Order Book Part 1

House of Commons

Session 2008 - 09
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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 20 April 2009

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

Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 20 April 2009
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 20 April 2009

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 20 April of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 20 April of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 20 April see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

1
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2009, Official Report, column 1186W, on WPP, what matters were discussed at the meeting.

(269033)

2
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what communications (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department received from (i) Finsbury and (ii) Roland Rudd in connection with the sale of the London Evening Standard to Alexander Lebedev before the decision was taken on whether to issue an intervention notice under the Enterprise Act 2002.

(269052)

3
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether the Secretary of State absented himself from the decision on whether to issue an intervention notice under the Enterprise Act 2002 in the case of the proposed sale of the London Evening Standard to Alexander Lebedev.

(269053)

4
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington of 3 December 2007, Official Report, column 895W, on departmental carbon emissions, whether his Department has adopted the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

(269274)

5
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Answer of 8 July 2002, Official Report, columns 652-4W, on export licences, whether licences are still being granted for the export to the US of components for F-16 aircraft and Apache helicopters for possible onward export to Israel; and if he will make a statement.

(269741)

6
Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2009, Official Report, column 523W, on the Corporate Governance Unit, when his Department's Corporate Law and Governance Directorate was established; what the remit of the Directorate is; what the cost to the public purse has been of the Directorate in each year of its operation; what the job title is of each member of staff of the Directorate; and which Ministers other than the Secretary of State have had responsibility for the Directorate since its establishment.

(268956)

7
Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the cost to his Department was of the UK Trade and Investment Take it to the World programme on the latest date for which figures are available.

(269026)

8
N Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the effect of the recession on the (a) spending plans, (b) income and (c) capital receipts of the South West of England Regional Development Agency of the recession.

(268640)

9
N Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what reductions in (a) capital and (b) resource funding for the South West of England Regional Development Agency his Department has made in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

(268641)

10
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many post office branches were (a) opened and (b) closed in each year since 1979; and if he will make a statement.

(269164)

11
N Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to respond to the letter from the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire of 11 December 2008 on support for small businesses.

(268706)

12
N Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to respond to the letter from the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire of 14 January 2009 on the difficulties faced by a constituent's business.

(268707)

13
N Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when the Economic and Business Minister plans to respond to the letter from the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire of 25 November 2008 on the downturn in the construction industry.

(268708)

14
N Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when the Minister for Small Businesses plans to respond to the letter from the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire of 15 January 2009 on the Government's small business loan scheme.

(268709)

15
N Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many times Ministers in his Department have met representatives of the Post Bank Coalition in the last six months.

(269074)

16
N Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what post office services are operated with the Bank of Ireland.

(269075)

17
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the monetary value of trade between Kenya and the UK was in 2008.

(269481)

18
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the monetary value of trade between the UK and Zimbabwe was in the last five years.

(269490)

19
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will hold an inquiry into the actions of Visteon UK and Ford UK to establish responsibility for pension and redundancy payments for employees made redundant by each company; and if he will make a statement.

(269820)

20
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to reply to the letter of 20 January 2009 from the hon. Member for Northavon, sent on behalf of Mr R Woolley of Yate, on the small business finance scheme.

(269020)

21
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to reply to the letter of 16 January 2009 from the hon. Member for Northavon, sent on behalf of Mr C Simpson of Pucklechurch, on Royal Mail.

(269021)

22
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to reply to the letter of 19 January 2009 from the hon. Member for Northavon sent on behalf of Mr I Hill of Wick on consumer protection.

(269023)

23
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department and its predecessor in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269554)

24
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269571)

25
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department and its predecessor was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269586)

26
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department and its predecessor in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269604)

27
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269627)

28
N Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 25 February 2009 with regard to a constituent; and what the reason is for the time taken to reply.

(269037)

29
N Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 24 February 2009 with regard to a constituent; and what the reason is for the time taken to reply.

(269038)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

30
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has discussed with the Isle of Man government the provision of a Treasury loan secured against the assets of Kaupthing, Singer and Friedlander frozen by the Government in order to enable UK depositors in Kaupthing, Singer and Friedlander (Isle of Man) to access their deposited funds.

(269083)

31
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people whose personal data was lost by HM Revenue and Customs in 2007 who have subsequently been affected by identity theft.

(269334)

32
N Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2008, Official Report, column 304W, on capital gains tax, if he will estimate the revenue implications of taxing capital gains at the same marginal rates as income tax, with indexation from April 2009 for the fiscal years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12; and if he will make a statement.

(269032)

33
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the proportion of income tax relief on pension contributions which will accrue to (a) 45 per cent. taxpayers and (b) 40 per cent. taxpayers in 2011-12; and if he will make a statement.

(269041)

34
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of the income tax exemption of pension contributions as a result of the introduction of the 45 per cent. tax rate from 2011-12 in the first 12 months of operation; and if he will make a statement.

(269042)

35
N Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish an update to HM Revenue and Customs' tax table 2.5 based on the 2006-07 Survey of Personal Incomes; and if he will make a statement.

(269043)

36
N Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of exempting from capital gains tax business owners who sell their businesses upon retirement up to the value of (a) £100,000, (b) £200,000, (c) £300,000, (d) £400,000, (e) £500,000 and (f) £1,000,000 in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12.

(269044)

37
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the merits of providing assistance to investors in the Presbyterian Mutual Society in Northern Ireland.

(268725)

38
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many smaller charities became eligible for the Gift Aid scheme following the 2008 Budget.

(268977)

39
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for how long his Department has followed the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

(269279)

40
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to reintroduce historic accounting systems for Government expenditure; and if he will make a statement.

(269330)

41
N Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on how many occasions Sir Fred Goodwin has been invited to 11 Downing Street for (a) official social engagements and (b) meetings in each of the last five years.

(268747)

42
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2009, Official Report, column 340W, on the Barnett formula, whether he has set a date for the publication of his Department's factual paper on the Barnett formula.

(269709)

43
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Government's response to the report of the Parliamentary Ombudsman's inquiry into the potential regulation of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, Cm 7538, from which (a) firms, (b) organisations and (c) individuals the Government sought actuarial advice when preparing its response.

(269151)

44
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many persons HM Revenue and Customs identified as having made full repayment of a student loan in each of the last three years.

(269124)

45
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what measures are in place for HM Revenue and Customs to notify the Student Loans Company of full repayment of a student loan.

(269132)

46
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how long on average HM Revenue and Customs took to inform the Student Loans Company that a graduate had paid back the full amount of a student loan in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269133)

47
N Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the level of additional taxation on (a) electricity, (b) natural gas, (c) oil, (d) liquefied petroleum gas which would be equivalent to the required subsidy for biomass to meet the UK renewables energy target in 2020.

(268801)

48
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter of 26 January 2009 from the hon. Member for Northavon, sent on behalf of Mr D Powell of Iron Acton, on transfer of tax-free allowances.

(269017)

49
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter of 21 January 2009 from the hon. Member for Northavon, sent on behalf of Mr A Kybert of Tate, on banks' support for small businesses.

(269018)

50
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the operation of the 30-hour threshold for working tax credit eligibility for childless households of working age.

(269262)

51
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's latest estimate is of the number and proportion of working age people (a) in each age group and (b) in total without a bank account in the UK; and if he will make a statement.

(269348)

52
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269545)

53
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269560)

54
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269591)

55
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269614)

56
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269638)

57
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance the Office of Government Commerce's Centre of Expertise in Sustainable Procurement has provided on environmental criteria for government ICT procurement; and if he will make a statement.

(269760)

58
N Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 24 February 2009 with regard to a constituent, reference 3-89302009; and what the reason is for the time taken to reply.

(269035)

59
Sir George Young (North West Hampshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Financial Secretary to the Treasury plans to reply to the letter of 15 October 2008 from the right hon. Member for North West Hampshire, on Icesave, and to the letters of reminder sent on 24 November 2008, 30 January 2009 and 26 February 2009.

(269315)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families

60
N Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the expenditure which will be incurred as a result of the (a) delay in introducing ContactPoint and (b) the changes to data entry and shielding in the ContactPoint system.

(268723)

61
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much on average his Department has spent on each pupil between 16 and 19 years in each year since 2000; and if he will make a statement.

(269715)

62
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the projected learner numbers are for those between 16 and 19 years in sixth form education in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269716)

63
N Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils in West Chelmsford constituency have been identified as gifted and talented.

(269215)

64
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department is taking to tackle childhood obesity; what proportion of school-age children he estimates are (a) overweight and (b) obese; and if he will make a statement.

(269297)

65
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on school truancy rates of his Department's initiatives to reduce truancy; and if he will make a statement.

(269298)

66
N Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what sixth form funding allocation was made for each local education authority by the Learning and Skills Council on (a) 2 March and (b) at the end of March; and if he will make a statement.

(269311)

67
N Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will reverse the reductions announced in overall funding levels for the 2009-10 sixth form allocations; and if he will make a statement.

(269312)

68
N Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the reasons are for the reductions in 2009-10 sixth form funding allocations made by the Learning and Skills Council; and if he will make a statement.

(269313)

69
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington, of 22 April 2008, Official Report, columns 2030-1W, on departmental carbon emissions, if he will make it his policy for his Department to adopt the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

(269284)

70
N Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which courses leading to vocational qualifications are available to 14 and 15 year olds in (a) schools and (b) further education colleges.

(269065)

71
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what remuneration he expects Dr Ken Boston to have received from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority between the date of his suspension and 11 June 2009.

(269648)

72
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) inquiry into issues raised by the Sutherland Report, as referred to in the QCA statement of 1 April 2009.

(269649)

73
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of students eligible to receive the education maintenance allowance who have waited (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four and (e) five months or more to receive a payment since September 2008.

(269650)

74
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of students who have experienced a delay in the payment of education maintenance allowance since September 2008.

(269651)

75
N Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what change in allocations for 16 to 18 year learners there was between the provisional and final funding figures sent to schools and colleges.

(269804)

76
N Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether the final 16 to 18 learner funding allocations cover (a) all students enrolled in schools and sixth form colleges and (b) all students predicted to enrol for the 2009-10 academic year.

(269805)

77
N Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when the Learning and Skills Council notified schools and colleges of their provisional 16 to 18 learner funding allocation.

(269806)

78
N Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, for what reasons the final 16 to 18 learner funding allocation issued to schools and colleges varied from the provisional allocation issued in early March.

(269807)

79
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many parents have been fined as a result of their children not attending school in (a) Southampton, (b) Test Valley borough and (c) the ceremonial county of Hampshire for each of the last five years.

(269790)

80
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effect of the extension of the compulsory age of participation in education or training on his responsibilities in respect of ensuring a safe environment for all young people; and what (a) steps he plans to take and (b) resources he plans to allocate to (i) establish and (ii) regulate such an environment.

(269777)

81
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he plans to publish the assessment of the impact of the commercial world on children's wellbeing referred to in the Byron Review Action Plan.

(268941)

82
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recommendations the Training and Development Agency has made to his Department on the ICT skills tests for new teachers.

(268942)

83
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what progress he has made on the proposal for an e-safety week announced in the Byron Review Action Plan; and when he expects it to take place.

(268943)

84
N Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effect of the reduction in funding for secondary schools in Milton Keynes announced for 2009-10 by the Learning and Skills Council.

(268958)

85
N Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, for what reasons the Learning and Skills Council replaced the final funding allocation sent to schools in Milton Keynes on 3 March 2009 with a final funding statement on 31 March 2009; what assessment he has made of the effect of this on schools' budgetary planning; and if he will make a statement.

(268960)

86
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how the £30 million allocated to the future expansion of the Family Nurse Partnership under the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 will be allocated to each area; whether the evaluation of the Family Nurse Partnership pilots has been completed; in which areas the pilots are being held; and to which other areas he plans to extend the pilot scheme.

(269532)

87
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of applicants for the initial teacher training course in (a) mathematics, (b) English, (c) modern languages, (d) physics, (e) chemistry, (f) history, (g) primary teaching and (h) ICT were successful in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement.

(268980)

88
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of applicants for the TeachFirst programme were successful in each year since its inception.

(268981)

89
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much capital funding was allocated to schools in Somerset in each year from 1988-89 to 2008-09; and if he will make a statement.

(269165)

90
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of school kitchens which were (a) opened and (b) closed in Somerset in each year from 1988-89 to 2008-09.

(269180)

91
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which members of his Ministerial team were subject to a Criminal Records Bureau check upon appointment; and if he will make a statement.

(269100)

92
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many people have enrolled on a social work degree course in each year since 2003.

(269664)

93
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many people have graduated with a degree in social work in each year since 2003.

(269665)

94
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many social work graduates have entered the social work profession in each year since 2003.

(269666)

95
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of special schools assessed as inadequate by Ofsted at their most recent inspection are in each decile of area deprivation.

