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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 11 May 2009
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 11 May 2009
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 11 May of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 11 May of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 11 May see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 1
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what his policy is on its payment of wage contributions to workers in the automotive industry on short-time working who are undertaking retraining in their own time. | | (275131) | 2
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the cost to (a) his Department and (b) the public purse was of hosting the Digital Britain Summit on 17 April 2009. | | (274161) | 3
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether Deutsche Poste has informed him of the reasons for which it decided not to seek a stake in the Royal Mail. | | (274701) | 4
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the reduction of the decibel level of fireworks permitted under regulation 8 of the Fireworks Regulations 2004; and if he will make a statement. | | (274422) | 5
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 19 February 2009, transferred from the Department for International Development on 25 February 2009, on tax evasion by multinational companies. | | (274439) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 6
| Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions there have been between representatives of his Department and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the proposed transfer of gaming machines to a gross profits taxation regime. | | (274755) | 7
| Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he had with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on gambling taxation prior to the 2009 Budget. | | (274761) | 8
| Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with representatives of the bingo industry on levels of taxation in the industry in the last three months. | | (274765) | 9
| Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the implications of the ruling by the VAT and Duties Tribunal in 2008 that the application of value added tax to bingo interval games breached the EU principle of fiscal neutrality for the application of VAT to bingo interval games. | | (274766) | 10
| Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to amusement machine licence duty announced in the 2009 Budget on (a) pubs, (b) seaside arcades, (c) bingo clubs and (d) the gaming machine industry. | | (274767) | 11
| Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what methodology was used to calculate the figure of £50 million estimated revenue lost to the Exchequer by the removal of value added tax on bingo participation fees in the 2009 Budget. | | (274772) | 12
| Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the changes to the tax rates for (a) bingo, (b) casinos, (c) betting, (d) gaming machines and (e) online gaming following the 2009 Budget are. | | (274784) | 13
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress is being made in investigating whether some of Sir Fred Goodwin's pension may be clawed back. | | (274416) | 14
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guests were invited to the autism reception held at 11 Downing Street on 5 May 2009. | | (274673) | 15
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to have discussions with his EU partners on reassessing the UK's contributions to the EU budget. | | (274674) | 16
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of child benefit payments in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (275140) | 17
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of the cost of child benefit if payment were restricted to households with an annual income of up to (a) £58,000 and (b) £50,000. | | (275141) | 18
N | Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to answer Question 259158, tabled by the hon. Member for Mid Worcestershire on 23 February 2009 on the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme; and what the reasons for the time taken to respond are. | | (274162) | 19
N | Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter of 24 March 2009 from the hon. Member for Woking on his constituent Mr P. Burdett. | | (274330) | 20
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on the economy of the level of personal debt; and if he will make a statement. | | (274620) | 21
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on event management services in each of the last three years; and whether any such services were supplied by external providers. | | (274847) | 22
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Exchequer has received in receipts from right to buy schemes in each year since 1997. | | (274874) | 23
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 19 February 2009, on company directors (PO Ref: 1/67667/2009). | | (274436) | 24
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 18 March 2009, on the Lloyds Banking Group (PO Ref: 1/69452/2009). | | (274437) | 25
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations from members of the public he has received on the role of HBOS in the proposed purchase by Lighthouse Group of Network Data Ltd. | | (274632) | 26
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue accrued to the Exchequer from landfill tax in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (274924) | 27
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the retention of landfill tax receipts by local authorities; and if he will make a statement. | | (274930) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 28
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effect on provision of welfare beds in secure children's homes of the decision of the Youth Justice Board to reduce the number of justice beds in such homes. | | (274995) | 29
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which official in his Department was first informed of the contents of the letter of 2 March 2009 from the Learning and Skills Council to school sixth forms and sixth form colleges regarding funding. | | (274159) | 30
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils achieved grade C or higher in GCSE physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics in (a) 1997, (b) 2003 and (c) 2008. | | (274318) | 31
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils achieved grade C or higher in GCSE English Literature, English and mathematics in (a) 1997, (b) 2003 and (c) 2008. | | (274319) | 32
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils achieved six or more GCSEs including grade C or higher in mathematics, English, English Literature, double award science or all three separate sciences and history in 2008. | | (274320) | 33
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of schools received a rating of inadequate in their Ofsted report for behaviour in each of the last five years. | | (274607) | 34
| Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the amount of time provided by schools for staff training in new technologies and initiatives. | | (274704) | 35
| Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of (a) teachers' professional bodies and (b) industry in respect of teachers' continuing professional development. | | (274705) | 36
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what (a) administrative, (b) recruitment, (c) staffing, (d) building, (e) ICT and (f) marketing and advertising costs had been incurred in establishing the (i) Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency and (ii) Ofqual at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (275071) | 37
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding his Department plans to allocate to each local authority for discharging responsibilities which were formerly those of the Learning and Skills Council in each of the next five years. | | (275072) | 38
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children of between five and seven years have been (a) excluded from school for a fixed period and (b) permanently excluded from school in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. | | (275093) | 39
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many meetings of governing bodies academies have been attended by officials from his Department in each year since 2000; and if he will make a statement. | | (275094) | 40
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools he expects to close in each local authority area in each of the next three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (275095) | 41
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he is taking to ensure that computers infected with malware are prevented from gaining access to the ContactPoint database. | | (274317) | 42
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in which wards there are no primary schools with a qualified male teacher. | | (274694) | 43
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he plans to publish new targets for safeguarding children. | | (274695) | 44
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to his letter of correction of 4 December 2008 to the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham, Deposited Paper DEP2008-2997, to the Answer of 28 October 2008, Official Report, column 596W, on teachers: males, how many primary schools with no qualified male teachers there were in each ward in 2008. | | (274696) | 45
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2009, Official Report, columns 1352-4W, on special educational needs, how many of the pupils in schools in special measures were in (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) schools in each local authority area. | | (274770) | 46
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils in each local authority area attended (a) primary and (b) secondary schools which were in special measures in each of the last five years. | | (274901) | 47
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that all its correspondence conforms to the font size requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. | | (274785) | 48
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many trainees have failed initial teacher training in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (275034) | 49
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he is taking to increase the number of school-based teacher training mentors; and if he will make a statement. | | (275035) | 50
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teachers who have been subject to capability review procedures have left the profession in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (275036) | 51
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of head teachers in post in 2009 who will have retired by (a) 2010, (b) 2015 and (c) 2020; and if he will make a statement. | | (275037) | 52
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teachers have entered teacher training under the Transition to Teaching programme since its inception; how much his Department has spent on the programme to date; and if he will make a statement. | | (275038) | 53
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the school teacher vacancy rate was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (275039) | 54
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of graduates enrolling on a postgraduate certification of education course held a (a) first, (b) upper second, (c) lower second and (d) third class first degree in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. | | (275040) | 55
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Teach Next programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (275056) | 56
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools in (a) Leicester and (b) England (i) received new school buildings, (ii) were substantially repaired and (iii) were housed in buildings considered unfit for purpose in each of the last five years; what estimate he has made of his Department's expenditure on repairs to school buildings in (A) England and (B) Leicester in each such year; and what estimate he has made of the average cost of providing a new (1) primary and (2) secondary school building in the last five years. | | (274627) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 57
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many and what percentage of civil service posts are reserved posts for UK nationals as public service posts. | | (274628) | 58
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many Private Members Bills commenced in the House have required Queen's Consent in (a) the last three Sessions and (b) in the current Session to date; what the (i) average and (ii) longest time between an hon. Member asking his Department to apply for consent and that consent actually being applied for was in (A) each of the last three Sessions and (B) in the current Session to date; what the (1) average and (2) longest time between his Department's applying for and receiving Queen's Consent was in each such period; on how many occasions Queen's Consent has arrived in a period of 72 hours preceding a Bill's scheduled second reading in each such period; and if he will make a statement. | | (274629) | 59
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many foreign nationals were employed in the civil service in accordance with a Ministerial certificate under the Aliens Employment Act 1955 in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09; how many of these were employed by the Ministry of Defence in each such year; and if he will make a statement. | | (274641) | 60
N | John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many retired civil servants receive a Civil Service pension of between (a) £2,000 and £3,000, (b) £3,000 and £4,000 and (c) £4,000 and £5,000 per annum. | | (274169) | 61
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the mechanisms are for reviewing the content of the Civil Service Code; and if he will make a statement. | | (274617) | 62
