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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Tuesday 21 April 2009
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Tuesday 21 April 2009
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 21 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 Tuesday 21 April of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Tuesday 21 April see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, on what dates the Secretary of State met representatives of British Airways since June 2007; what issues were discussed; who attended each meeting; whether a record of each meeting was kept; and if he will make a statement. | | (269842) | 2
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many officials of each grade from his Department and its predecessor were seconded to work with British Airways in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (269849) | 3
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many people aged (a) 16, (b) 17, (c) 18, (d) 19, (e) 20 and (f) over 20 years old have been in receipt of the national minimum wage applicable to them in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK in each year since its inception. | | (270219) | 4
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when the Government plans next to uprate the national minimum wage. | | (270222) | 5
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what support his Department has offered to small businesses in (a) Tamworth constituency and (b) Staffordshire during the economic downturn. | | (270234) | 6
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to reply to the letter of 2 February 2009 from the hon. Member for Yeovil on links from the South West Regional Development Agency website; and if he will make a statement. | | (270068) | 7
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2009, Official Report, column 1407W, on the Union Modernisation Fund, if he will place in the Library a copy of the action record of each of the decisions taken by the Supervisory Board to date. | | (270189) | 8
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent guidance (a) the Certification Officer and (b) his Department has issued on whether office facilities provided by employers to trades unions may be used for political activity. | | (270288) | 9
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent guidance (a) the Certification Officer and (b) his Department has issued on the proportion of fixed operating costs of a trades union with a political fund to be assigned to that fund. | | (270289) | 10
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what plans he has to improve the telecommunications infrastructure in rural areas to extend the provision of high speed broadband. | | (270209) | 11
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will make an assessment of the effect on customers and other creditors of companies filing for bankruptcy of the procedures under which insolvency practitioners are paid from an insolvent company's assets before others are refunded. | | (270122) | 12
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what funding each regional development agency has given to each regional health Brussels office in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available. | | (269969) | 13
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what regional industrial development boards there are; what the correspondence address of each such board is; and whether each such board is co-located with a regional development agency. | | (269983) | 14
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much funding had been allocated to each regional cultural observatory from regional development agencies for 2009-10. | | (270125) | 15
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much funding each regional development agency plans to give to each regional design panel in 2009-10. | | (270126) | 16
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2009, Official Report, column 952W, on home information packs, how many notifications the Office of Fair Trading has received of penalty charge notices being issued in relation to home information pack duties; and in respect of which local authority areas. | | (270187) | 17
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on local authority (a) trading standards, (b) licensing, (c) e-government and (d) environmental health functions of implementation of the EU Services Directive. | | (270247) | 18
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269856) | 19
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what (a) practical support and (b) funding opportunities are available to small and medium-sized businesses seeking to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide they emit. | | (270277) | 20
| Mike Wood (Batley & Spen): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he expects the credit insurance scheme to be available to small and medium-sized businesses in the furniture industry. | | (270203) | 21
| Mike Wood (Batley & Spen): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what plans his Department has to ensure that fair trade principles and products are promoted at the London 2012 Olympic Games. | | (270204) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 22
| Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to enforce compliance by banks and building societies with regulations to treat customers fairly in respect of differential interest rates for new and existing individual savings account holders. | | (270000) | 23
| John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will reply to the correspondence of 24 February 2009 from to the hon. Member for Edinburgh West on business owners of motor dealerships. | | (270040) | 24
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many statements HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sent out in the tax year 2008-09 for an amount of tax owed by either HMRC or a taxpayer rolled over to the next tax year of between (a) £0.01 and £5.00, (b) £5.01 and £10.00, (c) £10.01 and £15.00, (d) £15.01 and £20.00 and (e) £20.01 and £25.00; and if he will make a statement. | | (270282) | 25
| Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Mid Bedfordshire constituency and (b) the UK have contacted the Debt Management and Banking Department of HM Revenue and Customs in response to demands for inheritance tax since 1997. | | (270276) | 26
| Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will replace the £1 coin with a £1 note; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of using a long-life plastic money note. | | (270081) | 27
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the expenditure on air travel procured under the OGC Buying Solutions Government Air Programme in each of the next three years. | | (269933) | 28
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2009, Official Report, column 1183W, on economic and monetary union, who the designated Euro-Minister is in each Department; and on what date each acquired the Euro brief. | | (269934) | 29
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2009, Official Report, column 1187W, on parliamentary questions, what the disproportionate cost threshold has been in each year since 1997. | | (269935) | 30
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of employer national insurance contributions increases announced in the Pre-Budget Report 2008 on the level of employment. | | (269936) | 31
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2009, Official Report, column 1187W, on public sector: hospitality, how many bookings for stays at five star or above hotels were made through the Expotel contract by his Department in the last year for which figures are available. | | (269937) | 32
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2009, Official Report, column 1187W, on public sector: hospitality, how many visits each customer department booked through the Expotel contract in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what expenditure each customer department incurred in relation to such visits. | | (269938) | 33
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent notification sent by HM Revenue and Customs to the Information Commissioner on pay as you earn coding notices being issued to the wrong people. | | (269939) | 34
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance issued by the Financial Services Authority on anti-money laundering and politically exposed persons. | | (269940) | 35
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1447-8W, on civil servants: pensions, how many individuals have pension funds invested in (a) Standard Life and (b) Scottish Widows with-profit funds according to records held by the Financial Services Authority. | | (269941) | 36
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Office of Government Commerce has recorded as being spent on consultants by central government in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (269942) | 37
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of pay as you earn coding notices issued to the wrong individual as a result of errors in HM Revenue and Customs' print and post processes in the last 12 months. | | (269943) | 38
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the hon. Member for Weston-Super-Mare's letters of 2 December 2008 and 27 February 2009 sent on behalf of his constituent, Mr Adrian Pritchard. | | (270093) | 39
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269854) | 40
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what advice he has given to British nationals with money deposited with (a) the Bank of Ireland and (b) the Anglo Irish Bank in the event of a default; and if he will make a statement. | | (270229) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 41
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the long-term outcomes for children who have been cared for in (a) family and friends care, (b) family and friends foster care, (c) stranger foster care and (d) adoption. | | (270224) | 42
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) family and friend carers and (b) family and friends foster carers are providing full-time care for a child because of (i) parental drug and alcohol misuse, (ii) the death of a parent, (iii) parental imprisonment, (iv) domestic violence and (v) other reasons. | | (270225) | 43
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many family and friend (a) carers and (b) foster carers received no financial support in 2008-09. | | (270226) | 44
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the average monetary level of financial support family and friend (a) carers and (b) foster carers received from each local authority in 2008-09. | | (270227) | 45
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of grandparents and other family members in England who are (a) family and friends carers but not foster carers and (b) family and friends foster carers. | | (270228) | 46
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether he has appointed a Communications Champion as referred to in the Speech, Language and Communication Needs Action Plan. | | (270084) | 47
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which care homes have administered behaviour controlling drugs to (a) girls and (b) boys (i) in the last 30 years and (ii) in the last 12 months. | | (270038) | 48
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what procedures govern the establishment of non-maintained special schools. | | (269874) | 49
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, by what (a) criteria and (b) mechanisms funding is allocated to non-maintained special schools. | | (269875) | 50
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils with special educational needs attended mainstream schools assessed by Ofsted as inadequate in each year since 1997. | | (269876) | 51
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which schools have been taken into special measures more than once since 1997. | | (269877) | 52
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils attended schools which were taken into special measures for the first time in each year since 1997. | | (269878) | 53
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department has spent on field forces in each year since 1997. | | (269879) | 54
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which local authorities are not pursuing an open tender for their social work practice pilot. | | (269880) | 55