(269667)

96
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of independent special schools in the (a) top and (b) bottom decile of area deprivation as determined by the income deprivation affecting children index were judged to be (i) outstanding, (ii) good, (iii) adequate and (iv) inadequate in their most recent Ofsted inspection.

(269668)

97
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2009, Official Report, column 1336W, on children: databases, which companies bid for his Department's ContactPoint contract.

(269794)

98
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of independent special schools judged as (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) adequate and (d) inadequate at their last Ofsted inspection are in each decile of area deprivation.

(269795)

99
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of maintained and non-maintained special schools judged as (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) adequate and (d) inadequate at their last Ofsted inspection are in each decile of area deprivation.

(269796)

100
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the amount his Department paid to Sir Roger Singleton for his services as chief adviser on the safety of children in respect of the financial year 2008-09.

(269797)

101
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 2008.

(269798)

102
N Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department is taking to assess different options for funding the early years entitlement.

(268984)

103
Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the processes by which nurseries had recovered the full cost of providing early years childcare places to three and four year olds in the last 12 months.

(269198)

104
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he plans to reply to the letter of 28 January 2009 from the hon. Member for Northavon, sent on behalf of Dr G Bailey of Yate, on Government support for childcare provision.

(269022)

105
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department and its predecessor in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269553)

106
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269572)

107
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department and its predecessor was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269585)

108
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department and its predecessor in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269605)

109
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269628)

Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

110
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many jobs in the manufacturing sector there were in (a) West Chelmsford constituency, (b) Essex and (c) England in each of the last 10 years.

(269093)

111
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when he next expects a capability review of (a) Ofgem and (b) the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to be undertaken.

(269277)

112
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for how long the Cabinet Office has followed the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

(269278)

113
N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what assessment he has made of the implications of the findings of the Charity Commission in its recent report on Age Concern for his Department's (a) policies affecting and (b) funding channelled through the charity sector.

(268718)

114
N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what funding his Department has (a) allocated to and (b) channelled through Age Concern in each of the last three years; for what purposes such spending has been incurred; and what steps his Department takes to monitor the value for money achieved from such spending.

(268719)

115
N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of financial controls in those charitable organisations through which his Department channels funding.

(268720)

116
N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will take steps to increase the level of monitoring undertaken by the Charity Commission of the use by charitable organisations of the donations which they receive.

(268721)

117
N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what assessment he has made of the Charity Commission's regulatory case report on Age Concern England and its Heyday membership scheme; and what reports he has received of the Charity Commission's investigation into the Green Crescent Charity in Stockport.

(268948)

118
N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will bring forward proposals to improve standards of governance in charitable organisations.

(268949)

119
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of the number and proportion of the working population which are (a) legal and (b) illegal migrants.

(269154)

120
N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people resident in Bournemouth were unemployed in each of the last 10 years.

(269063)

121
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) men and (b) women in each age group have been diagnosed with skin cancer in each of the last 10 years.

(269789)

122
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which (a) positions and (b) paybands within the Home Civil Service have terms and conditions of employment which stipulate that postholders must not undertake external paid employment in their own time; what restrictions apply in each case; and for what reasons such restrictions apply.

[R] (268971)

123
N Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what account the figures on unemployment produced by the Office for National Statistics take of individuals participating in New Deal schemes operated by the Department for Work and Pensions.

(268722)

124
N Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many children died in house fires in each year since 2001.

(269307)

125
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many charities have (a) opened and (b) closed in each (i) year since 2004 and (ii) month since January 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(269357)

126
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many new jobs were created in the third sector in (a) each year since 2004 and (b) each month since January 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(269358)

127
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many jobs there were in the third sector in each (a) year since 2004 and (b) month since January 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(269359)

128
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269541)

129
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269558)

130
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269578)

131
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269601)

132
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269625)

133
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much (a) each Government department and (b) central Government has spent on communications in each (i) year since 2004 and (ii) month since January 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(269761)

134
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what (a) each Government department and (b) central Government planned communications expenditure is over the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

(269762)

135
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Green ICT Scoreboard; and if he will make a statement.

(269763)

136
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many civil servants were employed by (a) each Government department and (b) central Government on government communications in each (i) year since 2004 and (ii) month since January 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(269765)

Questions to the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners

137
N Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, how many acres of agricultural land were sold by the Church Commissioners in each year from 2000 to 2008.

(268749)

138
N Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, how many people the Church Commissioners employ directly; and at what annual salary cost.

(268804)

139
N Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, how much the Church Commissioners received on average per acre of agricultural land they sold in each year since 2000.

(268809)

140
N Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what proposed property development schemes the Church Commissioners are participating in.

(268810)

141
N Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what the Church Commissioners' own administration costs were in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007.

(268811)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

142
Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment (a) her Department and (b) the Audit Commission have made of the medium-term effects on local authorities of the potential losses caused by the collapse of Icelandic banks.

(269680)

143
Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what capitalisation directions to local authorities have been issued by her Department for back pay for equal pay claims to date; and for what value in each case.

(269681)

144
Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what capitalisation directions to local authorities have been issued by her Department for pension contributions and redundancy costs; and for what value in each case.

(269682)

145
Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons (a) equal pay, (b) back pay, (c) pension contributions and (d) redundancy costs (i) can be treated as capital for the purposes of capitalisation directions and (ii) cannot be treated as capital for singular losses caused by the collapse of Icelandic banks.

(269683)

146
Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her Department's policy is on the capitalisation of investment losses incurred by local authorities in Icelandic banks when the regulations deferring the impact of impairment cease to have effect in 2010; and if she will make a statement.

(269684)

147
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for how long her Department has followed the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

(269287)

148
N Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking on the provision of sites for Travellers in those districts adjoining Sevenoaks District Council.

(269751)

149
N Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what powers local authorities have to exclude gardens from brownfield designation within their local development framework.

(269501)

150
N Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many second homes there were in each council tax band in each region in England in each year from 1997 to 2008.

(269502)

151
N Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many chargeable dwellings in each council tax band there were in each region in each year from 1997 to 2008.

(269503)

152
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what public funding has been provided for the construction of housing in the last 12 months.

(269723)

153
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new units of social housing have been built in (a) Stafford constituency, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in the last 12 months.

(269725)

154
N John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her estimate is of the number of fires prevented in each (a) region and (b) fire authority area in the most recent year for which figures are available.

(268797)

155
N Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance the Tenant Services Authority gives to housing associations in respect of the affordability to tenants of rent increases.

(269061)

156
N Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which (a) employment and (b) classes of employment are incompatible with source as a councillor in a local authority where the authority is or, is deemed to be, the employer.

(269089)

157
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2009, Official Report, column 79W, on the Tenant Services Authority, how many people attended each regional National Conversation event for tenants.

(269071)

158
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2009, Official Report, column 79W, on the Tenant Services Authority, how many invitations were sent for each National Conversation event for landlords; and how many people attended each event.

(269072)

159
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of first-time home buyers there were in each year between 1987 and 1996.

(269793)

160
N Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's announcement of 31 March 2009 on business rates, what estimate she has made of the likely take-up rate of the deferred business rate scheme.

(268888)

161
N Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's announcement of 31 March 2009 on business rates, what the estimated cost to the Exchequer will be of the proposed changes.

(268889)

162
N Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's announcement of 31 March 2009 on business rates, whether an impact assessment of the proposals has been prepared.

(268890)

163
N Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's announcement of 31 March 2009 on business rates, what funding will be provided to local authorities to cover the costs of rebilling.

(268891)

164
N Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many residential dwellings were vacant in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each of the last five years.

(268429)

165
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 973-4W, on housing: crime prevention, for what reasons there are no plans to include measures to make buildings more resistant to crime in the next revision of the Building Regulations.

(269480)

166
N Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households in each local authority area have received assistance under her Department's mortgage rescue scheme in circumstances where a housing association has purchased a property that would otherwise have been repossessed; and if she will make a statement.

(269068)

167
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of her Department in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

(269549)

168
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from her Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if she will make a statement.

(269573)

169
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of her Department was in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

(269584)

170
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of her Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if she will make a statement.

(269606)

171
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of her Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.

(269629)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

172
N Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding his Department and its agencies provided for the upkeep of (a) Grade I, (b) Grade II and (c) Grade III listed buildings in (i) West Chelmsford constituency, (ii) Essex and (iii) England in the last five years.

(269216)

173
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for how long his Department has followed the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

(269282)

174
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many swimming pools offering free swiming to over 60 year olds do so only after 9.00 am.

(268182)

175
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of over 60 year olds who have been provided with free swimming; and if he will make a statement.

(268183)

176
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many swimming pools in (a) Lancashire and (b) England are taking part in the free swimming initiatives.

(268184)

177
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many licensees have had their licence revoked for selling alcohol to an under-age person in each of the last five years.

(269254)

178
Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2009, Official Report, column 1888W, on departmental training, which Ministers have attended the Action Learning Set course; and what the cost of the course was.

(268957)

179
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what baseline has been adopted against which to measure Sport England's progress towards the target of two million people regularly participating in sport by 2012.

(269418)

180
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what baseline has been adopted against which to measure the Department's progress towards the target of two million people regularly participating in sport by 2012.

(269419)

181
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when his Department plans to respond to the proposals for a system of self-regulation of all types of online media marketing communications referred to in the Byron Review Action Plan.

(268940)

182
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269539)

183
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269574)

184
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269583)

185
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269607)

186
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a) overnight, (b) at weekends and (c) during holiday periods; and if he will make a statement.

(269620)

187
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269630)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

188
N Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department plans to reply to the letter of 3 March 2009 from the hon. Member for Billericay and the hon. Member for Norwich North requesting a meeting on the subject of nuclear test veterans.

(268985)

189
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what account his Department takes of life cycle costs in the procurement of armoured vehicles; and if he will make a statement.

(269812)

190
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armoured vehicles he expects his Department to procure in the next 10 years; what estimate he has made of the cost of such procurements of each type; and which companies have been contracted to provide such vehicles to date.

(269813)

191
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what joint UK/EU development funding has been made available to armoured vehicle manufacturers in each year since 2004; in respect of which vehicles such development funding has been provided; and what plans he has for further such funding in the next 10 years.

(269814)

192
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what joint procurement projects his Department has participated in with the European Defence Agency since 2004; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of such partnerships.

(269815)

193
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department has provided to the European Defence Agency in each year since 2004; what mechanisms are in place to (a) audit such expenditure and (b) monitor the distribution of such funds against objectives; and if he will make a statement.

(269816)

194
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of UK service personnel deployed in Afghanistan are engaged in tackling heroin production.

(269817)

195
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of each type of armoured vehicle are available to the armed forces; from which companies each type of vehicle was purchased; and what the average estimated life cycle cost of each type is as a percentage of the purchase price.

(269818)

196
N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the first A400M transport aircraft to be introduced in the Royal Air Force; and if he will make a statement.

(269062)

197
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for North Devon of 25 March 2009, Official Report, column 426, on defence: international co-operation, what steps have been taken to increase interoperability between countries (a) operating aircraft carriers and (b with naval vessels able to support carrier operations.

(269163)

198
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Air Force aircraft of each type are (a) in service, (b) in the forward air fleet and (c) fit for purpose.

(269167)

199
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the additional expenditure by his Department above its 2.5 per cent. financial planning assumption increase necessary fully to implement the recommendations of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body for 2009; and from which sources within the defence budget this funding will be drawn.

(269185)

200
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what Royal Navy assets are (a) participating and (b) planned to participate in Operation Atalanta.

(269186)

201
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the wastage rates from (a) phase 1 and (b) phase 2 training were in each year since 1997.

(269187)

202
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) target and (b) actual number of gains to trained strength for (i) officers and (ii) other ranks in each service was since 1997.

(269188)

203
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) required and (b) actual strength of each Volunteer Reserve service is.

(269189)

204
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average tour interval of each infantry battalion in the Army was in the latest period for which figures are available.

(269190)

205
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many training exercises have been conducted under the European Carrier Group Interoperability Initiative with the exclusive purpose of improving interoperability (a) between countries operating aircraft carriers and (b) between countries with naval vessels able to support carrier operations.

(269191)

206
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the UK is not participating in the Erasmus military officer training programme.

(269192)

207
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 12 January 2009, Official Report, column 16, what the evidential basis was for his statement that the UK has the largest programme under way since the end of the First World War in respect of naval construction.

(269193)

208
Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many errors in the delivery of medals to veterans his Department has recorded in each year since 2003.

(269194)

209
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with his French counterpart on the future of the A400M programme.

(268969)

210
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the delays to the A400M announced by Airbus Military.

(268970)

211
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much has been spent by his Department on upgrading housing for armed forces personnel in each year since 2002.