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether (a) Mr Derek Draper and (b) Mr Charlie Whelan has a security pass for 10 Downing Street. | | (274985) | 63
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what his policy is on the use of web-based email accounts on computers in 10 Downing Street. | | (275112) | 64
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people who were born in Pakistan were in employment in the UK in each year since 1997. | | (274430) | 65
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what his most recent estimate is of the number of adult Commonwealth citizens resident in the UK. | | (274431) | Questions to the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners 66
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what recent discussions the Church Commissioners have had with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on heritage grant funding for church repairs. | | (274612) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 67
N | Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has provided to local authorities on whether under the terms of the General Permitted Development Order the measurement of the extended part of the dwelling house beyond the original dwelling house is taken from wall to wall or roof to roof. | | (274166) | 68
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much housing and planning delivery grant funding has been allocated to the London Borough of (a) Redbridge and (b) Waltham Forest for 2009-10. | | (274775) | 69
N | Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of residential properties which have become vacant and derelict in West Lancashire constituency in the last (a) six months, (b) 12 months and (c) five years. | | (274426) | 70
N | Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to assist local authorities in returning derelict residential properties to occupancy. | | (274427) | 71
| Glenda Jackson (Hampstead & Highgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what requirements her Department has placed upon the London Borough of Camden to ensure it reduces its carbon emissions arising from (a) housing stock, (b) business premises, (c) schools and (d) public buildings; and what steps her Department takes to monitor compliance with such requirements. | | (275103) | 72
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 128W, on energy performance certificates, how many complaints have been received from prospective tenants of (a) social and (b) private accommodation about a landlord failing to provide an energy performance certificate in each month since the entry into force of the provisions of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. | | (274795) | 73
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 128W, on energy performance certificates, how many fixed penalties for failure to supply an energy performance certificate have been issued to landlords in the (a) private and (b) social sector. | | (274796) | 74
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 130W, on the Homes and Communities Agency: finance, for what reason the Housing Corporation made a termination payment to (a) the administrator of Elonex plc and (b) the contractor. | | (274797) | 75
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, by what date she expects her Department to have completed the first stage of its review of the effect of development on gardens. | | (274824) | 76
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many responses from local authorities her Department has received to its review of the effect of development on gardens. | | (274825) | 77
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many applications her Department has received from local authorities for permission to transfer housing revenue account stock into the general fund under section 19(2) of the Housing Act 1985 in each of the last five years. | | (274826) | 78
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the monetary value of land banks held by registered social landlords was in each of the last five years. | | (274827) | 79
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been built on surplus public sector land in each of the last five years; and what estimate has been made of the number which will be built on such land in each of the next three years. | | (274828) | 80
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Homes and Communities Agency and its predecessor bodies spent on acquiring surplus public sector land in each of the last five years; and what estimate has been made of the monetary value of such land. | | (274829) | 81
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many of the sites currently on the Homes and Communities Agency's Register of Surplus Public Sector Land have been assessed as suitable for residential property development; and if she will make a statement. | | (274830) | 82
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes for (a) social rent and (b) intermediate affordable housing were built on surplus public sector land in each of the last five years. | | (274831) | 83
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of self-build properties constructed in each of the last five years. | | (274832) | 84
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many sites on the Homes and Communities Agency's Register of Surplus Public Sector Land have been on the register for more than (a) six months, (b) one year and (c) two years. | | (274833) | 85
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many surplus public sector land sites were purchased by the Homes and Communities Agency and its predecessor bodies in each of the last five years; and how many hectares of land on each site were purchased. | | (274834) | 86
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated to the First Time Buyers Initiative for each of the next three years. | | (274835) | 87
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the average cost to a registered social landlord of maintaining a home in each age profile in 2008. | | (274836) | 88
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many accredited providers of home information packs there were in each of the last three years. | | (274837) | 89
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average length of tenure of (a) registered social landlord and (b) local authority tenant was in each of the last five years. | | (274838) | 90
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the percentage of (a) registered social landlord and (b) local authority residential properties which were built before (a) 1919, (b) 1965, (c) 1980 and (d) 1990. | | (274839) | 91
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many registered social landlords registered new land banks in each of the last five years. | | (274840) | 92
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many registered social landlords operate land banks; and what guidance her Department issues on how such assets should be classified in the landlord's accounts. | | (274841) | 93
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what housing revenue account pooling rate applies to the disposal of (a) dwellings and (b) land assets. | | (274842) | 94
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, at what rate local authorities are expected to include capital receipts relating to easements in their pooling amounts for their housing revenue accounts. | | (274843) | 95
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the administrative cost to the public purse of the operation of the Right to Buy scheme in each year since 1997. | | (274844) | 96
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her Department's policy on the charging by local authorities of right to buy administrative costs to their housing revenue accounts is; and if she will make a statement. | | (274845) | 97
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how frequently local authorities are expected to carry out valuations on social dwellings in relation to (a) Right to Buy and (b) Social Homebuy purchase prices. | | (274848) | 98
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of initial equity was purchased on average under the Social Homebuy scheme in each of the last three years. | | (274849) | 99
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what receipts her Department and its predecessors received from (a) Social Homebuy, (b) Right to Buy and (c) Right to Acquire sales in each year since 1997; and what percentage of each annual receipt was used to provide more social lettings. | | (274850) | 100
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of (a) local authorities and (b) registered social landlords participate in the (i) Social Homebuy, (ii) Right to Buy and (iii) Right to Acquire schemes. | | (274851) | 101
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of (a) local authorities and (b) registered social landlords participated in the (i) Social Homebuy, (ii) Right to Buy and (iii) Right to Acquire schemes in each year since 1997. | | (274852) | 102
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the Right to Acquire discount limit for each local authority is. | | (274853) | 103
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) new-build and (b) existing private sector homes were purchased for social rent by (i) local authorities and (ii) registered social landlords in each year since 1997. | | (274854) | 104
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to her Department of the Working Group on Condition Information in the Home Buying and Selling Process has been. | | (274855) | 105
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects the Working Group on Condition Information in the Home Buying and Selling Process to (a) complete its work and (b) publish its report. | | (274856) | 106
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what dates phase (a) 1, (b) 2, (c) 3 and (d) 4 of the Working Group on Condition Information in the Home Buying and Selling Process was completed; what assessment she has made of the group's progress; and if she will make a statement. | | (274857) | 107
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what phase of its work the Working Group on Condition Information in the Home Buying and Selling Process has reached; and on what date she expects it to complete this phase. | | (274858) | 108
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what dates the Working Group on Condition Information in the Home Buying and Selling Process has met since its inception; where each meeting took place; which (a) Ministers, (b) senior civil servants and (c) other parties were present at each such meeting; and if she will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of each meeting. | | (274859) | 109
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the annual turnover rate of (a) local authority and (b) registered social landlord tenancies was in each region in each year since 1997. | | (274860) | 110
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties were purchased under the (a) Right to Buy, (b) Right to Acquire and (c) Social Homebuy schemes in each local authority area in each year since 1997. | | (274861) | 111
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the administration costs of the predecessors of the Homes and Communities Agency were as a percentage of (a) income and (b) grant-in-aid in each of the last three years. | | (274862) | 112
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the administration costs of the (a) Tenant Services Authority and (b) Homes and Communities Agency in each of the next three years; and what percentage of each organisation's estimated (i) income and (ii) grant-in-aid these sums represent in each such year. | | (274863) | 113
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department and its predecessors received in Right to Buy clawbacks in each year since 1997. | | (274864) | 114
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average sale price of a property purchased under the (a) Social HomeBuy, (b) Right to Acquire and (c) Right to Buy scheme was in each year since 1997. | | (274865) | 115
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the average monetary value of a domestic property in the social sector in each of the last five years. | | (274866) | 116
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, over what period a former social tenant is liable for clawback under the Right to Buy scheme. | | (274867) | 117
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discount was available to tenants under the Right to Acquire scheme in each local authority area in each year since 1997. | | (274868) | 118
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2009, Official Report, column 245-6W, on housing: low incomes, what the maximum right to buy discount is in each of the local authorities offering cash incentives for their tenants to leave the social rented sector. | | (274877) | 119
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2009, Official Report, column 245-6W, on housing: low incomes, how many local authorities which offer cash incentives for social renters to buy a property are in areas where restricted right to buy discounts apply under the Housing (Right to Buy) (Limits on Discount) (Amendment) Order 2003. | | (274878) | 120
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 131W, on the Homes and Communities Agency: Finance, for what reason the Homes and Communities Agency let each of the six contracts identified by single tender; which organisation received each contract; and what the purpose of each contract was. | | (274880) | 121
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 131W, on the Homes and Communities Agency: Finance, for what reason the Academy for Sustainable Communities let each of the five contracts identified by single tender; which organisation received each contract; and what the purpose of each contract was. | | (274881) | 122
