Order Book Part 1

House of Commons

Session 2009 - 10
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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 11 January 2010

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 Monday 11 January 2010
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 11 January 2010

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 11 January of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 11 January of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 11 January see Part 2 of this paper.

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

1
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the effects of EU Food Supplement Directive (2002/46/EC) in setting maximum levels of vitamins and minerals on (a) small vitamin and food supplement producers, (b) consumer choice, (c) the availability of products from unregulated vitamin suppliers from countries outside the EU and (d) sales of vitamin and food supplements in the UK; and what recent discussions he has had with his European counterparts on this matter.

(310450)

2
N Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many non-EU overseas students were accepted on to an undergraduate or postgraduate course, paid their fees, and were subsequently reported by their institution not to have attended the course in each of the last five academic years.

(309803)

3
N Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many non-EU overseas students discontinued an undergraduate or postgraduate course at a higher education institution in each of the last five academic years.

(309804)

4
Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of the buying practices of larger supermarkets on (a) the ability of their suppliers to innovate and (b) the economic visibility of their suppliers.

(310418)

5
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on the constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997.

(310335)

6
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people took (a) paternity and (b) maternity leave in the latest period for which figures are available.

(310467)

7
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many individuals' wages increased as a direct result of the most recent uprating of the national minimum wage.

(310475)

8
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what percentage of white (a) boys and (b) girls eligible for free school meals in their last year at school obtained a place at (i) university and (ii) a Russell Group university in (A) 1980 and (B) the most recent year for which figures are available.

(310106)

9
Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many Learning and Skills Council-funded capital projects relating to colleges originally planned to be completed before or in 2012 (a) are now expected to be completed later than 2012 and (b) have been discontinued; and how much (i) was originally planned to be spent and (ii) has been spent on each such project.

(310001)

10
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, when his Department first provided notification of its decision to include e-filing options for limited liability partnerships in the WebFiling service at Companies House.

(310066)

11
Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department plans to amend the provisions of the Partnerships (Accounts) Regulations 2008 to require partnerships with a limited liability partnership as a notional partner to publish their accounts.

(310070)

12
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department takes to prevent conflicts of interest arising in the activities of accountants appointed by his Department in relation to companies entering into administration.

(310295)

13
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department spent on taxi fares in each of the last five years.

(310211)

14
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much he expects his Department to spend on (a) television, (b) radio, (c) print and (d) online advertising in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11.

(310217)

15
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will place in the Library a copy of the results of his Department's most recent staff survey; which organisation carried out the survey; and what the cost of the survey was.

(310233)

16
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310536)

17
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what (a) discussions and (b) correspondence Ministers in his Department have had on the negotiation of a proposed anti-counterfeiting trade agreement in the last 12 months.

(310445)

18
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2009, Official Report, column 607W, on internet security, what responsibility under the provisions of the Digital Economy Bill internet service providers will have for the security of wireless internet connections they provide to (a) residential and (b) business customers in circumstances where others abuse such connections.

(310447)

19
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on negotiations at EU level on the extension of copyright term limits.

(310448)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

20
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have died from injuries and illnesses related to (a) cold and (b) hot weather in each of the last five years.

(310484)

21
N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent by the Central Office of Information on advertising in 2009-10.

(309868)

22
N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Minister occupied each Ministerial residence in each of the last three years.

(309955)

23
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which websites her Department's staff are blocked from accessing on departmental networked computers.

(310052)

24
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing and evaluation for the No. 10 Downing Street website in each of the last three years; and what budget has been allocated for such activity in 2009-10.

(310213)

25
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by her Department.

(310535)

26
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any (a) documents and (b) other items of information in electronic format sought from her Department by the Iraq Inquiry have not been disclosed owing to the Government's obligations to foreign governments or international bodies; and if she will make a statement.

(310185)

27
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of the (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification requested by the Iraq Inquiry have been provided to it by her Department; and if she will make a statement.

(310193)

28
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of cases of identity theft took place following a payment initially made by (a) debit card, (b) credit card, (c) online transaction other than bank transfer, (d) bank transfers, (e) cash payment and (f) another form of payment in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

(310477)

29
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of payments made in the UK that were made by (a) debit card, (b) credit card, (c) online transaction other than bank transfer, (d) bank transfer, (e) cash payment and (f) another form of payment resulted in identity theft in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

(310478)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

30
N Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons the Financial Services Authority has required independent financial advisers to requalify; and whether it sought legal advice prior to its decision on that matter.

(309979)

31
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance his Department provides to (a) other Government departments and (b) non-governmental organisations on the implementation of Article 45 of the 2004/EC/18 European Directive on Public Procurement.

(310008)

32
N Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with his Icelandic counterpart since 5 January 2010 on compensation to UK investors in Icelandic banks who have lost their investments.

(309998)

33
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much accrued to the Exchequer in excise duty on spirit-based ready-to-drink alcoholic drinks in each of the last five years.

(310352)

34
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much accrued to the Exchequer from excise duty on (a) beer, (b) cider, (c) wine and (d) spirits in each of the last five years.

(310353)

35
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on alcohol consumption of changes in the level of alcohol duty in the last three years.

(310354)

36
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what factors are taken into account in deciding on the date of the annual Budget statement; and if he will make a statement.

(310087)

37
Andrew George (St Ives): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the rules on the election of a property as a primary residence on individuals for the purpose of determining future tax liability to ensure that such liabilities are met.

(310411)

38
Andrew George (St Ives): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the extent of the practice of re-designating property ownership to avoid tax liability on the sale of second homes; and what estimate he has made of the likely effect on revenue of such practices in the last 12 months.

(310419)

39
John Mason (Glasgow East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment HM Revenue and Customs has made of the effects on city-centre executive serviced apartments operated by multinational hotel companies of the proposed abolition of furnished holiday lettings relief; and what discussions his Department has held with such companies on their future tax liability.

(310130)

40
Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has been generated by duty on (a) alcohol and (b) tobacco in each of the last 10 years.

(310063)

41
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the European Commission on (a) the overall size of the EU's 2010 budget and (b) the UK's contribution to that budget.

(310292)

42
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will exempt businesses with a turnover of less than £100,000 per annum that do not have access to the internet from the requirement from April 2010 to submit value added tax returns online.

(310294)

43
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) press officers and (b) communications staff were employed by his Department (i) in each of the last five years and (ii) on the latest date for which figures are available; and what the cost of employing such staff was in each such year.

(310209)

44
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310519)

45
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of owners of furnished holiday letting properties who are over the state retirement age.

(310262)

46
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent research his Department has undertaken on the geographical distribution of self-catering properties relative to the nearest hotel, guesthouse and bed and breakfast accommodation.

(310263)

47
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department undertook research on the respective facilities offered by self-catering properties and bed and breakfast accommodation in remote and rural areas prior to the publication of the draft technical note, Withdrawing the Furnished Holiday Lettings Rules from 2010-11.

(310264)

48
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1383W, on taxation: holiday accommodation, if he will place in the Library a copy of each citation in case law referred to.

(310265)

49
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1382W, on taxation: holiday accommodation, what representations his Department received on the abolition of furnished holiday lettings relief between 20 October and 16 December 2009.

(310266)

50
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many properties in receipt of furnished holiday lettings tax relief were awarded farm diversification grants in the last 12 months.

(310267)

51
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for how many properties for expedited sale furnished holiday lettings tax relief has been awarded.

(310268)

52
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effects of phasing out cheques by the end of 2018 on (a) levels of recorded income of small businesses and (b) levels of tax revenues from that income; and if he will make a statement.

(310479)

53
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of financial transactions made in the UK were made by (a) debit card, (b) credit card, (c) online transactions other than bank transfer, (d) bank transfer, (e) cash payment, (f) cheque and (g) another form of payment in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

(310480)

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

54
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding was provided through the Family Fund in each of the last five years; what assessment he has made of the level of take-up of such funding by low-income families with one or more severely disabled children; and when he last met the Chief Executive of the Family Fund.

(309985)

55
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he last met representatives of the True Colours Trust to discuss reducing levels of financial exclusion among disabled children's families; and what funding his Department is providing to the trust in 2009-10.

(309986)

56
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the level of take-up of child trust funds was in households with children classified as economically deprived in the latest period for which figures are available; what research has been undertaken by his Department into levels of awareness of parents in such households of their entitlements under the Child Trust Fund programme; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the operation of the fund.

(309988)

57
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, for what reasons Graham Badman was asked to undertake a review of National Challenge schools in Gloucestershire; and what the reasons were for the timetable set out for the review.

(310343)

58
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what discussions Graham Badman has had with Gloucestershire County Council on National Challenge schools in the county.