(269661)

212
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what rules govern serving members of the armed forces talking to the media.

(269712)

213
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what training on improvised explosive devices is provided to armed forces personnel assigned to duties in Afghanistan before deployment; what percentage of infantry personnel received such training before deployment in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

(268973)

214
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel have been (a) seriously and (b) very seriously (i) injured and (ii) wounded by improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan in each year since 2001.

(268974)

215
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what tasks private contractors are undertaking in Afghanistan on behalf of his Department.

(268975)

216
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2009, Official Report, columns 563-4W, on armed forces: housing, how many service family accommodation units are maintained by Modern Housing Solutions in each (a) region and (b) area.

(269027)

217
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the percentage shortfall of required spares is for each helicopter type in the (a) Army Air Corps, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air Force.

(269271)

218
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on private medical contractors in each of the last five years.

(269272)

219
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which companies of 20 Parachute Battalion of the Kenyan army have received training from the British Army since 2005.

(269669)

220
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether (a) public-private partnership and (b) private finance initiative arrangements may be put in place under the AWE Aldermaston management contract.

(269710)

221
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the effects of reductions in the value of sterling on the estimated costs of the Trident replacement programme.

(269711)

222
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what overseas military exercises (a) the armed forces have undertaken in each year since 2003 and (b) have been cancelled in each year since 2003; and what the reason for cancellation was in each such case.

(269726)

223
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) basic and (b) specialist military parachuting courses have been suspended as a result of aircraft unavailability in the last 12 months.

(269808)

224
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many untrained military parachutists there are in 16 Air Assault Brigade.

(269809)

225
N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 647, on the warship construction programme, what the tonnage of the warship construction programme will be.

(268864)

226
N Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 31 March 2009, Official Report, column 53W, on Armed Forces Pay Review Body, from which budgets he plans to allocate the funding for that component of the pay award which is in excess of his Department's planning assumptions of 2.5 per cent. referred to at paragraph 2.13 of the 2009 Report of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body.

(268939)

227
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which (a) posts and (b) categories of post in public service are incompatible with service in the Reserve Forces.

[R] (268972)

228
Clare Short (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his latest estimate is of the incidence of mental illness among serving soldiers in each age group.

(269657)

229
Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department plans to take to assist veterans to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy.

(269012)

230
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269540)

231
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269575)

232
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269582)

233
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269608)

234
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269631)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

235
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he expects to announce the process by which the auction of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority sites at Wylfa, Bradwell and Oldbury is to be conducted; and if he will make a statement.

(269202)

236
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Wealdon of 11 March 2009, Official Report, column 525W, on Kingsnorth power station, when he plans to issue his consultation on a new framework for coal-fired power stations.

(269203)

237
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Braintree of 10 March 2009, Official Report, column 410W, on the Warm Front Scheme: Essex, what mechanisms his Department has put in place to record complaints about the Warm Front scheme.

(269204)

238
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the UK share of the EU 2020 renewable energy target he expects to be met by (a) onshore wind, (b) offshore wind, (c) renewable gas technologies and (d) marine power sources.

(269206)

239
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of the work of the Nuclear Trust; and if he will make a statement.

(269208)

240
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what internal IT projects Ofgem (a) has commmissioned in the last five years and (b) plans to commission in the next 12 months.

(269275)

241
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, by what dates he expects the consultations on carbon capture readiness and a new framework for coal-fired power stations to conclude; and how long after that he expects to make a decision on the construction of the proposed units at Kingsnorth power station.

(269276)

242
N Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what (a) financial and (b) other support his Department provides for viable renewable energy projects.

(269195)

243
N Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the budget of the Committee on Climate Change is for 2009-10.

(269719)

244
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he plans to answer Question 246697, tabled by the hon. Member for Wokingham on 12 January 2009, on attendance at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan.

(269343)

245
N Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the increase in the level of biomass crops required to meet the UK's renewables energy strategy target for 2020.

(268802)

246
N Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the biomass needed by 2020 to comply with the UK renewable energy strategy he estimates will be sourced within the UK.

(268803)

247
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department since its establishment; and if he will make a statement.

(269542)

248
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269576)

249
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department has been since its establishment; and if he will make a statement.

(269587)

250
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a) overnight, (b) at weekends and (c) during holiday periods; and if he will make a statement.

(269599)

251
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions are in use in each division of his Department; how many such devices have a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269609)

252
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269642)

253
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much and what proportion of the money (a) in each (i) stream and (ii) phase and (b) for each technology under the Low Carbon Building Programme has been allocated in each month since the scheme started; and if he will make a statement.

(269643)

254
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much has been spent (a) under each (i) stream and (ii) phase and (b) for each technology under the Low Carbon Building Programme (A) in total and (B) in each region since the scheme started; and if he will make a statement.

(269644)

255
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many certified installers of each type of technology under the Low Carbon Building Programme there were in each region of the UK in each month since the programme began; and if he will make a statement.

(269645)

256
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will review his Department's programme designed to promote energy efficiency to ensure effectiveness.

(269514)

257
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to attract private sector funding for his Department's programmes designed to improve the energy efficiency of domestic properties.

(269515)

258
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will introduce the proposed pay as you save initiative in advance of 2013.

(269517)

259
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will assess the effectiveness of incentives to increase energy efficiency.

(269518)

260
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to ensure the co-ordination of information from Government departments and agencies in respect of energy efficiency; and if he will make a statement.

(269520)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

261
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells of 2 March 2009, Official Report, column 1330W, on power stations: EC law, what recent discussions the Environment Agency has had with plant operators on the application of derogations from the EU large combustion plant directive.

(269205)

262
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for how long his Department has followed the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

(269286)

263
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what contingency plans his Department has to ensure the security of food supply.

(269111)

264
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the incidence of foot and mouth disease.

(269112)

265
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the incidence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

(269113)

266
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the incidence of salmonella entering the food chain.

(269114)

267
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the incidence of anthrax in cattle.

(269115)

268
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce on-farm storage of fallen stock.

(269324)

269
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on average how much and what proportion of land in England was designated as farmland in each decade since 1979.

(269325)

270
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what scientific research his Department has evaluated on the percentage of marine habitats that should be protected within a Marine Protected Area network; and if he will make a statement.

(269326)

271
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will bring forward plans to introduce an ecologically coherent network; and if he will make a statement.

(269327)

272
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will include in his Department's Marine Protected Area strategy measures to introduce highly protected marine reserves; and if he will make a statement.

(269328)

273
N Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of levels of post-weaning mortality in pigs in each year since 1997.

(269007)

274
N Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the levels of wasting syndrome found in pigs in each year since 1997.

(269008)

275
N Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the procedures of an inquiry by his Department into a water company's Water Resources Action Plan includes an appeals procedure.

(269196)

276
N Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was spent on flood prevention in each year since 2000.

(269720)

277
N Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much is planned to be spent on coastal defences in 2009-10.

(269721)

278
N Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to his Department has been of management of sites of special Scientific interest (SSSIs) in (a) the last 10 years and (b) 2009 to date; and what area of land SSSIs covered in each period.

(269722)

279
N John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Environment Agency plans to publish the revised (a) toxicological and (b) soil guideline value reports for (i) free cyanide and (ii) benzo[a]pyrene scheduled for publication in December 2007.

(268901)

280
Susan Kramer (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of his Department's expenditure on climate change adaptation measures in 2008-09.

(269069)

281
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what efficiency savings his Department has made in each of the last three years; and what estimate he has made of the amount saved by such means in each year.

(269528)

282
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects the inter-departmental committee on flooding next to meet; and what agenda items have been agreed upon for that meeting.

(269529)

283
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to publish the draft Floods and Water Bill.

(269530)

284
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his most recent estimate is of the level of uptake of flood warnings; and by what means such warnings are delivered.

(269531)

285
N Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to announce a decision on whether to hold an inquiry into South East Water's Water Resources Management Plan; and what criteria will inform his decision.

(269273)

286
Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that imports of animal feed ingredients are derived from sustainable sources.

(269319)

287
Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to facilitate the use of bio-digestion as a method of disposal of fallen stock.

(269320)

288
Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2009, Official Report, columns 377-9W, on bovine tuberculosis, in how many (a) counties and (b) parishes in England bovine tuberculosis had not been confirmed in the preceding four years in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2008.

(269321)

289
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cattle have been slaughtered because of suspected bovine tuberculosis in the last 12 months; and at what cost.

[R] (269010)

290
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to reply to the letter of 22 January 2009 from the hon. Member for Northavon, sent on behalf of Miss D Moore of Hinton, on buy one get one free schemes.

(269019)

291
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269538)

292
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269561)

293
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269581)

294
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a) overnight, (b) at weekends and (c) during holiday periods; and if he will make a statement.

(269597)

295
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269610)

296
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269632)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

297
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for how long his Department has followed the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

(269280)

298
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that the counter-narcotics assistance provided by the Government to the Colombian security forces is not used for counter-insurgency purposes.

(269737)

299
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on levels of press freedom in Nepal.

(269654)

300
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of levels of religious freedom in Nepal.

(269655)

301
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the relationship between observance of human rights and long-term development in Nepal.

(269656)

302
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Nepal.

(269658)

303
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the quantity of heroin that will be produced in Afghanistan in 2009; and how much has been so produced in each year since 2000.

(269810)

304
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for the Government's policy on non-proliferation of the European Commission Communication on nuclear non-proliferation of 26 March 2009.

(269144)

305
N Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Israeli ambassador on the recent Israeli attack on alleged arms carriers in Eastern Sudan.

(269322)

306
N Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with President Afewerki of Eritrea on the recent visit to Eritrea of Sudan's President al-Bashir.

(269329)

307
Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much funding his Department provided to the G20 Voice programme; and for what purposes such funding was used.

(269025)

308
Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many visits were made by Ministers to Beijing in the financial year 2007-08.

(269676)

309
Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many visits were made by Ministers to Moscow in the financial year 2007-08.

(269707)

310
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton of 23 February 2009, with regard to Mr and Mrs Z Ullah.

(269340)

311
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which Ministers have visited Uganda in the last 12 months.

(269482)

312
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which Ministers have visited Kenya in the last 12 months.

(269487)

313
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Kenyan counterpart on anti-piracy operations off the coast of Kenya.

(269488)

314
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his African Union counterparts on the political situation in Zimbabwe.

(269489)

315
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British citizens live in Zimbabwe.

(269491)

316
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the political situation in Zimbabwe.

(269493)

317
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made on ensuring a more regular shipping service for passengers and freight to and from the Pitcairn Islands; and if he will make a statement.

(269496)

318
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans there are for a new governance structure for the Pitcairn Islands in April 2009.

(269497)

319
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in which British Overseas Territories micro-generation electricity production schemes are in operation.

(269498)

320
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which British Overseas Territories have held trials of power generation from (a) wind turbines, (b) solar power stations and (c) tidal and hydroelectric power.

(269499)

321
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Zimbabwean counterpart on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe.

(269727)

322
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many animal species previously known to inhabit each British Overseas Territory have been recorded as extinct since 2004.

(269728)

323
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the preservation of biodiversity and coral reefs in the British Virgin Islands.

(269780)

324
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much electricity is generated from renewable resources in each British Overseas Territory.

(269782)

325
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost to the public purse of the Government Hospitality Advisory Committee for the Purchase of Wine was in each of the last five years.

(269134)

326
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, who the (a) chairman and (b) members of each Government Hospitality Fund advisory committee are; what each committee's terms of appointment are; how often each Committee meets; what the main functions are of each one; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of the most recent meeting of each committee.

(269135)

327
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) full-time employees and (b) full-time equivalent staff the Government Hospitality Fund employed in each of the last five years.

(269136)

328
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much the Government Hospitality Fund spent on the purchase of (a) champagne and (b) other wines in each of the last five years.

(269137)

329
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the budget of the Government Hospitality Fund was in each year since 1997.

(269138)

330
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what budget has been set for the Government Hospitality Fund for (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.

(269139)

331
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to how many official functions the Government Hospitality Fund provided services in each of the last five years.

(269140)

332
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the (a) role and (b) function of the Government Hospitality Fund is.

(269141)

333
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which Departments made use of the Government Hospitality Fund in each of the last five years.

(269142)

334
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) champagnes and (b) other wines the Government Hospitality Fund purchased in each of the last five years; and how many bottles of each were purchased.

(269143)

335
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on (a) Union flags and (b) flags of other nations in each of the last five years.

(269209)

336
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269537)

337
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269562)

338
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269580)

339
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a) overnight, (b) at weekends and (c) during holiday periods; and if he will make a statement.

(269598)

340
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269611)

341
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269633)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

342
N Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much compensation the Government has paid out to people who had birth defects caused by the side-effects of pharmaceutical treatment in the last 30 years.