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many requests his Department received under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in 2008; and how many of those were answered within 20 working days. | | (269881) | 56
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269857) | 57
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children have been removed from their parents following a single incident of child harm in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (270215) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 58
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which special advisers (a) were dismissed, (b) resigned, (c) were demoted and (d) were disciplined in each year since June 2007. | | (270079) | 59
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many small businesses there are in (a) Tamworth constituency and (b) Staffordshire. | | (270032) | 60
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people have been employed in the small business sector in (a) Tamworth constituency and (b) Staffordshire in each year since 1997. | | (270274) | 61
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which works of art from the Government Art Collection are displayed in (a) 10 Downing Street and (b) the Prime Minister's personal residence; and which have been chosen for display in each place since June 2007. | | (269894) | 62
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what estimate he has made of the number of working days lost in the Cabinet Office as a result of workplace stress in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (269895) | 63
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what budget the Cabinet Office has set for the real help now website for 2009-10. | | (269896) | 64
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the (a) budget and (b) staffing level of his Department's Regional Support Unit will be in 2009-10. | | (269897) | 65
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what public sector bodies were classified as part of the Civil Service in 1997. | | (269898) | 66
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what proportion of jobs created have been in the public sector in each year since 1997. | | (269899) | 67
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the average percentage yearly change in earnings in (a) the Civil Service, (b) local government, (c) the public sector and (d) the private sector was in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (269900) | 68
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what use the Charity Commission has made of directed surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. | | (269901) | 69
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what information the Commissioner for Public Appointments holds on the public appointments to be made in the next 24 months. | | (269902) | 70
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many public appointments were made in the last 12 months according to records held by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. | | (269903) | 71
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for what reasons and on what date the Cabinet Office's Public Appointments Unit was disbanded. | | (269904) | 72
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the (a) purpose and (b) budget of the works in 10 Downing Street with Westminster City Council planning application reference 09/00619/LBC is. | | (269905) | 73
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for how long each of the two vacant Ministerial residences in Admiralty House have been vacant. | | (269906) | 74
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the UK Statistics Authority's policy is on publishing statistics scheduled for publication during periods when Parliament has been dissolved. | | (269907) | 75
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what timetable has been set for the appointment of a Director of Digital Engagement; and to whom the Director will report once appointed. | | (269908) | 76
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much funding the Cabinet Office has provided for the charity v to date. | | (269910) | 77
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what criteria the (a) Cabinet Office, (b) Government Communications Network and (c) the Central Office of Information uses to determine whether a job is advertised (i) publicly on the Civil Service Recruitment Gateway external site, (ii) on the Civil Service Recruitment Gateway internal site and (iii) internally only. | | (269949) | 78
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what guidance the Civil Service Commissioners have issued on the circumstances in which Civil Service vacancies are advertised to the general public. | | (269950) | 79
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what expenditure the Cabinet Office incurred on management consultancy in the last year for which figures are available. | | (269952) | 80
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 392-3W, on departmental mobile telephones, whether any of the 14 damaged mobile telephones had been allocated to individuals who work in 10 Downing Street. | | (269953) | 81
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what steps 10 Downing Street is taking in respect of Cabinet Office Departmental Strategic Objective 4 to achieve a 50 per cent. reduction in avoidable contact with members of the public by 31 March 2011. | | (270135) | 82
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether his Department has conducted research on levels of morale in the Civil Service in the last 12 months. | | (270137) | 83
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will place in the Library a copy of (a) Futurebuilders' review of Catz Club's investment portfolio dated January 2008, (b) Futurebuilders' review of Catz Club for the November 2008 board meeting and (c) the accompanying Events Timeline and Catz Club Detailed Overview produced for that board meeting. | | (270138) | 84
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, column 409W, on public sector: manpower, whether the Civil Service employee headcount in 1997 included (a) self-employed workers, (b) contract workers and (c) agency temporary workers. | | (270149) | 85
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 409-12W, on public sector: manpower, whether the methodology that excludes casual and annualised hour contracts from the definition of public sector workers was used in the calculation of the Civil Service employee headcount in 1997. | | (270150) | 86
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 404-9W, on public sector: manpower, for what reasons a list of the public sector bodies which were classified as central government for the purpose of the Civil Service employee headcount in 1997 is not available. | | (270151) | 87
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much was spent on private sector management consultants by Government departments in the last year for which figures are available. | | (270156) | 88
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Cabinet Office has issued guidance to civil servants in respect of taking minutes at formal meetings. | | (270157) | 89
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the National Whitley Council Agreement on Facilities for Industrial Relations Duties and Trade Union Activities in the Non-Industrial Civil Service (a) permits or (b) prohibits the use of office facilities, including telephones and computers, by trades union representatives for activity of a political nature. | | (270158) | 90
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the National Whitley Council Agreement on Facilities for Industrial Relations Duties and Trade Union Activities in the Non-Industrial Civil Service (a) permits or (b) prohibits paid leave in respect of attendance at conferences or union meetings of a political nature by trades union representatives. | | (270159) | 91
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Cabinet Office has issued guidance to Government departments and non-departmental public bodies on whether recognised trades unions with political funds should inform staff of their right to opt out of the political levy. | | (270160) | 92
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether the Cabinet Office has issued guidance to Government departments and agencies in respect of the award of excess fares allowances to civil servants. | | (270161) | 93
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2009, Official Report, column 1453W, on the Public Service Forum, what the (a) remit and (b) function of the Forum is. | | (270163) | 94
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2009, Official Report, column 1453W, on the Public Service Forum, on what dates the Public Service Forum has met; who attended each meeting; and what the dates are of meetings of the Forum scheduled in the next 12 months. | | (270164) | 95
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2009, Official Report, column 1453W, on the Public Service Forum, if he will place in the Library a copy of (a) each set of meeting notes and (b) the minutes of each meeting of the Forum to date. | | (270165) | 96
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2009, Official Report, columns 943-4W, on trade unions, whether special leave may be granted for trade union representatives to undertake political activities relating to their trade union responsibilities. | | (270166) | 97
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2009, Official Report, columns 943-4W, on trade unions, whether the office working space provided by the Cabinet Office to trade union representatives may be used for political activities. | | (270167) | 98
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 392-3W, on departmental mobile telephones, what the cost to the public purse was of replacing the 14 damaged mobile telephones. | | (270170) | 99
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 392-3W, on departmental mobile telephones, what the (a) make and (b) model of each of the 14 damaged mobile telephones was. | | (270171) | 100
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Cardiff Central of 23 February 2009, Official Report, column 402W, on Government departments: disclosure of information, what the figures are for each department responsible for the policy area in respect of which the information was disclosed, in each of the three years. | | (270172) | 101
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1446-7W, on civil servants: pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Hewitt Associates advice on withdrawal from with-profit funds. | | (270175) | 102
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1446-7W, on civil servants: pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter sent by the Cabinet Office to members of the Civil Service Additional Voluntary Contribution Scheme; and what alternative funds are proposed in place of with-profits funds. | | (270176) | 103
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1446-7W, on civil servants: pensions, for what reasons the Civil Service Additional Voluntary Contribution Scheme is withdrawing from with-profits funds. | | (270177) | 104
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement, 22 July 2008, Official Report, columns 99-102WS, on special advisers, and with reference to paragraph 72 of the Cabinet Office memorandum to the House of Lords Communications select committee, 14 October 2008, which special advisers are employed primarily in the area of communications. | | (270184) | 105
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2009, Official Report, column 942W, on 10 Downing Street, if he will place in the Library a copy of the list of retail prices of each item of merchandise available in the Downing Street gift shop. | | (270186) | 106
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the Cabinet Office's policy is on contracts being signed by Government departments in the 12 months before the last possible date for a general election. | | (270198) | 107
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what his latest estimate is of the number of retired public sector workers to have been underpaid as a result of errors in the administration of their state pension. | | (270199) | 108
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to Lord Ouseley of 4 March 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, column WA157, on Civil Service: salaries, which public bodies pay a salary of more than (a) £100,000 and (b) £200,000 to one or more individual civil servants. | | (270211) | 109