(310344)

59
Mr Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will assess the merits of making Stoke-on-Trent City Council the West Midlands' pilot authority for universal free school meals.

(310259)

60
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on the constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997.

(310336)

61
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many secondary schools in England provided tuition in Arabic in each year since 2007.

(310093)

62
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many secondary schools in England provided tuition in Mandarin in each of the last three years.

(310094)

63
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding has been allocated for capital expenditure on educational establishments in Staffordshire in (a) 2010 and (b) 2011.

(310470)

64
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much was allocated for capital expenditure on education in Staffordshire in (a) 1997 and (b) in each year since 2007.

(310471)

65
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he expects to reply to the letter dated 24 November 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Father Tom Connod.

(310493)

66
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) key stage 1, (b) key stage 2 and (c) key stage 3 pupils in each local authority are eligible for free school meals; and if he will make a statement.

(310090)

67
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of pupils in each local authority area achieved (a) five GCSEs or equivalent at grades A* to C and (b) five GCSEs or equivalent including English and mathematics at grades A* to C in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

(310261)

68
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether capital funding provided for school sixth form provision under the Building Schools for the Future programme is predicated on an expected level of retention of pupils transferring from year 11 to year 12; and if he will make a statement.

(310500)

69
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average per student funding was of primary schools of (a) fewer than 50, (b) from 50 to 99, (c) from 100 to 199, (d) from 200 to 299, (e) from 300 to 399 and (f) over 400 pupils in (i) rural and (ii) non-rural areas in the latest year for which information is available; and if he will make a statement.

(310540)

70
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average per pupil funding in (a) rural, (b) urban and (c) inner London secondary schools was in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

(310541)

71
Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of pupils entitled to free school meals achieved five GCSEs at grades A* to C including English and mathematics in (a) rural, (b) non-rural and (c) inner London schools in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

(310542)

72
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of (a) boys and (b) girls achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE, including English and mathematics but excluding equivalents in the (i) earliest and (ii) most recent year for which figures are available.

(309635)

73
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of white (a) boys and (b) girls eligible for free school meals at the end of Key Stage 4 achieved five A* or A grades at GCSE, including English and mathematics but excluding equivalents in the (i) earliest and (ii) most recent year for which figures are available.

(309638)

74
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of white (a) boys and (b) girls eligible for free school meals were given (i) permanent and (ii) fixed-period exclusions in each of the last five years.

(309718)

75
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many white (a) boys and (b) girls eligible for free school meals achieved three A grades at A-level in (i) 1980 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available.

(310103)

76
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many white (a) boys and (b) girls eligible for free school meals achieved an A grade in A-level further mathematics in (i) 1980 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available.

(310104)

77
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of white (a) boys and (b) girls eligible for free school meals at the end of key stage 4 did not achieve an A* to C grade at GCSE in (i) English, (ii) mathematics, (iii) history, (iv) French and (v) physics in (A) the earliest year and (B) the most recent year for which figures are available.

(310105)

78
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the cost of establishing and maintaining an annual register of home-educated children.

(310288)

79
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many individual children's cases the Children's Rights Director's office considered in 2009.

(310289)

80
N Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of widening access to free school meals for children of low-income parents in 2009-10.

(309727)

81
N Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the January Guarantee of Entry to Employment places for those not in education, employment or training in 2009-10.

(309728)

82
N Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools have been refurbished through the Primary Capital Programme; how many of them were found to have asbestos in the course of the refurbishment; and how many had that asbestos removed.

(309983)

83
N Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much has been spent on refurbishing schools through the Primary Capital Programme; how much has been spent dealing with asbestos during such refurbishments; and if he will make a statement.

(309984)

84
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much he expects his Department to spend on (a) television, (b) radio, (c) print and (d) online advertising in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11.

(310218)

85
N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many working days were lost due to illness of employees within his Department in each of the last three years; and how many of these were attributed to stress in each year.

(310230)

86
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310534)

87
Mr Edward Timpson (Crewe & Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils in Crewe and Nantwich constituency obtained five or more A* to C GCSE grades in each academic year since 1997.

(310061)

88
Mr Edward Timpson (Crewe & Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils in schools in Crewe and Nantwich constituency receive free school meals.

(310067)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

89
N Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effects of Hamas's al-Fatah website for children on levels of community cohesion in the UK.

(309798)

90
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many houses are expected to be built in (a) the Bournemouth area, (b) the Dorset area and (c) the South West in 2010.

(310086)

91
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on the constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997.

(310333)

92
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessments of Staffordshire County Council's social services department have been made since 2008.

(310091)

93
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people are classed as key workers eligible for assistance with housing costs in Staffordshire.

(310469)

94
N John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the effects on community cohesion of the activities of Islam4UK.

(309643)

95
Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what percentage of planning applications for new housing developments in Halifax have been refused since 2005.

(310459)

96
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to publish the National Policy Statement on transport infrastructure.

(309796)

97
N Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to announce his decision on the development site at Radlett.

(309797)

98
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department provides to fire and rescue authorities on the conduct of their duties in relation to the requirements of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.

(310293)

99
N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many industrial tribunals his Department has been party to in each of the last five years; and what the cost to his Department of such tribunals was in each such year.

(310205)

100
N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 29 October 2009, Official Report, column 472W, on licensing: multiple occupation, on what date the report by the Building Research Establishment on the effectiveness of the new licensing regime for houses in multiple occupation will be published; and what the reasons are for the time taken to publish the report.

(310210)

101
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310533)

102
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) estate agents and (b) individuals have been (i) fined and (ii) prosecuted for selling a home without a home information pack.

(310539)

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

103
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many licensed premises there were per 1,000 of population in each London borough in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.

(310291)

104
N Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2009, Official Report, column 672W, on Royal Parks: parking, what plans there are to introduce car parking charges in Royal Parks under such regulations.

(309738)

105
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he expects the proposed new and large casinos to be opened.

(310084)

106
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will bring forward proposals to (a) provide new funds and (b) direct existing funds into projects to increase tourism associated with the London 2012 Olympics.

(310085)

107
N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the percentage change in Visit Britain's total budget in real terms was in each of the last five years.

(310122)

108
N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what role the UK plays in the UN World Tourism Organisation.

(310123)

109
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Gambling Commission is taking to seek to ensure that the licensing objectives are not adversely affected by the use by UK customers of online gambling companies operating in non-EEA white listed countries.

(310114)

110
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps the Gambling Commission has taken to (a) estimate the monetary value of the illegal gambling market and (b) reduce the incidence of illegal gambling.

(310115)

111
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the loss in revenue to the Exchequer consequent on illegal gambling in each of the last five years.

(310116)

112
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent representations he has received on the performance of the Gambling Commission on tackling illegal gambling.

(310117)

113
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what factors are taken into account by the Government in deciding whether to permit a gambling operator based outside the EEA to apply for a place on the white list.

(310118)

114
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of the Gambling Act 2005 on the gambling industry.

(310131)

115
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps have been taken to reduce the size and cost of the Gambling Commission since the introduction of the Gambling Act 2005.

(310132)

116
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had on the effectiveness of the Gambling Commission.

(310133)

117
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with the Chief Executive and Chairman of the Gambling Commission on the effectiveness and costs of the commission; and if he will make a statement.

(310134)

118
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment has been made of the regulatory burden on seaside amusement arcades; and what steps are being taken to reduce that burden.

(310135)

119
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what simplification measures have been introduced by the Gambling Commission since the Hampton Review.

(310136)

120
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps have been taken by the Gambling Commission in response to the concerns raised by the Hampton Review on the commission's operations; and if he will make a statement.

(310137)

121
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment has been made of the effects on the regulation of operators of online gambling services who are located outside the United Kingdom of the operation of the white list system.

(310138)

122
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps the Gambling Commission has taken to increase the effectiveness of the regulation of online gambling.

(310139)

123
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his most recent estimate is of the monetary value of the illegal gambling market in the UK; and if he will make a statement.

(310149)

124
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with the Gambling Commission on (a) quantifying the level and (b) assessing trends in illegal gambling in the UK.

(310150)

125
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that UK-registered online gambling operators which are located outside the UK contribute to the cost of research, education and treatment in respect of problem gambling.

(310151)

126
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps the Gambling Commission has taken to assess the effects on the promotion of the licensing objectives of online gambling; and how much funding has been allocated to the Gambling Commission for the purpose of making such assessments in the last five years.

(310152)

127
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what powers the Gambling Commission have to (a) regulate and (b) sanction an operator of online gambling services in circumstances where the operator is located outside the United Kingdom.