(269030)

343
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished accident and emergency admission episodes there were in each NHS trust where the primary or secondary diagnosis was alcohol-related and the (a) male and (b) female patient was aged (i) under 10, (ii) between 11 and 15, (iii) between 16 and 18, (iv) between 19 and 25, (v) between 26 and 35 and (vi) 36 years and over in each of the last five years.

(269773)

344
N Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many fully qualified occupational therapists have been employed by the NHS in West Chelmsford constituency in each year since 2001.

(269217)

345
Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 898W, on health services: Greater London, what assessment he has made of the effects on the revenue of primary care trusts in (a) Enfield and (b) London in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11 of changes to the formula used to determine revenue allocations to such trusts.

(269652)

346
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1093-4W, on care homes: manpower, when he expects the review of evidence to be completed; and if he will make a statement.

(269049)

347
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data his Department collects on the number of NHS patients who have ceased smoking as a result of advice given by their GP in (a) each London borough and (b) England in the latest period for which figures are available.

(269266)

348
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to provide older people with improved mental health services; and if he will make a statement.

(269267)

349
N Mr William Cash (Stone): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of each meeting of (a) (i) the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority, (ii) the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust and (iii) North Staffordshire NHS Trust since 1 January 2003 and the Healthcare Commission since its inception.

(268950)

350
Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the effects of levels of particulate pollution on the mortality rate.

(269077)

351
Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants' draft paper entitled, Long-term exposure to air pollution: effect on mortality, produced in 2007.

(269199)

352
N Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding is available for measures to reduce extreme vascular malformations in children in Gloucestershire.

(269331)

353
N Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued to primary care trusts on the reduction of extreme vascular malformations in children.

(269332)

354
N Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when South Staffordshire NHS Trust applied to Monitor for foundation status.

(268051)

355
N Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when Monitor (a) began and (b) completed its intensive assessment of the application for foundation status by South Staffordshire NHS Trust.

(268052)

356
N Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when Monitor granted foundation status to South Staffordshire NHS Trust.

(268053)

357
N Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of Monitor's assessment of the arrangements made by the board of South Staffordshire NHS Trust for monitoring and continuously improving the quality healthcare provided to the hospitals patients.

(268054)

358
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of alcohol-based hand rubs in countering (a) Clostridium difficile and (b) other healthcare-associated infections.

(268892)

359
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training the NHS has provided to (a) surgeons, (b) doctors, (c) nurses and (d) other healthcare professionals on best practice in the prevention, detection and treatment of (i) Clostridium difficile and (ii) other healthcare-related infections.

(268893)

360
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on research into (a) vaccines against, (b) treatments for and (c) other aspects of Clostridium difficile in each of the last five years.

(268894)

361
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on campaigns to raise public awareness of (a) Clostridium difficile and (b) other healthcare-associated infections in each of the last five years.

(268895)

362
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information is available to NHS patients and their families on the (a) prevention and (b) detection of (i) Clostridium difficile and (ii) other healthcare-associated infections.

(268896)

363
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) men and (b) women in each age group have been admitted to hospital for stomach pumping procedures as a result of alcohol poisoning in each month of the last three years.

(269788)

364
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the licence fee structure of the Human Tissue Authority effects (a) full recovery and (b) more than full recovery of the costs of granting a licence.

(269744)

365
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the guidelines for including acellular material under the licence fee structure of the Human Tissue Authority; and if he will make a statement.

(269745)

366
N Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) hospital admissions and (b) finished consultant episodes for patients with respiratory complaints there were (i) in England and (ii) at (A) Ashford Hospital, (B) Hillingdon Hospital, (C) Ealing Hospital, (D) West Middlesex University Hospital and (E) Teddington Memorial Hospital in each of the last five years.

(268986)

367
N Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2009, Official Report, columns 756-7W, on CJD: screening, what the criteria are for validation of a test for variant Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease.

(269064)

368
N Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what rights family members of those who have died of variant Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) have in relation to the use of their relatives' blood samples for the purposes of (a) research into and (b) validation of a blood screening test for vCJD.

(269218)

369
N Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2009, Official Report, column 757W, on blood donation screening, if he will make an assessment of the merits of giving access to blood samples of those who have died of variant Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) to companies which have developed a blood screening test for vCJD.

(269219)

370
N Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 901W, on out of area treatment: Wales, whether the protocol to have effect from April 2009 will be a renewal of the existing temporary protocol; and if he will make a statement.

(269102)

371
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what factors his Department has identified as hindering full implementation on the part of primary care trusts of National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence guidance on fertility treatment.

(269475)

372
Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of males (a) between (i) 10 and 16, (ii) 17 and 21 and (iii) 22 and 26 and (b) over 26 years who have been admitted to hospital for alcohol-related conditions in each of the last five years.

(269090)

373
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many providers of NHS services for people with autism are (a) direct NHS, (b) private, (c) voluntary and (d) independent providers; and how many such providers are classified as social enterprises.

(269523)

374
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding his Department provided for the commissioning of autism services in the last year for which figures are available.

(269524)

375
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many social enterprises which provide one or more NHS healthcare service have been established in each of the last three years.

(269525)

376
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms are in place for (a) supervision and (b) monitoring of implementation of the recommendations of the Healthcare Commission report on Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust which relate to (i) that trust and (ii) other parts of the NHS.

(269526)

377
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to provide counselling services for (a) patients and (b) relatives of deceased patients of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust who have been affected by the findings of the Healthcare Commission report on that Trust.

(269770)

378
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many successful claims for compensation for medical negligence at Scarborough Hospital were made in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009; how much compensation was paid in each year; and how many claims remain unresolved.

(269351)

379
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many social workers the NHS employs; and how many of them completed their training (a) in the UK and (b) abroad.

(269724)

380
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many occupational therapists qualified in each year since 2000; and what estimate he has made of the number of trained therapists required to fill vacancies in occupational therapy services in each of the next three years.

(269767)

381
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many occupational therapists the NHS employs; and how many of them completed their training (a) in the UK and (b) abroad.

(269768)

382
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many social workers qualified in each year from 2000 to 2008; and how many vacancies for newly-qualified social workers there were in each of those years.

(269769)

383
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons the Suicide and Injury of Undetermined Intent Mortality Rate indicator was withdrawn; and what assessment he has made of the effect of its withdrawal on the anti-suicide strategy.

(269104)

384
N Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what benchmark cost his Department uses for the training of a (a) midwife, (b) health visitor and (c) nurse.

(269211)

385
N Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on each type of non-medical education and training for NHS staff in each of the last five years; and what the budget for each year to 2010-11 is.

(269212)

386
N Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of midwives in service qualified by completing a midwifery (a) degree and (b) short programme before registration.

(269213)

387
N Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the average cost of (a) tuition, (b) bursary, (c) salary support and (d) other training costs for a (i) doctor, (ii) nurse, (iii) midwife and (iv) health visitor between entry onto a degree or diploma course and full registration in the latest period for which figures are available.

(269214)

388
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for radiotherapy treatment was in the latest period for which figures are available; what targets his Department has set for such waiting times; and if he will make a statement.

(269671)

389
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions for each selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor were dispensed in each of the last five years; and how many were dispensed to persons aged over 65 years.

(269729)

390
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions to hospital there were as a result of drug-related mental health conditions in each of the last five years.

(269730)

391
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions for each selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor were dispensed to persons aged (a) under 10, (b) 10 to 15 and (c) 16 to 25 years in each of the last five years.

(269731)

392
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients (a) were admitted to hospital and (b) died because of an adverse reaction to prescription medication in each of the last 10 years.

(269732)

393
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many claims relating to adverse reactions to prescription drugs were paid by the NHS Litigation Authority in each of the last five years; and what the total value of those payments was.

(269733)

394
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of self-harm were diagnosed among (a) men and (b) women aged (i) between 50 and 64 years and (ii) over the age of 65 years in each region in each of the last five years.

(269734)

395
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many miscarriages attributed to (a) violence against and (b) misuse of (i) alcohol and (ii) drugs by the mother were recorded in each of the last five years; and how many such mothers were aged (A) 18 years and under and (B) over 18 years.

(269735)

396
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 900W, on NHS: death rate, for what reasons 43 of the alerts in the first year were not followed up.

(269060)

397
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women have died (a) in childbirth and (b) as a result of complications in childbirth in each year since 1997; and how many such women have died in each NHS organisation in the most recent period for which figures are available.

(269078)

398
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 900W, on NHS: death rate, how many alerts the Healthcare Commission has received since July 2008; which NHS organisation was the subject of each alert; and what the reason was for the alert in each case.

(269079)

399
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 900W, on NHS: death rate, which NHS organisations were the subject of alerts in the first year; what the reason for each alert was; what steps were taken in response to the alert; and what the reasons for the alert were determined to be.

(269080)

400
N Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date his Department agreed to support Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust in its application for foundation trust status; which Minister took this decision; and if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's analysis used as the basis for making that decision.

(269098)

401
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how long Estates Return Information Collection data indicates each NHS trust took on average to answer a call made to its main telephone number in the most recent month for which figures are available.

(269099)

402
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the basic NHS bursary rate for (a) degree nurse students and (b) diploma nurse students in real terms has been in each year since 1997.

(269302)

403
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the three-month vacancy rate was for nurses in each specialist groups in each year since 2004.

(269303)

404
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions were issued by (a) nurse independent prescribers, (b) community practitioner nurse prescribers and (c) doctors in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.

(269304)

405
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of multi-disciplinary cancer teams for each type of cancer do not have clinical nurse specialist cover.

(269305)

406
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) nurses, (b) midwives and (c) health visitors returned to work in the National Health Service in each year since 2004.

(269335)

407
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average age of disqualified nursing staff was in the most recent period for which figures are available; and what estimate his Department had made of such figures in each of the last three years.

(269421)

408
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department (a) was informed in advance of and (b) agreed to the suspension of the Chief Executive of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.

(269718)

409
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many calls have been made to the Healthcare Commission's helpline for NHS staff to raise concerns about the standards of care at their hospital in each year for which figures are available.

(269420)

410
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's definition of a (a) district nurse, (b) community matron and (c) health visitor is.

(269799)

411
Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS employees have a salary exceeding that of the Prime Minister.

(269717)

412
N Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps (a) his Department and (b) each of the agencies and public bodies for which his Department is responsible are taking to ensure the principles of digital inclusion are applied to information made available online by them.

(268968)

413
Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which local authorities in the Spearhead Group (a) had widened the gap in life expectancy at birth compared with the population as a whole in the latest year for which information is available and (b) are not on course to meet the 2010 target of reducing that gap by 10 per cent.

(269774)

414
Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures he intends to adopt to ensure that local authorities in the Spearhead Group considered not to be on track to reach the 2010 target of reducing the gap in life expectancy compared with the population as a whole by 10 per cent. are able to meet their target.

(269775)

415
Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the causes of excess deaths within the Spearhead Group of local authorities considered off track from reaching their 2010 target of reducing the gap in life expectancy compared with the population as a whole by 10 per cent.

(269776)

416
N Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the merits of a national audit to assess the adequacy of arrangements made by hospital trusts to fill NHS doctor rotas; and if he will make a statement.

(269152)

417
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much had been spent on his Department's social care recruitment advertising campaign at the latest date for which figures are available.

(269653)

418
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 20 June 2008, Official Report , column 1236W, whether the Social Care Skills Academy is operational.

(269771)

419
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2009, Official Report , column 251W, on social care: research, whether the research being undertaken by the Personal Social Services Research Unit to make projections of likely future demand for long-term care has been completed.

(269772)

420
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of tuberculosis have been identified in (a) agricultural workers and (b) other persons involved in agriculture in the last 12 months.

[R] (268983)

421
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the implications for medical practice of pig-to-primate organ transplant experiments.

(269495)

422
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of prescribing anti-depressant drugs in (a) North and East Hertfordshire and (b) England in each of the last five years (i) in cash terms and (ii) in 2009-10 prices.

(269646)

423
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average net ingredient cost was for drugs falling within section 4.3 of the British National Formulary in each of the last five years (a) in cash terms and (b) in 2009-10 prices.

(269647)

424
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions for drugs falling within section 4.3 of the British National Formulary were made out in each of the last five years.

(269660)

425
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescription items for anti-depressant drugs there were in each of the last five years.

(269708)

426
John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Wyre Forest of 4 November 2008, Official Report, column 363W, on venous thromboembolism, what his most recent estimate is of the proportion of hospitals complying with the venous thromboembolism risk assessment policy.

(269048)

427
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria his Department used in choosing the winners of the Healthcare Associated Infection Technology Innovation programme Awards; and whether each of the products commended in the awards have been reviewed by his Department's Rapid Review panel.

