working tax credit and housing benefit. | | [Transferred] (259525) | 606
| Stephen Hesford (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people Jobcentre Plus North West has assisted into full-time employment for a period of 12 months or more in each of the last three years. | | [Transferred] (259612) |
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