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 133W, on housing: low incomes, what calculation is used to decide how much is paid back by an investment partner who is not a registered social landlord who is seeking to sell a property outside the affordable housing sector. | | (274883) | 123
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 133W, on housing: low incomes, how much has been repaid to the Homes and Communities Agency in grants as a result of investment partners who are not registered social landlords seeking to sell a property outside the affordable housing sector in each of the last three years. | | (274884) | 124
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 133W, on housing: low incomes, how many homes (a) in the social sector and (b) owned by investment partners who are not registered social landlords which were initially intended for low cost home ownership have subsequently been removed from the affordable housing sector in each region. | | (274885) | 125
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 133W, on housing: low incomes, how much has been recycled in grants as a result of registered social landlords gaining section 9 consent to dispose in each of the last three years. | | (274886) | 126
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 133W, on housing: low incomes, how many applications for section 9 consent the Tenant Services Authority has received from registered social landlords since its establishment; and how many applications were granted. | | (274887) | 127
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 133W, on housing: low incomes, how many requests the Homes and Communities Agency and its predecessors received to sell properties outside the affordable housing sector from investment partners who are not registered social landlords in each of the last three years; and how many requests were granted. | | (274888) | 128
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 127W, on council housing, when the Homes and Communities Agency's review of the benchmarks for high quality urban design, construction and environmental sustainability is expected to be completed. | | (274889) | 129
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 143W, on rented housing, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) registered social landlords and (b) local authority homes built since the data in Table 1 was compiled; and if she will make a statement. | | (274890) | 130
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 137W, on housing: sales, what the average contribution made from the public purse to a home purchased under the First-Time Buyers Initiative was in each of the last three years; and what percentage of the average cost of a home purchased under the initiative this represented in each such year. | | (274891) | 131
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, columns 136-7W, on housing: sales, how many homes she expects to be sold under the First-Time Buyers Initiative in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010. | | (274892) | 132
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 139W, on mortgages: government assistance, what the terms of a typical loan offered under the Repossession and Eviction Prevention Fund will be; and by what date she expects the first household to be in receipt of such a loan. | | (274893) | 133
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 139W, on mortgages: government assistance, what steps she is taking to publicise the Repossession and Eviction Prevention Fund; and if she will make a statement. | | (274894) | 134
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 139W, on mortgages: government assistance, by what date she expects local authorities to be able to apply for funding under the Repossession and Eviction Prevention Fund. | | (274895) | 135
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2009, Official Report, column 765W, on council tax: valuation, when she plans to place in the Library a copy of the information referred to in the Answer. | | (274706) | 136
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 29 October 2007, Official Report, columns 667-8W, on local authorities: grants, what the grant per capita to each local authority was in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10; and what the average grant per capita to (i) district councils, (ii) unitary councils, (iii) county councils, (iv) metropolitan councils and (v) London boroughs was in (A) 2008-09 and (B) 2009-10. | | (274714) | 137
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Tenants Services Authority has commissioned any (a) public affairs and (b) public relations companies since its creation to date; and at what cost to the public purse. | | (274740) | 138
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the effect on her Department's expenditure in 2009-10 of local government restructuring. | | (274744) | 139
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what targets her Department has set for take up of each Homebuy scheme. | | (274745) | 140
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the average (a) business rate bill and (b) aggregate business rate revenue at (i) the end of transitional relief period in 2009-10 and (ii) the point at which the five per cent. rise in the multiplier will be applied in 2009-10. | | (274750) | 141
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many hereditaments in each Government Office region have a rateable value of less than £10,000. | | (274752) | 142
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the gross cost before the application of downward phasing was of providing transitional relief in respect of business rate revaluation in England in each year from 2005-06. | | (274753) | 143
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on local development schemes established by each local planning authority. | | (274757) | 144
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether local spending reports prepared under the Sustainable Communites Act 2007 will include information on budgets. | | (274764) | 145
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what was the (a) percentage and (b) cash rise was in (i) average B and D council tax in England and (ii) average council tax per dwelling in England in (A) absolute and (B) real terms in each year since 1997-98. | | (274768) | 146
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which shire counties do not levy a separate fire precept. | | (274769) | 147
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been built in each Millennium Community to date. | | (274771) | 148
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what meetings Ministers in her Department have had with the British Humanist Association in the last 36 months. | | (274781) | 149
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons an energy performance certificate purchased by a residential landlord to show to rental tenants may not subsequently be incorporated into a home information pack should the landlord wish to market his property for sale. | | (274782) | 150
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to give fire authorities the power to promote well-being. | | (274783) | 151
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much debt each local authority had in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (274786) | 152
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department and its agencies have issued to local authorities on (a) interest rates on home appreciation loans, (b) repayment terms and equity charges relating to home appreciation loans and (c) the use of contractors for works funded by home appreciation loans. | | (274787) | 153
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the location-specific elements of national policy statements will include statements that development should not take place in specific areas. | | (274789) | 154
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for how long local authorities retain revenue raised through reductions in council tax discounts on (a) empty and (b) second homes before equalisation processes in the calculation of government grants are applied. | | (274790) | 155
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which of the proposed eco-towns could be established without public funding. | | (274816) | 156
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the timetable for the national roll-out of the National Register for Social Housing is. | | (274817) | 157
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what role her Department will have in oversight of the Local Authority Leaders' Forums. | | (274818) | 158
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the completion date was of the most recent independent research commissioned by her Department to evaluate the effect of home information packs on the housing market. | | (274902) | 159
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, to what (a) completed judicial review cases and (b) partial review cases involving a Ministerial decision (i) her Department and (ii) its agencies have been a party in the last 36 months; and what the title and outcome of each such case was. | | (274904) | 160
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to review the operation, cost and effectiveness of the home information pack scheme. | | (274905) | 161
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which of her Department's (a) executive agencies and (b) non-departmental public bodies have regional offices; and where each such office is located. | | (274906) | 162
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to (a) undertake and (b) publish a (i) small firms and (ii) privacy impact assessment in respect of the 2010 business rate revaluation. | | (274909) | 163
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, by what date businesses must apply in order to be eligible for the deferral of 2009-10 business rate increases. | | (274910) | 164
| 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 most recent edition of the Valuation Office Agency's zoning of shops valuation handbook. | | (274911) | 165
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the reasons are for the time taken to publish the outcomes of the Place Survey. | | (274912) | 166
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the minimum amount of equity in a property is that a household must hold in order to qualify for the Mortgage Rescue Scheme; and whether the scheme is open to those in negative equity. | | (274913) | 167
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 5 June 2008, Official Report, columns 1067-8W, on non-domestic rates, what estimate her Department has made of the maximum revenue that would be raised in England from supplementary business rates based on (a) 2009 rateable values and (b) 2010 rateable values post-revaluation calculated on the same basis as the estimates provided for maximum revenue based on 2007 rateable values in Table 3.4 of Business Rate Supplements: A White Paper. | | (274935) | 168
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 20 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1409-10W, on the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), if she will make it her policy to ensure that the IPC's (a) staff, (b) chief executive officer, (c) commissioners and (d) board members are appointed on terms which provide for a notice period of no more than three months. | | (274937) | 169
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans her Department has to mark Inter Faith Week; and if she will make a statement. | | (273196) | 170
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of shared ownership properties vacant at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (274710) | 171
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of properties being purchased with a buy-to-let mortgage that have been repossessed in each of the last 10 quarters. | | (274711) | 172
| Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to her Department of the Office of the Local Government Ombudsman has been in each of the last five years. | | (274779) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 173
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions his Department has had with third parties on the proposed relocation of the British Grand Prix from Silverstone to Donington; what support he plans to offer for such a move; and if he will make a statement. | | (274606) | 174
| Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect on the gaming machine industry of (a) the proposed increase in stakes and prizes for category C and D machines and (b) the increase in amusement machine licence duty in the 2009 Budget. | | (274763) | 175
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to monitor the effects on the media industry of patterns of ownership in that industry; and what recent discussions he has had with the (a) Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and (b) the Office of Fair Trading on the effects of patterns of ownership on the newspaper and broadcast media industry. | | (275106) | 176
| Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the results were of the Gambling Commission's mystery shopping exercises for 2008. | | (274773) | 177
| Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the participation levels have been in Visit Britain's National Quality Assessment Scheme in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (274780) | 178
N | John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many full-time staff employed by (a) his Department in London, (b) Historic Royal Palaces and (c) the National Gallery earn less than £15,944 per annum. | | (274167) | 179
N | John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff employed in London on work contracted out by his Department earn less than £7.45 per hour. | | (274168) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 180
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what NATO assets will be used for Operation Atlanta under the (a) 2003 Berlin Plus arrangements and (b) 2002 NATO-EU Declaration on the European Security and Defence Policy; and if he will make a statement. | | (274819) | 181
