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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 18 January 2010
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 18 January 2010
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 18 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 18 January of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 18 January see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 1
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with Royal Mail on delivery routes in areas which are not receiving mail because of extreme weather conditions. | | (311369) | 2
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what proportion of people aged between 16 and 24 years were not in education, employment and training in the fourth quarter of 2009. | | (311731) | 3
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the participation of an RAF Typhoon fighter aircraft in an aerial display at the Bahrain International Airshow. | | (311456) | 4
N | Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what dates (a) the Secretary of State, (b) he and (c) his Department's officials have made an assessment of market conditions relevant to the part-privatisation of Royal Mail since 1 July 2009. | | (311642) | 5
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small businesses in the London Borough of Bexley have applied for financial assistance under the (a) Enterprise Finance Guarantee and (b) Capital Enterprise Scheme since their inception; and how many such applications have been granted under each scheme. | | (311562) | 6
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies plans to sign up to the 10:10 campaign to cut carbon emissions by 10 per cent. in 2010. | | (311389) | 7
| Patrick Hall (Bedford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students eligible for payments from the Student Loans Company are awaiting payment. | | (311295) | 8
| Patrick Hall (Bedford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, for what reasons full assessment of loan and grant applications made in the 2009-10 academic year have been delayed. | | (311296) | 9
| Patrick Hall (Bedford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applications for student loans there were in the 2009-10 academic year; and how many such applications have been approved with full assessment to date. | | (311297) | 10
| Patrick Hall (Bedford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applications to the Student Loans Company there were in the academic year 2008-09 for student loans. | | (311362) | 11
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since its establishment; and at what cost. | | (311901) | 12
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, when a Minister in his Department last met Professor Anthony Glees of Buckingham University to discuss extremism in universities. | | (311460) | 13
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what higher educational facilities in the UK receive funding from overseas governments. | | (311499) | 14
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what supporting documents his Department requires from the governments of overseas countries prior to the commencement of education in the UK of students who are foreign nationals. | | (311500) | 15
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many foreign students have been refused entry to the UK since 2001; and what the reason for refusal was in each case. | | (311501) | 16
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he bring forward proposals to prevent people with a conviction for a crime of incitement from being employed at a higher educational establishment. | | (311502) | 17
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many foreign nationals have studied at English language schools in England which have subsequently been closed for failing to reach required standards of teaching in each of the last three years. | | (311503) | 18
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Higher Education Funding Council for England on (a) the Research Excellence Framework and (b) other proposed changes to arrangements for research funding. | | (311747) | 19
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what responses he has received from higher education institutions on his Department's proposed Research Excellence Framework. | | (311748) | 20
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received from university and college unions on his Department's proposed changes to arrangements for research funding. | | (311749) | 21
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether a small firms impact assessment in respect of the estate agent industry has been produced in relation to the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT's) implementation of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007; and what fee estate agents are required to pay to register with the OFT. | | (311805) | 22
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Intellectual Property Office on the likely effect on charities and other not-for-profit groups of the proposed changes to the music licence system. | | (311767) | 23
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the likely effect on charities and other not-for-profit groups of the proposed changes to the music licence system. | | (311768) | 24
| Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received from charities and other not-for-profit groups on the likely effect on them of proposed changes to the music licence system. | | (311769) | 25
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2010, Official Report, column 810W, on higher education: admissions, what the equivalent figures for university entrance are for pupils eligible for free school meals whose ethnicity was recorded as white British. | | (311115) | 26
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what percentage of pupils (a) eligible and (b) not eligible for free school meals progressed to (i) a university and (ii) a Russell Group university in (A) 1997 and (B) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (311211) | 27
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of the policies and actions of his Department and its predecessors since 2000. | | (311989) | 28
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions his Department has had with (a) the Insolvency Service and (b) administrators on the obligations to their creditors of successor companies to failed companies under pre-pack administration arrangements. | | (311751) | 29