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to Lord Ouseley of 4 March 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, column WA157, on Civil Service: salaries, how many individuals in (a) executive agencies and (b) non-departmental public bodies are paid more than (i) £100,000 and (ii) £200,000 per annum. | | (270212) | 110
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many Ministerial residences are unoccupied. | | (270285) | 111
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will undertake an audit of the efficiency of non-departmental public bodies. | | (270286) | 112
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for North East Hertfordshire of 31 October 2006, Official Report, column 323W, on departmental branding, what the Cabinet Office's policy is on the (a) re-use and (b) disposal of departmental-branded goods which become out of date following machinery of government changes; and in what manner the sign of the Deputy Prime Minister's Office was disposed of. | | (270294) | 113
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many and what proportion of former civil servants have had their pension payments (a) reduced and (b) increased in the last 12 months; and for what reason in each case. | | (270080) | 114
| Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to the Answer of 11 June 2008, Official Report, columns 308-9W, on taxation: income, if he will publish an updated copy of table 14A of the Effects of Taxes and Benefits on Household Income, broken down by the age of the household's reference person in five year bands from the ages of 20 to 80 years rather than by household income deciles, for the latest year for which figures are available. | | (270208) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 115
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to provide advice on buy and let back schemes to those home owners experiencing financial difficulties. | | (269994) | 116
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homeless (a) children and (b) adults are in temporary accommodation in (i) Birmingham Hall Green constituency and (ii) Birmingham City Council area. | | (270037) | 117
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what meetings (a) Ministers in her Department and (b) her Department's officials have had with representatives of Dunsfold Park Limited regarding the redevelopment of the former Dunsfold Aerodrome site in Surrey in the last three years. | | (270051) | 118
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what dates meetings between representatives of Dunsfold Park Limited and the Government Office for the South East have taken place since July 2005. | | (270052) | 119
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons her Department rejected the proposed Dunsfold Park, Surrey eco-town development; and what methodology her Department used to assess the proposal. | | (270053) | 120
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 4 February 2008, Official Report, column 853W, on property development: Dunsfold Park, which aspects of national planning policy apply to such a development. | | (270205) | 121
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 4 February 2008, Official Report, column 853W, on property development: Dunsfold Park, if she will place in the Library a copy of each non-confidential written representation (a) her Department and (b) the Government Office for the South East received in relation to the proposed Dunsfold Park eco-town. | | (270206) | 122
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many injuries were sustained by firefighters in the course of their duties in each fire authority area in each of the last three years. | | (270031) | 123
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether changes in levels of local authority rents in 2010-11 will be linked to retail price index (RPI) inflation if RPI inflation is negative. | | (269882) | 124
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 3 March 2009, Official Report, column 1540W, on the Homebuy scheme, how many homes have been purchased in each Government Office region under (a) the Social Homebuy scheme and (b) Homebuy schemes other than Social, Open Market or New Build Homebuy in (i) 2006-07, (ii) 2007-08 and (iii) 2009 to date. | | (269883) | 125
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the potential maximum reward grant is which each local authority with national indicator 191 targets could receive in 2009-10 if it meets all its targets. | | (270071) | 126
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 13 March 2009, Official Report, column 767W, on local government finance, what effect failure by a local authority to meet its local national indicator 191 will have on the level of reward grant available to such an authority in 2009-10. | | (270072) | 127
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her Department's timetable is for (a) further consultation on the community infrastructure levy and (b) the full commencement of the levy. | | (270115) | 128
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the effect of the community infrastructure levy on levels of development (a) during and (b) outside a period of recession. | | (270116) | 129
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the business plan for the Zero-Carbon Hub. | | (270117) | 130
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the performance of the Zero-Carbon Hub against its objectives to date. | | (270118) | 131
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for how many years non-domestic revaluation transitional relief operated in the (a) 1995-2000, (b) 2000-2005 and (c) 2005-2010 rating cycle. | | (270119) | 132
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in which Government Office regions the Homes and Communities Agency reached 80 per cent. of its start of year targets for (a) starts and (b) completions for 2008-09. | | (270120) | 133
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the value-for-money scores were of each local authority in each year that the Audit Commission has produced the figures under the Comprehensive Performance Assessment regime. | | (270121) | 134
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the London and Quadrant Up2You portfolio completed the investment management system process under the National Affordable Housing Programme. | | (270123) | 135
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was allocated to each local authority (a) in cash terms and (b) per head of population in the most recent round of the Local Authority Business Growth Incentive Scheme funding allocations. | | (270128) | 136
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 11 March 2009, Official Report, columns 504-5W, on sustainable development, whether local spending reports will be extended to (a) the Highways Agency, (b) the Homes and Communities Agency, (c) the regional development agencies, (d) the Environment Agency and (e) learning and skills councils. | | (270178) | 137
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 12 March 2009, Official Report, columns 746-7W, on mortgages: Government assistance, how many households deemed to have met the eligibility criteria have received financial assistance to date. | | (270179) | 138
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 12 March 2009, Official Report, columns 750-1W, on non-domestic rates: ports, if she will publish the address and rateable value of each hereditament in each port (a) pre-review and (b) post-review. | | (270180) | 139
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 13 March 2009, Official Report, column 768W, on non-domestic rates, in which local authority areas the automated valuation techniques have been used. | | (270182) | 140
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the maximum monetary value of small business rate relief to a firm (a) in London and (b) outside London was in 2008-09. | | (270237) | 141
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what transfers of underspend in one government office region the Homes and Communities Agency has allocated to other government office regions in respect of 2008-09. | | (270238) | 142
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many hectares of land are on the register of surplus public sector land. | | (270239) | 143
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans Ordnance Survey has to implement the EU INSPIRE Directive; and whether it plans to provide data under the Directive free of charge to the public. | | (270240) | 144
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households have been assisted by each of the local authorities which has fast-tracked the mortgage rescue scheme. | | (270241) | 145
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households are expected to receive assistance from the mortgage rescue scheme's (a) shared equity programme and (b) Government mortgage to rent programme (i) in total and (ii) as a proportion of the total number of housing repossessions in the next year. | | (270242) | 146
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of entries on the rating list which were deemed empty were below the empty property business rate threshold in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10. | | (270243) | 147
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average cost of housing a homeless household in temporary accommodation in terms of (a) accommodation costs for households in social rented housing and (b) housing benefit for households in private rented housing was in the latest period for which information is available. | | (270244) | 148
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the maximum household income is at which a household is eligible for intermediate level (a) affordable housing and (b) shared ownership schemes. | | (270245) | 149
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's Fire and Rescue Service: Operational Statistics Bulletin for England, December 2008, for what reasons Merseyside Fire Authority has more retained firefighters than retained firefighter posts. | | (270246) | 150
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the Government Office for the North West is of (a) moving to new offices and (b) renting those offices in the first 12 months after moving. | | (270248) | 151
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department provides guidance to local authorities on provision of public funding to groups which campaign in local referendums or elections. | | (270249) | 152
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what procedures will apply to petitions received by local authorities relating to ongoing (a) planning, (b) licensing and (c) gambling applications. | | (270250) | 153
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which housing associations have signed up to participate in the mortgage rescue scheme's (a) shared equity programme and (b) Government mortgage to rent programme; and what (i) incentives and (ii) requirements there are for housing associations to participate. | | (270255) | 154
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what records her Department holds of the number of people employed by individual local authorities in the past; and what records her Department holds of the number of people who are members of the Local Government Pension Scheme who are employed by local authorities. | | (270260) | 155
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions there have been between her Department and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on the community infrastructure levy. | | (270261) | 156
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the mortgage rescue scheme's (a) shared equity programme and (b) Government mortgage to rent programme will become operational. | | (270262) | 157
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what forecasts her Department has made of the number of households which will have negative equity in the next 12 months. | | (270263) | 158
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what figures her Department holds on how many residential buy-to-let mortgages there are. | | (270264) | 159
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate has been made of the effect of the end of revaluation transitional relief on levels of business rates in 2009-10. | | (270265) | 160