(310255)

128
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department are planning to attend the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in February 2010 in an official capacity; and at what cost.

(310257)

129
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many members of staff from each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies are planning to attend the Winter Olympics in Vancouver; and at what cost for each such body.

(310491)

130
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been (a) allocated and (b) spent in relation to the Cultural Olympiad in each parliamentary constituency.

(310492)

131
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on the constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997.

(310334)

132
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many press officers are employed by his Department; and what the staffing cost for press officers has been in each of the last five years.

(309740)

133
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was claimed in (a) travel and (b) other expenses by (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in his Department in each of the last five years.

(309741)

134
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what expenditure his Department incurred on external consultancy fees in each of the last five years.

(309742)

135
N Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has paid to public relations companies in each of the last five years; and for what purpose in each case.

(309805)

136
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many free theatre tickets have been provided to under-26 year olds by the Arts Council since February 2009.

(310092)

137
N Susan Kramer (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what date he plans to make a statutory instrument introducing car parking charges in Royal Parks where charging is not currently in force; if he will hold a meeting with representatives of Royal Park users in Richmond Park before making such an instrument; and what estimate he has made of the sums likely to be raised from car parking charges in each Royal Park in the first 12 months after introduction of charging.

(309639)

138
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make it his policy to ring-fence funding allocated to regional development agencies for the promotion of the tourism industry.

(310271)

139
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with their counterparts in the Home Office on the effect on the tourism industry of the cost of visas.

(310274)

140
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which websites his Department's staff are blocked from accessing on departmental networked computers.

(310053)

141
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much he expects his Department to spend on (a) television, (b) radio, (c) print and (d) online advertising in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11.

(310216)

142
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many working days were lost due to illness of employees within his Department in each of the last three years; and how many of these were attributed to stress in each year.

(310231)

143
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310531)

144
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was paid to Arts Council England's (a) senior managers and (b) board members in (i) performance-related and (ii) special bonus payments in each of the last three years; for what reason each such bonus was paid; how many members of the senior management team refused to accept a bonus; and by what criteria such bonuses are awarded.

(310196)

145
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was paid to Arts Council England employees in (a) performance-related and (b) special bonus payments in each of the last three years.

(310197)

146
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many Arts Council England employees have participated in its special leave scheme in each of the last three years.

(310200)

147
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much Arts Council England intends to spend on the establishment of relaxation rooms for staff at its head office in Great Peter Street, London.

(310201)

148
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much Arts Council England has spent on employing Lothar Gotz to redecorate its head office in Great Peter Street, London.

(310202)

149
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason Arts Council England is to commission new artwork for its head office in Great Peter Street, London; how much Arts Council England has spent on advertising for such works; and if he will make a statement.

(310203)

150
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was spent by each (a) senior manager and (b) board member of Arts Council England in providing hospitality in each of the last three years.

(310422)

151
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether Arts Council England has purchased any flat screen televisions in each of the last five years.

(310423)

152
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will review the (a) appropriateness of the conditions for and (b) effectiveness of the operation of the car allowance scheme for Arts Council England staff.

(310441)

153
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether Arts Council England has investigated any thefts of its property in each of the last three years.

(310442)

154
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to whom the administration of Arts Council England is accountable for the operational exercise of the Council's functions; and if he will make a statement.

(310449)

155
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for how many capital building projects Arts Council England has provided funding in the last 12 months.

(310454)

156
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what role Arts Council England has in respect of the Government Art Collection; and if he will make a statement.

(310456)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

157
N Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the security threat posed by the Taliban in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.

(309737)

158
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to assist UK-registered vessels following the most recent hijacking in waters around the coast of Somalia.

(310416)

159
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 21 October 2009, Official Report, column 1468W, on Defence Medical Services: manpower, when a copy of the October 2009 figures will be placed in the Library.

(310002)

160
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2009, Official Report, columns 521-2W, on armed forces: costs, what information his Department holds centrally on the amount it has charged (a) other Government departments, (b) private sector companies and (c) foreign governments in employment costs for (i) members of his Department's civilian staff and (ii) military personnel.

(310009)

161
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, from which countries uranium used in (a) British nuclear warheads and (b) nuclear submarine propulsion fuel has been obtained since 1980; and what information has been provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency on such imports.

(310089)

162
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of days likely to be taken to (a) deliver general election ballot papers to and (b) return to the relevant returning officer ballot papers completed by members of the armed forces serving in Afghanistan to the relevant polling station.

(310488)

163
N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK armed forces personnel are based in Yemen; and what their role is.

(309637)

164
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he plans to take in response to evidence on software problems linked to the 1994 Chinook crash.

(310082)

165
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the construction cost was of the (a) new HQ building, (b) C130J simulator building, (c) new HQ for (i) 24 and (ii) 30 Squadron, (d) new gymnasium, (e) new pitch roof on the barrack blocks, (f) new sergeant's mess annexe, (g) new HQ for 47 Air Despatch Regiment and (h) extension to the security fence on the south side of the main entrance; and what further infrastructure improvements are planned to take place at RAF Lyneham.

(310129)

166
N Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what effect the negative level of retail price index inflation in September 2009 will have on the level of armed forces pensions in the next 12 months.

(309734)

167
N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will deploy UK armed forces personnel to Yemen.

(309739)

168
Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the Niitek Husky Mine Detection System.

(310489)

169
Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the armed forces have a requirement for a vehicle-mounted mine detection system.

(310490)

170
N Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the security situation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.

(309582)

171
Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he plans to take to consult service families' organisations on the development of his forthcoming Green Paper and Defence Review.

(310058)

172
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his plans are for the future of Royal Air Force bases in North Yorkshire; and if he will make a statement.

(310073)

173
John Mason (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2009, Official Report, column 831W, on departmental pay, on what basis £1,860 was paid to two individuals; and to which executive agency or non-departmental public body they were engaged.

(310148)

174
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) benchmarking and (b) auditing will be undertaken by his Department to ensure that ex-service personnel amputees receive the same follow-up management of their prostheses in the NHS as they did in the armed forces.

[R] (309989)

175
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average cost per service personnel patient was for (a) below knee and (b) above knee prosthesis follow-up in the (i) Defence Medical Services and (ii) NHS in the latest period for which information is available.

[R] (309990)

176
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how often (a) above knee and (b) below knee amputees were routinely followed up in the (i) Defence Medical Services and (ii) NHS in the latest period for which information is available.

[R] (309991)

177
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what guidance his Department expects to issue to civilian limb management centres on standards of veterans' prosthesis management.

[R] (309992)

178
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many amputee veterans have been switched from the prosthesis fitted at Headley Court to alternatives at civilian limb management centres.

[R] (309993)

179
Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the circumstances surrounding the Chinook accident in Scotland on 2 June 1994 have been the subject of a completed simulation using test pilots; and if he will make a statement.

(309995)

180
Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether further attempts will be made to simulate possible full authority digital engine-related causes of the 1994 Chinook accident; and if he will make a statement.

(309996)

181
Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the simulation of the 1994 Chinook accident by test pilot Squadron Leader Robert Burke was abandoned prior to its completion; and if he will make a statement.

(309997)

182
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of waterproof clothing issued to members of the armed services.

(309644)

183
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will introduce the taped seam clothing specification developed for waterproof clothing as part of his Department's Personal Equipment and Common Operational Clothing programme.

(309645)

184
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to Modern Housing Solutions of upgrading all properties it manages under contract to his Department to energy efficiency Standard Assessment Procedure 81.

(309646)

185
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his Department's properties managed under contract to Modern Housing Solutions have an energy efficiency Standard Assessment Procedure 81.

(309647)

186
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his Department's properties managed by Modern Housing Solutions have an energy efficiency rating of (a) A, (b) B, (c) C, (d) D, (e) E, (f) F and (g) G.

(309648)

187
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) longest, (b) shortest and (c) average period of time taken was to make repairs to forces accommodation after a call out in the last period for which figures are available.

(310247)

188
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether families are allowed to view armed services' accommodation before occupying it.

(310248)

189
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many calls have been made to his Department's special forces housing helpline in the last 12 months.

(310249)

190
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of his Department's housing stock is void or uninhabited.

(310250)

191
N Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many void (a) single living and (b) service family accommodation units his Department has in (i) the UK and (ii) overseas.

(310251)

192
Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the 50 most expensive substitute (a) service family and (b) single living accommodation properties rented out in the last 12 months were.

(310252)

193
Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of maintaining land owned by his Department was in each of the last five years; and what the monetary value of such land was at the latest date for which figures are available.

(310253)

194
Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was spent on (a) building and (b) upkeep of armed forces' housing in each service in each year since 1996.