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether British personnel based in Kuwait will receive (a) the Operation Telic Medal and (b) a council tax rebate; and if he will make a statement. | | (274820) | 182
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many soldiers in 3 Para are not (a) authorised, (b) trained and (c) certified to parachute. | | (274821) | 183
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent assessment is of progress in the ordering of Tranche 3 Eurofighter Typhoons. | | (274896) | 184
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people were enrolled in a (a) gap year commission and (b) short service engagement in each year since 2000. | | (274897) | 185
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people were enrolled in an officer training corps course at each university in each year since 1997. | | (274898) | 186
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) required, (b) actual and (c) fit for task strength of each corps of the Army is. | | (274967) | 187
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) target and (b) actual number of terminal installations completed for the Defence Information Infrastructure programme is. | | (274968) | 188
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the deployment of the Headquarters of 6 (UK) Division to command the International Security Assistance Force's Regional Command (South) from November 2009 to November 2010 will change the establishment number for UK troops in Afghanistan. | | (274969) | 189
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) Mastiff and (b) Ridgeback armoured vehicles have been (i) ordered for and (ii) delivered to UK Land Command. | | (274970) | 190
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the order for the additional tranche of Mastiff vehicles announced by the Prime Minister on 7 October 2007 to be completed. | | (274971) | 191
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any of the second tranche of Mastiffs have been deployed to (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan. | | (274972) | 192
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which regiment or battalion forms the Spearhead Land Element (SLE); whether it is fully equipped; whether the present SLE is deployed; and when the future SLE will take over from the present SLE. | | (274973) | 193
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which regiment or battalion forms the Small Scale Contingent Battle Group; whether it is fully equipped; whether the present Small Scale Contingent Battle Group is deployed; and when the future Small Scale Contingent Battle Group will take over. | | (274974) | 194
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) inflow to and (b) outflow from each infantry battalion was in each year since 2001. | | (274975) | 195
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much has been spent on the Careers Transition Partnership scheme in each year since 1998. | | (274976) | 196
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on external consultants for services delivered in 2008-09. | | (274977) | 197
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what percentage of flights (a) to and (b) from operational theatres have been (i) cancelled and (ii) delayed in each year since 2007; what the (A) location and (B) destination was of each such delayed flight; and what the (1) the length of time of and (2) reason for the delay was of each such delayed flight. | | (274978) | 198
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of each edition of his Department's in-house staff magazine. | | (274979) | 199
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the voluntary outflow rate from each (a) service and (b) rank of the armed forces was in each of the last three years. | | (274980) | 200
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many volunteer reservists in each service have been committed to operations in each year since 2004. | | (274981) | 201
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many complaints Modern Housing Solutions received about accommodation maintenance in each of the last 12 months. | | (274982) | 202
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what percentage of units of (a) single living accommodation and (b) service family accommodation at each location in England there are at each grade. | | (274983) | 203
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent assessment is of the performance of Vector armoured vehicles in Afghanistan; and what assessment he has made of the future status of the Vector fleet. | | (274984) | 204
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost to his Department has been of (a) procuring and (b) maintaining the Vector fleet to date. | | (274986) | 205
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department paid to its civil servants in bonuses in each year since 1997; and (a) how many bonuses were paid, (b) what the aggregate monetary value of the bonuses was and (c) what the highest bonus paid was in each such year. | | (275003) | 206
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many reported break-ins to service personnel accommodation there have been in each year since 2005. | | (275009) | 207
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Nimrod fuel defects have been reported in each year since 2003. | | (275010) | 208
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on entertainment and hospitality in the last two financial years. | | (275011) | 209
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what surveys of (a) service personnel, (b) service families, (c) veterans and (d) the public his Department has conducted in the last 12 months. | | (275012) | 210
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what percentage of (a) service family accommodation and (b) single living accommodation (i) in the UK and (ii) overseas are void properties. | | (275013) | 211
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of force elements have reported (a) no serious weaknesses, (b) no critical weaknesses and (c) no serious or critical weaknesses against required peacetime readiness levels in each of the last four quarters. | | (275014) | 212
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of force elements have reported no serious or critical weaknesses against the ability to deploy, sustain and recover force elements at the most demanding level of the Defence Planning Assumptions for contingent operations in each of the last four quarters. | | (275015) | 213
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of force elements have reported (a) no serious weaknesses, (b) no critical weaknesses and (c) no serious or critical weaknesses against the ability to move from peacetime readiness to immediate readiness for deployment on operations in each of the last four quarters. | | (275016) | 214
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what percentage of armed forces personnel in each service were (a) unable to deploy and (b) only able to undertake limited deployment for medical reasons in each year since 2003. | | (275017) | 215
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much ammunition was allocated on all courses involved in the training of artillery personnel and forward observation officers to call in fire in each year since 2003; and what the cost of this ammunition was. | | (275018) | 216
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Defence Dental Service officers were based (a) in the UK and (b) abroad, including those deployed on operations, in each of the last five years. | | (275019) | 217
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) longest and (b) average period of time taken to make repairs to a forces accommodation property after a call-out was in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (275021) | 218
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) original forecast in-service date at main gate and (b) actual in-service date of each post-main gate Category (i) A, (ii) B and (iii) C procurement project was in each of the last two years. | | (275022) | 219
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the forecast cost of the Naval Extremely High/Super High Frequency Communications Terminals programme from his Department's (a) direct resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL), (b) indirect resource DEL and (c) capital DEL was on 31 March (i) 2001, (ii) 2002, (iii) 2003, (iv) 2004, (v) 2005, (vi) 2006, (vii) 2007, (viii) 2008 and (ix) 2009. | | (275023) | 220
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the forecast cost of the Falcon programme from his Department's (a) direct resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL), (b) indirect resource DEL and (c) capital DEL was on 31 March (i) 2001, (ii) 2002, (iii) 2003, (iv) 2004, (v) 2005, (vi) 2006, (vii) 2007, (viii) 2008 and (ix) 2009. | | (275024) | 221
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) average, (b) shortest and (c) longest tour interval for the (i) RAF Field Regiment, (ii) RAF Rapier, (iii) RAF Biological Detection and (iv) Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment squadron was in the last five years. | | (275041) | 222
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armoured vehicles of each type are (a) available to be deployed immediately, (b) undergoing repair, (c) undergoing Bowman conversion, (d) in storage, (e) being used for training purposes and (f) otherwise assigned. | | (275042) | 223
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) required and (b) actual strength of each (i) service and (ii) trade of the Defence Medical Services is. | | (275043) | 224
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) required, (b) actual and (c) fit for duty strengths of each regiment of the (i) Royal Armoured Corps, (ii) Royal Corps of Signals, (iii) Royal Engineers and (iv) Royal Logistics Corps is. | | (275044) | 225
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) outflow and (b) voluntary outflow from each service was in each of the last three years, broken down by length of service. | | (275045) | 226
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) required, (b) actual and (c) fit for duty strength of each helicopter crew unit in each service is. | | (275046) | 227
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) recruitment target and (b) recruitment level achieved for each pinch point trade for the (i) Army, (ii) Royal Navy and (iii) Royal Air Force was in each year since 2001. | | (275047) | 228
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what preparations his Department is making to ensure that sufficient military forces are available to participate in civil contingency operations in relation to the swine influenza outbreak. | | (275048) | 229
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what preparations his Department is making to ensure that military bases (a) in the UK and (b) overseas are stocked with sufficient (i) antivirals, (ii) facemasks and (iii) gloves in relation to the swine influenza outbreak. | | (275049) | 230
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent estimate is of the cost of the Defence Training Review contract over the next five financial years. | | (275050) | 231
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of personnel serving with (a) each RAF Field Regiment and (b) each RAF aircraft type exceed the level set out in harmony guidelines. | | (275051) | 232
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) required and (b) actual manning strength for each (i) frigate and (ii) destroyer in the Royal Navy is. | | (275052) | 233
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Navy personnel were serving aboard ship away from home on average in each year since 1997; and what proportion of total naval personnel this represented in each year. | | (275053) | 234
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many charter flights to theatres of operation have taken place in each year since 2003, broken down by (a) location, (b) type of aircraft and (c) reason for flight. | | (275054) | 235
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on charter flights to each destination in each theatre of operation in each year since 2003. | | (275055) | 236
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the estimated cost of the Astute-class submarine from the (a) direct resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL), (b) indirect resource DEL and (c) capital DEL was at 31 March (i) 2001, (ii) 2002, (iii) 2003, (iv) 2004, (v) 2005, (vi) 2006, (vii) 2007, (viii) 2008 and (ix) 2009. | | (275058) | 237
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many incidents of data loss from his Department involving (a) personal computers, (b) laptops and (c) portable USB devices have been recorded in 2009. | | (275111) | 238
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) senior and (b) junior officers and personnel at (i) senior and (ii) junior ranks in each service have been compulsorily discharged in each year since 2006-07. | | (275121) | 239
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the forecast cost of the A400M from his Department's (a) direct resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL), (b) indirect resource DEL and (c) capital DEL was on 31 March 2009. | | (275122) | 240
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Chapel of Rest which is planned to accommodate repatriated bodies of fallen servicemen at RAF Brize Norton will have been completed; whether he plans to return repatriations to RAF Brize Norton from RAF Lyneham; and if he will make a statement. | | (274633) | 241
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future of the Royal Regiment of Gibraltar; and when he next plans to review the number of troops stationed in that region. | | (274778) | 242
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Vector armoured vehicles have been bought by his Department since 2006; and how many such vehicles have been deployed in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq. | | [R] (274741) | 243