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what changes have been made to the rating (a) system and (b) charges for beach huts in Bournemouth in 2009-10 compared with the previous year; and if she will make a statement. | | (270268) | 161
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average council tax band of a (a) social rented, (b) private rented and (c) privately-owned dwelling is according to data held by (i) her Department, (ii) the Homes and Communities Agency, (iii) the National Register of Social Housing and (iv) the Valuation Office Agency. | | (270291) | 162
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when her Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269850) | 163
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties bought through shared ownership schemes have been repossessed in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (270280) | 164
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assistance her Department provides to owners of a property bought through a shared ownership scheme who are at risk of repossession. | | (270281) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 165
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the component parts of tier (a) two and (b) three of the Cultural Olympiad are; what the cost of each part is estimated to be; and what the source of funding of each part is. | | (270085) | 166
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) guidance has been issued and (b) rules are applied by Ofcom on the sponsorship of television programmes by (i) Government bodies and (ii) charities. | | (269914) | 167
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, in respect of which local authorities he has used his powers under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 to intervene in relation to a proposed library closure since May 1997; on what dates each such intervention was made; and what the outcome of such intervention was in each case. | | (269982) | 168
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 29 January 2009, Official Report, columns 687-8W, on film: licensing, whether local residents within a local authority area may submit for review the classification of a film shown in cinemas within the area on grounds that it contravenes the licence. | | (270130) | 169
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, column 434W, on regional cultural consortia, what the estimated costs are of ending the consortia, including redundancy payments. | | (270134) | 170
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269858) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 171
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK military personnel have been engaged in operations in Afghanistan since 2001; and how many are expected to be involved over the next five years. | | (269920) | 172
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's budget for cyber defence was in each of the last three years. | | (269922) | 173
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with which countries the Government has signed bilateral agreements on cyber warfare and terrorism in the last three years. | | (269923) | 174
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with his NATO counterparts on cyber security. | | (270025) | 175
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what mechanisms are in place to co-ordinate the work of the different Government departments that deal with cyber warfare. | | (270095) | 176
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the role of UK forces is in assisting the Afghanistan government to deliver its anti-corruption strategy; and what assessment he has made of their effectiveness in carrying out that role. | | (270097) | 177
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contribution his Department made to the EU's Pakistan Country Strategy Paper 2007 to 2013; and if he will make a statement. | | (270101) | 178
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was paid in bonuses to civil servants in his Department in each financial year since 2005-06; and what the maximum bonus was in each such financial year. | | (270185) | 179
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what British warships have deployed in the Mediterranean in 2009; and what the mission of each has been. | | (270082) | 180
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269867) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 181
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many pensioners have received a Warm Front grant in each year since the introduction of the scheme. | | (270152) | 182
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead of 23 January 2009 on fuel cells. | | (269997) | 183
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269859) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 184
| Mr Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps the Government has taken on the establishment of a permanent South Atlantic Sanctuary; what steps it plans to take at the June 2009 meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Madeira; and if he will make a statement. | | (270054) | 185
| Mr Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in countries which do not engage in whaling on coastal whaling; and if he will make a statement. | | (270055) | 186
| Mr Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's policy on coastal whaling is; and if he will make a statement. | | (270056) | 187
| Mr Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on voting on the international moratorium on commercial whaling; and if he will make a statement. | | (270057) | 188
| Mr Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the government of Iceland on its quotas for (a) minke and (b) fin whales in 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (270058) | 189
| Mr Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Japanese counterpart on the international moratorium on commercial whaling; and if he will make a statement. | | (270059) | 190
| Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy in European Union negotiations to seek the exclusion of waters south of 27°40" from any future fisheries agreement with Morocco. | | (270181) | 191
N | Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the reservoir capacity in England and Wales was in (a) 1989 and (b) January 2009. | | (268944) | 192
N | Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost of installing individual water meters in each unmetered domestic property in England. | | (268945) | 193
| Mr Oliver Letwin (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has placed an order for supplies of blue tongue vaccine BTV1. | | (270074) | 194
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 6 March 2009, Official Report, column 1875W, on climate change, for what reasons statutory clarification on the legal status of the section 46 notice was needed. | | (269884) | 195
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) minutes, (b) presentations and (c) handouts from his Department's sixth Waste Strategy stakeholder group meeting. | | (269886) | 196
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's policy on the incineration of household waste in municipal incinerators is. | | (269887) | 197
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which waste collection authorities have installed microchips in household bins. | | (269888) | 198
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which parish councils have been awarded quality parish status to date. | | (269889) | 199
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the research report Potential impacts of national road user charging in rural areas: a scoping study, commissioned by his Department. | | (269890) | 200
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department's research project WR0105 Project REDUCE monitoring and evaluation - developing tools to measure waste prevention has been completed; and what funding the EU INTERREG programme provided for the project. | | (269891) | 201
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which local authorities are participating in the research project, Understanding waste growth at local authority level - WR0121; and what budget his Department has set for the programme. | | (269974) | 202
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many local authorities charge for the provision of bags for the collection of residual household waste. | | (269975) | 203
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) membership and (b) remit of the Waste Regional Advisory Group in each government office region is. | | (269976) | 204
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to promote anaerobic digestion as a means of managing the disposal of household waste. | | (269977) | 205
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what approvals Natural England has given for development on green belt land in the last 12 months. | | (269978) | 206
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department has issued to waste collection authorities on the use of electronic systems to monitor household waste flows. | | (269979) | 207
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what dates his Department's Waste Strategy Stakeholder Group has met since it was established. | | (269980) | 208
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects the first set of quarterly data from WasteDataFlow returns to be published following the Environment Agency's issuing of guidance to waste disposal authorities on listing the final destination of waste. | | (269981) | 209
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the timetable is for the Waste and Resources Action Programme to end home compost bin subsidies. | | (269984) | 210
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when information on the number of fixed penalty notices issued for household waste receptacle offences in 2007-08 will be published. | | (270129) | 211
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2009, Official Report, column 2223W, on waste disposal: fees and charges, what guidance (a) his Department and (b) the Waste and Resources Action Programme has given to waste collection authorities on the issuing or levying of fines on households which put waste out at times other than those specified by the local authority. | | (270133) | 212
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answers to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30 April 2008, Official Report, column 467W, and to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 9 October 2008, Official Report, column 754W, on waste management: domestic wastes, if he will publish an updated table of the local authorities which operate residual household waste collections with a frequency of less than once a week, including those operating or planning to operate pilot schemes with that frequency. | | (270136) | 213
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2009, Official Report, column 334W, on waste disposal: fees and charges, whether his Department plans to invite further bids for pilots for charges for the collection of household waste; and whether post-deadline bids will be accepted. | | (270143) | 214
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2009, Official Report, columns 334-5W, on waste disposal: fees and charges, whether joint waste authorities will be able to bid to participate in pilots for charges for the collection of household waste. | | (270144) | 215
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Waste and Resources Action Programme has a statutory basis. | | (270197) | 216
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269860) | 217
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which Minister chairs the Cabinet sub-committee on floods; and if he will make a statement. | | (269965) | 218
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many times the National Resilience Forum on Flooding has met since it was established; and if he will make a statement. | | (269967) | 219
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the membership of the National Resilience Forum on Flooding is; and if he will make a statement. | | (269968) | 220
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Single Payment Scheme stage one appeals are being processed by the Rural Payments Agency; how many of them have been subject to processing for more than (a) 90 days, (b) 120 days and (c) 150 days; and if he will make a statement. | | (270106) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 221
