Order Book Part 1

House of Commons

Session 2008 - 09
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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Wednesday 8 July 2009

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

Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Wednesday 8 July 2009
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Wednesday 8 July 2009

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Wednesday 8 July 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 Wednesday 8 July of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Wednesday 8 July see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

1
N Adam Afriyie (Windsor): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, when the British National Space Centre commissioned a report from Moreton Hall Associates and JRA Technology Ltd into the space licensing regime; what the cost of commissioning the report was; when the report was finalised; what its main findings and recommendations were; and if he will place a copy of the report in the Library.

(283209)

2
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of apprenticeships which will be taken up by those over the age of 24 years resident in (a) the Thames Valley and (b) Oxfordshire in the next 12 months.

(285595)

3
N Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress has been made in discussions between his Department and Jaguar Land Rover in respect of loan guarantees; and when he expects the discussions to be completed.

(284262)

4
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many members of staff will be employed in his Department's Manufacturing Insight office; and when the office will start operations.

(285350)

5
Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on the development of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills website.

(285526)

6
Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many officials his Department plans to send to WorldSkills Calgary 2009.

(285527)

7
Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support his Department provides to further education colleges to improve their energy efficiency.

(285528)

8
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department plans to spend on skills funding in (a) England and (b) Wales in 2009-10.

(285561)

9
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Government has spent on improving the skills of the workforce in the logistic transport industry in Wales in each of the last five years.

(285562)

10
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many insolvencies in the logistical transport sector were recorded in Wales in each of the last five years.

(285563)

11
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what measures are in place on the use of local employment contracts in infrastructure expenditure by local and central government agencies.

(285391)

12
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings Ministers and officials of his Department have had with representatives of BT to discuss the proposals in Government's Digital Britain report in the last six months.

(285039)

13
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what dates members of BT's board have met (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department in the last six months.

(285069)

14
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people resident in Tamworth constituency have successfully completed a Train to Gain course in the latest period for which figures are available.

(285365)

15
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Tamworth constituency have (a) applied for and (b) received funding from (i) the Enterprise Finance Guarantee and (ii) the Working Capital Scheme to date.

(285366)

16
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will restrict or prohibit the supply to Zimbabwe by UK companies of technologies capable of use to monitor, inspect or filter internet content.

(285279)

17
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to improve the employment prospects of those graduating in 2009.

(285335)

18
Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he will reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire of 30 April 2009 on his constituent's business.

(285495)

19
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applications for renewals of consumer credit licences submitted to the Office of Fair Trading prior to their expiry date took longer than 90 days to process in each month of each year since 1997.

(285433)

20
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Insolvency Service spent on taxis in each of the last five years.

(285437)

21
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Insolvency Service spent on (a) flights, (b) hotel accommodation, (c) rail travel and (d) other travel and overnight subsistence expenses in each of the last five years.

(285438)

22
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Insolvency Service spent on first class (a) rail and (b) air travel in each of the last five years.

(285439)

23
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Insolvency Service spent on (a) promotional items and (b) gifts in each of the last five years.

(285440)

24
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Insolvency Service spent on external consultants in each of the last five years.

(285441)

25
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Insolvency Service spent on advertising and marketing in each of the last five years.

(285442)

26
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2009, Official Report, column 422W, on Yes loans, when he expects a decision to be made on the renewal of the consumer credit licence for Yes loans.

(285460)

27
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what evidence was provided to the Better Regulation Executive by his Department in relation to the statement that, Costs to existing recognised Awarding Bodies are expected to be neutral, on average, in the Impact Assessment of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill relating to the creation of the awarding body regulator, Ofqual and the QCDA.

(285501)

28
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received on the effects on the reputation of the higher and further education sectors of trends in the numbers of establishments purporting to be colleges but not providing education to recognised standards.

(285600)

29
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the Joint Education task force on establishments offering educational careers but not providing education to recognised standards.

(285601)

30
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he plans to take to cease the operations of organisations purporting to provide educational courses but not doing so to recognised standards.

(285602)

31
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress his Department has made in its assessment of the merits of using provisions of the Companies Act 2006 to protect the use of the word college.

(285603)

32
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to restrict the use of the word college to educational establishments providing education to recognised standards.

(285604)

33
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's definition is of equality of opportunity in relation to its policies; and if he will make an assessment of the impact on equality of opportunity of his Department's policies.

(285205)

34
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of progress in the transition from the Learning and Skills Council to the Skills Funding Agency and Young People Learning Agency.

(285422)

35
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will assess (a) the prevalence of unpaid work in the public and private sectors and (b) the effect of such work on the economy.

(285426)

36
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what changes have been made to his Department's and its predecessor's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285320)

37
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2009, Official Report, columns 438-39W, on employment agencies: conditions of employment, on what charges employment agencies were convicted in January and June 2009 as a result of complaints made to the Employment Agency Standards helpline.

(285530)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

38
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what measures are in place regarding the use in Government infrastructure programmes of local employment contracts; and if she will make a statement.

(285392)

39
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cases of cancer have been (a) diagnosed and (b) successfully treated in (i) the North East, (ii) Tees Valley and (iii) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997.

(285326)

40
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths from drowning were recorded in each of the last five years.

(285446)

41
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths from skin cancer were recorded in each year since 1997.

(285451)

42
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths attributable to necrotizing fasciitis there were in each of the last five years.

(285463)

43
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths attributable to methanol poisoning there were in each region in each of the last five years.

(285464)

44
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) drug-related and (b) methadone-related deaths there were in each year since 1997.

(285232)

45
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths were caused by drug dependency in each year since 1997.

(285233)

46
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what funding awards (a) the Cabinet Office and (b) Futurebuilders have made to eQuality Networks in each of the last five years.

(285470)

47
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many alcohol-related deaths there were in each age group in each primary care trust area in each year since 1997.

(285375)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

48
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cases have been processed by the HM Revenue and Customs office in Chorley in each of the last four months.

(285573)

49
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to review entitlement to child tax credit to families with a gross income of over £80,000.

(285224)

50
Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Financial Secretary will respond to the letter from the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire of 31 March 2009 on the KSFIOM Depositors Group.

(285493)

51
Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimate is of the net revenue received in empty property rates in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement.

(285568)

52
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will assess the effect of lower interest rates on (a) the income and (b) retail spending levels of those over 65 years of age whose income is largely dependent on their savings.

(285208)

53
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285319)

54
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) administration assistants, (b) assistant officers, (c) officers, (d) higher officers, (e) senior officers, (f) fast stream/trainees, (g) Grade 7 employees, (h) Grade 6 employees and (i) senior civil servants there were in each HM Revenue and Customs office in each of the last five years.

(285536)

55
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government has received warnings from the Financial Action Task Force for non-compliance with its recommendations on combating the laundering of corrupt funds.

(285378)

56
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on how many occasions the Government has delivered a progress report to the Financial Action Task Force for non-compliance with its recommendations on (a) requiring banks to perform enhanced due diligence for politically exposed persons and (b) preventing the unlawful use of legal persons by money launderers.

(285379)

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

57
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when information on how to obtain an abortion was first included in school sex education lessons; at what age pupils are provided with such information; whom he consulted on the matter; what recent representations he has received (a) in favour of and (b) against the current policy; and if he will make a statement.