(269295)

428
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 1223W, on hospitals: infectious diseases, for what reasons the average of all quarters of the year was not used to calculate the reduction in methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus; and if he will make a statement.

(269713)

429
Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to review the structure of the burns service in the North West; and if he will make a statement.

(269511)

430
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2009, Official Report, columns 368-9W, on assertive outreach teams, what the reasons are for the reduction in the number of assertive outreach teams in (a) England and (b) the South West Strategic Health Authority area since January 2006.

(269346)

431
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1762-4W, on mental health services: nurses, what the reason is for the reduction in the number of registered mental health nurses in the Devon Partnership NHS Trust since 30 September 2006.

(269347)

432
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on the provision of registered mental health nurses in (a) England, (b) the South West and (c) Devon in each of the last 10 years.

(269349)

433
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on the provision of assertive outreach teams in (a) England, (b) the South West and (c) Devon in each of the last 10 years.

(269350)

434
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with a sexually-transmitted infection in each London health trust area in each of the last five years.

(269263)

435
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with sickle cell disease in each London health trust area in each of the last five years.

(269264)

436
N Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, where the (a) network manager and (b) clinical director of the Northern Burn Care Network are based.

(269306)

437
N Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many serious burn case patients from outside Greater Manchester were treated at the burn unit in Manchester in each year since 2003.

(269308)

438
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the National Burn Care Group's last meeting was before its meeting on 24 February 2009.

(269310)

439
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2009, Official Report, column 1302W, on contaminated blood and blood products, what timetable he has set for responding to the recommendations made by Lord Archer; by what mechanism that response will be made; and if he will make a statement.

(269473)

440
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269556)

441
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269557)

442
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269577)

443
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269602)

444
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a) overnight, (b) at weekends and (c) during holiday periods; and if he will make a statement.

(269618)

445
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269624)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

446
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were employed in the e-crime department of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency in April 2006; and how many people are now so employed.

(269673)

447
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions have been brought following investigations by the e-crime unit in the Serious and Organised Crime Agency since its establishment.

(269674)

448
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funds her Department has allocated to tackle internet crime in each year since 2001.

(269675)

449
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests there have been for offences relating to acts of vandalism in (a) West Chelmsford constituency, (b) Essex and (c) England in each year since 2000.

(269096)

450
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many authorities in each (a) London borough and (b) region have issued dispersal orders in each year since their introduction; and if she will make a statement.

(269268)

451
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the link between alcohol misuse and crime; what steps her Department is taking to tackle alcohol-related crime; and if she will make a statement.

(269299)

452
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with representatives of the government of Romania on the number of people from that country who were refused entry to the UK on the grounds that their presence would threaten public policy, public security or public health since 2007.

(268726)

453
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects work to be completed on the area beneath Lunar House to provide an additional covered queuing area for customers.

(268727)

454
N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 16 March 2009, on her constituent Mr Joseph Kamangire.

(268717)

455
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the merits of offering an amnesty to illegal migrants; and if she will make a statement.

(269153)

456
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the effects on the economy of migrant labour; and if she will make a statement.

(269155)

457
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what programmes her Department has developed to tackle the illegal trafficking of individuals; how much has been allocated to such programmes; and what organisations are responsible for executing them.

(269156)

458
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the measures in place to prevent further exploitation of trafficked individuals prior to deportation; how many trafficked individuals detained in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 were deported; and to which countries.

(269157)

459
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of persons who had travelled to the UK on visitor visas who remained in the UK after the expiry of the visas in the latest period for which figures are available.

(269158)

460
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many temporary visas were issued for migrant agricultural workers in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08; and what estimate she has made of the number of such migrants who have overstayed their visas.

(269159)

461
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many tourist visas were issued to persons of each nationality in each of the last four years; how many such visas were issued to children; and what estimate she has made of the number of such children who overstayed their visa.

(269160)

462
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of students entering each higher education institution in the UK had study visas in each year since 2006; and how many such students were granted extensions to their visas after graduation in order to undertake work in the UK.

(269162)

463
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which of the recommendations relating to migration made by the Home Affairs Committee between 2005 and 2007 have been implemented by her Department; how many such recommendations she plans to implement; and what recent steps she has taken to implement such recommendations.

(269301)

464
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the percentage of heroin sold in the UK which originated in Afghanistan in the most recent period for which figures are available.

(269819)

465
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has specific arrangements to provide security at the home of Sir Fred Goodwin.

(268946)

466
N Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will impose a moratorium on the deportation to Sri Lanka of failed asylum seekers who are ethnic Tamils.

(269316)

467
N Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether UK Border Agency staff assigned to juxtaposed controls at Eurostar terminals in France and Belgium have received training in the identification of suspected children being trafficked; and how many children have been so identified since the introduction of juxtaposed controls.

(268710)

468
N Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied child passengers intending to travel on Eurostar services to the UK have been denied boarding at the terminals in (a) Paris and (b) Brussels by UK immigration officials since the introduction of juxtaposed controls.

(268711)

469
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of forced marriages which occurred in (a) Lancashire and (b) England in each of the last five years.

(268185)

470
N Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Somali citizens are seeking (a) asylum and (b) leave to remain; and how many have been (i) granted indefinite leave to remain and (ii) deported in each year since 1997.

(269753)

471
N Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions in law govern the acquisition of the right of permanent settlement of foreign nationals who have been legally resident in the UK for five years.

(269101)

472
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to tables 52 and 53 in her Department's Annual Report 2008, under what budgetary headings expenditure under the (a) resource and (b) capital budget for the (i) National Policing Improvement Agency, (ii) Serious Organised Crime Agency, (iii) Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, (iv) Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner, (v) UK Border Agency, (vi) Identity and Passport Service, (vii) Central Services and (viii) Research and Statistics Directorate has been incurred in 2008-09.

(269224)

473
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 29 of the Policing Green Paper Policing Our Communities Together, which police forces had met the standards in the Policing Pledge prior to the introduction of the Pledge.

(269225)

474
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many identity cards had been issued to non-EEA foreign nationals who are subject to immigration control on the latest date for which figures are available.

(269226)

475
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Statistical Bulletin on Terrorism Arrests and Outcomes 11 September 2001 to 31 March 2008 will be published; and what the reasons are for the time taken.

(269227)

476
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms offences (including those involving air weapons) were recorded in each police force in England and Wales in each year since 1998-99.

(269228)

477
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, columns 954-5W, on police: marketing, how many people had used the text back service on the date for which figures are available.

(269229)

478
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, columns 954-5W, on police: marketing, how much her Department plans to spend on advertising and marketing the Policing Pledge in the financial year 2009-10.

(269230)

479
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what non-notifiable crimes involving firearms and imitation firearms would be recorded as a firearm incident as defined by the Incident Category List in 2007-08.

(269231)

480
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences of (a) shoplifting, (b) robbery of business property and (c) theft by an employee were recorded by police in the quarter October to December in each of the last 10 years.

(269232)

481
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much ring-fenced funding each police force will receive for spending on new technology to fight crime in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11; and how much such funding each force received in 2008-09.

(269233)

482
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department provided for the use of police head-cameras in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09.

(269234)

483
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many head-cameras are in use by police forces in England and Wales.

(269235)

484
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Designated Public Place Orders have been introduced in each year for which figures are available.

(269236)

485
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people received the maximum fine for selling alcohol to under age persons in 2007.

(269237)

486
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hand-held computers have been issued to police officers; and how many police forces have received funding for hand-held computers from her Department in the last two years.

(269238)

487
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners were deported in 2008; and how many of those had been convicted of firearms offences.

(269239)

488
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training UK Border Agency staff will receive as part of the introduction of e-borders.

(269240)

489
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 9 March 2009, Official Report, column 79W on police: crime, and 30 March 2009, Official Report, columns 943-4W, on crime, for what reasons her Department is able to provide information on only some categories of incidents recorded in 2007-08.

(269241)

490
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2009, Official Report, column 1166W, on police: electronic equipment, what proportion of patrol officers have been issued with a hand-held device.

(269242)

491
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to tables 5.2 and 5.3 in her Department's Annual Report 2008, under what budget headings (a) resource and (b) capital expenditure allocated for (i) drugs, (ii) the Independent Safeguarding Authority for Crime and (iii) crime reduction has been incurred in 2008-09.

(269243)

492
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to tables 5.2 and 5.3 in her Department's Annual Report 2008, under what budget headings expenditure under the (a) resource and (b) capital budget in the category police (including grants) has been incurred in 2008-09.

(269244)

493
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to tables 5.2 and 5.3 in her Department's Annual Report 2008, under what budgetary headings expenditure under the (a) resource and (b) capital budget for the Independent Police Complaints Commission has been incurred in 2008-09.

(269245)

494
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2009, Official Report, column 1093W, on offensive weapons: convictions, how many convictions there were for possession of a knife in the period June to November (a) 2008 and (b) 2007.

(269246)

495
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 March 2009, on the Vetting and Barring Scheme, what the reason is for the period of time taken between implementing the provisions of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 in October 2009 and the scheme becoming fully operational in July 2010; and what assessment she has made of the likely effects of this period on the operation of the scheme.

(269247)

496
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the monthly operating costs of the Independent Safeguarding Authority (a) at present and (b) once the Vetting and Barring Scheme becomes fully operational in July 2010.

(269248)

497
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what electronic databases will be used by the Independent Safeguarding Authority to operate the Vetting and Barring Scheme.

(269249)

498
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2009, Official Report, columns 289-90W, on departmental contracts, what the (a) purpose and (b) cost of the contracts awarded to each of the other organisations and bodies including named individuals was in (i) 2007-08 and (ii) 2008-09.

(269250)

499
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people (a) are employed and (b) she estimates will be employed by the Independent Safeguarding Authority in July 2010.

(269251)

500
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget of the Independent Safeguarding Authority is for (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12.

(269252)

501
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's expenditure was on the Independent Safeguarding Authority on the latest date for which figures are available.

(269253)

502
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2009, Official Report, column 1093W, on police: health, how many people took police fitness tests in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what results were (a) achieved and (b) achieved for dynamic strength and endurance in each year.

(269260)

503
N Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers from forces other than the Metropolitan Police were deployed to police the G20 summit.

(269685)

504
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which countries are on the Fast Track Processes Suitability List for asylum applications.

(269166)

505
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child asylum seekers were removed from the UK in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008.

(269168)

506
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of age assessments made by the UK Border Agency in 2008 have been successfully challenged on appeal.

(269169)

507
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many files under the asylum legacy cases programme have been archived because the individual could not be traced within six months.

(269170)

508
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which UK airports are using the Iris Recognition Immigration System (IRIS) what percentage of passengers passing through immigration control at each airport was processed through IRIS on the latest date for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.

(269171)

509
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of the costs of identity cards for (a) UK citizens, (b) Irish citizens and (c) foreign nationals she expects to be covered by receipts from fees for issue of the cards.

(269172)

510
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which colleges are on the UK Border Agency's accredited institution list; and if she will make a statement.

(269173)

511
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what grants her Department has made to Ashford Borough Council in each year since 2005-06; what sums were awarded; under what budget category each grant was made; and how much was allocated for grants in 2009-10.

(269174)

512
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are employed in her Department's Department of Security Unit.

(269175)

513
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) records and (b) data subjects there are on the Immigration and Asylum fingerprint database.

(269176)

514
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Asylum Application Registration Cards were issued in (a) 2008 and (b) each month of 2009.

(269177)

515
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many voluntary assisted returns to each country were made in co-operation with the International Organisation for Migration in 2008.

(269178)

516
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many ocassions staff of the UK Border Agency accessed the Eurodac database in (a) 2008 and (b) each of the first three months of 2009.

(269179)

517
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on the Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme in 2007.

(269222)

518
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the UK Border Agency spent on frontline border staff in 2008.

(269223)

519
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of foreign students enrolled at colleges not listed on the UK Border Agency's Accreditation list; and what assessment she has made of how this affects their immigration status.

(269747)

520
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2009, Official Report, column 1264W, on immigration: manpower, how much of the £6.7 million paid by her Department to private companies for the period 2007-08 was allocated to (a) staffing and (b) other costs.

(269748)

521
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department seeks advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with regard to the safety of specific countries in respect of deportation cases.

(269749)

522
N Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the health effects of salvia divinorum; and if she will make a statement.

(268961)

523
N Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will classify salvia divinorum as an illegal drug.

(268962)

524
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason she decided to cease future funding to the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners; what discussions she had on the matter with representatives of the National Policing Improvement Authority; and if she will make a statement.

(269677)

525
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure an effective transition between the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners and its successor; and if she will make a statement.

(269701)

526
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long she estimates it will take to establish a new regulatory body to oversee forensic practitioners; and if she will make a statement.