(310254)

195
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, woth reference to the Answer of 29 October 2009, Official Report, column 502W, on Trident, whether the defence board has concluded its assessment of the work required during the concept phase of replacement of the Trident Nuclear Weapons System.

(310144)

196
N Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future of the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency at Ashchurch, Gloucestershire; and if he will make a statement.

(310010)

197
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which websites his Department's staff are blocked from accessing from departmental networked computers.

(310055)

198
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many sessions of media training were organised for Ministers in his Department in each of the last three years.

(310242)

199
N Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to reply to the email from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire dated 1 December 2009 on the Taliban.

(310014)

200
N Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the requirement for security fences around Milngavie reservoir.

(310011)

201
N Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what threat the security fences around Milngavie reservoir are intended to address; and if he will make a statement.

(310012)

202
N Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions or correspondence he has had with representatives of Scottish Water on the security fences around Milngavie reservoir.

(310013)

203
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310532)

204
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any (a) documents and (b) other items of information in electronic format sought from his Department by the Iraq Inquiry have not been disclosed owing to the Government's obligations to foreign governments or international bodies; and if he will make a statement.

(310177)

205
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification the Iraq Inquiry has requested from his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(310178)

206
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification requested by the Iraq Inquiry have been provided to it by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(310179)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

207
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the role played by (a) China and (b) the US at the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen in December 2009; and if he will publish each document submitted by the UK to other national delegations during the conference.

(309999)

208
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information the Met Office Hadley Centre uses to predict future temperature changes.

(310483)

209
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information his Department holds on the percentage contribution of (a) carbon dioxide, (b) water vapour and (c) methane to the greenhouse gas effect.

(310485)

210
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he has made a recent estimate of the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which is directly attributable to human activity in the UK.

(310486)

211
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information his Department holds on the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which is directly attributable to human activity.

(310487)

212
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information his Department holds for comparative purposes on historical levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

(310537)

213
N Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much the Natural Environment Research Council has provided in grants, subsidies or awards to the University of East Anglia in each financial year since 1998; and how much was assigned to the University's Climatic Research Unit in each such year.

(310258)

214
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on the constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997.

(310332)

215
Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the level of (a) carbon dioxide emissions and (b) carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour for the life-cycle of the proposed new (i) coal, (ii) gas, (iii) oil, (iv) hydroelectric, (v) nuclear, (vi) wind and (vii) tidal power generating facilities.

(310069)

216
Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the area of land in the UK which would be lost in circumstances in which sea levels rose by (a) 20 centimetres, (b) 50 centimetres, (c) one metre and (d) two metres.

(310088)

217
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) citizens' juries and (b) summits have been hosted by his Department since June 2007; on what date each such event took place; and which Ministers were present at each event.

(310239)

218
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which websites his Department's staff are blocked from accessing from departmental networked computers.

(310244)

219
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the current size of the UK's strategic gas reserve is; and what the UK average daily winter gas demand is.

(310097)

220
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he plans to increase the capacity of the UK's strategic gas reserve in respect of (a) short-term and (b) long-term strategic storage; and if he will make a statement.

(310099)

221
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much and what proportion of the UK's gas consumption was imported from each country as (a) liquid natural gas and (b) a gas in the latest period for which figures are available.

(310101)

222
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many times the UK's strategic gas reserves have been drawn on in each year of the last 30 years; for what reason in each case; and if he will make a statement.

(310102)

223
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310530)

224
Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many people attended the public discussion meeting on the proposed nuclear power station at (a) Hartlepool, (b) Heysham, (c) Sizewell and (d) Bradwell which was held as part of the consultation on the draft nuclear national policy statement.

(310315)

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

225
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what volume of waste he estimates was illegally fly-tipped in each year from 2004 to date, broken down by (a) the nature of this waste and (b) local authority area.

(310140)

226
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the relationship between badger populations and the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle, with particular reference to East Sussex.

(310141)

227
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effects on climate change of the practice of mob-grazing of cattle to sequester carbon dioxide in soil.

(310000)

228
Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to increase numbers of farmland birds.

(310059)

229
Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will commission research into the (a) environmental and (b) economic merits of anaerobic digestion as a means of disposing of fallen stock; and if he will make a statement.

(309994)

230
Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much household waste Calderdale Council has recycled in the last five years; and whether the amount recycled in each of those years met his Department's targets.

(310458)

231
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which websites his Department's staff are blocked from accessing on departmental networked computers.

(310054)

232
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has been spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing and evaluation for his Department's websites in each of the last three years; and what budget has been allocated for each such activity in 2009-10.

(310212)

233
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what departmental assets are planned to be sold in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11; what the (i) description and (ii) book value is of each such asset; what the expected revenue is from each such sale; and by what date each asset is expected to have been sold.

(310243)

234
N Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the likely change to customer bills following the transfer of private sewers and drains to water company ownership; and if he will make a statement.

(308078)

235
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310529)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

236
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Nigeria on the contribution of its reform programme to the stability of that country.

(310417)

237
N Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that post sent to UK aid workers and others working in Afghanistan is processed as quickly as possible through Pakistan.

(309735)

238
N Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the British missions in Afghanistan and Pakistan on improving postal services to British citizens working in Afghanistan.

(309736)

239
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Survey Monitoring Target Verification project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10; and how much it received from his Department in each such year.

(310153)

240
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the UN Office for Drugs and Crime project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10; and how much it received from his Department in each such year.

(310154)

241
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Counter Narcotics Research and Analysis project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10; and how much it received from his Department in each such year.

(310155)

242
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Eradication Support project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10; and how much it received from his Department in each such year.

(310156)

243
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10; and how much it received from his Department in each such year.

(310157)

244
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Criminal Justice Task Force project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10; and how much it received from his Department in each such year.

(310158)

245
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Extend Afghan Media Content project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10; and how much it received from his Department in each such year.

(310159)

246
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Lashkar Gah Prison Build project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in 2008-09; and how much it received from his Department in that year.

(310160)

247
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Counter Narcotics Interdiction project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in 2009-10; and how much it has received from his Department in that year to date.

(310161)

248
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Political Activity (Elections) project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in 2009-10; and how much it has received from his Department in that year to date.

(310162)

249
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Support to Afghan National Police project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in 2009-10; and how much it has received from his Department in that year to date.

(310163)

250
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Support to Informal Justice System project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in 2009-10; and how much it has received from his Department in that year to date.

(310164)

251
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 182W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Lashkar Gah District Stabilisation project is; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason its funding was reduced in 2009-10; and how much it has received from his Department in that year to date.

(310165)

252
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 183W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Ministry of Counter Narcotics Communication project was; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason his Department ceased to fund the programme in 2006-07; and what assessment has been made of its effectiveness.

(310166)

253
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 183W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Publicity Project was; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason his Department ceased to fund the programme in 2007-08; and what assessment has been made of its effectiveness.

(310167)

254
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 183W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Support for Afghan National Army - patrol vehicles project was; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason his Department ceased to fund the programme in 2007-08; and what assessment has been made of its effectiveness.

(310168)

255
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 183W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Drug Demand Reduction project was; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason his Department ceased to fund the programme in 2007-08; and what assessment has been made of its effectiveness.

(310169)

256
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 183W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan Mobile Detection Teams project was; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason his Department ceased to fund the programme in 2008-09; and what assessment has been made of its effectiveness.

(310170)

257
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 183W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Helmand Police Drug Control project was; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason his Department ceased to fund the programme in 2008-09; and what assessment has been made of its effectiveness.

(310171)

258
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 183W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, what the purpose of the Newsletters for Mullahs project was; for what reason his Department decided to fund the project; how much it received from his Department in its first year of operation; for what reason his Department ceased to fund the programme in 2008-09; and what assessment has been made of its effectiveness.

(310172)

259
Mr Robert Marshall-Andrews (Medway): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he was informed of the content of the speech made by the Attorney General to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on 5 January 2010.

(310437)

260
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the alleged use of European banks to launder money by (a) the President of North Korea and (b) other senior members of the North Korean regime; what recent discussions he has had with his (i) European and (ii) US counterparts on this matter; and if he will make a statement.

(310426)

261
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the number of political prisoners in North Korea used for forced labour; and if he will make a statement.

(310427)

262
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in North Korea; and if he will make a statement.

(310428)

263
N Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the government of Iran on the seven person informal leadership group of the Baha'í community in Iran; and if he will make a statement.

(310282)

264
N Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has requested the Iranian authorities to guarantee the safety of the accused informal Baha'í leadership in Iran and for any trial to be held in public; and if he will make a statement.

(310283)

265
N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) Union flags, (b) other national flags and (c) EU flags have been purchased by his Department in each of the last five years.