(285540)

58
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what research his Department (a) has commissioned, (b) plans to commission and (c) has evaluated on the effectiveness of teaching sex education in schools; and if he will make a statement.

(285541)

59
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the levels of (a) bullying and (b) intimidation by other children of Jewish children attending nursery schools since December 2008; what steps he is taking to protect Jewish children from such actions; and if he will make a statement.

(285552)

60
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much additional funding has been allocated by his Department to the 69 local authority areas identified as Youth Crime Priority Areas; and over what period that funding will be provided.

(285554)

61
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2009, Official Report, column 553W, on asbestos: documents, how many asbestos health-related files have been retained since 1984.

(285246)

62
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2009, Official Report, column 553W, on asbestos: documents, how many and what percentage of electronic files have been retained since 1984 after the seven year review held in accordance with the Health and Safety Executive's document retention policy.

(285247)

63
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2009, Official Report, column 553W, on asbestos: documents, how many and what percentage of paper files have been retained since 1984 after the nine year review held in accordance with the Health and Safety Executive's document retention policy.

(285248)

64
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his policy is on excess balances maintained by local authorities out of money received via the dedicated schools grant; what information his Department collects on such balances; and if he will make a statement.

(285596)

65
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2009, Official Report, columns 235-6W, on Ofsted: finance, what the projected future costs are of the new schools' inspection regime in each year for which information is available.

(285597)

66
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teachers were employed in schools in (a) the North East, (b) the Tees Valley and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997.

(285223)

67
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many cases of unauthorised absence from school were recorded in (a) the North East, (b) Tees Valley and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997.

(285325)

68
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding was allocated for the provision of extra-curricular activities in schools in (a) the North East, (b) Tees Valley and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997.

(285327)

69
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many classroom assistants were employed in schools in (a) the North East, (b) Tees Valley and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997.

(285329)

70
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children were taught in classes of more than 30 pupils in (a) the North East, (b) Tees Valley and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each of the last 10 years.

(285330)

71
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what measures his Department has in place to ensure the protection of children against sexual assault on school premises.

(285331)

72
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what scenario planning is being undertaken within his Department in relation to possible reductions in its budget; and if he will make a statement.

(285210)

73
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of children obtained GCSEs at grade C or above in (a) English, (b) mathematics, (c) a modern language, (d) history, (e) physics, (f) chemistry and (g) biology in each year between 1997 and 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(285459)

74
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent assessment he has made of the effects on schoolchildren of potential radiation emissions from wireless local area networks in schools; and if he will direct local education authorities to adopt a precautionary approach to the approval of the (a) installation and (b) operation of wireless local area networks in schools.

(285238)

75
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many school places there are in (a) Hemel Hempstead, (b) Dacorum and (c) Hertfordshire.

(285243)

76
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the evidential basis was for the statement that, Costs to existing recognised Awarding Bodies are expected to be neutral, on average, in the Impact Assessment of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill relating to the creation of the awarding body regulator, Ofqual and the QCDA.

(285500)

77
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of services provided through Connexions.

(285424)

78
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent assessment he has made of the relevance of diploma qualifications to the needs of employers; and what steps he is taking to take employers' views into account when revising the content and structure of diplomas.

(285425)

79
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment was made of the effectiveness of the City Technology College programme when developing Government policy on academies; and if he will make a statement.

(285428)

80
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effect of the academies programme on the provision of basic skills.

(285429)

81
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average change was in the percentage of pupils gaining five A* to C GCSE grades in (a) academies and (b) other schools between 2004 and 2008.

(285430)

82
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will assess the effect of policies on (a) diplomas and (b) academies on (i) local democratic accountability of the education system and (ii) levels of educational inequality.

(285431)

83
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of pupils in (a) academies and (b) other schools did not achieve five A* to C GCSE grades in 2008.

(285498)

84
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285306)

85
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many full-time children's social workers there were in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in (i) 1997 and (ii) the latest period for which figures are available.

(285476)

86
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children went missing from care homes in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each year since 1997.

(285477)

87
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils in (i) each local authority area in the North West and (ii) England are on gifted and talented programmes.

(285376)

88
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of schools in each local authority area provide pupils with the opportunity for at least two hours of sport per week.

(285377)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

89
Mike Gapes (Ilford South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what applications each Government Office has (a) received, (b) approved and (c) not approved from each local authority in its region for disposal of statutory allotments between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2009; what the proposed alternative use of the allotments was in each case; and what the reason for (i) approval and (ii) refusal was in each case.

(285487)

90
N Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2009, Official Report, columns 754-55W, on non-domestic rates, what the amount of costs associated with implementing deferral of business rate payments is in Table C11 of the 2009 Financial Statement and Budget Report within the departmental expenditure limit for his Department.

(285076)

91
N Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding had been (a) allocated to, (b) distributed to and (c) spent by local authorities in Neighbourhood Renewal Funding in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10 on the latest date for which figures are available; and how much such funding he expects to be (A) allocated, (B) distributed and (C) spent by local authorities in 2010-11.

(285077)

92
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2009, Official Report, column 199W, on Chorley Borough Council: bank services, what steps his Department has taken to assist Chorley Borough Council in recovering its deposits in Icelandic banks; and if he will make a statement.

(285574)

93
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance he issues to planning authorities on their consideration of potential health effects arising from the operation of proposed mobile telephone masts; what account he takes of the guidelines for protection from such radiation established by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection in establishing such guidance; and if he will make a statement.

(285240)

94
N Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Valuation Office Agency took to implement the Government's policy that 2000 businesses within the hereditaments of the statutory ports should be separately rated in 2005.

(284997)

95
N Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) notified port operators in each scheduled port that they were to be separately rated for business rates; how they were notified; what consultation the VOA held with operators in each port on the matter; and what assessment the VOA made in each case of the business consequence to businesses of the changes.

(284998)

96
N Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what business rate assessments the Valuation Office Agency made on port operators in 2005; when it decided to change these assessments; and for what reason it so decided.

(284999)

97
Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance he provides to local authorities on declarations by councillors who are freemasons; and whether that guidance has been amended since 1997.

(285566)

98
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the final regional spatial strategy for the South West will be issued.

(285435)

99
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what research his Department has assessed on the effect of allotments on the environment and local communities.

(285423)

100
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many complaints have been submitted to the local government ombudsman on maladministration in the provision of allotments in the last five years.

(285427)

101
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what measures his Department uses to assess the performance of the Deposit Protection Service; and what the level of performance against those measures was in the latest period for which figures are available.

(285432)

102
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the standard of service provided to his Department and its agencies by contractors appointed by reverse auction.

(285220)

103
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285308)

104
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties had been sold under the HomeBuy Direct Scheme in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point at the latest date for which figures are available.

(285478)

105
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes have been built in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each of the last five years.

(285479)

106
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes for social rent have been built in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each of the last five years.

(285480)

107
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of (a) local authority and (b) housing association homes in (i) Essex and (ii) Castle Point met the decent homes standard in each of the last five years.

(285481)

108
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties he expects to be added to the stock of social rented housing through (a) construction and (b) purchase in (i) Essex and (ii) Castle Point in (A) 2009-10 and (B) each of the next four years.