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to assess the effects on small business creditors of the implementation of pre-pack administrations, with particular reference to (a) turnover and (b) numbers of jobs. | | (311756) | 30
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many contractual disputes with third party suppliers his Department lost as a result of unenforceable penalty clauses in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2007-08 and (d) 2009-10 to date; what (i) the cumulative monetary value of the contracts involved in each year and (ii) the amount awarded to the supplier in each case was; and how much the Department was entitled to but did not claim under such disputes in each year. | | (311415) | 31
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what expenditure his Department incurred as a result of contractual disputes with third party suppliers in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2007-08 (d) 2008-09 and (e) 2009-10 to date; and how much was awarded to each supplier in each such case. | | (311416) | 32
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many competent person schemes his Department manages; and which of these are registered with the UK Accreditation Service. | | (311418) | 33
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much expenditure under each budgetary heading his Department has incurred on advertising competent person schemes in each year since 2002. | | (311419) | 34
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much expenditure under each budgetary heading his Department has spent on advertising the TrustMark scheme in each year since the scheme was launched. | | (311420) | 35
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, for what reasons Companies House made the most recent revisions to its form for limited liability partnerships to change details of a member, LLP288c to LLCH01; and what information may be provided through the revised form which could not be provided before its introduction. | | (311421) | 36
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many times the Business Council for Britain has met; when it last met; what its membership is; how many officials have attended each of its meetings; and how much it has spent on (a) travel, (b) hospitality and (c) other expenses since June 2007. | | (311603) | 37
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether written health and safety advice is issued to new employees in his Department. | | (311376) | 38
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding (a) his Department and its predecessors and (b) regional development agencies have given to support the regional union network. | | (311474) | 39
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, for what reasons (a) his Department's representatives and (b) representatives of regional development agencies did not attend the Department for Communities and Local Government's forum to co-ordinate cross-government working in coalfield areas as noted in National Audit Office's report on English Coalfields, HC 84, para 3.20. | | (311553) | 40
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what volume of waste his Department and its predecessors generated in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a) paper, (b) plastic, (c) glass, (d) metal, (e) electrical goods and batteries and (f) food waste; and what percentage of that waste was (i) disposed of securely, (ii) disposed of in landfill and (iii) recycled. | | (311836) | 41
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent steps he has taken to assist young people to obtain (a) work and (b) training. | | (311299) | 42
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to encourage business investment in Morecambe and Lunesdale. | | (311301) | 43
N | Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect on the economy of the car scrappage scheme. | | (311364) | 44
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small businesses in (a) Morecambe and (b) Lancashire have applied to defer their tax payments in 2009-10 under the Government's late payment scheme. | | (311558) | 45
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assistance the North West Regional Development Agency has provided to businesses in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency in respect of the economic downturn. | | (311561) | 46
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2010, Official Report, column 574W, on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, what steps he is taking to increase the transparency of the negotiations; and if he will make a statement. | | (311437) | 47
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff in his Department are working on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations. | | (311442) | 48
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will place in the Library the latest draft held by his Department of the (a) civil enforcement, (b) border measures, (c) criminal enforcement and (d) intellectual property rights enforcement section of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. | | (311446) | 49
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which Ministers are given access to UK position papers on negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. | | (311447) | 50
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he next plans to meet (a) Ministerial colleagues, (b) officials from the Intellectual Property Office and (c) others to discuss the negotiation of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. | | (311448) | 51
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the likely effects on consumer choice of making provision for consumer access to third-party communication providers from all (a) next generation and (b) other public communications networks. | | (311872) | 52
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to ensure that all (a) next generation and (b) other public communications networks offer consumers equal access to third party service providers. | | (311873) | 53
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions his Department has had with Ofcom on consumer access to third party services from all (a) next generation and (b) public communication networks. | | (311874) | 54
| Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people aged (a) between 16 and 18, (b) 18 and 25 and (c) over 25 years old started an advanced apprenticeship in the most recent 12 months for which figures are available. | | (311779) | 55
| Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the average cost to the public purse of a fully-funded apprenticeship was in the last period for which figures are available. | | (311780) | 56
| Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many adults started an advanced apprenticeship in each year since 1997. | | (312057) | 57
| Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many adults started a Level 2 apprenticeship in each year since 1997. | | (312058) | Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office 58
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cancer mortality rate was in Salford (a) in 1997 and (b) at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (311669) | 59
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged between 16 and 24 years resident in (a) Chelmsford local authority area and (b) West Chelmsford constituency had been unemployed for over (i) six and (ii) 12 months in each of the last six months. | | (310739) | 60
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether she plans to encourage Select Committees to hold pre-appointment hearings in respect of public sector appointments. | | (311449) | 61
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether she has plans to provide to Select Committees information on candidates short-listed for an appointment in respect of which they hold pre-appointment hearings. | | (311450) | 62
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions she has had with the Advertising Standards Authority on its powers to verify claims made by airlines that they are able to prove a reduction in green house gas emissions. | | (311957) | 63
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many iPOD music devices have been bought by (a) her Department, (b) No. 10 Downing Street, (c) the Leader of the House's Office and (d) the Minister for the Olympic Office's since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311898) | 64
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many post office branches have (a) opened and (b) closed since 1997 according to the Office of National Statistics' records of enterprise deaths and births. | | (311710) | 65
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Central Office of Information press release of 22 April 2008, what estimate has been made of the monetary value of contracts to be let under the (a) Gypsies and Travellers and (b) Refugees and Asylum Seekers elements of the Central Office of Information's Marketing Aimed at Culturally Diverse Audiences Framework; what contracts have been awarded under those elements of the framework; in respect of which public bodies they have been let; and what the monetary value of contracts let under the Framework Agreement is. | | (311804) | 66
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cinemas have (a) opened and (b) closed since 1997 according to Office of National Statistics' records of enterprise deaths and births. | | (312046) | 67
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many public houses have (a) opened and (b) closed since 1997 according to Office of National Statistics' records of enterprise deaths and births. | | (312047) | 68
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what changes have been made to the collation and distribution of Government statistics on marriage since 1997. | | (312048) | 69
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what statistics the Office for National Statistics collates on relationship breakdown; and at what geographic level such data is maintained. | | (312049) | 70
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) people and (b) young people were unemployed in Tamworth constituency in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2009. | | (311774) | 71
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people over 50 years old in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) the North East and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance. | | (311349) | 72
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff (a) her Department and (b) the Charity Commission employ to monitor compliance with the Charities Act 2006. | | (311302) | 73
| John Mason (Glasgow East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will publish on a regular basis claims made under the Public Duty Costs Allowance. | | (311604) | 74
| Mr Andrew Pelling (Croydon Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Government services are available exclusively via the internet. | | (311759) | 75
N | Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths where (a) alcohol and (b) the misuse of drugs was the primary cause there were in (i) England and Wales and (ii) Hemel Hempstead constituency in the last five years. | | (311028) | 76
N | Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people were employed in (a) call centres and (b) manufacturing in Hemel Hempstead constituency in each of the last five years. | | (311029) | 77
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people were (a) unemployed and (b) employed in North Wales in each of the last three years. | | (311720) | 78
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of people in each 10 year age cohort committed suicide in each of the last three years. | | (311723) | 79
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the mortality rate for people under 75 years old in (a) England and (b) Wales with (i) circulatory disease and (ii) cancer was in each of the last three years for which figures are available. | | (311724) | 80
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the mortality rate for people with severe mental illness was in each of the last three years. | | (311725) | 81
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many residential flats there are in the Admiralty House complex; how many are designated as Ministerial residences; and which Ministers have had use of such flats as residences in each of the last three years. | | (311427) | 82
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2010, Official Report, columns 867-8W, on the Central Office of Information: publications, what the purpose is of the publication How Public Sector Advertising Works; how many copies have been (a) distributed and (b) sold; and what income the Exchequer has received from sales. | | (311428) | 83
