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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Tuesday 23 June 2009
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Tuesday 23 June 2009
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 23 June of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 23 June of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Tuesday 23 June see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 1
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effects of the vehicle scrappage scheme on the second-hand car market; and if he will make a statement. | | (281999) | 2
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what criteria he will use to select members of the Network Design and Procurement Group announced in the Digital Britain White Paper; and when he expects the appointment process to be complete. | | (281762) | 3
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the annual revenue to the public purse of the proposed levy of 50 pence per month on each fixed copper line proposed in the Digital Britain White Paper. | | (281763) | 4
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2009, Official Report, columns 925-6W, on insolvency, whether he has made an estimate of the projected increase in numbers of company administrations in 2009-10, based on the trends identified; and whether he has made an assessment of the merits of making additional funds available to the Insolvency Service to take account of the increase in the number of company administrations owing to the current economic situation. | | (281830) | 5
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many loans have been granted under the Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme to small and medium-sized businesses in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point since the inception of that scheme. | | (282071) | Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office 6
| Adam Afriyie (Windsor): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the responsibilities of her Department's Director of Digital Engagement are. | | (282042) | 7
| Adam Afriyie (Windsor): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of computers in Government departments run (a) Microsoft Office software, (b) Open Office software and (c) other open source office software. | | (282045) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 8
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been lent to (a) UK businesses other than banks and financial institutions and (b) UK homeowners in each month since August 2007. | | (281995) | 9
N | Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of total annually managed expenditure in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) 2013-14. | | (281884) | 10
N | Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the debt interest the Government will pay in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) 2013-14. | | (281885) | 11
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent progress has been made in establishing the ex-gratia payments scheme for Equitable Life policyholders; what steps will be taken in relation to the scheme in the next two months; and if he will make a statement. | | (281831) | 12
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families have received (a) child trust fund payments, (b) child tax credit, (c) childcare tax credit and (d) working tax credit in each parliamentary constituency in Lancashire in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (282059) | 13
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations the Treasury has received against changes to the furnished home letting rules. | | (281921) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 14
| Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which local authorities applied to participate in the free school meal pilots. | | (282021) | 15
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what research he has evaluated for benchmarking purposes on educational attainment at age seven for children in (a) England and (b) EU member states where children begin formal education after the age of five. | | (281768) | 16
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what representations he has received on the effects of mandatory early learning requirements on (a) diversity of provision and (b) parental choice. | | (281769) | 17
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what criteria apply to the provision of Early Years Foundation Stage learning and development exemptions to childminders; what appeals procedure applies when applications for exemptions are refused; what definition his Department uses of philosophical reasons for exemption; and what assessment has been made of the use of that definition in practice. | | (281770) | 18
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much has been spent from the public purse on each Sure Start centre in each parliamentary constituency in the Lancashire County Council area in each year since the scheme's inception. | | (282073) | 19
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent estimate he has made of the number of young carers in (a) Chorley and (b) Lancashire. | | (282074) | 20
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many young people recieved education maintenance allowance in each parliamentary constituency in the Lancashire County Council area in each year since the allowance's inception. | | (282075) | 21
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of school inspectors working on behalf of Ofsted (a) have been headteachers and (b) have qualified teacher status; and if he will make a statement. | | (282069) | 22
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of the spending on education identified on page 173 of his Department's Annual Report 2009, Cm 7595, is expenditure on schools; and if he will make a statement. | | (282070) | 23
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding has been allocated to the Child Workforce Development Council in each year since its creation. | | (282013) | 24
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupil referral units in each local authority area (a) provide places for teenage mothers, (b) have child care facilities, (c) make provision for children with (i) special educational need and (ii) emotional and behavioural difficulties, (d) offer full-time provision and (e) offer tuition by other providers, according to records held on the Edubase database. | | (282014) | 25
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which pupil referral units in each local authority area are attended by more than (a) 50 and (b) 100 pupils. | | (282015) | 26
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils with a statement of special educational need attended mainstream schools which Ofsted has assessed as inadequate in each year since 1997. | | (282016) | 27