(269703)

527
Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has identified the organisation which is to replace the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners as the body to regulate and register forensic scientists; and if she will make a statement.

(269704)

528
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2009, Official Report, column 1083W, on offensive weapons: crime prevention, whether young people were involved in the Tackling Knives Action Programme.

(269200)

529
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Children's Commissioner on measures to reduce incidents of gun and knife crime.

(269201)

530
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, column 158W, on the National Identity Register: data protection, what (a) financial and (b) staffing resources will be available to the National Identity Scheme Commissioner to provide independent oversight of the provision of information.

(269471)

531
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton of 11 February 2009, with regard to Ms A Dar.

(269338)

532
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton of 17 February 2009, with regard to Mr Safraz Muneer.

(269339)

533
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton of 25 February 2009, with regard to Mr M Rashid.

(269341)

534
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton of 16 February 2009, with regard to Mr Mohammed Ayub.

(269342)

535
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2009. Official Report, column 386W, on the immobilisation of vehicles, when she plans to publish the results of the feasibility study undertaken by the Security Industry Authority on options for the compulsory licensing of vehicle immobilisation companies who work on private land.

(269522)

536
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2009, Official Report, column 385W, on immobilisation of vehicles, what proposals she is considering in relation to (a) signage and (b) fines.

(269766)

537
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers there were in Avon and Somerset in each year since 1988; and if she will make a statement.

(269296)

538
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ugandan citizens visited the UK in the last 12 months.

(269483)

539
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Kenyan citizens have been granted asylum in the UK in the last 12 months.

(269484)

540
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Zimbabwean citizens were repatriated to Zimbabwe from the UK in 2008.

(269485)

541
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Zimbabwean citizens were granted (a) asylum and (b) right to remain in the UK in 2008.

(269486)

542
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) branded and (b) non-branded stationery in 2008-09.

(269686)

543
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much (a) her Department and (b) its agencies spent on (i) car hire and (ii) taxis in 2008-09.

(269687)

544
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of freedom of information requests received by her Department gave rise to responses that were published by her Department in 2008-09.

(269688)

545
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which programmes funded by her Department experienced a real terms reduction in their budget for 2008-09 in comparison with 2007-08; and what the budget for each such programme was in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2006-07.

(269689)

546
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much (a) her Department and (b) each of its agencies spent on hotel and other similar privately provided accommodation (i) in the UK and (ii) abroad in 2008-09.

(269690)

547
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which opinion research companies her Department employed in 2008-09; and what the cost was of employing each.

(269691)

548
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent by her Department on flights (a) within England and (b) outside the UK by (i) Ministers, (ii) special advisers and (iii) civil servants in 2008-09.

(269692)

549
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from which companies her Department purchased goods and services at a cost of more than £1 million in 2008-09; and how much was spent in respect of each company.

(269693)

550
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for which financial losses her Department was granted Treasury approval in 2008-09.

(269694)

551
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on severance pay to special advisers in 2008-09.

(269695)

552
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many parliamentary Questions for written answer her Department took longer than 10 days to answer in 2008-09.

(269696)

553
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken by each police force was to respond to inquiries from the Criminal Records Bureau as part of routine disclosures in 2008-09.

(269697)

554
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) standard and (b) enhanced record checks were processed by the Criminal Records Bureau in each police force area in 2008-09.

(269698)

555
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of record checks processed by the Criminal Records Bureau in each police force area had comments from chief police officers on otherwise clean reports in 2008-09.

(269699)

556
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many and (b) what percentage of record checks processed by the Criminal Records Bureau were completed (i) within (A) 10, (B) 14, (C) 25, (D) 60 and (ii) in over 60 days in each police force area in 2008-09.

(269700)

557
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many days sick leave were taken on average by staff (a) in her Department and (b) in the Criminal Records Bureau in 2008-09.

(269702)

558
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department were (a) dismissed, (b) subject to disciplinary procedures without being dismissed, (c) moved to less sensitive duties due to shortcomings in performance and (d) given early retirement in 2008-09.

(269705)

559
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many under-18 year olds had Criminal Records Bureau checks in 2008-09.

(269706)

560
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department paid to the Plain English Campaign for (a) corporate membership fees, (b) additional training for officials, (c) use of the Approved by Plain English Campaign mark on documents, (d) use of the Internet Crystal Mark on her Department's website and (e) other fees in 2008-09.

(269784)

561
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of records of offences committed outside the United Kingdom held by the UK Central Authority were made available to the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and used in CRB disclosures in 2008-09; and whether there are data on categories of offences held by the UK Central Authority which may not be passed to the CRB for such use.

(269785)

562
Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her latest estimate is of the policing and security costs incurred in respect of the G20 summit.

(269476)

563
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the remit is of the Police Independent Bureaucracy Champion; what work the Champion has taken since July 2008; and if she will make a statement.

(269103)

564
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of steps taken by police forces to reduce the fear of crime and to increase public confidence in their personal security in public places.

(269105)

565
John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Chief Constable of South Wales Police on the future of Barry Police Station.

(269081)

566
John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deaths in custody there were in each custody suite operated by South Wales Police in each of the last five years.

(269091)

567
Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what international obligations apply to the implementation by her Department of measures to ensure the security of passports.

(269314)

568
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from each police force area had their DNA samples and personal information removed from the National DNA Database in each of the last (a) five years and (b) 12 months; and if she will make a statement.

(269508)

569
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number and proportion of people in each police force area with DNA stored on the National DNA Database as the result of a police investigation into a criminal offence who had not been (a) charged and (b) convicted of the crime under investigation; and if she will make a statement.

(269509)

570
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her latest estimate is of the number and proportion of people in each police force area who had their DNA stored on the DNA database and who had not been charged or convicted of a crime, who had subsequently had their DNA and personal information removed from the DNA database; and if she will make a statement.

(269534)

571
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of her Department in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

(269555)

572
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from her Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if she will make a statement.

(269570)

573
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of her Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if she will make a statement.

(269603)

574
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of her Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.

(269626)

575
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of her Department was in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

(269679)

576
N Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 9 February 2009 with regard to a constituent, reference POS(2)10644/0088; and what the reason is for the time taken to reply.

(269036)

Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission

577
Mr Douglas Hogg (Sleaford & North Hykeham): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many staff in the House of Commons service received a basic salary of more than that of an hon. Member in financial year 2008-09; what the job title and Department was of each of those members of staff; and how much the basic salary of each was.

(269336)

578
N Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many contracts of employment relating to staff employed by right hon. and hon. Members the Department of Resources holds.

(269527)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills

579
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many new apprenticeships were created in (a) West Chelmsford constituency, (b) Essex and (c) England in each of the last five years.

(269092)

580
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, for how long his Department has followed the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

(269281)

581
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which Learning and Skills Council capital spending programmes have been halted in each (a) region and (b) further education college; and what capital spending remains outstanding in each case.

(269742)

582
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much has been received by universities in fees from foreign students taught in higher education institutions in each year since 2006.

(269161)

583
Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many adult learners have been entered for GCSE English (a) language and (b) literature examinations in each year since 1990.

(269003)

584
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what steps his Department takes to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements in respect of learners; and what such steps he plans to take in relation to the National Apprenticeship Service.

(269778)

585
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many (a) fatalities and (b) serious injuries there have been on Government-funded training programmes in each year since the inception of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC); what the nature of each incident was; what the age of each individual involved was; whether any recommendations for the conduct of such programmes that arose from inquiries into each incident were made; and whether any compensation payments were made by (i) the LSC and (ii) training providers consequent on each incident.

(269779)

586
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the average monthly repayment received by the Student Loans Company was in each of the last three years.

(269116)

587
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many graduates were paying back a proportion of their student loans in each of the last five years.

(269117)

588
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much the Student Loans Company received in interest on student loans in each of the last five years.

(269118)

589
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much the Student Loans Company has repaid following overpayments by people with student loans; and if he will make a statement.

(269119)

590
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what rate of interest the Student Loans Company paid in respect of repayments to debtors who had been overcharged in each of the last three years.

(269120)

591
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many graduates he estimates will complete the repayment of their student loans in the next (a) three months, (b) six months and (c) 12 months.

(269121)

592
N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the total amount of outstanding student loans was (a) in each of the last five years and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available.

(269122)

593
N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how much the Student Loans Company received in student loan repayments in each of the last five years.

(269123)

594
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many student loan debts were outstanding (a) in each of the last five years and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available.

(269125)

595
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of the recession on trends in repayments of student loans; and if he will make a statement.

(269126)

596
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many student loans were repaid in full in each of the last three years.

(269127)

597
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the average time taken to pay off a student loan in full was in each of the last five years.

(269128)

598
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what mechanisms his Department employs to determine whether a student loan has been repaid in full.

(269129)

599
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the policy of the Student Loans Company is on contacting graduates with outstanding loans when they are nearing full repayment; and if he will make a statement.

(269130)

600
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what methods his Department provides to help persons with outstanding student loans to determine how much of the loan has been repaid.

(269131)

601
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2009, Official Report, columns 504-6W, on the economic situation, how many (a) civil servants and (b) others attended (i) each seminar and (ii) the reception listed.

(269659)

602
N Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what proportion of Access to Learning Fund monies were directed to (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate students in the latest period for which figures are available.

(267123)

603
N Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what estimate he has made of the levels of (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11 of demand for Access to Learning Fund monies; and if he will make a statement.

(267124)

604
Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, whether the transfer of undertakings regulations will apply to the proposed transfer of employees of the Learning and Skills Council to other undertakings.

(269011)

605
N Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, when he expects funding to be released to the College of North West London as part of the Building Colleges for the Future programme; and if he will make a statement.

(269265)

606
Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2009, Official Report, column 1068W, on education: offenders, how much the Learning and Skills Council plans to spend on meeting the (a) literacy, (b) numeracy and (c) other learning needs of offenders in the community in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10.

(269356)

607
Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, whether providers of training courses funded by the Learning and Skills Council will receive such funding as to enable the completion of apprenticeships which are already under way.

(269822)

608
Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2009, Official Report, column 656W, on further education: finance, from which further education colleges he has received representations on the Learning and Skills Council's list of colleges affected by changes to its capital spending programme.

(269823)

609
Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) on representations made by further education colleges to the LSC on (a) the completeness and (b) the accuracy of the LSC's list of colleges affected by changes to the LSC's capital spending programme.

(269824)

610
Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many (a) men and (b) women there were on adult learner places funded by the Learning and Skills Council in each year since 2004-05.

(269825)

611
Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the likely costs incurred by further education colleges in legal actions relating to changes to the Learning and Skills Council's capital spending programme.

(269826)

612
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department since its establishment; and if he will make a statement.

(269551)

613
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269563)

614
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each year since its creation; and if he will make a statement.

(269588)

615
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each year since its creation; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269612)

616
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a) overnight, (b) at weekends and (c) during holiday periods; and if he will make a statement.

(269622)

617
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269634)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

618
N John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what change in funding for (a) the Conflict Prevention Pool budget and (b) each activity funded under that budget is planned for 2009-10; what discussions he has had with his Ministerial colleagues on the subject; and if he will make a statement.

(268808)

619
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, by how much the monetary value of the Government's official development assistance has fallen as a result of the decline in the value of sterling in the last 12 months; what assessment he has made of the effect of this decline on the Government's commitment towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals; and if he will make a statement.

(269084)

620
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the Government's official development assistance has been spent on providing temporary assistance to refugees from developing countries in the last two years.

(269085)

621
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much the Government has received in interest on loans to developing countries in each year since 2004.

(269086)

622
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for how long his Department has followed the Carbon Trust's Energy Efficiency programme.

(269283)

623
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian assistance the Government has provided to the population of Darfur in the last 12 months.

(268951)

624
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian assistance the Government has provided to the population of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last 12 months.

(268952)

625
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian assistance the Government has provided to the population of Sierra Leone in the last 12 months.

(268953)

626
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian assistance the Government has provided to the population of Sri Lanka in the last 12 months.

(268954)

627
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian assistance the Government has provided to the population of Afghanistan in the last 12 months.

(268955)

628
N Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if his Department will make it its policy in EU negotiations to ensure that aid conditionality with particular reference to acceptance of (a) International Criminal Court and (b) Cotonou provisions does not prevent aid reaching those for whom it was intended; and if he will make a statement.

(269323)

629
Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department plans to implement the findings of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development.

(269210)

630
N Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which airline was used by the hon. Member for Dewsbury for his visit to Washington from 25 to 26 October 2007, as listed in the Cabinet Office's list of overseas travel by Ministers undertaken between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2008; what class his ticket was; how much the flight cost; what accommodation he used; how much it cost; who accompanied him; what official engagements he undertook on his visit; and if he will make a statement.

(269333)

631
Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding his Department provided to the G20 Voice programme; and for what purposes such funding was used.