(309840)

266
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what advertising campaigns his Department has been responsible in each of the last three years; which such campaigns (a) commenced and (b) continued in 2009-10; and what the cost of each such campaign has been.

(310206)

267
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much has been spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing and evaluation for his Department's website in each of the last three years; and what budget has been allocated for each such activity in 2009-10.

(310215)

268
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) citizens' juries and (b) summits have been hosted by his Department since June 2007; on what date each event took place; and which Ministers were present at each event.

(310238)

269
N Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of the purchase by UK companies of goods from Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.

(309543)

270
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310528)

271
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he next plans to visit the Russian Federation with his German counterpart.

(310195)

272
N Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 197W, on Government hospitality: wines, how many bottles of wine were (a) newly purchased for and (b) used from the Government wine cellar in the last 12 months.

(310198)

273
N Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 197W, on Government hospitality: wines, at which events wine from the Government wine cellar was served in the last 12 months.

(310204)

274
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 206W, on Olympic Games 2012, if he will publish the job description of each member of staff responsible for co-ordinating the work of his Department on London 2012.

(310278)

275
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 206W, on the Overseas Territories Consultative Council, when he expects to publish the final costs of the meeting held on 8 and 9 December 2009.

(310279)

276
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when a Minister of his Department last visited South Africa; and what the purpose of the visit was.

(310420)

277
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his Belarus counterpart on the regulation of the internet in that country; and if he will make a statement.

(310421)

278
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has held with his US counterpart on the negotiation of a free trade agreement between the US and Colombia; and if he will make a statement.

(310444)

279
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the death of (a) Adolfo Tique, (b) Diego Ricardo Rasedo Guerra, (c) Arled Samboni Guaca and (d) Leovigildo Mejia in Colombia in January 2009; and if he will make a statement.

(310446)

280
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2010, Official Report, column 407W, on Belarus, whether his Department plans to provide assistance to international missions to monitor the conduct of the forthcoming (a) local and (b) presidential elections in Belarus.

(310453)

281
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2010, Official Report, column 410W, on Colombia: overseas trade, for what reasons he will not withdraw from the negotiation of a free trade agreement with Colombia.

(310455)

282
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether any (a) documents and (b) other items of information in electronic format sought from his Department by the Iraq Inquiry have not been disclosed owing to the Government's obligations to foreign governments or international bodies; and if he will make a statement.

(310183)

283
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of the (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification requested by the Iraq Inquiry have been provided to it by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(310184)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

284
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment has been made of the level of availability of bariatric surgery on the NHS (a) in each strategic health authority area, (b) in each primary care trust area and (c) nationwide.

(310125)

285
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria are used by each primary care trust in deciding whether to provide bariatric surgery for obese patients.

(310126)

286
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reasons are for the time taken by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to recommend new indicators to be considered in the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

(310127)

287
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent (a) managers and (b) senior managers were in post at each hospital trust in the South East in each of the last five years.

(310433)

288
Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent midwives were in post at each hospital providing maternity services in the South East in each of the last five years.

(310434)

289
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on the constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997.

(310331)

290
N Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of inmates of young offenders' institutions were treated for drug addiction in each of the last three years.

(310068)

291
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps have been taken to inform the public of dental practices which are taking on new NHS patients.

(310412)

292
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent by South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust on cancer services in 2009.

(310413)

293
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken to encourage people to take up preventative health services.

(310414)

294
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the 2007 National Stroke Strategy in improving patient outcomes.

(310415)

295
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practitioners were employed by the NHS in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009.

(310462)

296
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for outpatient operations in each year since 1997.

(310463)

297
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses were employed in the NHS in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009.

(310464)

298
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average salary was for a nurse in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009.

(310465)

299
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vacancies there were for dieticians in the National Health Service on average in each of the last five years.

(310466)

300
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vaccinations against cervical cancer were provided in 2009.

(310472)

301
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) cancer patients and (b) people being treated for the effects of cancer treatment have received free prescriptions since their introduction for such patients.

(310473)

302
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices had extended opening hours in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009.

(310474)

303
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate has been made of the reduction in the average number of cases of cervical cancer which will be diagnosed each year as a result of the introduction of the policy of offering teenage girls vaccination against cervical cancer.

(310476)

304
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many inspections were carried out by Det Norske Veritas on behalf of the NHS Litigation Authority in each of the last three years; and how much the Authority paid to Det Norske Veritas in each such year.

(310173)

305
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many organisations achieved level (a) 0, (b) 1, (c) 2 and (d) 3 in NHS Litigation Authority assessments in each of the last three years; and if he will list those organisations in each such category.

(310174)

306
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each NHS trust paid the NHS Litigation Authority in each of the last three years.

(310175)

307
N Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the creation of independent provider arms for community care.

(309438)

308
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons the Green Paper on Shaping the Future of Care Together did not refer to the Government's policy on there being no cash losers among existing benefit recipients after the implementation of a National Care Service.

(310098)

309
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research projects were commissioned by his Department from the Personal Social Services Research Unit for the purposes of informing the Green Paper on Shaping the Future of Care Together; and how much that unit was paid for each such project.

(310100)

310
Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many members of NHS staff have been disciplined for inappropriate use of information on (a) an NHS database and (b) medical records in each of the last 10 years.

(310121)

311
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) citizens' juries and (b) summits have been hosted by his Department since June 2007; on what date each event took place; and which Ministers were present at each event.

(310237)

312
Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2009, Official Report, column 479W, on heart diseases: health services, what the timetable is for specialised commissioning groups to designate services for adults with congenital heart disease.

(310538)

313
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance is provided to maternity units on the provision of resuscitation cover for those units by a (a) paediatrician and (b) midwife trained in advanced resuscitation.

(310357)

314
Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will require primary care trusts to publish a complete list of GPs with special interests.

[R] (310322)

315
Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish a list of GPs with special interests in (a) obesity, (b) weight management and (c) nutrition.

[R] (310323)

316
Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs have special interests in each specialty.

[R] (310325)

317
Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to increase the number of GPs with special interests in (a) obesity, (b) weight management, (c) nutrition, (d) dermatology, (e) sexual health, (f) respiratory health, (g) diabetes and (h) cardiovascular disease.

[R] (310326)

318
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2009, Official Report, columns 480-90W, how many full-time equivalent (a) managers and (b) senior managers there were in each salary band in each trust in the North West in each of the last five years.

(310062)

319
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310527)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

320
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance he issues to chief constables on recording crime involving wildlife.

(310147)

321
N Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to prevent Hamas's al-Fatah website being accessed by children resident in the UK.

(309799)

322
N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will refuse permission to Islam4UK to hold a demonstration in the town of Wootton Bassett if that group requests permission.

(310079)

323
N Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2009, Official Report, columns 220-22W, on entry clearances, if he will provide equivalent statistics for (a) January and (b) February 2009.

(309806)

324
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on the constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997.

(310330)

325
N Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of recorded crimes of each type were detected using DNA profiles from the national DNA database in the latest period for which figures are available.

(310120)

326
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to reply to the letter dated 16 November 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms N. Anjum.

(310495)

327
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to reply to the letter dated 12 November 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr M. Ishfaq.

(310497)

328
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to reply to the letter dated 15 October 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs Saima Noreen Rashid.

(310498)

329
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to reply to the letter dated 25 November 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr E. Diala.

(310499)

330
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the continuation of collaborative crackdowns on the illegal use of drugs and pubs in the city of Milton Keynes.

(310221)

331
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Thames Valley Police's rape awareness campagin.

(310222)

332
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of measures to control the sale of air rifles to children via the internet.

(310227)

333
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has been the total cost of Thames Valley Police's rape awareness campaign to date.

(310228)

334
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been paid to the (a) Criminal Records Bureau and (b) Independent Safeguarding Authority in fees for record checks in each of last 10 years.

(309719)

335
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010 to Question 307245, which stakeholders were involved in the meeting in (a) October 2008 and (b) January 2009; and if he will publish the minutes of those meetings.

(310269)

336
N Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK's list of persons who are to be denied travel to and admission into the UK is automatically shared with the border agency authorities of (a) the Netherlands, (b) other European Union member states and (c) other states and jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement.

(309980)

337
N Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK's list of persons who (a) have been refused a visa for admission into the UK and (b) are to be denied travel to the UK is automatically shared with the border agency authorities of the Irish Republic as part of the Common Travel Area regime; and if he will make a statement.

(309981)

338
N John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the promotion through Islam4UK websites of the teachings of individuals who have been required to leave the UK as a result of their extremist views.