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding his Department has allocated for children's play schemes in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in 2009-10. | | (282065) | 28
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the (a) requirement for and (b) cost of school building repairs in (i) Essex and (ii) Castle Point in the next three years. | | (282066) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 29
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the basis was for the information contained in the August 2004 National Non-Domestic Rates Transitional Arrangements Consultation, on the proportion of properties with capped increases in business rates bills under transitional relief schemes of one to five years in each year from 2005-06 to 2009-10 and the revenue implications of each scheme. | | (281761) | 30
N | Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the PricewaterhouseCoopers stage 2 financial viability study of the eco-towns programme will be made publicly available before the eco-towns planning policy statement and its associated list of approved eco-town sites is approved. | | (281925) | 31
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have tendered contracts through reverse e-auctions in each of the last five years. | | (281997) | 32
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people were on local authority housing waiting lists in Castle Point (a) on the latest date for which figures are available, (b) in each of the last five years and (c) in 1997. | | (282067) | 33
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people have (a) received and (b) been refused assistance under the Mortgage Rescue Scheme in (i) Essex and (ii) Castle Point in each month since its inception. | | (282079) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 34
N | Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the costs of (a) printing and (b) distributing paper copies of the Digital Britain White Paper were. | | (281886) | 35
N | Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many copies of the Digital Britain White Paper have been printed; how many paper copies were supplied free of charge to (a) Parliament and (b) other bodies; how many paper copies The Stationery Office has in stock; and whether any further print runs are anticipated. | | (281887) | 36
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of Lottery funding has been allocated to organisations in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each of the last five years; and which organisations received such funding. | | (282077) | 37
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much Lottery funding has been awarded to sport-related groups in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each of the last five years. | | (282078) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 38
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of equipment procured by his Department was produced in the UK in each year since 1997. | | (281918) | 39
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of land owned by his Department is rated as (a) Grade 1 and (b) Grade 2 agricultural land. | | (281919) | 40
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times thermobaric weapons have been used by UK armed forces in each of the last 12 months. | | (281920) | 41
| Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what reports he has received on the implications for UK defence policy of the recent statement by Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, on the disarmament of nuclear weapons; and if he will make a statement. | | (282010) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 42
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has held with his counterpart in (a) Germany, (b) Austria, (c) Denmark and (d) the United Arab Emirates on their bids to host the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency; and whether he plans to support any candidate. | | (281421) | 43
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent representations he has received on the subject of UK membership of the International Renewable Energy Agency. | | (281422) | 44
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has held with his counterpart in (a) Canada, (b) China, (c) Japan, (d) India, (e) Brazil, (f) Australia and (g) the US on membership of the International Renewable Energy Agency. | | (281423) | 45
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2009, Official Report, column 463W, on carbon emissions: standards, if he will place in the Library a copy of each of the responses to his Department's consultation on the term carbon neutral. | | (282001) | 46
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has spent under each budget heading on its consultation on the term carbon neutral; and how many civil servants in each pay band have worked on that consultation. | | (282020) | 47
| Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2009, Official Report, column 725W, on plutonium, for what reason his Department declined to fund the travel and accommodation expenses of stakeholders attending the plutonium policy meeting on 21 May 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (282004) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 48
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance he has issued to the Environment Agency on the account to be taken of consequential environmental impacts that may occur beyond the perimeter of a site which is the subject of an application for a licence for landfill when considering whether or not to grant such a licence; and if he will make a statement. | | (281998) | 49
| Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to publish the results of the first round of bids for funding under his Department's property-level protection grant schemes. | | (282019) | 50
N | Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the organisation Dairy Farmers of Great Britain. | | (281922) | 51
N | Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on assistance to farmers who lost money owing to the failure of Dairy Farmers of Great Britain. | | (281923) | 52
N | Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will request the supermarkets to assist in dealing with the consequences of the failure of Dairy Farmers of Great Britain. | | (281924) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 53
N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Cameroon on the recent sentencing of the National Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Southern Cameroons National Council to imprisonment. | | (279921) | 54
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has held with his counterpart in (a) Germany, (b) Austria, (c) Denmark and (d) the United Arab Emirates on their bids to host the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency. | | (281424) | 55
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with counterparts in (a) Canada, (b) China, (c) Japan, (d) India, (e) Brazil, (f) Australia and (g) the US regarding membership of the International Renewable Energy Agency. | | (281425) | 56
| Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Department's evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee's inquiry into Global Security: Non Proliferation, HC 222, EV 118, under what circumstances the UK will include Trident warheads in a negotiation to reduce warhead numbers; and if he will make a statement. | | (282049) | 57
| Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, who will produce the Government's Road to 2010 Plan for the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review conference; what items will be included in the plan; and if he will make a statement. | | (282054) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 58
| Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are being prescribed low-dose naltrexone for the treatment of multiple sclerosis on the NHS. | | (282005) | 59
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance is given to (a) primary care trusts and (b) social services on the care and treatment of people over the age of 18 with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. | | (281993) | 60
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much Government funding is being made available for research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy in 2009-10. | | (281994) | 61
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to prevent the importation of chicken injected with pork and beef waste; and if he will make a statement. | | (281406) | 62
N | Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on social care for people with a learning disability in 2008-09. | | (281491) | 63
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18 May 2009, Official Report, column 1238W, on children: mental health services, how many of the young people placed on adult mental health wards in each year since 2005-06 were given medication while on such wards. | | (282012) | 64
N | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds allocated for care of the elderly there were in hospitals in England in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (281787) | 65
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what average management charge was levied by the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency for contracts issued by it in the latest period for which figures are available. | | [R] (281874) | 66
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what average change in prices under the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency contracts was in each of the last two years. | | [R] (281875) | 67
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2009, Official Report, column 928W, on departmental billing, what steps he has taken to reduce the time taken by the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency for payment of invoices; and what the total monetary value of contracts processed by the agency was in each of the last three years. | | (281996) | 68
| Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2009, Official Report, columns 230-1W, on prescriptions: fees and charges, how many respondents there were to Professor Ian Gilmore's web-based survey of prescription charges; how many written submissions of evidence were made to his review of prescription charges; how many oral evidence sessions the review held with stakeholder groups; and with how many GPs deliberative research on prescription charges has been conducted in the last financial year. | | (282056) | 69
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his most recent assessment is of standards of out-of-hospital (a) palliative and (b) dementia care for elderly patients in (i) England, (ii) Essex and (iii) Castle Point; and if he will make a statement. | | (281876) | 70
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps have been taken by the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the last 12 months to ensure that registrants have indemnity insurance. | | (281603) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 71
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers (PCSO's) were assigned to duties in each parliamentary constituency in the Lancashire County Council area in the latest period for which figures are available; how many police officers were assigned to duties in each such constituency in 1997; and how many PCSOs were assigned to duties in each such constituency in 2003. | | (282076) | 72
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) anti-social behaviour orders and (b) acceptable behaviour contracts have been issued in (i) Essex and (ii) Castle Point in each of the last five years. | | (282060) | 73
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of neighbourhood policing schemes in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point. | | (282064) | 74
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department issues to police authorities on the organisation and conduct of local knife amnesty programmes. | | (282055) | 75
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what targets he has set for the reduction of knife crime in the next three years. | | (282057) | 76
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of knife amnesty programmes; and if he will make a statement. | | (282087) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 77
N | Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 June 2009, Official Report, columns 82-3W, on prisons: construction, by what process (a) the National Offender Management Service and (b) his Department were made aware of the potential site for a Titan prison at Scarisbrick; which location in Scarisbrick was identified as a potential site; what information his Department holds on the present owner of the site; on what date his Department designated the site at Scarisbrick as a potential location for a Titan prison; and by whom that decision was taken. | | (281771) | 78
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) staff and (b) consultants employed by the Youth Justice Board in each financial year since 2003-04 had security clearance at (i) counter-terrorist check, (ii) baseline check, (iii) security check and (iv) developed vetting level. | | (282002) | 79
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many consultants the Youth Justice Board has employed in each financial year since 2003-04; and how many such consultants were paid (a) between £10,000 and £100,000, (b) between £100,000 and £200,000, (c) between £200,000 and £300,000 and (d) over £300,000 in each such year. | | (282003) | 80
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken between charge and trial of a defendant tried in a magistrates' court has been in each year since 2000. | | (282006) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 81
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what his policy is on the retention of a reserve police force in Northern Ireland. | | (281736) | 82