| John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has discussed the political and human rights situation in Burma with his Japanese conterpart; and what plans he has for future discussions. | | (270223) | 222
| Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the extent of freedom of religion and belief in Iran; and if he will make a statement. | | (269999) | 223
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the level of access to legal redress through the courts in Afghanistan. | | (269919) | 224
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding his Department has allocated for operations in Afghanistan in each year since 2001; and what estimate he has made of his Department's expenditure on such operations in the next three years. | | (269921) | 225
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of progress made in achieving the goals of the Afghanistan Compact. | | (270096) | 226
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Pakistani government on (a) power-sharing arrangements between the provincial and federal governments in and (b) the distribution of funding to different parts of that country; and if he will make a statement. | | (270100) | 227
| Andrew Gwynne (Denton & Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which units of Hezbollah his Department has identified as reporting to the Jihad Council. | | (270062) | 228
| Andrew Gwynne (Denton & Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2009, Official Report, column 390W, on Hezbollah, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's assessment of Hezbollah's involvement in terrorism. | | (270063) | 229
| Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Iraqi government on reported human rights abuses in Kurdish controlled areas of northern Iraq. | | (270253) | 230
| Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to meet the new Foreign Minister of Israel to discuss UK-Israel relations. | | (270254) | 231
| Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to assist and support Miriam Kellis, who is being detained without charge in Syria. | | (270257) | 232
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269861) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 233
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many early medical abortions were performed in England by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service at the request of the NHS on women who gave addresses in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the Republic of Ireland in each of the last four years, broken down by (i) the age of the woman and (ii) the length of gestation of the pregnancy. | | (269838) | 234
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for the change in the rate of abortions performed in England on women with addresses in the Republic of Ireland between 2006 and 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (269839) | 235
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women aged (a) 18, (b) 17, (c) 16, (d) 15, (e) 14, (f) 13 and (g) 12 years old who gave addresses in (i) Northern Ireland and (ii) the Republic of Ireland who had an abortion in England in (A) 2006 and (B) 2007 had had (1) one, (2) two, (3) three, (4) four and (5) five or more previous abortions in England. | | (269840) | 236
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were performed in England under the Abortion Act 1967 on women who gave addresses in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the Republic of Ireland where the unborn child was suffering from cleft (i) palate and (ii) lip, broken down by (A) grounds for abortion, (B) the length of gestation in weeks and (C) the relevant health authority in each of the last 15 years. | | (269841) | 237
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were performed in England on women who gave addresses in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the Republic of Ireland in the latest year for which figures are available, broken down by type of procedure. | | (269846) | 238
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions have been performed on women who gave addresses in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the Republic of Ireland under the provisions of the Abortion Act 1967 in the last 30 years; and how many and what percentage of these abortions were performed in an emergency to save the life of the mother. | | (269847) | 239
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women who gave addresses in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the Republic of Ireland were referred by National Health Service GPs to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service for an abortion in each of the last four years for which figures are available, broken down by (i) age of the women and (ii) the length of gestation of the pregnancy in weeks. | | (269848) | 240
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will consider the merits of issuing guidance on the administration of (a) treatment and (b) laser treatment for extreme vascular malformations in children. | | (270001) | 241
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish proposals for public consultation arising from his Department's joint review with the Home Department on NHS charging regulations for overseas visitors; and if he will make a statement. | | (270231) | 242
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the cost to local authorities of identifying the number of disabled children and adults with autism in their area. | | (269145) | 243
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether personal anti-microbial products are supplied by the NHS to patients identified through screening to be carrying MRSA. | | (269985) | 244
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he expects NHS hospitals to take to decolonise patients found through screening to be carrying MRSA; and if he will make a statement. | | (269986) | 245
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many pre-operative patients he expects to be screened by the NHS for MRSA in the next 12 months; what estimate he has made of the cost per patient of such screening; and if he will make a statement. | | (269987) | 246
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many pensioners have received free influenza inoculations in each year since the introduction of the policy. | | (270153) | 247
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many pensioners have received free eye tests since the introduction of the policy. | | (270154) | 248
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been made of the likely effects of proposed National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance on depression, with particular reference to the role of counselling for depression, on the treatment of people with depression. | | (270273) | 249
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on psychological therapies for people with depression in each year since 1997. | | (270275) | 250
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) females and (b) males aged (i) under 16, (ii) from 17 to 21, (iii) from 22 to 26 and (iv) over 26 years old were admitted to hospital with alcohol-related liver conditions in each of the last five years. | | (270216) | 251
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the age of the youngest (a) girl and (b) boy admitted to hospital with an alcohol-related liver condition was in each of the last three years. | | (270217) | 252
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the relationship between alcohol consumption and cancer among (a) men and (b) women; and if he will make a statement. | | (270218) | 253
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the planned external review of the implementation of the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease to be completed; and if he will make a statement. | | (270043) | 254
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people likely to be identified as at risk by the Vascular Risk Assessment programme; and what plans he has to provide (a) advice and (b) treatment for such people. | | (270044) | 255
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1457-8W, on contraceptives: finance, by what means primary care trusts were informed of the additional £12.8 million contraception funding. | | (269990) | 256
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the funding for contraception announced by his Department on 26 February 2009 has been allocated to each strategic health authority. | | (269991) | 257
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to repeat for 2009-10 the allocation of additional funding under general allocations to primary care trusts for contraception services made for 2008-09. | | (269992) | 258
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons reports are not made to the National Chlamydia Screening Programme of chlamydia tests carried out in genito-urinary medicine clinics. | | (270089) | 259
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many qualified school nurses there were in England in each of the last five years. | | (270090) | 260
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many school nurses in England did not have a post-registration qualification in each of the last five years. | | (270091) | 261
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy is on the treatment of people with hypothyroidism; what definition his Department uses of hypothyroidism; and if he will make a statement. | | (270094) | 262
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he expects the Community List foreseen by Article 13.2 of the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation to be published by 31 January 2010. | | (270028) | 263
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dental graduates there were in each year since the new contract for NHS dentistry was introduced in April 2006. | | (270029) | 264
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dentists in England have not met their units of dental activity allocation in each year since the new dental contract was introduced in April 2006. | | (270030) | 265
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time posts in primary care trusts (PCTs) in England became part-time in the year following the merging of PCTs in 2006. | | (270278) | 266
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269862) | 267
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the provision of compensation for those people whose health has been adversely affected by the use of dimethyl fumarate in the treatment of medical conditions. | | (269868) | 268
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of retired nurses have had their pension payments (a) reduced and (b) increased in the last 12 months; and for what reason in each case. | | (270088) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 269
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2009, Official Report, column 1315W, on Anti-Semitism: publications, how much racially inflammatory material that could be perceived as potential incitement to the committing of hate-related crime has been reported to the police for evaluation and assessment in the last six months; and if she will make a statement. | | (270162) | 270
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what date she expects to have appointed private security companies to provide security during the London 2012 Olympics. | | (270041) | 271
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that notices served under section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 are not collated or recorded on a database that allows for an automatic retrieval. | | (270083) | 272
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanism is in place to ensure that the e-Borders system recognises whether individuals who hold dual nationality have overstayed their visas in cases where only the foreign passport is stored on the e-Borders system and the holder does not travel out of the UK on that passport for more than six months. | | (270148) | 273
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost is to British nationals resident overseas of renewing their British passports. | | (270236) | 274
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to provide a substitution answer to Question 265844, on European arrest warrants and prison escapes, tabled on 18 March 2009 for answer on 24 March. | | (268902) | 275
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to provide a substitution answer to Question 265788, on European arrest warrants, tabled on 18 March 2009 for answer on 24 March. | | (268903) | 276