(309640)

339
N John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations he has received in respect of proposals by Islam4UK to march in Wootton Bassett.

(309641)

340
N John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department plans to take steps against the founders of Islam4UK under racial hatred legislation.

(309642)

341
Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what less lethal weapons are permitted to be used by police.

(310080)

342
Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his most recent estimate is of the proportion of police (a) time and (b) budget spent on tackling (i) acquisitive, (ii) sex work-related and (iii) drug-related crime.

(310083)

343
Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an estimate of the number of incidents of (a) rape and (b) sexual assault attributed to drivers of (i) black cabs, (ii) licensed minicabs and (iii) unlicensed minicabs in the last five years.

(310119)

344
Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many members of staff of his Department and its agencies have been disciplined for inappropriate use of information obtained from (a) a police database, (b) an immigration database and (c) an identity card or passport database in each of the last 10 years.

(310128)

345
Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded incidents of violent crime there were in Halifax in (a) 2005 and (b) 2009.

(310457)

346
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent research his Department has evaluated on the economic effects of the cost of tourist visas on the tourist industry.

(310296)

347
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which websites his Department's staff are blocked from accessing from networked computers in his Department.

(310051)

348
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) citizens' juries and (b) summits have been hosted by his Department since June 2007; on what date each event took place; and which Ministers were present at each event.

(310235)

349
Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his most recent assessment is of the level of threat to cyber security in the UK.

(310443)

350
N Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of potential child victims of trafficking referred to the national referral mechanism have been age-disputed.

(309622)

351
N Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training and guidance first responder agencies have received on how to make a referral to the national referral mechanism on behalf of a potential victim of trafficking; and who has provided it.

(309623)

352
N Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals referred to the human trafficking national referral mechanism are (a) being accommodated by a specialist accommodation provider, (b) in an immigration removal centre and (c) in prison.

(309624)

353
N Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals of potential victims of human trafficking have been made to the national referral mechanism by each first responder agency.

(309625)

354
N Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have been referred to the human trafficking national referral mechanism by local authorities in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) Wales since 1 April 2009.

(309626)

355
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310526)

356
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what impact assessment has been made of the cost of the e-borders programme to the aviation industry.

(310312)

357
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) original and (b) current estimated cost is of establishment of the e-borders programme.

(310321)

358
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 5 January 2010, Official Report, columns 28-32, on aviation and border security, what proportion of the e-borders programme is complete.

(310337)

359
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 5 January 2010, Official Report, columns 28-32, on aviation and border security, whether his consideration of additional targeted passenger profiling includes non-behavioural profiling.

(310338)

360
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any (a) documents and (b) other items of information in electronic format sought from his Department by the Iraq Inquiry have not been disclosed owing to the Government's obligations to foreign governments or international bodies; and if he will make a statement.

(310180)

361
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of the (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification requested by the Iraq Inquiry have been provided to it by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(310181)

362
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification the Iraq Inquiry has requested from his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(310182)

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

363
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the timetable is for migrating computer users in the House to Vista; and how many hon. Members have had their user accounts migrated to Vista.

(310347)

364
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many types of personal digital assistants (PDAs) PICT supports; and what procedures hon. Members must follow to receive (a) PDAs and (b) upgrades to PDAs.

(310348)

365
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many (a) enquiries and (b) complaints PICT has received in each year since it was established.

(310349)

366
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, how much Sir Thomas Legg's analysis of hon. Members' expenses claims has cost to date; and how much of that cost was for remuneration to Sir Thomas.

(310452)

367
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many people were employed by the House in (a) visitor services, (b) the Parliamentary Education Service, (c) catering and (d) security in each of the last 10 years; at what cost in each of those years, how many police worked on security for the House on the parliamentary estate in each of those years; and at what cost in each of those years.

(310543)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

368
N Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department's assessment of the benefits of the World Food Programme has changed in the last three years.

(309793)

369
N Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reason the UK contribution to the World Food Programme has been reduced in real terms since 2008; on what projects or programmes expenditure has been reduced as a consequence; and if he will make a statement.

(309795)

370
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his most recent estimate is of the number of people in North Korea affected by food shortages and malnutrition; and if he will make a statement.

(310424)

371
Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his most recent assessment is of the extent of food shortages in North Korea; and if he will make a statement.

(310425)

372
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make an assessment of the impact of the privatisation of CDC on achievement of his Department's development goals.

(310297)

373
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what advertising campaigns his Department has been responsible for in each of the last three years; which such campaigns (a) commenced and (b) continued in 2009-10; and what the cost of each such campaign has been.

(310208)

374
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department has spent on (a) print, (b) online, (c) television and (d) radio advertising in each of the last five years; how much has been spent on advertising in 2009-10 to date; and what percentage of advertising expenditure in each year was managed by the Central Office of Information.

(310232)

375
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310525)

376
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) documents and (b) other types of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification the Iraq Inquiry has requested from his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(310189)

377
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any (a) documents and (b) other items of information in electronic format sought from his Department by the Iraq Inquiry have not been disclosed owing to the Government's obligations to foreign governments or international bodies; and if he will make a statement.

(310190)

378
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many and what proportion of the (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification requested by the Iraq Inquiry have been provided to it by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(310192)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

379
N Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much of the legal aid budget has been spent on very high cost cases in the last five years.

(309629)

380
N Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much and what proportion of the legal aid budget has been spent on fraud cases in the last five years.

(309630)

381
N Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the Exchequer of expert witnesses in (a) criminal and (b) civil legal aid cases was in the last five years.

(309631)

382
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Huntington of 26 October 2009, Official Report, column 86W, on corruption, when he now plans to publish the Foreign Bribery Strategy.

(310003)

383
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance he has provided to (a) Government (i) departments and (ii) other bodies and (b) non-governmental organisations in his role as anti-corruption champion.

(310004)

384
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings he has had in his role as anti-corruption champion.

(310007)

385
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on the constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997.

(310329)

386
Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) community sentences, (b) fines, (c) custodial sentences and (d) cautions were imposed for drug dealing offences relating to each type of drug in each of the last three years.

(310095)

387
Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the prison population achieved a basic skills qualification in each of the last three years.

(310356)

388
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Thames Valley Police's rape awareness campaign.

(310223)

389
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 48W, on young offender institutes, how many re-offences were committed by young people released from custody in each year since 2000.

(310260)

390
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will direct the National Offender Management Service to undertake a review of the care of prisoners and those held on remand with epilepsy for the purposes of implementing standards for care provided by staff in (a) prisons and (b) young offender institutions.

(310324)

391
N Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to publish the Government's response to the Review of the 30 Year Rule submitted to his Department in January 2009.

(309949)

392
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310524)

393
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification the Iraq Inquiry has requested from his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(310187)

394
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format sought from his Department by the Iraq Inquiry have not been dosclosed owing to Government's obligations to foreign governments or international bodies; and if he will make a statement.

(310188)

395
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of the (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification requested by the Iraq Inquiry have been provided to it by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(310191)

Questions to the Leader of the House

396
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Leader of the House, how many (a) citizens' juries and (b) summits have been hosted by her Office since June 2007; on what date each event took place; and which Ministers were present at each event.

(310236)

397
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Leader of the House, how many sessions of media training were organised for Ministers in her Department in each of the last three years.

(310241)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

398
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much has been spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing and evaluation for his Department's website in each of the last three years; and what budget has been allocated for each such activity in 2009-10.

(310214)

399
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which websites his Department's staff are blocked from accessing from departmental networked computers.

(310245)

400
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310523)

Questions to the Minister for the Olympics

401
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many (a) Ministers and (b) officials from her Office are planning to attend the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in February 2010 in an official capacity; and at what cost.

(310256)

402
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many people of each sex in each age group have been working on the Olympic site in each month since construction began; and how many of these are apprentices.

(310358)

403
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many people she expects to be employed on the Olympic site over the duration of the project; and how many of those are apprentices.

(310359)

404
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many people have completed apprenticeships on the Olympic site since construction began; and how many are in fulll-time employment.

(310360)

405
Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how much has been spent on the apprenticeship scheme associated with the London 2012 Olympics.

(310361)

Questions to the Prime Minister

406
N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Prime Minister, whether he has had discussions with President Obama on organisation of the London Summit on Yemen.

(309636)

407
N Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Prime Minister, what the (a) date, (b) destination and (c) purpose was of each visit to Wales made by the Prime Minister in each year since May 2005.

(310275)

408
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2009, Official Report, column 547W, on the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what mechanisms are in place to assess the effectiveness of machinery of government changes; and whether he has made such an assessment since 5 June 2009.

(310345)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

409
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Executive on the activities in Scotland of water companies providing services in England.