(285529)

109
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2009, Official Report, column 369W, on housing: armed forces, for what reasons data on applications for assistance under the New Build HomeBuy and intermediate rent schemes are not held centrally.

(285532)

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

110
N Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to reply to the letters of 7 May and 15 June 2009 from the hon. Member for Forest of Dean on the Friends of Kempley Churches, reference FD3057.

(285073)

111
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what meetings Ministers and officials of his Department have had with representatives of BT to discuss the Government's Digital Britain report in the last six months.

(285040)

112
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285307)

113
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding his Department allocated for development of the tourism sector in each region of England in each year since 2003.

(285393)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

114
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what targets his Department has set for the timetable against which inquests into the deaths of members of the armed forces killed in action should be completed; and if he will make a statement.

(285571)

115
N Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average pension payment to a member of the (a) Gurkha Pension Scheme and (b) Armed Forces Pension Scheme was in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(284418)

116
N Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how his Department calculated its estimate of the £1.5 billion required to give Gurkhas on the Gurkha Pension Scheme a retrospective pension equivalent to their UK counterparts.

(284419)

117
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether a sale site of RAF Lyneham would be subject to the Crichel Down rules.

(285416)

118
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate Defence Estates have made of the monetary value of a vacated RAF Lyneham.

(285417)

119
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of decontaminating the site of RAF Lyneham.

(285418)

120
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the capital cost will be of relocating the Hercules fleet to RAF Brize Norton; and what his latest estimate is of the number of years of revenue savings that cost will equate to.

(285419)

121
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent estimate is of the cost to his Department of the closure of RAF Lyneham.

(285548)

122
N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the planned lifespan is of the existing generation of Trident missile warheads; what recent consideration he has given to the practicability of extending that lifespan; and if he will estimate the likely savings to the public purse of undertaking such an extension instead of procuring a replacement system.

(284420)

123
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) weapons and (b) rounds of ammunition for which (i) his Department has and (ii) the armed forces have responsibility have gone missing in Scotland in each of the last five years; and what the monetary value was of such weapons and ammunition.

(285564)

124
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many reported break-ins to service personnel accommodation there have been in Scotland in each year since 2004.

(285565)

125
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications for funding from his Department for events to commemorate Armed Forces Day 2009 were not granted; and if he will make a statement.

(285200)

126
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285309)

127
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which Armed Forces Day 2009 events received funding from his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(285421)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

128
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of trends in domestic energy prices; and if he will make a statement.

(285570)

129
N Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much grant funding his Department provided for the installation of solar photovoltaic technology in domestic dwellings in each of the last five years; and what budget is available for these purposes in 2009-10.

(283210)

130
Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what procedures are in place to ensure that work is carried out by Warm Front contractors before they are paid for it.

(285190)

131
Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many complaints were (a) received and (b) upheld about the 10 Warm Front contractors who received the most work under the scheme (i) in the UK and (ii) in Wandsworth in (A) 2006, (B) 2007, (C) 2008 and (D) 2009.

(285191)

132
Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households had work undertaken for them by Warm Front contractors (a) in the UK and (b) in Wandsworth in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007, (iii) 2008 and (iv) 2009.

(285192)

133
Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his estimate is of the average waiting time for insulation work to be carried out under the Warm Front scheme in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) 2009.

(285193)

134
N Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when the proposed Office for Renewable Energy Development will become operational; and if he will make a statement.

(285041)

135
N Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress has been made on the generic design assessment for nuclear new build against the Office for Nuclear Development's draft timeline.

(285042)

136
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate he has made of the number of domestic dwellings in Tamworth constituency which have a smart meter.

(285367)

137
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he plans to publish the Government's response to the public consultation on the scope of the Severn Tidal Power feasibility study.

(285434)

138
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285310)

139
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much has been spent from the public purse on insulating the homes of pensioners in each local authority area in Greater Manchester in each of the last five years.

(285381)

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

140
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will estimate the volume of Brazilian beef imported into the UK which was raised in illegally deforested areas in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(285558)

141
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the proportion of carbon dioxide emissions arising from landfill activities in the latest period for which figures are available.

(285559)

142
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the food retail sector on support for ethical procurement initiatives.

(285569)

143
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the subsidies granted by the European Commission to EU member states in each of the last five years; and what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the criteria applied to applications for such subsidies.

(285572)

144
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that eggs are labelled clearly to indicate the method by which the chickens which produced the eggs are farmed.

(285584)

145
N Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many individuals were prosecuted for neglect of animals resulting from leaving animals in confined and hot spaces for a prolonged period in each of the last two years; and what average fine was issued for those convicted in such cases.

(285070)

146
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many payments under the single payment scheme in relation to farms in (a) Hemel Hempstead, (b) Dacorum and (c) Hertfordshire were outstanding on the latest date for which figures are available.

(285244)

147
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his estimate is of the number of (a) dog exclusion orders and (b) dogs on leads orders introduced by local authorities under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005; what proportion of such orders in each category have affected land classified as open access land under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000; and how many such orders in each category affect access to land of which Natural England has been notified.

(285605)

148
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will discuss with Ofwat the introduction of a social tariff by water companies for low-income households which face higher costs from water metering.

(284332)

149
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect on low-income households of water metering.

(284333)

150
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations he has received on the effect on low-income households of water metering.

(284334)

151
N Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which individuals and organisations were invited to make submissions to the Environment Agency's H14 ecotoxicity consultation in 2007.

(284472)

152
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 1006W, on domestic wastes, which local authorities have sought the advice of the Waste and Resources Action Programme on available options for waste incentive schemes in the last 12 months.

(285234)

153
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance (a) his Department, (b) the Environment Agency and (c) the Waste and Resources Action Programme has provided to potential eco-town developers on policies on household waste for adoption in eco-towns.

(285250)

154
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of each (a) speech and (b) presentation made by the representatives of the Waste and Resources Action Programme at the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee's conference held in November 2008.

(285251)

155
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Waste and Resources Action Programme's Waste Prevention Toolkit.

(285252)

156
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the analysis undertaken by the Waste and Resources Action Programme into the efficiency and effectiveness of waste management models used by local authorities.

(285253)

157
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 14 May 2009, Official Report, column 904W, on waste management, and with reference to the minutes of his Department's Waste Stakeholders Group meeting of 30 November 2007, whether his Department has a communications strategy on residual waste.

(285254)

158
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the paper on waste prevention, reference: WSG05NOV07, circulated at the meeting of his Department's Waste Stakeholders Group of 30 November 2007.

(285255)

159
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the paper on medium term risks to the waste strategy, reference: WSG04FEB00, circulated at the meeting of his Department's Waste Stakeholders Group on 25 February 2008.

(285256)

160
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of the Waste and Resources Action Programme's staff work on matters relating to alternate weekly collections.

(285346)

161
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance the Waste and Resources Action Programme has provided to local authorities on alternate weekly waste collections since its establishment.

(285347)

162
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many consultation responses his Department received on (a) application and designation guidance, (b) technical issues guidance, (c) finance guidance, (d) coverage and disadvantaged groups guidance and (e) unauthorised deposit or disposal guidance in its June 2008 consultation on incentives for recycling by households.