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to provide a substitution answer to Question 265789, on European arrest warrants, tabled on 18 March 2009 for answer on 24 March. | | (268904) | 277
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to provide a substitution answer to Question 265753, on Operation Koala, tabled on 18 March 2009 for answer on 24 March. | | (268905) | 278
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to provide a substitution answer to Question 265787, on European arrest warrants and convictions, tabled on 18 March 2009 for answer on 24 March. | | (268906) | 279
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many pensioners have received a free passport in each year since the introduction of the policy. | | (270155) | 280
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police civilian support staff there were in (a) Tamworth constituency and (b) Staffordshire (i) in 1997 and (ii) at the latest date for which figures are available; how many police community support officers there are in each area; and what the policing budget was in each such area in (1) 1997 and (2) 2007 in real terms. | | (270183) | 281
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidences of criminal damage to buses have been recorded in each of the last five years. | | (269996) | 282
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2009, Official Report, column 305W, on police: Greater Manchester, what estimate has been made of the cost of policing the new electronic borders operations centre in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester; and whether additional resources will be made available for the policing of this facility. | | (270256) | 283
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what arrangements are made to provide childcare for women with children seeking asylum at the time of their first interview with the authorities. | | (270207) | 284
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2009, Official Report, column 822W, on the National Policing Improvement Agency: vacancies, how many of the vacancies were advertised on the public part of the Civil Service Recruitment Gateway. | | (269929) | 285
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2009, Official Report, column 822W, on the National Policing Improvement Agency: vacancies, what the (a) job title and (b) salary range of each of the vacancies was. | | (269930) | 286
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2009, Official Report, column 1642W, on telecommunications: databases, from which budgets the Interception Modernisation Programme will be funded. | | (269931) | 287
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what timetable has been set for the distribution of identity card readers to (a) police stations, (b) border entry points, (c) local authorities and (d) job centres. | | (269932) | 288
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2009, Official Report, columns 508-9W, on disclosure of information: identity cards, what steps she plans to take following the latest Information Tribunal ruling requiring the disclosure of the Gateway Review documents. | | (270147) | 289
| Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many citizens of other EU member states have been denied access to the UK on the basis of previous criminal convictions in each of the last three years for which figures are available. | | (270258) | 290
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269863) | 291
| Mrs Betty Williams (Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the feasibility study relating to wheel clamping on private land recently received by her from the Security Industry Authority; and if she will make a statement. | | (270279) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 292
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2009, Official Report, column 1212W, on trade unions: political levy, what the timetable is for the staff handbook to be amended to inform staff of their rights to opt out. | | (269924) | 293
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1211-2W, on hon. Members: email, if the Commission will make the House's remote access software compatible with Pretty Good Privacy software in order to enable hon. Members to communicate with constituents securely. | | (269925) | 294
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1211-2W, on hon. Members: email, for what technical reasons the remote access software is incompatible with the Pretty Good Privacy cryptography application. | | (269926) | 295
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1211-2W, on hon. Members: email, what the encryption software identified during the PICT assessment that may be installed on PICT-owned personal computers at no cost to hon. Members is; and what the technical encryption standard of such software is. | | (269927) | 296
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, with reference to the House of Commons Facilities Time Agreement, whether recognised trade unions in the House of Commons are permitted to use House of Commons facilities allocated to them for (a) political activity and (b) political campaigning. | | (270210) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 297
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many and what proportion of (a) males and (b) females of between 18 and 21 years were in (i) education, (ii) employment and (iii) training in the Birmingham area in each of the last three years. | | (270035) | 298
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what percentage of school leavers resident in (a) Birmingham Hall Green constituency and (b) Birmingham entered higher education in each of the last 10 years. | | (270036) | 299
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which building projects in the Birmingham area have been affected by the funding difficulties which have arisen under the Building Colleges for the Future programme; and how much funding has been committed to such projects which have been halted. | | (270220) | 300
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many people resident in (a) Tamworth constituency and (b) Staffordshire were on (i) apprenticeships and (ii) advanced apprenticeships in each of the last five years. | | (270086) | 301
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269864) | 302
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which Minister in his Department had responsibility for the further education capital programme in 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (269954) | 303
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, who attended the Learning and Skills Council's management board meetings of (a) 13 May 2008 and (b) 12 June 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (269955) | 304
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, who the members of the Learning and Skills Council's Prioritisation Working Group are; and if he will make a statement. | | (269956) | 305
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, who from his Department attended the reviews between Ministers and the Learning and Skills Council's Chairman and Chief Executive held on (a) 16 June 2008, (b) 21 October 2008 and (c) 16 December 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (269957) | 306
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what assessment he has made of the likely effects on educational provision of the freezing of the further education capital programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (269958) | 307
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what financial provision the Learning and Skills Council will make for Mark Hayson upon his leaving the post of Chief Executive of the Council; and if he will make a statement. | | (269959) | 308
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, when he expects the outcomes of his Department's review of its relationship with its non-departmental public bodies to be published; and if he will make a statement. | | (269960) | 309
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many official meetings the Minister for Skills has had with the Chief Executive of the Learning and Skills Council in the last 18 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (269961) | 310
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, when he expects the panel of college principals, as recommended by the Foster Review of the role of further education colleges, to be established; and if he will make a statement. | | (269962) | 311
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, on what date he received a copy of the report commissioned by the Learning and Skills Council's Director of Property and Infrastructure on capital budgets in the further education sector which was published on 11 February 2008. | | (269963) | 312
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, which of his Department's officials (a) are members of and (b) observers on (i) the Prioritisation Working Group, (ii) the Capital Policy Group and (iii) the Finance and Resource Board; and if he will make a statement. | | (269964) | 313
| Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what plans his Department has for the funding of the foundation learning tier for learners aged (a) 16 to 19, (b) 19 to 25 and (c) over 25 years with learning difficulties or disabilities. | | (270235) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 314
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his latest estimate is of the level of humanitarian aid entering Sri Lanka. | | (270284) | 315
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department monitors the effects on (a) levels of employment, (b) life expectancy, (c) the incidence of human rights abuses and (d) quality of life of the steps it takes towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. | | (269988) | 316
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what management and accounting mechanisms are in place to audit financial aid from his Department to Sierra Leone delivered through the (a) World Bank, (b) United Nations and (c) African Development Bank. | | (269989) | 317
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of financial aid provided for construction in Sierra Leone is directed to local contractors; and how many Sierra Leonean companies are contracted to carry out construction work funded by his Department. | | (270026) | 318
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, in which countries where Millennium Development Goals have been deemed to have been achieved there has been a statistically significant increase in life expectancy. | | (270027) | 319
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the Afghan population with access to clean water supplies (a) in 2000 and (b) at the latest date for which information is available. | | (270098) | 320
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding his Department has allocated to CDC in order to meet the pledge made at the G20 summit to finance the new World Bank Global Trade Liquidity programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (270064) | 321
| Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department takes to ensure that funding for anti-malarial drug programmes is used for fixed-dose combinations. | | (270251) | 322
| Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which countries will receive funding from the £100 million funding recently announced by the Government to improve transport links in east and southern Africa. | | (270252) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 323
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have received a custodial sentence on conviction for selling a knife to a person under the legal age for buying a knife in each of the last 10 years. | | (270145) | 324
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the maximum punishment was for selling a knife to a person under the legal age for buying a knife in each of the last 10 years. | | (270146) | 325
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court orders have been issued for the repossession of homes in Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency in the last two years for which data is available. | | (270033) | 326
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many care orders have been (a) sought and (b) granted in each month in 2009 to date. | | (269873) | 327
