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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Tuesday 20 October 2009
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Tuesday 20 October 2009
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 20 October of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 20 October of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Tuesday 20 October see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 1
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what mechanism exists for his Department's Pay and Work Rights telephone helpline service to work in conjunction with the Gangmasters Licensing Authority. | | (293761) | 2
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he has taken to publicise his Department's Pay and Work Rights telephone helpline service to vulnerable workers, including those employed by gangmasters. | | (293762) | 3
N | Mr David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what (a) meetings, (b) communications and (c) other contacts Ministers and officials in his Department have had with the Consolidated Contractors Corporation (CCC Group) and its international offshoots in the last five years. | | (294377) | 4
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students have received provisional payments in advance of full student support payments from Student Finance England in (a) the 2009-10 academic year and (b) each of the five previous years. | | (294702) | 5
| Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many cars have been purchased under the car scrappage scheme in (a) the UK and (b) Wales. | | (294703) | 6
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding the Government will provide for the new UK Innovation Investment Fund in the next three years; and how much private sector investment he expects the Fund to receive in that period. | | (294707) | 7
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294684) | Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office 8
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the (a) Central Sponsor for Information Assurance and (b) Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure was informed that trials of 121 Media/Phorm systems had taken place. | | (294373) | 9
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged between 16 and 24 years in (a) Chelmsford local authority area and (b) West Chelmsford constituency had been unemployed for over (i) six and (ii) 12 months in each of the last six months. | | (294057) | 10
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged between 16 and 24 years in (a) Chelmsford local authority area and (b) West Chelmsford constituency were unemployed in (i) May 1997 and (ii) each of the last six months for which figures are available. | | (294058) | 11
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what suicide rates in each local authority area were in each of the last four years. | | (294309) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 12
N | Mr David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) meetings, (b) communications and (c) other contacts Ministers and officials in his Department have had with the Consolidated Contractors Corporation (CCC Group) and its international offshoots in the last five years. | | (294381) | 13
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time taken to reach a decision by the Adjudicator's Office following the receipt of a complaint from a member of the public in respect of (a) a complaint relating to the Tax Credit Office and (b) an application for compensation from the Tax Credit Office was in each of the last five years. | | (294630) | 14
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what training staff of the Adjudicator's Office receive in respect of handling (a) complaints and (b) applications for compensation. | | (294632) | 15
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294697) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 16
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of pupils who had participated in gifted and talented programmes and who sat GCSEs in 2009 achieved (a) five or more GCSEs at grades A* - C, (b) five or more GCSEs at grades A* - C including English and mathematics, (c) five or more GCSEs at grades A* - C including English, mathematics and a modern foreign language and (d) eight or more GCSEs at grades A* - A. | | (294641) | 17
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in which 10 non-core curriculum subjects the number of GCSE entries was highest in each (a) comprehensive, (b) selective and (c) partially-selective local authority area in 2009. | | (294642) | 18
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in which 10 non-core curriculum subjects the number of GCSE entries was highest in (a) maintained comprehensives, (b) maintained selective, (c) maintained secondary modern and (d) independent schools in 2009. | | (294643) | 19
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of A levels in (a) chemistry, (b) physics, (c) mathematics and (d) modern languages were awarded to pupils at (i) grammar schools, (ii) comprehensive schools, (iii) sixth form colleges and (iv) independent schools in the 2008-09 academic year. | | (294644) | 20
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of pupils achieved eight or more GCSEs at grade A* - A (a) nationally, (b) in selective local education authorities, (c) in comprehensive education authorities and (d) in partially selective local education authorities in 2009. | | (294645) | 21
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to page 14 of the Ofsted report Learning lessons from serious case reviews: year 2, how many of the 38 deaths arising from homicides were (a) reported in serious case reviews that were inadequate in each local authority and (b) of children known to social services at the time of the incident. | | (294637) | 22
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the executive summary titles are of the 173 serious case reviews examined in preparation of the Ofsted report entitled Learning lessons from serious case reviews: year 2. | | (294638) | 23
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Ofsted report entitled Learning lessons from serious case reviews: year 2, what steps he is taking in respect of those serious case reviews which were found to be inadequate. | | (294639) | 24
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department has spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294688) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 25