(285348)

163
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research (a) his Department and (b) the Waste and Resources Action Programme has commissioned on household waste prevention in the last 12 months.

(285349)

164
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has for future levels of compulsory recycling for households; and what guidance (a) his Department, (b) the Waste and Resources Action Programme and (c) the Waste Improvement Network has issued to local authorities on the matter.

(285420)

165
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member of Bromley and Chislehurst of 4 November 2008, Official Report, column 401W, on the Waste and Resources Action Programme, whether the liaison activity funded by the Waste and Resources Action Programme included liaison with (a) official representatives of (b) hon. Members from and (c) noble Lords from (i) the Conservative Party, (ii) the Labour Party and (iii) the Liberal Democrats.

(285453)

166
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 14 May 2009, Official Report, column 904W, on waste management, if he will place in the Library a copy of each of the papers circulated in respect of each of the meetings of the Waste Stakeholder Group.

(285457)

167
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285311)

168
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2009, Official Report, column 1087W, on floods: Canvey Island, if he will make it his policy to estimate the number and proportion of buildings in flood risk areas which (a) are not flood-resistant and (b) are flood-resistant.

(285534)

169
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Animal Health Agency spent on consultants in each of the last five years.

(285537)

170
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was paid in bonuses to (a) directors, (b) senior managers, (c) specialist and delivery managers and (d) executive support and administration staff in the Environment Agency in each of the last five years.

(285539)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

171
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on terrorist organisations alleged to have been (a) funded and (b) supported by the government of Iran; and if he will make a statement.

(285474)

172
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he (a) has taken and (b) plans to take during the next 12 months at the United Nations to seek to prevent (i) weapons and (ii) funds from the government of Iran being sent to terrorist groups in (A) Afghanistan, (B) Iraq, (C) Gaza and (D) Lebanon; and if he will make a statement.

(285475)

173
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the government of Iran about their alleged (a) arming and (b) funding of Hamas; and if he will make a statement.

(285483)

174
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he (a) has taken and (b) plans to take during the next 12 months at the United Nations about the alleged (i) arming and (ii) funding of Hamas by Iran; and if he will make a statement.

(285484)

175
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he (a) has taken recently and (b) plans to take during the next 12 months to improve UK relations with Israel; and if he will make a statement.

(285499)

176
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Israel on the status of Jerusalem as capital of Israel; and if he will make a statement.

[R] (285542)

177
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Israel about freedom of worship for all faiths in Jerusalem; and if he will make a statement.

[R] (285543)

178
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of the number of settlements removed by the government of Israel since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

[R] (285544)

179
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the number of Iranian Members of Parliament who boycotted the election victory party of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; and if he will make a statement.

[R] (285557)

180
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received on the ability of residents of Jaffna and Vavuniya who have been displaced and are being held in government clearing centres to vote in the forthcoming municipal elections in Sri Lanka.

(285351)

181
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to seek to ensure that independent observers monitor the forthcoming municipal elections in Jaffna and Vavuniya in Sri Lanka.

(285352)

182
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to assist the Indian government in implementing witness protection programmes for Christians in Orissa.

(285353)

183
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's policy is on anti-religious conversion laws in (a) Sri Lanka and (b) India.

(285354)

184
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on Turkey's accession to the EU; and what recent discussions he had with his (a) French and (b) German counterparts on Turkish accession.

(285242)

185
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2009, Official Report, column 20-21W, on Belarus: human rights, what reports he has received of the death sentence passed in Belarus on 29 June 2009; and if he will make a statement.

(285359)

186
N Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of retired Gurkhas working as private security contractors in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.

(284417)

187
Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Afghan government on the custodial sentence imposed on journalist Sayed Pervez Kambaksh.

(285357)

188
Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has requested that Afghan President Hamid Karzai grant a presidential pardon to journalist Sayed Pervez Kambaksh.

(285358)

189
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Lancaster and Wyre of 26 June 2009, Official Report, column 1154W, on overseas aid: terrorism, what the arrangements are for scrutiny of the expenditure of the sum allocated to his Department's Counter-Terrorism and Radicalisation Programme; and what categories of expenditure have been established for the programme.

(285278)

190
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many North Korean nationals were engaged at the British Embassy in Pyongyang in each of the last 10 years; what level of security clearance such employees must pass before engagement; and whether his Department has carried out any investigations into activities of such staff which are incompatible with their terms and conditions of employment in that period.

(285280)

191
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff his Department employed in (a) the Middle East and (b) South Asia (i) in 2007 and (ii) on the latest date for which figures are available.

(285281)

192
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has paid in compensatory or consolatory payments to non-UK nationals in each year since 1997.

(285282)

193
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what policy objectives he has set for the UK's economic and political cooperation with its international partners; and what his assessment is of his Department's performance against those objectives in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009.

(285288)

194
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 284W, on departmental contracts, what the monetary value is of each contract entered into by his Department during financial year 2008-09 with (a) Alchemist Partnership Limited, (b) Avail Consulting, (c) Building Services Group Ltd., (d) Cambridge Econometrics, (e) Concerto Consulting, (f) Coombs Consulting Ltd., (g) Corporate Value Associates, (h) Haig Consulting Ltd., (i) Hanover Aviation Consulting Ltd., (j) Hay Group Management Limited, (k) Intuity Consulting Ltd., (l) Jedi Systems Consulting Ltd., (m) KPMG LLP, (n) Methods Consulting, (o) Minimal Risk Consultancy Ltd., (p) Mott MacDonald, (q) Ove Arup, (r) Oxford Policy Management Ltd., (s) PA Consulting Group, (t) Projected Consulting Ltd., (u) Purcon Ltd., (v) Ridge and Partners, (w) RPS Health Safety, (x) TPS Consult, (y) Tribal Consulting, (z) UCT Ltd. and (aa) Venn Group Ltd.

(285289)

195
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 284W, on departmental contracts, what the monetary value is of each contract entered into by his Department during financial year 2008-09 with (a) Alfaplan Gradenje, (b) Asbestos Removals Logistics Ltd., (c) ATG Access Ltd., (d) Bymaro, (e) Controlled Building Services Ltd., (f) Gilbert Ash Fit-Out, (g) Gleeds (QS), (h) Gleeds Building Surveying, (i) GMW Architects, (j) HOK International, (k) Jordan + Bateman, (l) Knight Frank, (m) Mayfair Building Services, (n) Orostream International Contracts Ltd., (o) Ove Arup, (p) Ridge and Partners, (q) Toffco SDN BHD, (r) Windell Ltd. and (s) Zeal Interiors.

(285290)

196
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 284W, on departmental contracts, what the monetary value is of each contract entered into by his Department during financial year 2008-09 with (a) Bramble.cc Ltd., (b) Business Objects (UK) Limited, (c) Computacenter, (d) Data Capture Solutions and (e) ODEC Ltd.

(285291)

197
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 284W, on departmental contracts, what the monetary value is of each contract entered into by his Department during financial year 2008-09 with (a) Ambrose HR Ltd., (b) Capita Group PLC, (c) LA International, (d) Morson Human Resources Ltd., (e) Morson International, (f) Spire Business Support Ltd., (g) TMP (UK) Ltd. and (h) Veredus.