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is for the introduction of individual electoral registration in Great Britain; in what ways the system will differ from that deployed in Northern Ireland; and whether he plans to pilot different systems prior to permanent adoption. | | (269892) | 328
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 341-2W, on constituencies, if he will make it his policy for the independent review of legislation in relation to parliamentary boundary reviews to commence in the 2005 Parliament. | | (270169) | 329
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish revised impact assessments following Government amendments made to the Political Parties and Elections Bill. | | (270196) | 330
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to bring Clause 13 of the Political Parties and Elections Bill into effect. | | (270214) | 331
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the remit of the Office of the Independent Complaints Reviewer extends to the investigation of complaints relating to errors made by local Land Registry offices. | | (269970) | 332
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent guidance HM Courts Service has issued to bailiffs on (a) accepting payment by (i) cheque and (ii) credit card and (b) the seizure of goods in circumstances where debtors cannot make immediate payment. | | (269971) | 333
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what records are held by which public bodies of the (a) dates and (b) reasons that powers of forced entry are utilised by bailiffs. | | (269972) | 334
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the National Standards for Enforcement Agents were last revised. | | (269973) | 335
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer to Lord Lucas of 29 January 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, column 69WA, on bailiffs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the instructions provided to in-house civilian enforcement and private bailiff companies. | | (270075) | 336
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer to Lord Lucas of 9 March 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, column WA194, on bailiffs, on how many of the 386 occasions forced entry powers were used by bailiffs in each local authority area; and what type of fine or penalty was being collected in each case. | | (270076) | 337
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 2 February 2009, Official Report, columns 915-6W, on housing: sales, how many domestic property transactions there were according to Land Registry data in each local authority in England and Wales in the full calendar year of 2008. | | (270131) | 338
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2009, Official Report, column 1155W, on debt collection, what sections were redacted on health and safety grounds from his Department's guidance on the use of bailiffs' powers of forced entry under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. | | (270141) | 339
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2009, Official Report, column 1155W, on debt collection, what guidance HM Courts Service has issued on the use of bailiffs' powers of peaceful entry. | | (270142) | 340
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 17 March 2009, Official Report, columns 46-7WS, on bailiff and enforcement law, if he will bring forward proposals to repeal the primary legislation which allows for the extension of bailiffs' powers of entry and the use of force by enforcement agents. | | (270188) | 341
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269865) | 342
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 982W, on bail accommodation and support services, how many of the 836 service users who had their residency terminated went to court; what the outcome of the hearing was in each case where legal proceedings have been concluded; and if he will make a statement. | | (270065) | 343
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 982W, on bail accommodation and support services, how many service users were placed in ClearSprings' properties between the introduction of the scheme and 24 March 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (270066) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 344
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many live summonses have not been served in Northern Ireland because the individual to be summonsed could not be traced in each year from 2004-05 to 2008-09. | | (270103) | 345
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the timetable was for the introduction of individual electoral registration in Northern Ireland. | | (269917) | 346
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many electoral identity cards have been (a) issued and (b) reported as lost or stolen in each year since they were introduced in Northern Ireland. | | (269918) | 347
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of (a) postal vote applications, (b) proxy vote applications and (c) postal vote ballot papers in Northern Ireland are checked with the personal identifiers held on the elector; and which of the three personal identifiers are used to verify (i) postal vote applications, (ii) proxy vote applications and (iii) postal vote ballot papers. | | (270140) | 348
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to maintain public confidence in the efficiency of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. | | (270060) | 349
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many pension credit applications submitted to HM Revenue and Customs in Londonderry are logged as lost or misplaced. | | (270061) | 350
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269851) | Questions to the Prime Minister 351
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, what overseas visits were underaken in an official capacity by special advisers in his Office in each year since June 2007; what the cost of those visits was; how many official engagements and meetings were undertaken on each visit; and if he will make a statement. | | (269834) | 352
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, to whom Damian McBride reported in the post he occupied before his recent resignation; what performance reporting procedures applied to him; what his job description was; what (a) pay band and (b) pay range he was in; and if he will make a statement. | | (269835) | 353
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, when he was first informed of the activities of Damian McBride that led to his departure from his office; whether he requested Mr McBride's resignation; whether Mr McBride will be subject to disciplinary proceedings; whether Mr McBride will receive financial compensation; what discussions he has had with (a) the Cabinet Secretary, (b) Cabinet colleagues and (c) others about the departure of Mr McBride; and if he will make a statement. | | (269836) | 354
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will place in the Library a copy of each letter he wrote to hon. Members about the activities of Damian McBride; and if he will make a statement. | | (269837) | 355
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, who the members of the Special Advisers' Remuneration Committee are; what specialist qualifications each holds; when each was appointed and by whom; where the committee holds its meetings; what the budget of the Committee is for (a) office accommodation, (b) staff costs and (c) travel and subsistence in the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (270077) | 356
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 12 March 2009, Official Report, column 28WS, on list of Ministers' interests, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Cabinet Secretary's guidance on blind trusts. | | (270213) | 357
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will publish the register of interests of departmental special advisers. | | (270290) | 358
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will install Pretty Good Privacy encryption software and an associated email address to enable members of the public to correspond with Downing Street securely. | | (270293) | Questions to the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission 359
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, with reference to paragraph 5.5 of the Ministerial Code, on how many occasions since May 1997 departmental accounting officers have written to the Comptroller and Auditor General following a written instruction from a Minister to take an action which the Accounting Officer considered would breach the requirements of propriety or regularity. | | (269928) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 360
N | Mr Angus MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 831W, how much his Department has spent on official portraits of its Ministers since October 2008. | | (268928) | 361
N | Mr Angus MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2009, Official Report, columns 734-5W, on China, which colleagues he has met in relation to his visit to China; and on what dates. | | (268929) | 362
N | Mr Angus MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2009, Official Report, column 735W, on China, on what date he received the invitation from the Scottish Council for Development and Industry; what form it took; and on what date he decided to accept the invitation. | | (268930) | 363
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269852) | Questions to the Solicitor General 364
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Solicitor General, what public appointments are made by Ministers and officials of the Law Officers' Departments. | | (269913) | Questions to the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 365
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what discussions the Electoral Commission has had with Government departments following the announcement that individual electoral registration will be introduced in Great Britain. | | (269911) | 366
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2009, Official Report, columns 935-6W, on redundancy, whether the redundancy payments exceeded the minimum amounts which the Electoral Commission was obliged to pay by statute. | | (269944) | 367
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what assessment the Electoral Commission made of the efficiency of the introduction of individual electoral registration in Northern Ireland. | | (269945) | 368
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether the Electoral Commission plans to place in the Library a copy of the (a) Labour party's and (b) Liberal Democrat party's submissions to its most recent consultation on the funding of political parties. | | (269946) | 369
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what guidance the Electoral Commission has issued on the use of personal identifiers to verify (a) postal vote applications, (b) proxy vote applications and (c) postal vote ballot papers in respect to the (i) selection of identifiers and (ii) proportion of papers to be checked. | | (269947) | 370
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how long on average the Electoral Commission took to make payments to external organisations upon receipt of an invoice in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (269948) | 371
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 84W, on political parties: finance, what the timetable is for the completion of a final impact assessment. | | (270168) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 372
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance his Department (a) has issued during the last two years and (b) plans to issue within the next year on security at Heathrow Airport; and if he will make a statement. | | (269843) | 373
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent reports he has received on the effectiveness of the operation of Heathrow Terminal 5; what recent discussions he has had with British Airways on the issue; and if he will make a statement. | | (269844) | 374
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many former senior officials from his Department have been employed by British Airways upon leaving the Department in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (269845) | 375
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will introduce a moratorium on all shared surface streets incorporating roads and pavements until after the publication of his Department's research into the effect of shared surface street design on partially sighted people. | | (270295) | 376