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the mean annual earnings of a (a) full-time public sector employee and (b) full-time private sector employee were in (i) the UK, (ii) England and (iii) each constituency on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (311473) | 84
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will place in the Library a copy of the results of her Department's most recent staff survey; which organisation carried out the survey; and what the cost of the survey was. | | (311507) | 85
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what volume of waste was generated by Number 10 Downing Street in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a) paper, (b) plastic, (c) glass, (d) metal, (e) electrical goods and batteries and (f) food waste; and what percentage of that waste was (i) disposed of securely, (ii) disposed of in landfill and (iii) recycled. | | (311838) | 86
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will publish the travel guidelines issued to Ministers in respect of (a) air, (b) rail and (c) car journeys. | | (311059) | 87
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will publish the travel guidelines issued to (a) permanent secretaries, (b) senior civil servants and (c) other civil servants. | | (311060) | 88
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what remunerated positions Sir Christopher Kelly holds apart from his Chairmanship of the Committee on Standards in Public Life; and whether Sir Christopher is required to declare to her Department the amount of remuneration he receives from such positions. | | (311739) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 89
N | Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the likely length of time that would be required to complete the QCF Level 4 qualification for financial advisers proposed by the Financial Services Authority. | | (310954) | 90
| Mr Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to prevent poor and vulnerable people being required to repay overpayments of tax credits received for 2003-04 and 2004-05; and if he will make a statement. | | (311392) | 91
| Mr Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria his Department uses in deciding whether to write off tax credit overpayment debts for the tax years 2003-04 and 2004-05; and if he will make a statement. | | (311393) | 92
| Mr William Cash (Stone): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he last met Sir John Chadwick to discuss the payment of compensation to Equitable Life policyholders. | | (311656) | 93
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the minutes of each meeting which led to the decision to nationalise Bradford and Bingley. | | (311947) | 94
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has made to the US authorities on the effect on UK banks in which the Government has a stake operating in the US of the new taxation arrangements in that country; and whether he plans to make such arrangements reciprocal. | | (311948) | 95
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether UK banks in which the Government has a stake will pay bonuses this year. | | (311949) | 96
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the additional revenue which will accrue to the Exchequer from (a) all alcohol sales and (b) beer sales in 2009-10 as a consequence of the change in the rate of value added tax on 1 January 2010. | | (311310) | 97
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of making the personal allowance transferable between members of couples individually subject to the basic rate of income tax who marry and have children after 1 April 2011 in each year from 2011-12 to 2015-16. | | (311061) | 98
N | Mr David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the revenue implications of the introduction of the transferable nil-rate band for inheritance tax. | | (311215) | 99
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the owners of the Gunwharf site in Portsmouth have paid to the Exchequer in clawback payments; and on what date each instalment of such payments was received. | | (311290) | 100
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311902) | 101
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average length of service is of staff employed by HM Revenue and Customs and its predecessor organisations at each of its locations in Scotland. | | (311966) | 102
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the running costs were of each HM Revenue and Customs office in Scotland in each of the last five years. | | (311967) | 103
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with which estate partners HM Revenue and Customs holds contracts relating to accommodation and facilities management for its offices in Scotland. | | (311968) | 104
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the fixed accommodation cash running costs of HM Revenue and Customs office buildings in Scotland were over each of the last five years. | | (311969) | 105
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, at how many locations in Scotland HM Revenue and Customs shares office accommodation with other government agencies. | | (311970) | 106
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any of the HM Revenue and Customs offices in Scotland earmarked for closure were funded through the private finance initiative. | | (311971) | 107
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cases have been passed from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) call centres to HMRC offices in Scotland which have been earmarked for closure in each of the last five years; what the estimated cost will be of vacating those offices; and what plans HMRC has for the disposal of such buildings at each location. | | (311972) | 108
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the staff (a) turnover and (b) absentee rate was at each HM Revenue and Customs office in Scotland in each of the last five years. | | (311973) | 109
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether an assessment has been made of the implications for levels of tax collected of proposals by HM Revenue and Customs to close offices and reduce staff. | | (311999) | 110