(310074)

410
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which websites his Department's staff are blocked from accessing from departmental networked computers.

(310246)

411
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310522)

Questions to the Solicitor General

412
N Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Solicitor General, what meetings the Attorney General had during her visit to Israel in January 2010 at which the subject of the operation of the law of universal jurisdiction in the UK in relation to the possiblity of Israeli officials, politicians or military personnel being arrested if they travel to the UK was discussed.

(310075)

413
N Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Solicitor General, what the position was of the Government as presented by the Attorney General at meetings with representatives of the government of Israel in January 2010 on the operation of the law of universal jurisdiction in the UK in relation to the possibility of Israeli officials, politicians or military personnel being arrested if they travel to the UK.

(310076)

414
N Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Solicitor General, if she will place in the Library a copy of the speech by the Attorney General to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in January 2010 on the operation of the law of universal jurisdiction in the UK in relation to the possibility of Israeli officials, politicians or military personnel being arrested if they travel to the UK.

(310077)

415
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Solicitor General, what guidelines have been issued to prosecutors on cases involving overseas corruption; and if she will make a statement.

(310005)

416
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Solicitor General, whether the Serious Fraud Office has received representations on its policy document Approach of the Serious Fraud Office to dealing with overseas corruption.

(310006)

417
Mr Robert Marshall-Andrews (Medway): To ask the Solicitor General, what (a) groups and (b) individuals the Attorney General met on her visit to Israel on 5 January 2010.

(310435)

418
Mr Robert Marshall-Andrews (Medway): To ask the Solicitor General, whether the Attorney General's recent visit to Israel was arranged before 12 December 2009.

(310436)

419
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Solicitor General, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by her Department.

(310521)

420
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Solicitor General, whether any (a) documents and (b) other items of information in electronic format sought from the Law Officers' Departments by the Iraq Inquiry have not been disclosed owing to the Government's obligations to foreign governments or international bodies; and if she will make a statement.

(310176)

421
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Solicitor General, how many and what proportion of the (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification requested by the Iraq Inquiry have been provided to it by the Law Officers' Departments; and if she will make a statement.

(310186)

422
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Solicitor General, how many (a) documents and (b) other types of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification the Iraq Inquiry has requested from the Law Officers' Departments; and if she will make a statement.

(310194)

Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport

423
N Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what steps he has taken to ensure an adequate supply of airport and aircraft de-icing fluid during the current cold weather.

(309730)

424
N Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what monitoring his Department undertakes of the availability of aircraft and airport de-icing fluid.

(309801)

425
N Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the level of risk to transport (a) within and (b) departing from the UK of shortages in the availability of airport and aircraft de-icing fluid.

(309802)

426
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what the outcome was of the December EU Transport Council, with particular reference to the discussions on intelligent transport systems; and if he will make a statement.

(309627)

427
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, for which (a) rail and (b) road projects his Department has bid for funds under the Trans-European Network Transport programme in each year since 1997; and how much was (i) requested and (ii) allocated in each case.

(309628)

428
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that local highway authorities are fully compensated by utility companies for the additional maintenance costs incurred as a result of activities by those companies.

(309724)

429
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what estimate he has made of the average annual consequential carbon dioxide emissions arising from the hard shoulder running schemes on (a) the M6 and (b) the M42.

(310142)

430
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether the body scanners to be deployed at airports will use passive millimetre wave technology.

(310145)

431
N Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether individuals who wish not to use body scanners at airports will be able to opt for a manual pat down search.

(310146)

432
Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of grit and salt to treat roads and pavements during very cold weather periods; and what the sources are of salt used for such road treatments.

(309987)

433
N Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what progress has been made in implementing the proposals of the UK Roads Liaison Group in relation to severe winter weather; and if he will make a statement.

(309800)

434
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what the reason is for the roadworks taking place on the A338; when they are expected to be concluded; and if he will make a statement.

(310081)

435
N Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what regulations govern requirements about the location of lights on vehicles to demonstrate the dimensions of the vehicle.

(310124)

436
N Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of replacing all traffic lights with incandescent bulbs with light emitting diodes.

(310143)

437
N Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what proposals are under consideration for the provision of alternative services to Eurostar using the Channel Tunnel rail link; when such services could be operational; and if he will make a statement.

(310108)

438
Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what recent guidance his Department has issued to regional transport committees on the criteria to be used in their allocation of central funding for transport programmes.

(310429)

439
Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, which Minister in his Department is responsible for policy in relation to the allocation of central funding for regional transport programmes.

(310430)

440
Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what criteria his Department uses to determine its funding allocations in respect of regional transport programmes.

(310431)

441
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what guidance his Department provides on the maximum amount of grit to be laid on roads during icy weather conditions.

(310439)

442
Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what guidance his Department provides to local authorities on the treatment of exposed roads, with particular reference to roads which have frozen over after having been gritted.

(310440)

443
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on the constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997.

(310328)

444
N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many passengers (a) boarded and (b) alighted from trains at Corby railway station on each day since 8 September 2009.

(309632)

445
N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many passengers travelling (a) north and (b) south on the Midland mainline (i) boarded and (ii) alighted from trains at Kettering station on each day since 8 September 2009.

(309633)

446
Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, for what reasons rail franchises specify required revenue protection systems.

(310057)

447
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what quantity of road salt was held in stock by each local authority on 30 November 2009.

(310225)

448
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the availability of road salt.

(310226)

449
N Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the implications of the provisions of child protection legislation for the use of full-body scanners at Heathrow Airport.

(309634)

450
N Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether his Department has conducted a recent investigation into the practices of (a) the Slovakian authorities and (b) relevant authorities of other EU member states in placing test packets of explosives into passenger baggage for the purposes of testing airport explosive detection systems; what information his Department holds on whether such practices are in use on (i) flights to the UK and (ii) flights with UK carriers; whether the issue has been placed on the agenda of the Council of Ministers for consideration; and if he will make a statement.

(310272)

451
Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how much has been spent on additional rolling stock for the Calder Valley line between Halifax and Leeds since 2005.

(310460)

452
Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many people in Halifax are estimated to be eligible for the national concessionary bus fares scheme.

(310461)

453
N Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, on how many occasions the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database was accessed by (a) police forces, (b) other public agencies and (c) private companies in each of the last five financial years; and what estimate he has made of the number of such requests which will be made in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11.

(309720)

454
N Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how much was received in payments from private companies for information from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database in each of the last five financial years; and how much he estimates will be received from such payments in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.

(309721)

455
N Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what his policy is on allowing private companies access to information on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database for commercial purposes.

(309722)

456
N Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, which (a) police forces, (b) other public agencies and (c) private companies are permitted access to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database to obtain (i) details of vehicle registration numbers, (ii) names of licence holders and (iii) private addresses of licence holders.

(309723)

457
N Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what date he has set for equipping of all UK international airports with full body scanners.

(309950)

458
N Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, when the first full body scanner in a UK airport is scheduled to start operation.

(309951)

459
N Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will assess the compatibility with child protection legislation of the operation of full body scanners in UK airports; and if he will make a statement.

(309952)

460
N Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what funding his Department plans to make available to UK airports for the installation of full body scanners.

(309953)

461
N Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, when he plans to issue guidance on operating the full body scanners proposed to be installed at UK airports.

(309954)

462
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310520)

463
N Mr Edward Timpson (Crewe & Nantwich): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how much has been spent on West Coast Main Line stations in 2009-10 to date.

(310056)

464
N Mr Edward Timpson (Crewe & Nantwich): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, when his Department plans to announce the successful bidder for the Thameslink rolling stock contract.

(310060)

465
N Mr Edward Timpson (Crewe & Nantwich): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what funds remain to be spent on West Coast Main Line stations in 2009-10.

(310064)

466
N Mr Edward Timpson (Crewe & Nantwich): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what progress has been made on the review of road safety between junctions 15 and 19 of the M6 motorway.

(310065)

467
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether the Government plans to introduce the additional security checks recently introduced for flights to the US to other flights departing the UK.

(310284)

468
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what recent representations he has received from the airline industry on the e-borders programme.

(310285)

469
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the European Commission on the introduction of additional security measures at UK airports.

(310286)

470
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the aviation industry of additional security checks on passengers transferring at UK airports to flights to other destinations.

(310287)

471
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of airlines on security training for check-in staff; and whether he plans to introduce requirements for additional security training for such check-in staff.

(310290)

472
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what additional security checks he plans to introduce for passengers transferring at UK airports to flights to other destinations.

(310298)

473
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what estimate he has made of the average time required to carry out the new security checks on airline passengers and others.

(310299)

474
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what proportion of airline passengers transferring at UK airports to other destinations will be subject to additional security screening.