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of reserve police officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland in each of the next three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (281737) | 83
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and (b) the Police Federation of Northern Ireland on the number of reserve police officers in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement. | | (281738) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 84
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what her latest estimate is of the cost of hosting the London 2012 Olympics road cycling event at Regent's Park. | | (279776) | Questions to the Solicitor General 85
| Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Solicitor General, what criteria the Serious Fraud Office applies in deciding whether to investigate an allegation of overseas bribery. | | (282007) | 86
| Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Solicitor General, to which countries the Serious Fraud Office has provided assistance in corruption cases since 2001; and if she will make a statement. | | (282008) | 87
| Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Solicitor General, how many requests from foreign jurisdictions relating to allegations of overseas corruption offences the Mutual Legal Assistance Unit of the Serious Fraud Office has received in the last 10 years; from which jurisdictions such requests have come; and how many such requests have resulted in domestic investigations since 2001. | | (282009) | 88
| Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Solicitor General, what cases of alleged overseas bribery and corruption which the Serious Fraud Office has accepted for investigation are under investigation; which countries are concerned; and if she will make a statement. | | (282018) | 89
| Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Solicitor General, how many cases had been recorded on the register of referrals for overseas corruption on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many cases recorded on the register were (a) investigated, (b) researched to establish whether an investigation was merited, (c) closed after investigation and (d) passed to another agency in each year since 2001. | | (282047) | 90
| Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Solicitor General, what meetings (a) she and (b) her officials have had with (i) representatives of business organisations, (ii) representatives of individual companies and (iii) other persons on the prosecution of corruption offences in the last 12 months; and what representations have have been received on the matter in that period. | | (282048) | 91
| Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Solicitor General, what investigations the Serious Fraud Office has conducted into BAE Systems since January 2004. | | (282068) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport 92
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what research his Department has commissioned on levels of noise pollution in the area surrounding Birmingham airport in the last three years. | | (282046) | 93
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, when he expects the roadworks and lane closures between junction 16 and junction 19 of the M25 to be ended. | | (281739) | 94
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if the Secretary of State will make it his policy to ensure that traffic information on motorway closures is given out to motorists at the earliest opportunity via (a) radio broadcasts and (b) digital road information signs; and if he will make a statement. | | (281740) | 95
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, for what reason the M1 motorway was closed between junctions 6 and 8 on 11 June 2009; who authorised the closure; and if he will make a statement. | | (281741) | 96
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, for what reason the M40 motorway was closed on 11 June 2009; who authorised the closure; and if he will make a statement. | | (281743) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 97
| Adam Afriyie (Windsor): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much Directgov has cost in each year since its inception. | | (282044) | 98
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families received child benefit in each parliamentary constituency in Lancashire in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (282058) | 99
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in each parliamentary constituency in the Lancashire County Council area received (a) pension credit and (b) winter fuel payment in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (282072) | 100
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will extend eligibility for the mobility allowance to people with a disability who are over the age of 65. | | (281407) | 101
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will estimate the annual cost of giving a mobility allowance to every disabled person over pensionable age who would qualify for the allowance if they were under pensionable age; and if she will make a statement. | | (281408) | 102
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations her Department has received from individuals or organisations in favour of the mobility allowance being made available to newly-disabled people over the age of 65 in the last two years. | | (281409) | 103
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point have received pension credit in each year since its inception. | | (282061) | 104
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point receive 100 per cent. council tax benefit. | | (282062) | 105
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were receiving carer's allowance in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (282063) | 106
N | David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to which benefits recipients who move to another country in the European Economic Area continue to be entitled when they are no longer resident in the UK; and what rules apply to such recipients. | | (281742) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 107
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the provision of EU launch aid for the Airbus A350; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (281788) | 108
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect that provision of launch aid expenditure on the Airbus A350 would have on the UK aerospace industry. | | [Transferred] (281873) | Questions to the Solicitor General 109
| Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Solicitor General, how many defendants over the age of 21 years were charged with an offence of grievous bodily harm under section 18 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1961 in 2007-08; and how many such defendants subsequently agreed to plead guilty to, and were convicted of, an offence under section 20 of that Act after discussions with the prosecuting authorities. | | [Transferred] (282017) |
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