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Vector armoured vehicle programme has cost to date. | | [R] (274742) | 244
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has for the disposal of its stock of Vector armoured vehicles; and how many vehicles he expects to donate to Iraq following the withdrawal of British forces from that country. | | [R] (274743) | 245
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Vector armoured vehicles are in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan. | | [R] (274746) | 246
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many undelivered Vector armoured vehicles his Department is contractually obliged to purchase; at what cost such purchases will be made; and what plans his Department has for the deployment or disposal of those vehicles. | | [R] (274747) | 247
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the defects at the service family accommodation at Jubilee Buildings, Queens Terrace, St. John's Wood; what his Department's remedial plan for this accommodation is; and what the (a) timetable and (b) budget is for its repair. | | [R] (274748) | 248
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons permission for hon. Members to visit service family accommodation at Jubilee Buildings, Queen's Terrace, St. John's Wood has been refused. | | [R] (274749) | 249
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the submarine dismantling project. | | (274697) | 250
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the written Ministerial statement of 6 May 2009, Official Report, columns 16-18WS, on maritime change programme, when he expects (a) the Strategic Environmental Assessment and (b) the Submarine Dismantling Project to be completed. | | (274734) | 251
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) single living accommodation and (b) service family accommodation properties in the UK have been declared unfit for habitation. | | (274777) | 252
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people he expects to be made redundant from his Department in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010. | | (275123) | 253
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his Department's staff have been made redundant in each of the last five years; and how much was paid in redundancy compensation in each such year. | | (275124) | 254
| Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to inform former members of the Royal Irish Regiment who received overpayment through the Special Capital Payment Scheme that they are not required to reimburse the scheme. | | (275105) | 255
| Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date it was determined that former members of the Royal Irish Regiment who received overpayments from the Special Capital Payments Scheme would not be required to reimburse the scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (275109) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 256
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate on the safety control systems for the design of the generic European Pressurised Water Reactor; and what the timetable is for the assessment of generic design candidate reactors for new nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom. | | (274631) | 257
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require private building companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions; and if he will make a statement. | | (274425) | 258
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many wind farms there are in England and Wales; how much electricity each produced in 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (275031) | 259
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what percentage of the electricity consumed in England and Wales was generated by wind farms in 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (275032) | 260
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what mechanism exists for the co-ordination of measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from Government departments' data centres. | | (274899) | 261
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will seek to reduce the level of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department by siting its data centres in the UK in the north of the UK. | | (274900) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 262
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons he has decided to bring forward propsals to amend the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 as it applies to private animal keepers in relation to the keeping of exotic pets; and what timetable he has set for bringing forward such proposals. | | (274793) | 263
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) the Local Government Association and (b) local authorities on his Department's proposals to amend the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976. | | (274794) | 264
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the veterinary profession on cost sharing for the eradication of animal diseases. | | (275107) | 265
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the World Organisation for Animal Health on the effect of strain H1N1 of influenza on the animal kingdom. | | (275108) | 266
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent guidance his Department has issued to keepers of pigs on swine influenza; and what restrictions there are on the importation of (a) pigs and (b) pig meat in respect of swine influenza. | | (275117) | 267
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many incidences of river pollution were reported in each of the last five years. | | (274936) | 268
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations he has received on the resilience procedures recommended in the Pitt Report on flooding; and if he will make a statement. | | (274614) | 269
| Albert Owen (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many litres of liquid milk were imported into the UK from (a) Ireland, (b) EU member states and (c) other countries in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (274622) | 270
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 5W on departmental public expenditure, how many (a) Ministers, (b) civil servants and (c) other parties attended (i) the internal conference held in October 2008 and (ii) the seminar with delivery bodies held in November 2008. | | (274879) | 271
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost of mastitis in dairy cattle to the dairy industry in each of the last three years; how many cases of mastitis there were in each such year; and if he will make a statement. | | (274925) | 272
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department has provided for research into lameness in sheep in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (274926) | 273
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cattle were slaughtered after testing positive for bovine TB in each of the last three years; what estimate he has made of the number to be so slaughtered in 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (274927) | 274
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many routine tests for bovine TB were undertaken in each of the last three years; how many of these tests indicated reactors; and if he will make a statement. | | (274928) | 275
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department's Waste Strategy in reducing levels of waste; and if he will make a statement. | | (274929) | 276
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to stockpile vaccines against bluetongue serotypes (a) 1 and (b) 6; what recent assessment he has made of the level of risk for such serotypes to reach domestic livestock; and if he will make a statement. | | (274931) | 277
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the level of competitiveness in the farming industry; and if he will make a statement. | | (274932) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 278
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his Chinese counterpart on the recent deportation from China of refugees from North Korea. | | (274321) | 279
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of proposals by the Russian government to build and operate nuclear power stations in Arctic waters. | | (274776) | 280
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons the (a) EU and (b) UK decided not to send observers to the presidential elections in Mauritania. | | (275098) | 281
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Indonesia on its recent decision to expel the International Committee of the Red Cross from West Papua. | | (275129) | 282
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Indonesian authorities on allegations of human rights abuses in West Papua. | | (275130) | 283
N | Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the ability of the transitional government in Somalia to provide for its citizens. | | (274323) | 284
N | Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of poverty in the region on numbers of acts of piracy in the Gulf of Aden. | | (274324) | 285
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has mechanisms in place to ascertain whether the BBC World Service employs former Soviet military intelligence personnel. | | (274675) | 286
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) his Russian counterpart and (b) HM Ambassador in Moscow on the imprisonment of Michael Khodorkovsky. | | (274676) | 287
N | Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to reply to the letter of 9 March 2009 from the hon. Member for Woking on his constituent Mr Samad. | | (274331) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 288
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of each document in his Department's file CPO 14/7 Abortion Laws in Other Countries; and if he will make a statement. | | (274758) | 289
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of each document in his Department's file CPO 5/5 Publicity Material and Publications from Anti Abortion Organisation; and if he will make a statement. | | (274759) | 290
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of each document in his Department's file CPO 3/6 Abortion Act 1967 Correspondence between Sir Bernard Braine MP and Minister of Health on matters concerning abortions in NHS hospitals; and if he will make a statement. | | (274760) | 291
| Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the savings which have accrued from the implementation of the new capacity improvement programme prescribing system since its introduction. | | [R] (274735) | 292
| Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were employed by the Prescription Pricing Division in (a) 2005 and (b) 2008. | | [R] (274736) | 293
| Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many compulsory redundancies have been made within the Prescription Pricing Division consequent upon the implementation of the new capacity improvement programme prescribing system. | | (274737) | 294
| Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff have been recruited by the Prescription Pricing Division to implement the new capacity improvement programme prescribing system. | | [R] (274738) | 295
| Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the new capacity improvement programme prescribing system for the Prescription Pricing Division to be fully operational. | | [R] (274739) | 296
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on rates of breast cancer amongst each ethnic minority group. | | (274774) | 297
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps have been taken to improve medical services for (a) children, (b) older people, (c) families, (d) disabled people and (e) people with diabetes in Coventry. | | (274702) | 298
| Jim Dowd (Lewisham West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of cases of influenza in the UK in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available. | | (274751) | 299
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what protocol governs the employment of foreign nationals by strategic health authorities and primary care trusts. | | (275132) | 300
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions has he had with the Home Department on residency arrangements for foreign-born nurses. | | (275133) | 301
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent guidelines his Department has issued to (a) strategic health authorities and (b) primary care trusts on their employment of foreign nationals as nurses. | | (275134) | 302
N | James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps his Department has taken to inform the public of the health risks of anabolic steroids; how much has been spent to that end in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (274327) | 303
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 102W, on cancer: alcoholic drinks, what statistical evidence his Department holds of a relationship between alcohol consumption and female breast cancer. | | (274634) | 304
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what statistics his Department holds on links between alcohol use and different forms of cancer in (a) men and (b) women. | | (274677) | 305
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent guidance his Department has issued to Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust on the involvement of (a) patients and (b) the public in the preparation of its action plan; and if he will make a statement. | | (274914) | 306
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislation to compel NHS Foundation Trusts to hold board meetings in public; and if he will make a statement. | | (274915) | 307
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to amend the law to increase levels of protection for whistleblowers in the NHS; and if he will make a statement. | | (274916) | 308
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to scrutinise the performance of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust in dealing with complaints; and if he will make a statement. | | (274917) | 309