(269024)

632
N Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what consideration was given to holding discussions on the issue of poor water and sanitation in the developing world at the London G20 summit.

(268963)

633
N Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve access to clean water and sanitation in the developing world.

(268964)

634
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much has been spent on St Helena from the public purse in the last 20 years, expressed in current prices adjusted for inflation.

(268959)

635
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what reports he has received on the percentage of people in refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border who are malnourished.

(269181)

636
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether staff of his Department based in Burma have free access to visit all projects in Burma which his Department funds.

(269182)

637
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what reports he has received of additional restrictions on access to the delta region of Burma imposed on aid workers in the last six months.

(269183)

638
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of (a) levels of poverty in Burma and (b) how aid to that country should be targeted.

(269184)

639
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Zimbabwe on the humanitarian situation in that country.

(269494)

640
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much has been spent on the (a) St Helena Access Project and (b) Atkins Feasibility Report for St Helena Air Access.

(269500)

641
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269550)

642
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269564)

643
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269579)

644
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a) overnight, (b) at weekends and (c) during holiday periods; and if he will make a statement.

(269619)

645
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269635)

646
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each devision of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269663)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

647
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in each cohort are in training to enter the Probation Service; and how many posts in the service he estimates will be available for newly qualified people from each cohort.

(269082)

648
N Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions for non-payment of the television licence fee there have been in West Chelmsford constituency in each of the last three years.

(269073)

649
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people under the age of 16 years in (a) West Chelmsford constituency and (b) Essex received a custodial sentence in each of the last 10 years.

(269094)

650
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for offences relating to acts of vandalism in (i) West Chelmsford constituency, (ii) Essex and (iii) England in each year since 2000.

(269097)

651
N Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were sentenced in courts in England and Wales in (a) 2003, (b) 2004, (c) 2005, (d) 2006, (e) 2007 and (f) 2008; and what proportion of such sentences included a compensation order in each year.

(269504)

652
N Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was collected in victim surcharges in each court service region in 2008-09; and how such receipts have been distributed.

(269505)

653
N Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2009, Official Report, column 1070W, when he expects there to be sufficient capacity within the prison system to end the end of custody licence scheme.

(268982)

654
N Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will hold an inquiry into the escape from HM Prison Pentonville on 27 March 2009.

(268997)

655
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress has been made on the provision of mobile telephone jammers for use in prisons in England and Wales.

(269066)

656
Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons host mobile telephone masts.

(269067)

657
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there were for vandalism in (i) North Wiltshire and (ii) Wiltshire in each year since 2000.

(269670)

658
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals were (a) convicted of and (b) sentenced to immediate custody for (i) drug dealing and (ii) firearms offences in 2007.

(269255)

659
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals are serving custodial sentences for (a) drug dealing and (b) firearms offences.

(269256)

660
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged (a) 21 years or more and (b) under 21 years have been convicted of possession of a firearm in each of the last five years; and what types of sentences have been imposed in such cases.

(269257)

661
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Knife Crime Sentencing Quarterly Brief for October to December 2008, what proportion of the figures in Table Four on length of custodial sentences relate to possession of a knife only; and how many people convicted of knife possession received the maximum sentence of four years custody in the period October 2007 to September 2008.

(269258)

662
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have received the minimum jail sentence of five years for possession of a firearm in each year since 2004.

(269259)

663
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many penalty notices for disorder were issued (a) in a police station and (b) on the street in 2007.

(269261)

664
N Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) burglaries, (b) robberies, (c) sexual offences, (d) thefts and (e) drug offences have been committed by offenders released on end-of-custody licence.

(268805)

665
N Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what means will be used to finance the construction and operation of Titan prisons.

(268806)

666
N Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what methodology is used in the random selection of prisoners for drug testing.

(268862)

667
N Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what measures are in place to ensure that records held by (a) his Department and (b) HM Prison Service accurately record the identity of prisoners.

(268863)

668
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Zimbabwean nationals are being held in prison.

(269492)

669
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2009, Official Report, column 998W, on young offenders: reoffenders, what the final figures are for the number of (a) persistent young offenders and (b) offences committed by persistent young offenders in each police force area in 2008.

(269783)

670
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to reply to the letter of 13 January 2009 from the hon. Member for Northavon on behalf of Mr E. Penberton of Thornbury, on proposals relating to bailiffs.

(269070)

671
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department and its predecessor in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269552)

672
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269559)

673
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department and its predecessor was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269595)

674
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department and its predecessor in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269613)

675
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a) overnight, (b) at weekends and (c) during holiday periods; and if he will make a statement.

(269621)

676
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269623)

677
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inquests into the deaths of people who contracted (a) HIV, (b) Hepatitis C or (c) variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through contaminated blood products adminstered to them under the NHS have been completed; and if he will make a statement.

(269757)

678
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many early releases under the end of custody licence release scheme there have been from each prison in each month since the scheme came into effect, broken down by original offence; and if he will make a statement.

(269764)

Questions to the Leader of the House

679
Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port & Neston): To ask the Leader of the House, what plans she has to enable hon. Members better to engage with their constituents through the use of interactive digital technology.

(269337)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

680
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions he has had with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning on the decommissioning of paramilitary weapons; and if he will make a statement.

(269714)

681
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people aged 16 to 18 years have been charged with violent offences involving the use of a knife in Northern Ireland since 2007.

(268724)

682
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many written questions from hon. Members on policing matters in Northern Ireland were answered via referrals to the Chief Constable in (a) January and February 2008 and (b) January and February 2009.

(268728)

683
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what advance preparation work on the new Magilligan Prison is expected to be undertaken in the 2009-10 financial year.

(268978)

684
N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the policy of the Northern Ireland Prison Service is on whether food and other supplies for prisons should be purchased locally.

(268979)

685
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269543)

686
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269565)

687
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269593)

688
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269596)

689
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269636)

690
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a) overnight, (b) at weekends and (c) during holiday periods; and if he will make a statement.

(269678)

Questions to the Minister for the Olympics

691
Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what her policy is on the balance between the number of cycling events open to (a) men and (b) women at the London 2012 Olympics.

(269294)

692
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, which national Olympic committees have signed agreements for pre-London 2012 Olympic Games training camps in the UK; and what the location of the camp is for each such nation.

(268798)

693
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, by which port of entry the Olympic torch will enter the UK in 2012.

(268799)

694
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what plans there are to accommodate non-accredited international media for the London 2012 Olympic Games; and if she will make a statement.

(268800)

Questions to the Prime Minister

695
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will hold a reception at 10 Downing Street to celebrate the victory of the England women's cricket team in the women's cricket World Cup tournament in Australia.

(268947)

696
N Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Prime Minister, on how many occasions Sir Fred Goodwin has been invited to 10 Downing Street for (a) official social engagements and (b) meetings in each of the last five years.

(268748)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

697
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, for how long his Department has followed the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

(269288)

698
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269544)

699
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269566)

700
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269592)

701
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269600)

702
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269637)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

703
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to discourage the use of helicopters for short journeys by members of the Royal Family.

(269047)

704
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress there has been on the introduction of the European Rail Traffic Management System, with particular reference to the UK.

(269054)

705
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what studies have been carried out on the introduction of the European Rail Traffic Management System, with particular reference to the UK; and what the results of those studies were.

(269055)

706
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects the European Rail Traffic Management System could be introduced across the rail network, with particular reference to the UK.

(269056)

707
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish statistics showing the number of delay minutes on the railways in each year since 1997, broken down by cause of delay.

(269057)

708
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the documents held by his Department setting out the incentive structure for Network Rail.

(269058)

709
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much freight has been carried by (a) road, (b) rail, (c) water and (d) air in each region in each year since 1997.

(269059)

710
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, who decides the mode of transport appropriate for official journeys by a member of the Royal Family.

(269076)

711
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what organisations he has consulted on proposals to reduce the 60 miles per hour speed limit on rural roads; and if he will make a statement.

(268990)

712
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for how long his Department has followed the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

(269285)

713
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average change in the cost of (a) first class and (b) second class unregulated rail fares was in each of the last 10 years.

(269736)

714
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of railway journeys were undertaken in first class in each of the last 10 years.

(269739)

715
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of railway carriages were built and furbished as (a) first class and (b) second class in each of the last 10 years.

(269740)

716
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will hold discussions with representatives of the train operating companies to consider the provision of free travel for the unemployed in order to attend job interviews.

(269754)

717
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the likely change in the number of rail passengers in the 12 months from April 2009.

(269755)

718
N Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what additional rolling stock is planned for the Sevenoaks to London railway line.

(269750)

719
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what date he expects the Republic of Ireland to meet the cost of its Light Dues.

(269786)

720
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department has allocated to the development of navigational aids and infrastructure in the maritime sector in the last 10 years.

(269787)

721
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many verified reports of untaxed motor vehicles the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has received in the last 12 months; and how many of these have been (a) acted upon by the DVLA and (b) referred to the relevant police authority.

(269791)

722
N Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many V5 vehicle registration forms have been (a) misplaced by and (b) stolen from (i) the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, (ii) its printers and (iii) its distribution network in the last 12 months..

(269087)

723
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of the trains of each train operator which were in operation in each year since 1997 were accessible to people in wheelchairs; and if he will make a statement.

(269662)

724
N Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the availability of funding for a high-speed rail line.

(268998)

725
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any bidders for the South Central rail franchise run existing rail franchises to which his Department has assigned red light status as part of its routine review of the operational and financial performance of train operating companies.

(269000)

726
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2009, Official Report, column 806W, on motor vehicles: testing, what checkpoint sites are used by the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency.

(269002)

727
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2009, Official Report, column 805W, on Heathrow Airport: public consultation, if he will place in the Library a copy of the supplementary analysis of the responses from stakeholders.

(269004)

728
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the letter which he placed in the Library from the Permanent Secretary of his Department to a director of High Speed Two Limited of 14 January 2009, whether High Speed Two Limited provides monthly written reports to his Department.

(269005)

729
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the letter which he placed in the Library from the Permanent Secretary of his Department to a director of High Speed Two Limited of 14 January 2009, if he will place in the Library a copy of the programme of anticipated expenditure and breakdown of the costs of High Speed Two Limited.

(269006)

730
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2009, Official Report, column 990W, on railways: franchises, what timetable has been set for completion of the research.

(269028)

731
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which rail franchises and concessions were fully or partly operated by non-UK companies in each of the last five years; and how much public subsidy each such franchise received in each of those years.

(269792)

732
N Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 16 December 2008, Official Report, columns 113-4WS, on the EU Transport Council, what recent progress has been made in respect of the EU's proposed directive on cross-border enforcement in the field of road safety; and if he will make a statement.

(268712)

733
N Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 8 October 2008, Official Report, column 18WS, on the EU Transport Council, what progress has been made on overcoming the practical and legal difficulties of cross-border enforcement for non-resident drivers escaping financial penalties for road safety infringements; and if he will make a statement.

(268713)

734
N Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to improve facilities for cyclists in the Greater Manchester area.

(268714)

735
N Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his Department has had with manufacturers of vehicle satellite navigation equipment on identification of routes inappropriate for heavy goods vehicles and public service vehicles.

(268715)

736
N Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of cycle lanes were introduced in local authority areas in the North West in each year since 1997.

(268716)

737
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his Department has had with the East Riding of Yorkshire Council on road safety improvements on the A1079.

(269352)

738
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people were (a) killed and (b) injured in road traffic incidents on the A1079 road in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269353)

739
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the cost involved in the manufacturing of cars with daytime running lights.

(269354)

740
Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of passenger cars with a valid vehicle excise duty disc at the latest date for which figures are available.

(269355)

741
N Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of dwellings that would need to be demolished to permit the High Speed Two project to be implemented; and if he will make a statement.

(269106)

742
N Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to consult (a) Buckinghamshire County Council, (b) Aylesbury Vale District Council, (c) Wycombe District Council, (d) Chiltern District Council and (e) South Banks District Council on the High Speed Two proposal; and if he will make a statement.

(269107)

743
N Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to consult (a) the Chilterns Conservation Board and (b) the National Trust on the High Speed Two proposal; and if he will make a statement.

(269108)

744
N Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to require the management of High Speed Two Ltd to develop the proposal in ways which maintain the standard of passenger rail service provided by Chiltern Railways to residents in Buckinghamshire; and if he will make a statement.

(269109)

745
N Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on land owned by the National Trust of the High Speed Two proposal; and if he will make a statement.

(269110)

746
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what failsafe safety measures are in place in tankers transporting liquefied gas; and if he will make a statement.

(269344)

747
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects all UK-registered tankers to have double hulls.

(269345)

748
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 835W, on railways: freight, what his Department's policy is on where on a stretch of motorway rail freight interchanges should be sited.