N | Christopher Fraser (South West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties are recorded with each individual (a) dwellinghouse code and (b) value significant code, broken down by (i) individual type, (ii) number of rooms, (iii) number of bedrooms, (iv) number of bathrooms, (v) number of floors, (vi) floor level, (vii) parking, (viii) garaging, (ix) conservatory type, (x) age, (xi) outbuilding and (xii) modernisation code, in the local authority area of (A) King's Lynn and West Norfolk and (B) Broadland according to electronic records held by the Valuation Office Agency. | | (293896) | 26
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what dates Ministers in his Department have met representatives of the Muslim Council of Britain in the last 12 months. | | (294631) | 27
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties in Forest of Dean district are recorded with each individual (a) dwellinghouse code and (b) value significant code, including each code for (i) type, (ii) number of rooms, (iii) number of bedrooms, (iv) number of bathrooms, (v) number of floors, (vi) floor level, (vii) parking, (viii) garaging, (ix) conservatory type, (x) age, (xi) outbuilding and (xii) modernisation, according to electronic records held by the Valuation Office Agency. | | (294497) | 28
N | Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties in each local authority district are in council tax band (a) A and (b) B. | | (294495) | 29
N | Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has received any (a) letters and (b) other communication requesting anonymity of representation in planning application cases for Gypsy and Traveller pitches or sites in the last six months; and if he will make a statement. | | (294369) | 30
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294683) | 31
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications of the High Court ruling of City and District Council of St Albans v. Secretary of State for Communications and Local Government, [2009] EWHC 1280 (Admin) for the (a) East of England, (b) South East, (c) South West and (d) West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategies; what plans there are to undertake new environmental impact assessments; and if he will make a statement. | | (294700) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 32
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate he has made of the administration costs of each of the National Lottery distributors. | | (294375) | 33
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the income of the National Lottery good causes has been in (a) actual and (b) real terms in each year since the National Lottery began. | | (294646) | 34
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the National Lottery has generated in sales in (a) actual and (b) real terms in each year since the National Lottery began. | | (294647) | 35
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the cost of the National Lottery Commission has been in (a) actual and (b) real terms in each year since its establishment. | | (294649) | 36
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294687) | 37
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what criteria his Department uses to determine whether to mark anniversaries of cultural and sporting events in the UK's national history. | | (294705) | 38
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department plans to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible in 2011. | | (294706) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 39
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what policy the armed forces operate on the recruitment of people with (a) Asperger's syndrome and (b) autism; and whether any positions in each service are not open to people with (i) Asperger's syndrome and (ii) autism. | | (294499) | 40
| Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Merchant Navy Association on its involvement in Armed Forces Day 2010. | | (294704) | 41
N | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members there are of the Parachute Regiment; and how many of them are combat available in the parachute role. | | [R] (294492) | 42
N | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what consideration he has given to improving helicopter support to front line services by (a) providing short refresher courses to recently retired personnel, (b) providing short refresher courses to crews serving in ground appointments, (c) taking flying-current crews from flying training appointments and (d) providing financial retention incentives to air crew. | | [R] (294493) | 43
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294686) | 44
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people resident in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area in Northern Ireland have served in the armed forces in each of the last 10 years. | | (294712) | 45
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people resident in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area in Nrthern Ireland were recruited to each branch of the armed forces in each of the last 10 years; and what the total from each community was. | | (294716) | 46
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people from each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area in Northern Ireland serving in the armed forces have been decorated for bravery in each of the last 10 years. | | (294729) | 47
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Typhoon aircraft are expected to be mothballed after delivery to the Royal Air Force. | | (294484) | 48
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, to which UK embassies in the Middle East a defence attaché is deployed. | | (294485) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 49
N | Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department has had discussions with the Monitor Group. | | (294648) | 50
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to encourage fuel companies to pass on reductions in energy costs to customers. | | (294121) | 51
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his most recent assessment is of progress towards meeting the target of ending fuel poverty in England. | | (294122) | 52
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the additional amount householders in receipt of a grant from the Warm Front Scheme pay. | | (294123) | 53
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in Coventry have received Warm Front Scheme grants to date; and what the average additional amount paid by householders was. | | (294124) | 54
N | Mr David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what (a) meetings, (b) communications and (c) other contacts Ministers and officials in his Department have had with the Consolidated Contractors Corporation (CCC Group) and its international offshoots in the last five years. | | (294380) | 55
N | Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the evidential basis is for each assumption underlying the determination in the Low Carbon Transition Plan that energy demand will remain at 370TWh in 2020. | | (294376) | 56
N | Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October 2009, Official Report, column 483W, on natural gas: storage, what the minimum amount of gas in storage over the winter is required under the safety monitor system. | | (294494) | 57
N | Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many posts in his Department which were initially advertised six months or more ago are still (a) vacant and (b) unconfirmed. | | (294496) | 58
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas since its establishment. | | (294679) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 59
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what procedures are followed in deciding what research projects to fund from the Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund. | | (294308) | 60
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications for (a) Collaborative Offshore Wind Research into the environment and (b) Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund project funding have been made by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; and how many of them have been successful. | | (294374) | 61
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294685) | 62
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effects on farmers incomes of English Nature discontinuing the practice of weed cutting in the lower Avon Valley; and if he will make a statement. | | (293148) | 63
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what expenditure English Nature incurred on weed cutting in the lower Avon Valley in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (293149) | 64
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to protect the Natura 2000 site at the mouth of the Lymington River from damage by commercial ferry operators; and if he will make a statement. | | (293175) | 65
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library copies of the reports his Department has received on the half-life of the herbicide aminopyralid. | | (294487) | 66
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of each item of correspondence between Ministers in his Department and (a) Dow AgroSciences Ltd and (b) the Advisory Committee on Pesticides in relation to the herbicide aminopyralid exchanged in the last three years. | | (294488) | 67
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effects of aminopyralid on human health; and if he will make a statement. | | (294489) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 68
| Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the Czech government on prospects for constitutional reform in the EU. | | (294699) | 69
N | Mr David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) meetings, (b) communications and (c) other contacts Ministers and officials in his Department have had with the Consolidated Contractors Corporation (CCC Group) and its international offshoots in the last five years. | | (294379) | 70
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294696) | 71
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of France on the cost to British businesses and tourists of blockades of Channel ports. | | (293876) | 72
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his latest assessment is of the state of relations between the UK and the government of Bahrain. | | (294486) | 73
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the objectives are of UK foreign policy to the United Arab Emirates. | | (294502) | 74
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of children abducted from the UK in each of the last five years who are being held in Japan; and if he will make a statement. | | (294490) | 75
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage the government of Japan to sign the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; and if he will make a statement. | | (294491) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 76
| Mr Robert Marshall-Andrews (Medway): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what ex-gratia payments have been made by his Department to (a) persons adversely affected by thalidomide and (b) other NHS patients who have been adversely affected by NHS treatment. | | (294725) | 77
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294693) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 78
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for each of the work streams relating to policing by Dorset Police of the events of the London 2012 Olympic Games to be held in Portland. | | (294372) | 79
| Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the number of prisoners from (a) EU A10 accession countries and (b) other EU member states held in Scottish prisons who have been recommended for deportation upon completion of their sentences. | | (294724) | 80
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from what date applications for identity cards from the general population will be received. | | (294479) | 81
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on (a) job advertisements and (b) publicity for the recruitment campaign to the national identity service public panels. | | (294480) | 82
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for membership of the national identity service public panels have been received. | | (294481) | 83
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures will be used to select members of the national identity service public panels. | | (294482) | 84
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding his Department allocated to support the television production Good 4 the Hood. | | (294483) | 85
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to reply to the letter dated 7 September 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton concerning Ms Martina Palfrey. | | (294726) | 86
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a Criminal Records Bureau check identifies whether the person in respect of which the check is being made has had children taken into care. | | (294640) | 87
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294695) | Questions to the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 88
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will take steps to ensure that contractors digging up and closing Parliament Square and Victoria Street do so as far as possible at times when the House is not sitting. | | (294141) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 89
N | Mr David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) meetings, (b) communications and (c) other contacts Ministers and officials in his Department have had with the Consolidated Contractors Corporation (CCC Group) and its international offshoots in the last five years. | | (294378) | 90
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294689) | 91
N | Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance his Department has provided to those who were displaced from and are returning to the Swat district of Pakistan. | | (293857) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 92
N | Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of costs to local authorities of administrating a general election poll are refunded by central government grant. | | (294370) | 93
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294692) | 94
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of (a) all traffic collisions and (b) traffic collisions on motorways resulted in a criminal prosecution in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (294715) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 95
N | Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) male and (b) female sex offenders are living in residential accommodation provided by (i) the NHS and (ii) relevant charities in Northern Ireland. | | (293966) | 96
N | Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, by what mechanism the care and re-homing of sex offenders deemed physically or mentally ill is funded in Northern Ireland. | | (293967) | 97
N | Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what mechanisms are in place to inform healthcare staff when a patient has a criminal conviction for sex offences. | | (293968) | 98
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294698) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 99
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294690) | Questions to the Solicitor General 100
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Solicitor General, how much the Law Officers' Departments spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294680) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport 101
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what recent representations he has received on the wearing of cycle helmets; and if he will make a statement. | | (294371) | 102
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what recent representations his Department has received on proposals for a high-speed rail hub at Birmingham International Airport. | | (293638) | 103
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what studies his Department has undertaken on the effect of the 50 per cent. toll rise on the number of vehicles using the Dartford crossing; and if he will make a statement. | | (293865) | 104
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what guidance he has issued to the Highways Agency on the imposition of temporary speed limits on main roads at times when road works are not taking place. | | (294142) | 105
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, for what reasons a 50 miles per hour limit on the A1 in the vicinity of the junction with the B1048 was in force in September 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (294143) | 106
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294694) | 107
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what sanctions have been applied to highways authorities found to be in breach of the duty to ensure the expeditious movement of traffic under the Traffic Management Act 2004. | | (294708) | 108
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, when his Department last conducted a review of traffic signage rules. | | (294709) | 109
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether his Department conducts regular research on public awareness and understanding of traffic signs and symbols. | | (294710) | 110
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether his Department has conducted research on trends in the average length of time it takes to reopen a road following a collision in the last five years. | | (294711) | 111
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many road traffic collisions involved vehicles diverted on rural A-roads as a result of motorway closures in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (294713) | 112
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, in what proportion of motorway collisions driving too close to the vehicle in front given the speed of the vehicle has been a factor in the cause of the collision in each of the last five years. | | (294714) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 113
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294691) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 114
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how much the Government Equalities Office has spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas since its establishment. | | (294681) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 115
N | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make a statement on the frequency of the checks made on cranes by crane operators. | | (294633) | 116
N | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the frequency with which crane operators undertake checks on the cranes under their control; whether self-erected cranes are to be included in the register; and if she will make a statement. | | (294634) | 117
N | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what qualifications persons carrying out pre-use checks on cranes are required to hold; and if she will make a statement. | | (294635) | 118
N | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Health and Safety Executive plans to introduce its statutory register for tower cranes; and if she will make a statement. | | (294636) | 119
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many care partnership managers were in post in each Jobcentre Plus district on 1 October 2009. | | (294498) | 120
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many dedicated mental health experts are working in the Jobcentre Plus network. | | (294500) | 121
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she expects to publish the National Strategy for Mental Health and Employment; and if she will make a statement. | | (294501) | 122
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to reply to the letter dated 1 September 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton concerning Ms Louise Bolotin. | | (294728) | 123
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the monetary cost to her Department has been of implementing voice risk analysis technology for the detection of benefit fraud in each year since its introduction. | | (293866) | 124
| David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years. | | (294682) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 125
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to reply to the letter dated 22 July 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton concerning Ms G Hine. | | [Transferred] (294727) |
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