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent additional financial support his Department has provided to Staffordshire local involvement network (LINk); whether his Department has plans for a national publicity campaign to promote awareness of LINks; and if he will make a statement. | | (274918) | 310
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent guidance his Department has issued to Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust on the exercise of the statutory powers of the trust's governors; and if he will make a statement. | | (274919) | 311
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will provide funding for (a) voluntary and (b) faith counselling services to support relatives of patients of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust who have requested an independent review of case notes; and if he will make a statement. | | (274920) | 312
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether appointments have been made to the position of (a) additional night matron and (b) professional development nurse at Stafford Hospital in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (274921) | 313
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many temporary nurses have been recruited to work at Stafford Hospital pending substantive appointments by Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (274922) | 314
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent guidance his Department has issued to the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust on (a) the implementation of the recommendations Lord Darzi's report, High Quality Care for All and (b) the preparation of quality accounts; and if he will make a statement. | | (274923) | 315
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has for (a) the distribution of and (b) inoculation by the T1N1 vaccination to ensure herd immunity against swine influenza by the autumn. | | (274618) | 316
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether (a) illegal migrants and (b) visitors normally resident overseas will be eligible for inoculation with the T1N1 influenza vaccine, should vaccination become necessary. | | (274619) | 317
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many thefts from NHS premises have been recorded in each of the last five years. | | (274989) | 318
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether provision of the regional distribution centre to provide a loan equipment delivery service for complex equipment as part of the transforming community equipment programme will be subject to a competitive tender should the centre be established. | | (274165) | 319
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when Ministers in his Department next plan to raise with the European Health Commissioner (a) the setting of maximum permitted levels for vitamins and minerals in food supplements and (b) the extension of existing European legislation to include other categories of substance. | | (275128) | 320
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the outcome of the recent consultation by the European Commission on the possible extension of the scope of the EU Food Supplements Directive to include substances other than vitamins and minerals; what discussions (a) Ministers and officials and (b) the Food Standards Agency have had at EU level on such an extension; what his Department's policy is on such an extension; and if he will make a statement. | | (275137) | 321
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will fast track approval by the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs of pathogen inactivation for blood products to ensure the UK blood supply is (A)H1N1-free; and if he will make a statement. | | (274791) | 322
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what quantities of pathogen inactivated (A)H1N1-free blood products are available in the UK; what plans he has to adopt pathogen inactivation for all civilian and military blood products if the World Health Organisation designates the (A)H1N1 outbreak a pandemic; and if he will make a statement. | | (274792) | 323
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consideration he has given to the merits of establishing a national indicator for tuberculosis infection. | | (274798) | 324
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Minister of State for Public Health plans to reply to the email from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 13 February 2009, on measles and mumps infections in the UK. | | (274435) | 325
| Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department is conducting research into the condition referred to as aerotoxic syndrome. | | (274680) | 326
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he last met representatives of the (a) Proprietary Association of Great Britain and (b) Health Food Manufacturers Association to discuss the EU Food Supplements Directive. | | (275061) | 327
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made in discussions on the implementation of the EU Food Supplements Directive; and if he will make a statement. | | (275096) | 328
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has made a recent estimate of the cost to the food industry of implementation of the EU Nutrition Labelling Directive. | | (275139) | 329
| Dr Desmond Turner (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to protect the UK from the A(H1N1) virus; if he will fast-track approval by the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs of pathogen inactivation for blood products to ensure that the UK blood supply is (A)H1N1-free; and if he will made a statement. | | (274717) | 330
| Dr Desmond Turner (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what quantities of pathogen-inactivated (A)H1N1-free blood products are stockpiled in the UK; what plans his Department has to adopt pathogen inactivation for all civilians and military blood products if the World Health Organisation designates the (A)H1N1 outbreak a pandemic; and if he will make a statement. | | (274720) | 331
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provision is made for the care and treatment of prisoners with (a) suspected and (b) diagnosed mental health disorders. | | (274624) | 332
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his estimate is of the number of prisoners with a diagnosed mental health disorder; what percentage of prisoners who (a) had a diagnosed mental health disorder prior to conviction and (b) have been diagnosed with schizophrenia; and what proportion of prisoners diagnosed with (i) schizophrenia and (ii) another mental health disorder had been convicted of an offence involving violence. | | (274625) | 333
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people diagnosed with schizophrenia are being held in detention in secure hospitals (a) nationally and (b) in Leicester. | | (275125) | 334
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) independent and (b) internal investigations into the NHS there have been in the last (i) five years, (ii) two years and (iii) 12 months. | | (275126) | 335
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) independent and (b) internal investigations into the NHS (i) nationally and (ii) in Leicester have found that an NHS trust has not acted with due care and attention in the last (A) five years, (B) two years and (C) 12 months. | | (275127) | 336
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with schizophrenia (a) nationally and (b) in Leicester in each of the last three years. | | (275135) | 337
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are being held in detention in secure hospitals for mental health reasons (a) nationally and (b) in Leicester. | | (275136) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 338
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which individuals have been prohibited from entering the United Kingdom since June 2007; what the reasons for the prohibitions applied were; and if she will make a statement. | | (274762) | 339
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national (a) doctors and (b) nurses from each country of origin have been granted residency in the UK for each of the last three years. | | (275059) | 340
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effects of the implementation of the points-based immigration system on the employment of foreign nationals as nurses in the NHS. | | (275060) | 341
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many work permits the UK Border Agency has issued to software developers from each country of origin in the last six months. | | (275099) | 342
N | James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had on the classification of anabolic steroids. | | (274326) | 343
N | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are awaiting decisions as part of the legacy process; and how long on average those people have been waiting for a decision. | | (274163) | 344
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to publish the next statistical bulletin on the operation of certain powers under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. | | (274718) | 345
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for European Economic Area residence cards were received by the UK Border Agency in the latest year for which figures are available; and how many such applications resulted in a residence card being issued within six months. | | (274814) | 346
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British nationals in respect of whom legal proceedings have been concluded have been extradited to the United States since 1 January 2004; and for which offence each such individual was extradited. | | (274815) | 347
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of recent representations made by the Strangers into Citizens campaign in respect of migrant workers and others whose residency status in the UK is undetermined; and if she will make a statement. | | (273997) | 348
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of recent representations to her Department by the church leaders in respect of migrant workers and others whose residency status in the UK is undetermined; and if she will make a statement. | | (273998) | 349
N | Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what persons in respect of which any inquests and other legal proceedings have been concluded have died in police custody since 1990; what the (a) date, (b) place and (c) cause of each death was; and what the coroner's verdict was in each case where there was an inquest. | | (274434) | 350
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many thefts of ketamine have been recorded from (a) veterinary premises and (b) hospitals in each of the last five years. | | (274988) | 351
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2009, Official Report, column 1355W, on immigration controls: overseas students, whether students who pay for their accommodation, including bills, before attending the academic institution will be required to demonstrate they have the required monthly maintenance funds set under the new Tier 4 rules on immigration. | | (274164) | 352
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2009, Official Report, column 1187W, on immigration controls, when she expects the information on the resources required by the UK Border Agency to be finalised. | | (274170) | 353
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there will be a charge for each certificate of acceptance for studies issued under the new Tier 4 immigration rules. | | (274328) | 354
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2009, Official Report, column 856, on immigration controls: educational institutions, what criteria the objective test includes; and how many times an academic institution is required to assess students according to this test during an academic year. | | (274329) | 355
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on (a) the long-term aims and (b) the involvement of the Muslim community in the implementation of the revised Contest strategy; and if she will make a statement. | | (274423) | 356
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what floor area of office space is (a) owned and (b) leased by the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre. | | (274869) | 357
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals detained by the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre have subsequently been (a) given custodial sentences and (b) detained in psychiatric hospitals. | | (274870) | 358
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been detained by the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre in each of the last three years; and what the average length of time was for an individual to be (a) examined by a registered medical practitioner and (b) interviewed by an approved social worker in each such year. | | (274871) | 359
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre has made use of police powers under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983. | | (274872) | 360
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers, (b) psychiatric nurses, (c) psychiatrists and (d) psychologists were employed by the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre in each year since it was established. | | (274873) | 361
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 10 February 2009, Official Report, column 1829W, and 23 April 2009, Official Report, column 856W, on foreign workers, which pages of the copy of the EC Services Offer placed in the Library contain a definition of a temporary worker under Mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services in the context of admission to the UK. | | (274432) | 362
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of educational establishments which (a) accepted non-EU students, (b) were inspected and (c) passed inspection in 2007. | | (274433) | 363
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time between an application for asylum and a final decision was in each of the last five years. | | (274608) | 364