(285292)

198
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 284W, on departmental contracts, what contracts were entered into with (a) Coffey International Development Ltd., (b) CP Recoveries, (c) Crown Agents, (d) Ebla Translations, (e) DGSI, (f) Disposal Services Authority, (g) Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP, (h) Fugro Middle East, (i) GTZ, (j) Heathrow Airport Limited, (k) MCI UK Ltd., (l) RN Golds Assoicates, (m) SMA Ltd., (n) Thales UK Ltd. and (o) The Carbon Trust in 2008-09; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.

(285293)

199
N Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations the UK has made to the government of Israel on the boarding of and removal of persons from a Free Gaza boat in international waters by Israeli forces; and if he will make a statement.

(285104)

200
Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if his Department will hold discussions with the Colombian government on the situation of members of the Nukak tribe camped near San Jose; and if he will make a statement.

(285342)

201
Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has had discussions with the Indian government on sexual violence against Dalit women in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

(285343)

202
Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department will next review UK economic sanctions against Burma; and if he will make a statement.

(285344)

203
Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has had discussions with the Nepalese authorities in the last 12 months on those still missing following the country's armed conflict; and if he will make a statement.

(285345)

204
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285312)

205
N Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the recent statement by the Head of Shin Bet Yuval Diskin on the West Bank security barrier.

(285071)

206
N Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations his Department has made to the Israeli government on the West Bank security barrier.

(285072)

207
N Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many diplomats in each British diplomatic mission overseas have been accused by the authorities of the host country of committing a serious criminal offence in the period 2004 to 2008, broken down by type of offence.

(285106)

208
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has spent on landmine clearance projects in Colombia in each of the last five years.

(285454)

209
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what involvement his Department has in the determination by the BBC World Service of the languages in which it broadcasts.

(285458)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

210
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what new files on the Abortion Act 1967 have been created by his Department since January 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(285485)

211
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what files his Department holds on (a) the draft Tissues and Embryos Bill, (b) the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] and (c) the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008; and if he will make a statement.

(285486)

212
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 INW0014/0030/0008/VO1 HF&E Bill 1990 Lords Consideration of Commons Amendments; and if he will make a statement.

(285545)

213
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 INW0014/0030/0010/VO1 HF&E Bill 1990 Various Papers; and if he will make a statement.

(285546)

214
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 INW0014/0030/0012/VO2 HF&E Bill 1990 Hansard; and if he will make a statement.

(285547)

215
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 INW0014/0030/0012 HF&E Bill 1990 Hansard; and if he will make a statement.

(285549)

216
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 INW0014/0030/0005/VO1 HF&E Bill 1990 Commons 2nd Reading; and if he will make a statement.

(285550)

217
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 INW0014/0030/0006/VO1 HF&E Bill 1990 Commons Committee; and if he will make a statement.

(285551)

218
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) statutory instruments, (b) departmental circulars and (c) other documents he has published since 1997 consequent on the provisions of the Abortion Act 1967; and if he will make a statement.

(285556)

219
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what cost-benefit analysis his Department has undertaken of the effects of implementation of its proposal for the generic substitution of branded anti-epilepsy drugs.

(285488)

220
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of NHS patients likely to be affected by implementation of proposals for the generic substitution of branded anti-epileptic drugs.

(285489)

221
John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the potential for savings to accrue to the NHS from the implementation of proposals for the generic substitution of branded anti-epileptic drugs.

(285490)

222
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what factors his Department has identified as increasing the likelihood of patients in intensive care not receiving treatment for pain; and what steps he is taking to reduce the number of such patients with untreated pain.

(284585)

223
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of patients in intensive care units reported experiencing untreated pain during a hospital stay in each of the last five years.

(284586)

224
N Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is considering, other than hand sanitation, to reduce the incidence of healthcare-associated infections.

(284587)

225
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many county towns in England do not have an ambulance control centre within their boundaries.

(285283)

226
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the efficiency of the ambulance control centres in Brierley Hill and Stafford.

(285285)

227
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what qualifications ambulance control centre telephone operators need to perform their duties.

(285286)

228
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy is on ambulance crews operating in areas in which they are not based.

(285287)

229
N Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure the implementation of the ban on smoking in public places in psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric wards of hospitals; and if he will make a statement.

(284877)

230
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many reported incidents of overdoses of prescription drugs there have been of under 18 year olds in (a) England, (b) the North East and (c) Teesside in each of the last 10 years.

(285194)

231
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent in supporting scientific and medical research undertaken by charities in the last 12 months.

(285195)

232
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors were employed in (i) the North East, (ii) the Tees Valley and (iii) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997.

(285222)

233
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the NHS is taking to (a) assist those resident in Teesside who have been diagnosed with swine influenza and (b) prevent to further spread of swine influenza in Teesside.

(285332)

234
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many reported cases of (a) mumps, (b) measles and (c) rubella there were in (i) the North East, (ii) Tees Valley and (iii) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997.

(285333)

235
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his most recent estimate is of the number of intensive care beds provided by NHS trusts in (a) the North East, (b) Tees Valley and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency.

(285336)

236
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of necrotizing fasciitis were recorded in each of the last five years.

(285444)

237
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital admissions for the treatment of kidney stones were recorded in each year since 1997.

(285445)

238
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital admissions for methanol poisoning were recorded in each region in each of the last five years.

(285447)

239
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of (a) ebola, (b) West Nile fever, (c) yellow fever, (d) sleeping sickness, (e) dengue fever, (f) anthrax poisoning, (g) rabies, (h) guinea worm disease, (i) leprosy and (j) Chagas's disease were recorded in each of the last five years.

(285448)

240
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital admissions of persons aged (a) under 16 years and (b) 16 years and over there were with a primary or secondary diagnosis relating to attack by an animal in each of the last five years.

(285449)

241
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of skin cancer were diagnosed in each year since 1997.

(285450)

242
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of Crohn's disease were recorded in each of the last five years.

(285452)

243
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money was (a) claimed and (b) recovered from each partner nation for medical claims under the provisions of (i) form E111 and (ii) the European Health Insurance Card in each of the last five years.

(285456)

244
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines the NHS issues to trusts on procedures for the recovery of debts incurred by private patients.

(285461)

245
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been allocated to each primary care trust in respect of compliance with the revised requirements of the European Working Time Directive; and what assessment he has made of the use to which such funds have been put.

(285462)

246
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many persons his Department (a) employed directly and (b) engaged as external contractors to work on press and public relations matters in each of the last five years; and at what cost in each such year.

(285465)

247
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many persons his Department's non-departmental public bodies (a) employed directly and (b) engaged as external contractors to work on press and public relations matters in each of the last five years; and at what cost in each such year.

(285466)

248
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of patients with rheumatoid arthritis are being managed by multi-disciplinary teams; and what percentage of primary care trusts are managing all their rheumatoid arthritis patients by multi-disciplinary teams throughout their care.

(285467)

249
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which primary care trusts do not review new patients presenting with rheumatoid arthritis using a multi-disciplinary team.

(285468)

250
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of hospitals able to provide patients suspected of having rheumatoid arthritis with access to a multi-disciplinary assessment (a) on first referral, (b) on subsequent admission and (c) throughout their care.