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department has provided for highway maintenance and improvement in Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency in the last three years for which figures is available. | | (270034) | 377
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that public transport is accessible to people with disabilities in (a) Tamworth constituency and (b) Staffordshire. | | (270087) | 378
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department had with private contractors operating motorway service stations when preparing its tiredness kills campaign. | | (270232) | 379
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance his Department has provided to private contractors who operate motorway service stations on their parking charges. | | (270233) | 380
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents on shared surface roads have been recorded in each local authority area in each of the last five years. | | (269995) | 381
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2009, Official Report, column 197W, on departmental conditions of employment; how many civil servants in his Department have worked on the flexible benefits project; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the cost to date of employing the civil servants working on the flexible benefits project is. | | (270042) | 382
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the revenue accruing to the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency from renewing expired 10-year photo card driving licences in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009 to date. | | (269915) | 383
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many photo card driving licences issued since 1998, where the driver is still alive and eligible to drive, have not been renewed upon expiration. | | (269916) | 384
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) controls and (b) restrictions apply to flights from the Dunsfold Aerodrome site in Surrey. | | (270050) | 385
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the merits of registering off-road bikes with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to reduce levels of anti-social behaviour; and if he will make a statement. | | (270092) | 386
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the marginal cost of operating the Driving Test Centre in Wisbech in addition to the centre in Kings Lynn was in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available. | | (270045) | 387
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress has been made in the 12 month monitoring exercise at the driving test centre in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. | | (270047) | 388
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what requirements there are upon local authorities to install signs alerting motorists to the presence of speed cameras. | | (269885) | 389
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer to Lord Fearn of 12 March 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, column WA279, on roads: repair, what the published criteria referred to are. | | (270070) | 390
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance is issued to local highways authorities on reduction of guardrail street clutter on road crossings. | | (270104) | 391
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of each response to his Department's consultation on Workplace Parking Levy - Completing the Legal Framework. | | (270105) | 392
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many local authorities have informed his Department that the cost of providing concessionary bus fares under the national scheme was greater than the funding provided to them for that purpose by central government in 2008-09. | | (270124) | 393
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which local authorities have submitted bids for Transport Innovation Fund funding; and for what projects each is bidding. | | (270127) | 394
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2009, Official Report, column 958W, on lighting, what guidance (a) his Department and (b) its agencies has issued to local authorities on night-time street lighting and efficiency savings. | | (270132) | 395
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the policy is of (a) his Department and (b) its agencies on whether their staff who have a parking space in an area with workplace parking charges should have the cost of the charge met by their employer. | | (270266) | 396
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269855) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 397
N | Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment he has made of the potential of Starthere to deliver the Government's digital inclusion strategy. | | (268988) | 398
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269853) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 399
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, when she expects the Commission for Equality and Human Rights' Annual Report for 2007-08 to be published; and if she will make a statement. | | (268931) | 400
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what salary bands there are for staff of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights; how many staff there are in each band; and if she will make a statement. | | (268932) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 401
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons those renting a property which they have previously owned are not normally eligible for housing benefit. | | (269993) | 402
| Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new national insurance numbers excluding those generated automatically at the age of 16 have been issued to residents of the London Borough of (a) Newham, (b) Tower Hamlets, (c) Waltham Forest, (d) Hackney, (e) Barking and Dagenham and (f) Greenwich in each of the last five years. | | (270230) | 403
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the estimated cost overrun is for each IT project being undertaken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies which is subject to a cost overrun. | | (270221) | 404
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will bring forward proposals to pay funeral grants to terminally ill people before they die to enable them to plan their own funerals; and if he will make a statement. | | (270107) | 405
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1446-7W, on civil servants: pensions, whether the Pensions Regulator has issued guidance in relation to investing in with-profits pension funds. | | (270173) | 406
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1446-7W, on civil servants: pensions, how many civil servants have pension funds invested in (a) Standard Life and (b) Scottish Widows with-profits funds according to records held by the Pensions Regulator. | | (270174) | 407
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood of 26 February 2009, Official Report, column 934W, on departmental internet, whether he plans to establish a virtual jobcentre using second life virtual world technology. | | (270292) | 408
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 Benefits Agency applies principles of digital inclusion. | | (268987) | 409
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department last reviewed its assets and land and property holdings with a view to identifying and disposing of surpluses. | | (269866) | 410
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many branches of Jobcentre Plus there are in (a) England and (b) the East Midlands; and how many of these are in (i) urban, (ii) semi-rural and (iii) rural areas. | | (269998) | 411
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to address the issues of maladministration raised in the Parliamentary Ombudsman's report, Putting Things Right: complaints and learning from DWP of 30 March 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (270067) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 412
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what his policy is on the control of imported goods containing dimethyl fumarate. | | [Transferred] (269869) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 413
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy for the Cabinet Office to publish details of annual public expenditure on the part of executive agencies, non-departmental public bodies and other central government bodies. | | [Transferred] (269951) | 414
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his most recent estimate is of the size of public sector pension liabilities. | | [Transferred] (270200) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 415
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many summaries of flood recovery progress have been published since June 2008; and if she will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (269966) | 416
| Mike Wood (Batley & Spen): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the effect on small businesses of recent private sector rent increases; and what assistance her Department provides to small businesses in respect of such increases. | | [Transferred] (270201) | 417
| Mike Wood (Batley & Spen): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will introduce legislation to limit private sector rent increases in respect of small businesses. | | [Transferred] (270202) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 418
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost to the public purse of the London Summit 2009 was. | | [Transferred] (270195) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 419
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) boys and (b) girls are known to have experienced medical complications arising from the administration of behaviour controlling drugs in care homes in the last 30 years; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (270039) | 420
| Mr Oliver Letwin (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will allow exemptions from dairy hygiene inspection in cases where hygiene standards at a farm are guaranteed by farm assurance. | | [Transferred] (270073) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 421
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appeals the Investigatory Powers Tribunal has heard since its establishment; and how many of these were upheld. | | [Transferred] (270069) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 422
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the effect of the military conflict in Afghanistan on the life expectancy of children and adults in that country; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (270099) | 423
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of co-operation between EU member states on work on Afghanistan's development and reconstruction strategy; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (270102) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 424
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what requirements there are on Government departments to (a) notify and (b) consult the Information Commissioner in respect of privacy impact assessments. | | [Transferred] (270139) | 425
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which proposals contained in The Governance of Britain, Cm 7170, have yet to be (a) commenced and (b) fully implemented. | | [Transferred] (270287) | 426
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the next round of applications by local authorities for city status is planned to take place. | | [Transferred] (270259) | Questions to the Prime Minister 427
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, what training was provided to special advisers in 10 Downing Street in each year since 2007; how much was spent on such training for each special adviser in each such year; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (270078) | 428
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Prime Minister, for what reason the redesigned Downing Street website does not have a functioning contact email address or contact form. | | [Transferred] (269893) | 429
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Prime Minister, for how long the email Number 10 facility on the Downing Street website has been unavailable. | | [Transferred] (269909) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 430
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which ports in Wales have been affected by retrospective levying of business rates on ports. | | [Transferred] (270267) |
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