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Minister of State for Borders and Immigration plans to reply to the email from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 19 February 2009, on undocumented migrants. | | (274438) | 365
| Mrs Betty Williams (Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations she has received on the activities of Carnage UK. | | (274635) | Questions to the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 366
| Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, how much has been spent on improving or renovating accommodation in the House of Commons part of the Palace of Westminster in each of the last five years. | | (274678) | 367
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the honourable Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the House of Commons Commission will make an estimate of the effect of the proposed transfer of hon. Members' staff to become direct employees of the House on its targets for the number of disabled people it employs. | | (274322) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills 368
N | Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what information his Department holds on the percentage of students at (a) the London School of Economics, (b) Birmingham University, (c) Oxford University, (d) Cambridge University, (e) University College London, (f) Bristol University and (g) Durham University who are claiming disability living allowance. | | (274428) | 369
N | Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what guidance his Department provides to universities on (a) the provision of help and support to students with disabilities and (b) compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA); what assessment his Department has made of the levels of (i) provision for students with disabilities and (ii) compliance with the DDA of (A) all universities and (B) members of the Russell Group; and if he will make a statement. | | (274429) | 370
| Alan Keen (Feltham & Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many people in each constituency participated in training under the Train to Gain programme since the programme's inception. | | (274938) | 371
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what his most recent estimate is of the final (a) administrative, (b) recruitment, (c) staffing, (d) building, (e) ICT and (f) marketing and advertising costs of establishing the (i) Skills Funding Agency, (ii) Young People's Learning Agency, (iii) National Apprenticeship Service and (iv) Adult Advancement and Careers Service; and what such costs had been incurred on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (275073) | 372
N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many (a) apprenticeships and (b) advanced apprenticeships each local authority is providing. | | (274420) | 373
N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many apprenticeships in each industry have been (a) advertised and (b) filled through the National Apprenticeship Vacancy Matching Service. | | (274421) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 374
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department has contributed to the United Nations Development Programme in Afghanistan. | | (274700) | 375
| Mr Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what account his Department's forthcoming White Paper will take of (a) the number of children and young people in developing countries and (b) the relationships between the needs of children and young people in developing countries and (i) women, (ii) families, (iii) disabled people and (iv) others in those countries. | | (274681) | 376
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on the level of private funding for the island of St Helena of the decision to delay the construction of an airport on the island. | | (274788) | 377
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to assist developing countries tackle the adverse effects of climate change. | | (274715) | 378
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support his Department is giving to the disposal of unexploded munitions in Gaza. | | (274992) | 379
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to support children in Gaza affected by trauma following shelling. | | (274993) | 380
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support the Government is providing to charities and other non-governmental organisations working with the population of Gaza. | | (275000) | 381
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's policy is on measures to tackle HIV/AIDS in the developing world; and if he will make a statement. | | (275001) | 382
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to tackle malaria in the developing world. | | (275002) | 383
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the World Bank in delivering successful outcomes through its health programmes since 1997. | | (275004) | 384
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what measures his Department is taking to ensure efficient and timely procurement of antiretroviral drugs through the Global Fund and other mechanisms. | | (275005) | 385
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on global efforts to address HIV/AIDS. | | (275006) | 386
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress his Department is making towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. | | (275007) | 387
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress the Government is making towards meeting the Millennium Development Goal on (a) reducing child mortality, (b) improving national health, (c) poverty reduction and hunger and (d) achieving universal primary education. | | (275008) | 388
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support his Department is giving to developing countries for measures to reduce the number of deaths from malaria. | | (275026) | 389
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his most recent assessment is of the effectiveness of measures to ensure transparency in respect of the provision of international aid. | | (275028) | 390
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what additional resources his Department is providing for measures to combat world food shortages in the global economic downturn. | | (275029) | 391
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of progress in ensuring global food security. | | (275030) | 392
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department has taken to alleviate the humanitarian conditions of people in Gaza in the last 12 months. | | (275057) | 393
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his most recent assessment is of the humanitarian situation in Gaza. | | (275062) | 394
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps his Department has taken to meet the need for humanitarian assistance in Zimbabwe. | | (275063) | 395
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps his Department has taken to assist the economic development of Iraq. | | (275064) | 396
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps his Department has taken to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan. | | (275065) | 397
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his most recent assessment is of the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | | (275066) | 398
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement. | | (275067) | 399
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent progress his Department has made towards the publication of its White Paper; and if he will make a statement. | | (275068) | 400
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he made of the implications for his Department's overseas development projects of the outcome of the spring meetings of the World Bank; and if he will make a statement. | | (275069) | 401
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to assist developing countries to mitigate the effects on them of the economic downturn. | | (275070) | 402
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will take steps to involve members of diaspora communities from developing countries who are resident in the UK in formulation of his Department's policy in relation to the those countries. | | (275097) | 403
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps his Department has taken to assist the development of civic society and democratic institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. | | (275138) | 404
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty and hunger by 2015; and if he will make a statement. | | (274933) | 405
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what percentage of his Department's aid to (a) Africa, (b) Asia and (c) the Americas was allocated to (i) agricultural support, (ii) education and (iii) healthcare in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (274934) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 406
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans ClearSprings Management Ltd has to operate a Bail Accommodation and Support Service property in Billericay constituency. | | (274605) | 407
N | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the monetary value of cash deposits held by the Court Funds Office was at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (273673) | 408
N | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many council tax liability orders have been issued by magistrates to local authorities in England and Wales in each year from 1998 to 2008. | | (273674) | 409
N | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what impact assessment his Department undertook before taking the decision to reduce the family legal aid budget; and what the outcomes of that assessment were. | | (273675) | 410
N | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many child protection cases were heard by the family court in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008. | | (273676) | 411
N | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effects of enforcement restriction orders issued by the judicial system on the payment protection insurance market. | | (273677) | 412
N | Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was collected in victim surcharges in each Court Service area in February and March 2009. | | (274160) | 413
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the re-offending rates of persons discharged from (a) young offender institutions, (b) secure training centres and (c) secure children's homes in each of the next 12 months. | | (274996) | 414
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the size of the juvenile population in (a) young offender institutions, (b) secure training centres and (c) secure children's homes in each of the next 12 months. | | (274997) | 415
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children were moved (a) from secure training centres to secure children's homes and (b) from secure children's homes to secure training centres in the last 12 months. | | (274998) | 416
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children from (a) London and (b) the South East outside London the Youth Justice Board sent to (i) secure children's homes and (ii) secure training centres in the last 12 months. | | (274999) | 417
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who his Department consulted prior to the decision to secure the site at Beam Park West to build a prison; who will be responsible for making the decision on the planning application to construct a prison on that site; and whether his Department has contingency plans for circumstances in which planning permission for that site is refused. | | (275074) | 418
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what area of land is required to build the proposed prison on the Beam Park West site. | | (275075) | 419
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects the proposed prison on the Beam Park West site to reach its prisoner capacity. | | (275076) | 420
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to consult (a) resident groups, (b) local councillors, (c) housing associations and (d) others in the local community on the proposed prison at Beam Park West. | | (275090) | 421
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what timetable he has set for construction of the proposed prison on the Beam Park West site. | | (275091) | 422
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, by what mechamisms the criteria for bids for (a) construction and (b) operation of the proposed prison on the Beam Park West site will be published; and when he expects such criteria to be published. | | (275092) | 423
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which (a) Ministerial colleagues and (b) government agencies he consulted prior to making the decision to build a prison on the Beam Park West site. | | (275113) | 424
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who will be responsible for submitting the planning application for the construction of a prison on the Beam Park West site. | | (275114) | 425
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs which will be created by building a prison on the Beam Park West site. | | (275115) | 426
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect on local transport infrastructure of the construction of a prison on the Beam Park West site. | | (275116) | 427
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the London Development Agency's Beam Park West site is required to be secured in order to build the prison he proposes. | | (275118) | 428
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what timetable he has established for private contractors to bid for the operating contract for Beam Park West Prison. | | (275119) | 429
| Jon Cruddas (Dagenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what mechanisms have been put in place to enable local residents' views to be taken into account in the process of construction of the proposed prison at Beam Park West. | | (275120) | 430