(285469)

251
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) people, (b) under 18 year olds, (c) under 16 year olds and (d) under 12 year olds (i) attended and (ii) were admitted via accident and emergency departments for excessive consumption of alcohol in each primary care trust area in England in each year since 1997-98.

(285525)

252
Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the management by multi-disciplinary teams of (a) rheumatoid arthritis, (b) ankylosing spondylitis and (c) psoriatic arthritis.

(285217)

253
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on (a) the adequacy of recommended safe levels of exposure to electromagnetic radiation and (b) the adequacy of guidelines for protection from such radiation established by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.

(285235)

254
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government has taken to implement the recommendations of the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones; and what measures are in place to protect children under the age of 12 years from exposure to potentially harmful radiation from mobile telephones.

(285236)

255
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had in the Council of Ministers on the recommendations concerning EU member states contained in the European Parliament's Resolution of 2 April 2009 on health concerns associated with electromagnetic fields; and if he will make a statement.

(285239)

256
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to (a) identify and (b) protect against the effects of mobile telecommunications radiation emissions those categories of people who have particular susceptibilities to them.

(285241)

257
N Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) ambulances and (b) rapid response vehicles per head of population there are in each ambulance trust.

(285078)

258
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will establish a system of standard food sampling rates in consultation with food authorities.

(285211)

259
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he make an evaluation of the cost effectiveness of food screening laboratories.

(285212)

260
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reasons are for the reduction in the number of public analysts in the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.

(285213)

261
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons the Food Standards Agency's review of public analyst services has not been completed; when he expects it will be completed; and if he will make a statement.

(285214)

262
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of people prescribed methadone were aged under 30 in each year since 1997.

(285216)

263
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been prescribed methadone for more than three years in each year since 1997.

(285218)

264
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he has given to local authorities on levels of their budgets for chemical analysis of food.

(285245)

265
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether there are any defined exclusions from his proposals for generic substitution of medicines.

(285443)

266
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued to primary care trusts on the procedures to be followed in allocation of dental contracts by them; and what steps his Department is taking to monitor compliance with that guidance.

(285203)

267
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the standard of service provided to his Department and its agencies by contractors appointed by reverse auction.

(285219)

268
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285313)

269
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints his Department has received in relation to the Carers' Direct Helpline since it was established.

(285482)

270
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2009, Official Report, column 401W, on NHS: waiting lists, for what reasons data on the rate of patient deaths while on waiting lists for NHS operations are not held centrally.

(285531)

271
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 354W, on social services: applications, for what reasons data on refusal of social care and support services are not collected.

(285533)

272
Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will establish a continence care health improvement national programme.

(285585)

273
Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government intends continence care to be part of its Carers Dignity and Respect agenda.

(285586)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

274
N Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of passenger name record data submitted by airlines to the (a) Semaphore and (b) e-Borders projects included data relating to (i) place of birth and (ii) date of issue of travel document.

(282238)

275
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals on life licence have been (a) deported and (b) removed in each of the last 10 years.

(285277)

276
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the level of credit card fraud in the last 12 months.

(285197)

277
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of human trafficking have been recorded in (a) the UK and (b) the North East in each year since 1997.

(285323)

278
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding the Government has allocated for measures to tackle human trafficking in (a) the UK and (b) the North East in each year since 1997.

(285324)

279
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions an individual (a) stopped and searched and (b) arrested on the basis of automatic number plate recognition data was released without charge in each year since 2005.

(285402)

280
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many authorisations were given by senior police officers for access to automatic number plate recognition data in each year since 2005.

(285403)

281
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have authorised access to automatic number plate recognition data in each year since 2005.

(285404)

282
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances there have been of senior police officers accessing automatic number plate recognition data which had been retained for more than 90 days in each year since 2005.

(285405)

283
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many automatic number plate recognition records have been permanently deleted in each year since 2005.

(285406)

284
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many automatic number plate recognition records have been created in each year since 2005.

(285413)

285
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a privacy impact assessment has been undertaken in relation to the Independent Safeguarding Authority's database.

(285414)

286
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding has been provided from the public purse to parish councils to tackle anti-social behaviour in the last 12 months.

(285390)

287
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effects on the health of police officers from radiation emissions from Tetra handsets issued to police forces.

(285237)

288
N Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an academic institution is required to register as a sponsor under the new tier 4 immigration rules if all the courses they offer for overseas students are for a period of less than six months.

(285105)

289
Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what analysis his Department has undertaken of the use of tasers by police officers in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

(285340)

290
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police vehicles have been damaged by the vehicle of a suspect during attempts to apprehend the suspect in each police force area in each of the last five years.

(285199)

291
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285314)

292
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful prosecutions there were for selling alcohol to people under the age of 18 years from (a) on-licence and (b) off-licence premises in each police force in the North West in each of the last five years.

(285374)

293
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance he has issued to police forces on the issue of anti-stab vests for police dogs.

(285455)

294
N Mike Wood (Batley & Spen): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget is for each of the seven drug system change pilots for (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.

(284995)

295
N Mike Wood (Batley & Spen): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to publish details of the independent evaluation process for the seven drug system change pilots.

(284996)

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

296
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 11 May 2009, Official Report, column 497W, on Parliament: internet, when the new area of the Parliament website focusing on Parliament's heritage will be launched; whether it will include audio files; and if he will make a statement.

(285497)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

297
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the growth rate that would need to be sustained in sub-Saharan Africa if that region is to meet the Millennium Development goals by 2015.

(285394)

298
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the oral Statement of 6 June 2009, Official Report, columns 701-04, on his Department's White Paper, what percentage of his Department's budget will be allocated to (a) budget aid, (b) project aid and (c) funding multilateral institutions in each year covered by the White Paper.

(285395)

299
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the cost of foreign nationals sending home remittances; and if he will make a statement.

(285396)

300
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, who will administer the new Global Partnership for Agriculture Food Security and Nutrition; what the UK's percentage contribution will be to the budget of the Partnership; and what the UK's cash contribution to the Partnership will be in each of the next two financial years.

(285397)

301
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which countries in which CDC has investments do not meet the international tax standard.

(285398)

302
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which states he considers to be fragile.

(285399)

303
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the terms of recruitment and retention for the cadre of 1,000 civilians that his Department is proposing to utilise in unstable environments will be.

(285400)

304
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, under what process individuals may volunteer to work for the Globalisation Unit which will undertake work in unstable environments.

(285401)

305
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what he estimates the cost to his Department of the rebranding of his Department's overseas aid will be; from which line in his Department's budget the cost will be paid; what the cost was of designing the new UKaid logo; which company designed it; if he will place in the Library a copy of the design contract; and what names other than UKaid were considered for the rebranding.

(285338)

306
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library a copy of each logo which was considered during the redesign process for rebranding his Department's overseas aid; on which (a) items, (b) buildings, (c) vehicles and (d) other places the new logo will be placed; what he estimates the cost of printing (i) stationery, (ii) business cards and (iii) other items with the new logo will be; and if he will make a statement.

(285339)

307
Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the implications of the custodial sentence imposed on journalist Sayed Pervez Kambaksh for his Department's plans to provide assistance to the legal and judicial sector in Afghanistan.

(285356)

308
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285315)

309
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the Government's progress towards its 2005 G8 commitment to double aid for the eradication of poverty in Africa by 2010.