(310300)

475
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether additional security checks on passengers transferring through UK airports will apply to passengers arriving from all countries or specified countries.

(310301)

476
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what estimates have been made of the likely costs to (a) airports and (b) airline operators of training for staff on new security measures.

(310302)

477
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether behavioural profiling is used in security measures undertaken at UK airports.

(310303)

478
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many full body scanners he expects to be introduced into UK airports in the next (a) six months, (b) year, (c) two years and (d) five years.

(310304)

479
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effects of the introduction of full body scanners at airports on (a) the length of queues at security and (b) levels of passenger convenience.

(310305)

480
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what assessment has been made of the potential security risks posed by long queues at airports.

(310306)

481
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what criteria will be used to decide which passengers are subject to full body scanning at airports.

(310307)

482
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether he plans to introduce increased surveillance at airports (a) outside and (b) inside security screened areas.

(310308)

483
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether he plans to introduce new security measures at airports outside the security screened area.

(310309)

484
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what recent steps have been taken to increase the security of airport perimeters.

(310310)

485
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Secretary of State's contribution of 5 January 2010, Official Report, House of Lords, column 42, on terrorism: aviation and border security, whether funds from his Department's budget have been allocated to other countries to assist the improvement of airport security in the last five years.

(310311)

486
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, when he expects to publish the report of the Government's review of airport security measures.

(310314)

487
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of passive millimetre wave technology in the detection of powder and liquid explosives.

(310316)

488
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what assessment he has made of the cost (a) to the public purse and (b) to the aviation industry of introducing full body scanners to all UK airports.

(310317)

489
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether the full body scanners he plans to introduce to airports will use passive millimetre wave technology or X-ray technology.

(310318)

490
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of full body scanning security equipment for airports that does not use passive millimetre wave technology.

(310319)

491
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether there will be a minimum age for people to be subject to full body scanning security at airports.

(310320)

492
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, when he expects full body scanning equipment to be operational in all designated UK airports.

(310350)

493
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to prevent suicide bomb attacks on aeroplanes by people prepared to ingest explosives or have them surgically implanted.

(310355)

494
N Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will require the Chief Executive of the Highways Agency to meet residents in Walsall North constituency who are adversely affected by the M6 motorway work on the site of the work, as requested by the hon. Member for Walsall North.

(309731)

495
N Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, for what reasons the Chief Executive of the Highways Agency did not agree to meet residents on the site within the Walsall North constituency who are adversely affected by the M6 motorway work; and if he will make a statement.

(309732)

496
N Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will ensure that the Chief Executive or Deputy Chief Executive of the Highways Agency meets residents on sites where work authorised by the agency is taking place when requested to do so by hon. Members.

(309733)

497
N Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what discussions (a) Ministers in his Department and (b) officials in the Secretary of State's private office have had with the Chief Executive of the Highways Agency on the adverse effects on residents of work carried out on the M6 motorway in Walsall North constituency; and if he will make a statement.

(310071)

498
N Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, for what reasons residents in Walsall North constituency likely to be adversely affected by current work authorised by the Highways Agency on the M6 motorway were not directly informed of the work planned by the Agency; and if he will instruct the Highways Agency directly to notify those likely to be adversely affected by its planned work in all areas in addition to its practice of placing advertisements in the press.

(310072)

499
N Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will ensure that when work is authorised by the Highways Agency that is likely to adversely affect residents hon. Members representing the constituency or constituencies concerned are notified.

(310078)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

500
N Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the (a) title and (b) purpose is of each proposed legislative consent order scheduled for introduction in the present Parliament which his Department has discussed with the Welsh Assembly Government.

(310276)

501
N Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the (a) date, (b) destination and (c) purpose was of each official visit in Wales made by (i) the Secretary of State and (ii) Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in each of the last two years.

(310277)

502
N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many industrial tribunals his Department has been party to in each of the last five years; and what the cost to his Department of such tribunals was in each year.

(310207)

503
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will place in the Library a copy of the results of his Department's most recent staff survey; which organisation carried out the survey; and what the cost of the survey was.

(310234)

504
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by his Department.

(310518)

Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality

505
John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many staff of the Equality and Human Rights Commission from each ethnic group (a) lodged grievances, (b) started employment tribunal proceedings, (c) were subject to disciplinary action and (d) were subject to capability procedures between 1 October 2007 and 31 March 2009.

(310481)

506
John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, for what reasons staff of the Equality and Human Rights Commission of each ethnic group left the employment of the Commission between 1 October 2007 and 31 March 2009.

(310482)

507
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what discussions she has had with Lord Sugar of Clapton on the subject of women in the workplace since his appointment.

(310346)

508
N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many working days were lost due to illness of employees within her Department in each of the last three years; and how many of those were attributed to stress in each year.

(310229)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

509
N Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long on average elapsed between the occurrence of weather conditions triggering cold weather payments and such payments being made in 2008-09.

(309743)

510
N Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what account is taken of wind chill factors in the triggering of cold weather payments.

(309744)

511
Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to take forward the recommendations made in her Department's research report no. 621, Evaluation of Access to Work: Ministerial Government Departments.

(310270)

512
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on the constituency of changes to her Department's policies since 1997.

(310327)

513
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she expects to reply to the letter dated 23 November 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr P. McCarty.

(310494)

514
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she expects to reply to the letter dated 30 November 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr S. Winter.

(310496)

515
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many medical assessments were carried out in respect of claims for (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance in (i) the UK, (ii) England and (iii) Milton Keynes in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those assessed were deemed eligible for those benefits on (A) initial assessment and (B) appeal.

(310219)

516
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions cold weather payments have been triggered in MK post codes since October 2009.

(310220)

517
Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Milton Keynes are in receipt of winter fuel allowance; and how much her Department paid to such pensioners in winter fuel allowance in 2009.

(310224)

518
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for winter fuel payments were made by households in Slough in each of the last five years.

(310438)

519
N Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job centres have closed in the last 10 years.

(309725)

520
N Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average processing time for a jobseeker's allowance application has been in the last 12 months.

(309726)

521
N Paul Rowen (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the estimated cost to her Department is of (a) the Young Persons Guarantee and (b) the Graduate Guarantee in 2009-10.

(309729)

522
N Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether all employers offering jobs to be advertised through Jobcentre Plus are asked whether the job can be offered on a flexible, part-time or jobshare basis.

(309978)

523
N Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance claimants there were in South West Bedfordshire constituency on the latest date for which figures are available.

(310107)

524
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many sessions of media training were organised for Ministers in her Department in each of the last three years.

(310240)

525
Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's estimate is of the number of people who graduated from university in 2009 and who are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance in (a) England and (b) each local authority in the North West; and if she will make a statement.

(310096)

526
Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by her Department.

(310517)

527
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which (a) actors, (b) musicians and (c) other performers were used to support the directgov advertisement, Go DirectGov.

(310199)

528
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total cost to her Department was of the directgov advertising campaign, Go DirectGov.

(310280)

529
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on the production of the directgov advertisement Go DirectGov; and how much it expects to spend on purchasing television airtime for the advertisement.

(310281)

530
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department paid to each (a) actor, (b) musician and (c) other performer used to support the directgov advertisement, Go DirectGov.

(310351)

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

531
Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many free swimming sessions have been provided per eligible resident by each local authority participating in the scheme in the latest period for which figures are available.

[Transferred] (310468)

532
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage best practice among local authorities on the promotion of tourism.

[Transferred] (310273)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

533
N Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK service personnel are assigned to duties in Colombia.

[Question Unstarred] (309568)

Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport

534
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether his Department has had discussions with its overseas counterparts on the introduction of body scanners at airports which have services to the UK.

[Transferred] (310313)

535
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 5 January 2010, Official Report, columns 28-32, on aviation and border security, whether funds from his Department's budget will be allocated to training for airport security staff on new security measures.

[Transferred] (310339)

536
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 5 January 2010, Official Report, columns 28-32, on aviation and border security, whether his Department plans to contribute to the cost of introducing explosive trace detection equipment in all UK airports by the end of the year.

[Transferred] (310340)

537
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 5 January 2010, Official Report, columns 28-32, on aviation and border security, whether he has made an estimate of the cost to the aviation industry of his Department's requirement that all UK airports introduce explosive trace detection equipment by the end of the year.

[Transferred] (310341)

538
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to his Oral Statement of 5 January 2010, Official Report, columns 28-32, on aviation and border security, what equipment his Department classifies as explosive trace detection equipment.

[Transferred] (310342)

539
Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 5 January 2010, Official Report, columns 28-32, on aviation and border security, whether he expects airline staff to receive training in behavioural analysis techniques.

[Transferred] (310362)

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