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effects of the outbreak of swine influenza on (a) levels of sentencing to custody by magistrates' courts and Crown courts and (b) the safe management of adult prisons, young offender institutions and secure training centres. | | (274325) | 431
N | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trainee probation officers he expects to qualify in (a) Wales and (b) England in 2009. | | (273828) | 432
N | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trainee probation officers he expects to qualify in Dyfed Powys probation area in 2009; and how many posts there will be for newly-qualified officers in that area of qualification. | | (273829) | 433
N | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trainee probation officers he expects to qualify in Gwent probation area in 2009; and how many posts there will be for newly-qualified officers in that area of qualification. | | (273830) | 434
N | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trainee probation officers he expects to qualify in North Wales probation area in 2009; and how many posts there will be for newly-qualified officers in that area of qualification. | | (273831) | 435
N | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost of training a probation officer. | | (273832) | 436
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent representations he has received on proposals to increase the level of fines issued under the penalty notices for disorder system; and if he will make a statement. | | (274611) | 437
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average price was of a property sold in each year since 1995, expressed in 2009 prices. | | (274876) | 438
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many violent incidents (a) requiring at least one of the parties to attend hospital and (b) resulting in a death there have been in prisons in each of the last five years. | | (274626) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 439
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent assessment he has made of the security situation in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement. | | (274613) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 440
N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what representations (a) she, (b) the current Olympic Executive and (c) the Olympic Delivery Authority has received from local representatives of devolved administrations and regions on promotion of local businesses via the London 2012 Olympics. | | (273827) | Questions to the Prime Minister 441
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Prime Minister, whether the name of the Clerk of the Intelligence and Security Committee will be published in the next edition of the Civil Service Yearbook; and if he will make a statement. | | (273996) | 442
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Prime Minister, what facilities were afforded to Gordon Thomas by or on behalf of (a) the Security Service, (b) the Secret Intelligence Service and (c) others in the security and intelligence services in his research for his book, Inside British Intelligence; and if he will make a statement. | | (273999) | 443
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Prime Minister, at what level, and in what circumstances, members of the security and intelligence services were authorised to give interviews or other assistance to Gordon Thomas in the preparation of his book, Inside British Intelligence; and if he will make a statement. | | (274000) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 444
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Cardiff Central of 24 April 2009, Official Report, column 978W, on departmental ICT, what recent discussions he has had with Scottish Executive Ministers on steps to reduce carbon emissions from ICT systems in his Department. | | (274903) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 445
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what percentage of cars in the UK were (a) diesel, (b) unleaded petrol, (c) hybrid, (d) electric and (e) other in each year since 1997. | | (274417) | 446
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many flights there were over London airspace in each year since 1997; and how many there are projected to be in (a) 2010, (b) 2020, (c) 2030 and (d) 2040. | | (274418) | 447
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents have occurred in each year involving powered two-wheel vehicles causing (a) death, (b) serious injury and (c) other injury in each (i) county and (ii) unitary council area in each year since 1997. | | (274419) | 448
| Jim Dowd (Lewisham West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to discourage the use of hand-held mobile phones whilst cycling. | | (274754) | 449
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effects on the number of flights over east London of the expansion of Heathrow Airport, with particular reference to Walthamstow. | | (274716) | 450
| Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people work in his Department's Communications Directorate. | | (274719) | 451
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff employed in London on work contracted out by his Department earn less than £7.45 per hour. | | (274698) | 452
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time staff employed at the Government Car and Despatch Agency in London earn less than £15,944 per annum. | | (274699) | 453
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2009, Official Report, column 799W, on departmental manpower, whether his Department's practice of not keeping records of time spent by individual civil servants on the flexible benefits project is compatible with (a) Government accounting rules and (b) Government project management guidance. | | (274907) | 454
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2009, Official Report, column 799W, on departmental manpower, what methodology his Department plans to use to calculate the cost of the flexible benefits project. | | (274908) | 455
| Albert Owen (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Vehicle and Operator Services Agency checks have been undertaken at the ports of (a) Holyhead, (b) Pembroke, (c) Fishguard, (d) Liverpool, (e) Heysham and (f) Stranraer since the checking system came into operation; what the frequency of checks is at each of those ports; and if he will make a statement. | | (274623) | 456
| Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is conducting research into a condition referred to as aerotoxic syndrome. | | (274679) | 457
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many train services on the East Coast Main Line have been cancelled by National Express since it assumed the franchise; how many were cancelled by GNER in each of the last five years of its existence; and if he will make a statement. | | (275033) | 458
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans (a) his Department and (b) Network Rail has to provide step-free access at each of the former Silverlink rail stations which also have Bakerloo Line platforms. | | (274708) | 459
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many railway stations do not have step-free access. | | (274709) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 460
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what the cost of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) intervention in the case of (a) Basildon District Council v McCarthy and Others [2009] EWCA and (b) Baker and Others v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and the London Borough of Bromley was; and which barristers were retained by the EHRC in relation to each case. | | (274630) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 461
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people remaining on incapacity benefit are to be reassessed by the eligibility criteria used for those seeking to claim the employment and support allowance. | | (274615) | 462
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what eligibility criteria apply to those claiming employment and support allowance which do not apply to those claiming incapacity benefit. | | (274616) | 463
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many outstanding claims for (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance have there been in each benefit delivery centre in each month of the last two years. | | (274990) | 464
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average actual clearance time for (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance claims has been in each month of the last two years for which figures are available. | | (274991) | 465
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons average actual clearance times (AACTs) for (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance exceed his Department's target times; and what steps he is taking to ensure that AACTs targets for each such benefit are met. | | (275025) | 466
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of his Department's performance in the introduction of employment and support allowance. | | (275027) | 467
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department's contract with ATOS Healthcare is expected to expire. | | (275104) | 468
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for how long his Department retains records of claimants who have ceased claiming each benefit; and on how many occasions a local authority has requested information on a benefit claimant for which his Department no longer holds records since 1997. | | (275110) | 469
N | Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Jobcentre Plus plans to employ medical professionals to interview incapacity benefit claimants who would be transferred to the jobseeker's allowance scheme under the proposals of the Welfare Reform Bill. | | (274424) | 470
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will commission research on the quality of life of pensioners in receipt of pension credit; and if he will make a statement. | | (274621) | 471
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to answer Question 265969 on 0845 telephone numbers, tabled by the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire on 19 March 2009. | | (274414) | 472
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff of the (a) Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission and (b) Child Support Agency have been transferred to his Department in the last 12 months; and to which areas of his Department such staff have been transferred. | | (274415) | 473
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many completed cases in which the defendant or defendants were accused of housing benefit fraud were brought to court in each of the last three years; how many prosecutions were successful; and what the average fine paid by a guilty party was in each such year. | | (274822) | 474
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects his Department to make its return for 2008 to the National Land Use Database of Previously Developed Land. | | (274823) | 475
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on event management services in each of the last three years; and whether any such services were supplied by external providers. | | (274846) | 476
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many social housing tenants in receipt of housing benefit had their access to benefit withdrawn following a determination that they had been subletting a social home in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (274875) | 477
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 118W, on employment conferences, how many (a) Ministers, (b) civil servants and (c) others attended the employment summit on 12 January 2009. | | (274882) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 478
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what correspondence he has had with the administrations of the UK Overseas Territories on removal of their tax haven status. | | [Transferred] (274703) | 479
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 19 January 2009, Official Report, column 1072, on council tax: valuation, when the sub-locations were last updated by the Valuation Office Agency. | | [Transferred] (274713) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 480
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the provisions of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 Schedule 1, Part 2, Section 1.1 apply to products that have satisfied the End of Waste criteria and are used to generate electricity; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (275100) | 481
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has received any representations on whether the reference to fuels manufactured from waste in the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 Schedule 1, Part 2, Section 1.1 reflects the Court of Appeal ruling in the OSS Group v. Environment Agency case; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (275101) | 482
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has received any representations on whether the reference to fuels manufactured from waste in the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 Schedule 1, Part 2, Section 1.1 means that used cooling oil should be treated as a virgin oil if it has met the Carnwath test as set by the Environment Agency. | | [Transferred] (275102) | 483
| 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 Peterborough of 27 March 2009, Official Report, column 789W, on domestic waste: waste disposal, whether the role of the Waste Improvement Network extends to providing information to local authorities outside the South East. | | [Transferred] (274707) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 484
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 13 February 2006, Official Report, column 1615, on commonhold tenure, what steps have been taken to promote the operation of shared ownership leases in residential commonhold units since 2006. | | [Transferred] (274712) |
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