(285368)

310
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department plans to take to monitor whether aid recently allocated by his Department to Zimbabwe reaches its intended recipients.

(285369)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

311
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the change in the employee headcount in (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies in the next 12 months.

(285258)

312
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were employed by (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies at the latest date for which figures are available.

(285259)

313
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what expenditure his Department incurred on (a) the legal aid 60 years exhibition and (b) other commemorative events associated with the 60th anniversary of legal aid.

(285260)

314
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of purposeful activity were recorded on average by prisoners in each month in the last five years.

(285261)

315
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how long on average a prisoner spent in (a) production workshops, (b) education and (c) rehabilitation in each month in the last five years.

(285262)

316
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours on average a young offender in prison spent playing competitive sport in each of the last five years.

(285264)

317
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions the Victims' Advisory Panel has met since July 2006; and what matters were discussed at each such meeting.

(285265)

318
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what expenditure his Department has incurred on legal aid payments to foreign nationals involved in cases before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission in each of the last seven years.

(285266)

319
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what expenditure his Department incurred in legal aid payments in respect of family proceedings in each year since 1997.

(285267)

320
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many courts accept fine payments by (a) credit and (b) debit card.

(285268)

321
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applicants to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme have died while awaiting (a) a decision, (b) the outcome of a review and (c) the outcome of an appeal against a decision in each of the last five years.

(285269)

322
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the results of the research commissioned by the Legal Services Commission on legal visits to prisons.

(285270)

323
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the capital budget for his Department and each of its agencies is in the next four years.

(285271)

324
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many meetings of the National Crime Reduction Board he has attended in the last 12 months.

(285272)

325
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many serious further offence enquiries were conducted in each year since 2001; and how many of those involved a person previously convicted of homicide.

(285275)

326
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1662W, on departmental manpower, how many (a) special advisers and (b) press officers were employed by his Department in (i) 2007-08 and (ii) 2008-09.

(285321)

327
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 17 November 2008, Official Report, column 24W, on young offender institutions: per capita costs, what the average cost of providing a place in (a) a young offender institution for 18 to 21 year olds, (b) a young offender institution for 15 to 17 year olds and (c) a secure training centre for under 15 year olds was in 2008-09.

(285491)

328
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many criminal convictions have resulted from hit and run incidents in (a) the North East, (b) Tees Valley and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997.

(285334)

329
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court production orders for data from communications service providers were (a) applied for and (b) obtained in each year since 2000; and how many such orders were (i) sought and (ii) obtained by Government departments and agencies in each such year.

(285415)

330
Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trainee probation officers are expected to qualify in (a) Northumbria and (b) England and Wales in September 2009; how many in each category he estimates will be offered full-time employment as trained probation officers; and if he will make a statement.

(285567)

331
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many awards have been made by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in relation to serious sexual assaults committed on patients while in the care of the NHS in the last five years.

(285204)

332
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has identified a compensation culture within local government.

(285257)

333
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the standard of service provided to his Department and its agencies by contractors appointed by reverse auction.

(285221)

334
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285316)

335
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions for offences related to fraud in connection with property leases there were in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each of the last five years.

(285473)

336
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many solicitors' offices provided legal aid to clients in each local authority area in the North West in relation to (a) civil and (b) criminal cases in each of the last three years.

(285371)

337
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of firms of solicitors in the North West which have ceased providing legal services to clients who require legal aid for (a) civil and (b) criminal cases in each of the last three years.

(285372)

338
N Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals his Department has received against a refusal to award disability living allowance to a young person diagnosed with autism in each year since 2001.

(284259)

339
N Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what training members of appeals tribunals considering awards of disability living allowance receive in respect of issues affecting young people with autism.

(284261)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

340
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many square metres of floor space there are at each of the premises occupied by his Department.

(285408)

341
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many staff are based at each of his Department's buildings.

(285409)

342
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the maintenance and development costs of his departmental website were in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07.

(285410)

343
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the staffing costs of his Department were in (a) April 2008 and (b) April 2009.

(285412)

344
N Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent estimate he has made of the level of fuel smuggling in Northern Ireland.

(283766)

345
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much the Billy Wright inquiry has cost to date.

(285186)

346
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much the Rosemary Nelson inquiry has cost to date.

(285187)

347
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much the Robert Hamill inquiry has cost to date.

(285188)

348
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much the Bloody Sunday inquiry has cost to date.

(285189)

Questions to the Minister for the Olympics

349
N Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1889-90W, on Olympic Games 2012: transport, what further steps she has taken to ensure than hon. and right hon. Members will not be delayed in travelling to the House during the period of the London 2012 Olympics; and if she will make a statement.

(284791)

350
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what steps her Office is taking to (a) define and (b) measure the carbon footprint of the London 2012 Olympics.

(285207)

Questions to the Prime Minister

351
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 294, what he meant by the phrase a zero per cent. rise in 2013-14.

(285202)

352
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Prime Minister, how much funding he expects to allocate to the Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq.

(285360)

353
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Prime Minister, how many staff the Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq will have.

(285361)

354
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Prime Minister, whether witnesses to the Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq will be permitted legal representation; and if he will make a statement.

(285362)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

355
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 308W, on Hebrides range, what the outcomes were of the meeting he hosted for the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence and the Western Isles Council established task group on 1 July 2009 at Dover House.

(285587)

Questions to the Solicitor General

356
Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Solicitor General, how many defendants were sentenced under the provisions of section 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 after a plea bargain by the (a) Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) nationally and (b) West Yorkshire CPS in 2007-08.

(285496)

Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport

357
N Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on the removal of distress flares and other pyrotechnic devices from vessels registered under the UK flag.

(282929)

358
N Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many (a) surveyors, (b) Coastguard Control Centre staff, (c) administrative staff and (d) human resources staff the Maritime and Coastguard Agency employed in each of the last 10 years.

(282930)

359
N Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many vessels were (a) surveyed and (b) certified by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in each of the last 10 years.

(282931)

360
N Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how much was paid in compensation to owners of (a) fishing vessels and (b) other commercial vessels by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in respect errors of judgment during certification surveys in each of the last five years.

(282932)

361
Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how much capital expenditure his Department has incurred on constructing new roads in each of the last 20 years.

(285598)

362
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many residents of (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland had heavy goods vehicle licences in each of the last five years.

(285560)

363
N Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, when he plans to issue the fares direction to train operating companies on the use of Oyster cards for national rail services in London.

(285075)

364
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will instruct the Highways Agency to ensure that road signage on the Isle of Sheppey and the A249 includes directions to HM Prison Swaleside, HM Prison Elmley and HM Prison Standford Hill.

(285276)

365
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether maintenance work is planned on the West Coast Main Line on the weekend of 28 and 29 August.

(285583)

366
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many road fatalities there have been in each constituency in the West Midlands in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

(285363)

367
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how much funding his Department has allocated to encourage bicycle usage in (a) Tamworth and (b) Staffordshire in each of the last five years.

(285364)

368
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what assessment he has made of the accessibility of the driving theory test for people with dyslexia.

(285284)

369
N Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, for what reasons a 40mph speed limit has been imposed on the A1(M) motorway in the vicinity of junction 4 where roadworks are taking place; and if he will make a statement.