(268897)

749
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 835W, on railways: freight, what the position of (a) the Highways Agency and (b) Kent Highways was on the proposed Kent International Gateway development; and if he will make a statement.

(268898)

750
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the system of average speed check cameras on the A127 between Basildon and Southend will be fully operational; and if he will make a statement.

(269801)

751
N Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many speeding tickets have been issued on the basis of evidence from the average speed check cameras on the A13 between Basildon and Southend since their inception.

(269802)

752
N Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's timetable is for work to widen stretches of the M25.

(268991)

753
N Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is working on proposals for a draft National Policy Statement on (a) airports and (b) high speed rail.

(268992)

754
N Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2009, Official Report, column 300W, on parking: fees and charges, what comments were received from other Departments on the proposals for regulations for workplace policy levy schemes.

(268993)

755
N Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to issue a new version of the Aviation White Paper to take account of developments since 2004.

(268994)

756
N Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Derby North of 6 March 2009, Official Report, column 1847W, on rolling stock, what assessment he has made of the effect of the introduction of new rolling stock on numbers of jobs servicing and maintaining the rolling stock to be replaced.

(268995)

757
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will review the (a) legislative and (b) administrative requirements for Tower Bridge to be raised on demand for the passage of vessels.

(268996)

758
Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many objections to proposals for the development of on-shore wind farms were lodged by the Highways Agency in each year since 2004.

(269220)

759
Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria the Highways Agency uses in appraising proposals for the construction of wind farms adjacent to or near highways.

(269221)

760
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269546)

761
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269569)

762
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269594)

763
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269615)

764
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269639)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

765
N Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with Welsh Assembly Government Ministers on the progress of the proposed Environmental Protection and Waste Management Legislative Competence Order; and if he will make a statement.

(269289)

766
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269547)

767
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269568)

768
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269590)

769
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269616)

770
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269640)

Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality

771
N Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what the (a) pay band of and (b) cash equivalent pension transfer value accrued by each member of the senior management board of the Commission of Equality and Human Rights is; and if she will make a statement.

(269317)

772
N Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2009, Official Report, columns 335-6W, on manpower: Equality and Human Rights Commission, how many staff who were paid (a) between £50,000 and £100,000 and (b) over £100,000 a year were employed by the (i) Disability Rights Commission, (ii) Equal Opportunities Commission and (iii) Commission for Racial Equality in their last full year of existence.

(269477)

773
N Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2009, Official Report, columns 335-6W, on manpower: Equality and Human Rights Commission, what the staffing costs are for each department of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

(269478)

774
N Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2009, Official Report, columns 335-6W, on manpower: Equality and Human Rights Commission, how many staff of the Equality and Human Rights Commission are paid (a) between £50,000 and £100,000 and (b) over £100,000 a year.

(269479)

775
N Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, whether the accounts of the Equality and Human Rights Commission for 2007-08 have been approved by (a) the Board of the Commission and (b) its Audit and Risk Committee.

(268807)

776
Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what assessment she has made of (a) levels of public support for and (b) potential harmful consequences of the marketing of (i) products and (ii) holidays directly to specific age groups.

(269474)

777
Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what recent assessment she has made of her policy on (a) age-based concessions in the insurance industry and (b) age limits on group holidays.

(269512)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

778
N Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to publish proposals for changes to housing benefit.

(269422)

779
N Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of housing benefit payments to tenants of private rented accommodation since the introduction of the latest allowance; and if he will make a statement.

(269738)

780
N Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much is outstanding in child support payments under the (a) former and (b) new child support scheme; over how many years such outstanding monies have been accumulated; and how many individuals are due payments in each category.

(268746)

781
N Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the expenditure required from the public purse to alter personal allowances for council tax benefit to provide that in households where no individual is eligible to pay income tax receive full council tax benefit (a) regardless of the amount of capital held and (b) while maintaining the current capital limits; and if he will estimate the number of households which would pay a reduced rate of or no council tax as a result of such a change.

(268899)

782
N Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the expenditure required from the public purse to (a) raise to £50,000 and (b) abolish the upper capital limit for council tax benefit; and if he will estimate the number of households which would pay a reduced rate of or no council tax as a result of such a change.

(268900)

783
N Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the code of conduct relating to Pathways to Work programmes for (a) prime contractors and (b) sub-contractors; and how many complaints his Department has received from sub-contractors relating to breaches of the code.

(268937)

784
N Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) organisational process and (b) staff resources his Department uses to provide assurance on IT system security.

(268938)

785
N Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many national insurance numbers were issued in Peterborough to citizens of EU member states other than the UK in each month since May 2004; and if he will make a statement.

(269009)

786
Dr Alasdair McDonnell (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons he proposes a UK reservation to Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; what discussions he has had with representatives of devolved administrations in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland on his proposal; and if he will make a statement.

(269034)

787
Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) mission statement and (b) objectives of directgov are.

(268965)

788
Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of directgov as a vehicle for digital inclusion.

(268966)

789
N Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the principles of digital inclusion are applied to Jobcentre Plus.

(268967)

790
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many gas technicians in Scotland (a) were registered under the CORGI scheme and (b) are registered under the new Gas Safety Register scheme.

(269001)

791
N Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals in each region have been on the New Deal for Lone Parents (a) in each year since its inception and (b) in each of the last eight quarters.

(268860)

792
N Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many 18 to 24 year olds in each region have been on the New Deal for Lone Parents (a) in each year since its inception and (b) in each of the last eight quarters.

(268861)

793
N Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of jobseeker's allowance claimants undertaking mandatory Jobcentre Plus training courses at six months found sustainable jobs of 26 or more weeks duration on completion of their courses in the latest period for which figures are available.

(269088)

794
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have had refunds from the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission for overpayments made to it and its predecessor during the last 12 months.

(269309)

795
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance Jobcentre Plus has given to personal advisers on identifying employers eligible for payments under the employers' golden hello scheme announced by his Department on 12 January 2009; and if he will place in the Library a copy of such guidance.

(269013)

796
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which staff in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are responsible for administering the employers' golden hello scheme announced by his Department on 12 January 2009.

(269014)

797
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many payments have been made in each region to date under the employers' golden hello scheme announced by his Department on 12 January 2009.

(269015)

798
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants have terminated their claim and immediately claimed incapacity benefit on the grounds of poor mental health in each of the last 24 months.

(269016)

799
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what meetings (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department have had with trade union and business leaders to discuss the recruitment subsidies announced on 12 January 2009.

(269029)

800
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff employed by his Department's agencies other than Jobcentre Plus work in Jobcentre Plus offices; which agencies such staff work for; and for how long he expects such working arrangements to endure.

(269045)

801
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much Jobcentre Plus has spent on redundancy payments in each year since it was established; and what proportion of staff costs such expenditure represents in each year.

(269046)

802
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were claiming (a) incapacity benefit and (b) disability living allowance when their primary health problem or condition was alcohol-related in each of the last 10 years; and how many such claimants were (i) under 18 years and (ii) over state pension age in each of those years.

(269050)

803
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the distance travelled by jobseeker's allowance claimants to the Jobcentre Plus where they sign on is recorded by Jobcentre Plus.

(269051)

804
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, of 5 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1794-5W, on Jobcentre Plus: telephone services, how many calls were received by benefit contact centres in each month in each of the last three years.

(269290)

805
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2009, Official Report, column 1302W, on Jobcentre Plus: civil proceedings, how many times legal action has been taken against (a) Jobcentre Plus and (b) individual Jobcentre staff in each region since 2002; on what basis such action was taken in respect of each case in which legal proceedings have been concluded; and what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of such action.

(269291)

806
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 28 October 2008, Official Report, columns 868-9W, on the state retirement pension, if he will revise his estimate of the number of cases of pensioners potentially entitled to lump sum payments of backdated retirement pension through payment of Class 3 National Insurance contributions to take account of pensioners, identified by his Department's special exercise; how much has been paid out in such lump sums to date; to how many people; when he expects to complete this exercise; and if he will make a statement.

(269292)

807
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 1008W, on state retirement pensions: females, if he will estimate the number of women who will be entitled to a (a) lump sum pension back payments only, (b) lump sum back payments and home responsibilities protection (HRP) and (c) HRP only by the end of the special exercise; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse in each case.

(269293)

808
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of vacancies of positions offering 30 hours or more employment a week notified to jobcentres in each of the last 12 months.

(269469)

809
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of restoring the link between the basic state pension and earnings in each financial year between 2010-11 and 2014-15.

(269470)

810
N Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish an update of the data in figure 6.41 on page 293 of the report of the Turner Commission, A new pension settlement for the twenty-first century, on public expenditure on pensioner benefits as a percentage of GDP, for the period covered by the figure; and if he will publish the same information in the case of each age cohort.

(269821)

811
Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of (a) the change in the number of EU citizens who will be entitled to the state pension and (b) the likely change in public expenditure as a result of changes to national insurance contribution conditions in the Pensions Act 2008 over the next 25 years.

(269827)

812
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long on average it took to process a claim for jobseeker's allowance in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district in each month since November 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(269506)

813
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Jobcentre Plus personal advisers in (a) each region, (b) each Jobcentre Plus district and (c) total have resigned in each of the last (i) five years and (ii) 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

(269507)

814
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of incapacity benefit claimants in (a) each region, (b) each Jobcentre Plus district and (c) the UK (i) had and (ii) were receiving treatment for (A) drug addiction problems and (B) alochol addiction problems in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269533)

815
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was paid out in (a) crisis loans, (b) budgeting loans and (c) community care grants in (i) each Jobcentre Plus district and (ii) each region in each month since October 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(269535)

816
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the ratio of jobseeker's allowance claimants to members of frontline staff in Jobcentre Plus was (a) in the UK, (b) in each region and (c) in each Jobcentre Plus district on the latest date for which information is available; and if he will make a statement.

(269536)

817
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269548)

818
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the publication of the Greening Government ICT Strategy; and if he will make a statement.

(269567)

819
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269589)

820
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; how many such devices had a function enabling two-sided printing; and if he will make a statement.

(269617)

821
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(269641)

822
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what grounds formal complaints were made to Jobcentre Plus in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(269756)

823
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent customer-facing Jobcentre Plus staff there were on average in each (a) region and (b) Jobcentre Plus district since November 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(269758)

824
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many unprocessed jobseeker's allowance claims there were in (a) total and (b) each region in each month since November 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(269759)

Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

825
Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what progress the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has made in investigating unfair bank charges; and when he expects the OFT to report.

[Transferred] (269800)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

826
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will widen the range of construction products and the labour associated with their installation to which a reduced rate of value added tax applies.

[Transferred] (269516)

Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

827
N Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many Somali citizens are resident in the UK.

[Transferred] (269752)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

828
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will establish a target beyond 2010 for the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from social housing by 80 per cent; and if she will make a statement.

[Transferred] (269513)

829
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consideration she has given to international comparisons of initiatives for energy efficiency in social housing; and if she will make a statement.

[Transferred] (269519)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

830
Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the likely cost of introducing a universal health visitors programme in schools.

[Transferred] (269197)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

831
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign students were prosecuted for breach of the work conditions of their visa in 2008.

[Transferred] (269746)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills

832
Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many students were awarded qualifications by further education colleges not on the UK Border Agency's accreditation list in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008.

[Transferred] (269743)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

833
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department has taken to persuade farmers in Afghanistan to diversify crop production away from poppy production; what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of such initiatives; what estimate he has made of the costs incurred to date; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (269811)

834
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much budgetary aid the UK gave to Montserrat in each of the last five years.

[Transferred] (269781)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

835
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he had with his EU counterparts at the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 26 and 27 February 2009 on the implementation of the European e-justice action plan; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (269672)

836
N Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken by the Cardiff office of the Appeals Service was to review decisions on applications for (a) disability living allowance and (b) all benefits in the latest period for which information is available; and how many appeals submitted to that office for review were outstanding on 31 January 2009.

[Transferred] (269510)

837
N Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance his Department has issued to the Appeals Service on the maximum time for making determinations on appeals against decisions on disability living allowance applications.

[Transferred] (269803)

838
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of those detained in (a) young offender institutions and (b) prisons changed their declaration of religious faith to Muslim in each year since 2003.

[Transferred] (269318)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

839
N Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the cost per mile of construction of a new high-speed rail line.

[Transferred] (268999)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

840
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the change in the number of people who would accrue contributory years of national insurance contributions as a result of charging employee national insurance contributions on aggregate income from all employments; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (269039)

841
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the change in revenue for the Exchequer if employee and employer national insurance contributions were charged on aggregate income from all employments; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (269040)

842
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he made of the performance of the Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee in advising the Health and Safety Executive.

[Transferred] (269207)

843
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number and proportion of people of working age in each age group without any form of pension saving outside the basic state pension in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (269472)

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