(284876)

370
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many applications for driving licences from residents of (a) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency, (b) Teesside, (c) the North East and (d) England using forged or stolen identity documents have been detected by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in each of the last five years.

(285196)

371
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to ensure the continued operation of the rail network in the North East in the event of flooding.

(285225)

372
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, in what circumstances staff contracts have been varied in his Department to include the requirement for a total reward statement; and what methods were used to vary those contracts.

(285387)

373
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what cost codes have been set up by his Department's Shared Service Centre in relation to the flexible benefit project; and what costs have been recorded against each cost code and on what dates.

(285388)

374
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, for what reasons his Department's design authority has sanctioned an emergency delivery of flexible benefits via the Emergency Path to Production process; and if he will make a statement.

(285389)

375
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2009, Official Report, column 1388W, on departmental pay, if he will list the employers concerned, including contracts (a) which have been sub-let and (b) which are not exclusive to London; what the nature is of the work undertaken with regard to each contract; how many staff are employed under the terms of each contract, broken down by (i) grade and (ii) location; and what (A) the length of the contract is and (B) union recognition agreements are in place in each case.

(285471)

376
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2009, Official Report, column 10W, on departmental conditions of employment, by what method the contract won by Benefex Limited was let by his Department.

(285472)

377
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285317)

378
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how much funding his Department has allocated for the purposes of improving public transport (a) in each local authority area in Greater Manchester and (b) in England in each of the last five years.

(285370)

379
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, which local authorities have received funding from his Department for the provision of Bikeability training; and what award was made in each case.

(285373)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

380
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many staff are based at each of his Department's offices.

(285407)

381
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the maintenance and development costs of his Department's website were in each year since 2005.

(285411)

Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality

382
N Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, if she will make an assessment of the responsibilities of (a) local authorities, (b) police authorities and (c) primary care trusts for (i) the protection of and (ii) provision of advice to female victims of domestic violence by male asylum-seeking partners or former partners; and if she will make a statement.

(283989)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

383
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the average level of subsidy per person funded by the Future Jobs Fund in the latest period for which figures are available.

(285593)

384
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the proportion of Jobcentre Plus staff engaged in (a) administering benefits and (b) helping jobseekers find employment.

(285594)

385
James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding her Department has provided to the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse in each of the last five years.

(285553)

386
N Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents making payments to the Child Support Agency have their full liability reduced because they have responsibility for the care of their child for more than one night per week.

(283211)

387
N Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will bring forward proposals for non-resident parents to be reimbursed for clothing purchased for their children; and if she will make a statement.

(283990)

388
N Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 123W, on local employment partnerships, what the final cost was of the Local Employment Partnership Awards 2009; and how much (a) each of the 11 local award ceremonies and (b) the grand final cost.

(285074)

389
N Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of levels of accessibility of Jobcentre Plus offices for elderly and disabled people; and if she will make a statement.

(285148)

390
N Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether an impact assessment has been undertaken in respect of the (a) Future Jobs Fund and (b) Young Persons' Guarantee.

(285149)

391
N Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much Jobcentre Plus has spent on (a) increasing the physical capacity of jobcentres, (b) acquiring new office space, (c) extending existing office space and (d) converting existing office space to accommodate higher demand for Jobcentre Plus services in the last 12 months.

(285150)

392
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on the publication of housing benefit localities; and if she will make a statement.

(285215)

393
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people receive (a) more and (b) less housing benefit as a consequence of the most recent review of housing benefit localities carried out by the Rent Service.

(285355)

394
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2009, Official Report, column 355W, on department pay, to which employers her Department's contracts have been (a) let and (b) sub-let where the location of employment is not exclusive to London in the last five years; what the nature of the work undertaken on each such contract is; what information her Department holds on the grade and location of employment of those working on such contracts; what the duration of each such contract is; and what agreements on union recognition have been reached in relation to each such contract.

(285492)

395
Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State will respond to the letter from the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire of 30 April 2009 on statutory adoption pay.

(285494)

396
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many crisis loans decision-makers are in post; and how many she expects to be in post by May 2010.

(285436)

397
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of implementation of local housing allowance; what estimate she has made of the number of tenants who have not passed rent to their landlord since the new scheme was introduced; and what estimate she has made of the monetary value of that rent.

(285599)

398
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's definition is of equality of opportunity in relation to her Department's policies; and if she will make an assessment of the impact on equality of opportunity of her Department's policies.

(285206)

399
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what changes have been made to her Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months.

(285318)

400
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2009, Official Report, column 1057W, on petrol: storage, which local authority granted planning permission against Health and Safety Executive advice.

(285535)

401
N Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department issues to assessors on the account to be taken of representations by (a) parents and (b) professionals who know the child concerned in determining amounts of disability living allowance in respect of young people with autism.

(284257)

402
N Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training her Department's officials who assess claims for disability living allowance receive in respect of issues affecting young people with autism.

(284258)

403
N Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of claims for disability living allowance in respect of young people with autism have been awarded in each year since 2001.

(284260)

404
Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to announce the dates of the qualifying week for the Winter Fuel Payment; and if she will make a statement.

(285201)

405
N Mike Wood (Batley & Spen): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each region were referred from Jobcentre Plus to Progress2Work in 2008-09.

(284992)

406
N Mike Wood (Batley & Spen): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each region were referred from Jobcentre Plus to Progress2Work-LinkUP in 2008-09.

(284993)

407
N Mike Wood (Batley & Spen): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals claiming (a) employment support allowance and (b) jobseeker's allowance who voluntarily disclosed the use of crack cocaine or heroin were referred to a drug treatment provider in each of the last two months for which figures are available.

(284994)

Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

408
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young offenders in prison have been recorded as improving their standard of literacy during their sentence in each of the last five years.

[Transferred] (285263)

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

409
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding each local authority in Greater Manchester awarded funding under the National Play Strategy in December 2008 has received to date; and how much on average each local authority in England was awarded under the National Play Strategy in December 2008.

[Transferred] (285380)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

410
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many fire fighters were employed at fire stations in (a) the North East, (b) Tees Valley and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997.

[Transferred] (285328)

411
Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps have been taken to tackle caste discrimination in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (285341)

412
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the economic performance of seaside resorts in England.

[Transferred] (285209)

413
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, by how much council tax (a) bills and (b) receipts increased in (i) absolute percentage terms and (ii) real terms in England between 1997-98 and 2009-10 according to figures held by the Office for National Statistics.

[Transferred] (285249)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

414
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2009, Official Report, column 454W, on anti-social behaviour orders: young people, who is responsible for monitoring the effects of media reporting on anti-social behaviour orders imposed on children between the ages of 10 and 17 years on levels of compliance with such orders.

[Transferred] (285322)

Questions to the Solicitor General

415
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions brought by the Crown Prosecution Service have not resulted in a conviction in each of the last three years.

[Transferred] (285273)

416
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Solicitor General, in how many cases costs have been awarded against the Crown Prosecution Service in each of the last three years.

[Transferred] (285274)

Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport

417
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many (a) directors, (b) senior managers, (c) specialist and delivery managers and (d) executive support and administration staff there were in each Maritime and Coastguard Agency office in each of the last five years.

[Transferred] (285538)

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