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many hours have been spent by his Department's officials on the production of costings of opposition party policies in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (311654) | 111
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to ensure Government procurement policies provide equal opportunities to businesses regardless of size. | | (311286) | 112
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions his Department has had with representatives of the air travel industry on the application of the higher rate of air passenger duty to premium economy seats. | | (311287) | 113
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government's policy that public sector posts over £150,000 will require his Department's explicit approval will apply to local government chief executives. | | (311659) | 114
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Valuation Office Agency's Rent Service handbook for valuing rental property for housing benefit purposes. | | (311660) | 115
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what databases containing personal data the Valuation Office Agency (a) maintains and (b) has access to. | | (311665) | 116
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of the stamp duty holiday; and how many property transactions did not attract stamp duty during the holiday which would have done so outside the holiday period in (a) each government office region in England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland. | | (311705) | 117
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to make his next Budget Statement. | | (311706) | 118
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many sale and rent back transactions of domestic properties have been recorded by the Financial Services Authority in each of the last 10 years. | | (311707) | 119
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many homes have received zero carbon stamp duty relief in each month since the relief was introduced. | | (311708) | 120
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many fire stations (a) were on the 1997 and (b) are on the 2010 Rating List. | | (311709) | 121
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 7 July 2009, Official Report, column 779W, on non-domestic rates, how many mobile telephone masts in each local authority area are on the 2010 Rating List. | | (311825) | 122
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of his Department's policies and actions since 2000. | | (311990) | 123
N | Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many private finance initiative projects have been undertaken by his Department in (a) Hertfordshire and (b) Hemel Hempstead constituency in the last five years. | | (311030) | 124
| John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of winding-up petitions of companies have been lodged by HM Revenue and Customs since 1 April 2008; and how much debt is owed to the Exchequer through such petitions. | | (311422) | 125
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the productivity of the UK in relation to other G7 countries since 1991. | | (311753) | 126
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the gross domestic product per head of population was in each of the last three years. | | (311754) | 127
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much in (a) direct and (b) indirect taxes was (i) collected and (ii) administered by the HM Revenue and Customs office in Peterhead in each year since 2006. | | (311959) | 128
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff were based at the office of HM Revenue and Customs and its predecessor organisations in Peterhead in each year since 2006. | | (311960) | 129
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, from which HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) offices the Shares Fishermen's Scheme will be administered following the closure of Keith House, Peterhead; and what steps will be taken by HMRC to retain the expertise of its staff in respect of the fishing industry following the closure. | | (311961) | 130
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much duty has been collected at each location from the Share Fishermen's Scheme in each of the last five years. | | (311962) | 131
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consultation HM Revenue and Customs undertook with the fishing industry over the closure of Keith House, Petershead. | | (311963) | 132
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consultation HM Revenue and Customs has undertaken with staff based at Keith House, Peterhead, over the Workforce Change Programme. | | (311964) | 133
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the effects of the closure of HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) office in Peterhead on the provision of face-to-face advice for clients; how far the nearest HMRC enquiry centre providing face-to-face advice for clients will be from Peterhead following the closure of Keith House, Peterhead; what the estimated disposal costs are of Keith House; what support and guidance HMRC have offered to staff at Keith House over the Workforce Change Programme; whether HMRC plans any compulsory redundancies in respect of staff at Keith House; and how many staff at Keith House will be redeployed by HMRC to other locations. | | (311975) | 134
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the evidential basis is for the statement in his Department's document, Impact assessment of withdrawing the furnished holiday letting rules, that the difference in the tax treatment between furnished holiday lettings in the UK and furnished holiday lettings in the rest of the European Economic Area may not comply with European law; and when his Department was first informed of that evidence. | | (311585) | 135
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a version of table 5.2 in chapter 5 of Budget 2009, HC 407, showing the number of persons with marginal deduction rates of (a) 60 per cent. or over, (b) 70 per cent. or over, (c) 80 per cent. or over, (d) 90 per cent. or over and (e) 100 per cent. or over. | | (311108) | 136
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment Natural England's Wildlife Management and Licensing Service has made of changes in levels of the rodent population in the last three years. | | (311481) | 137
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a table showing for each public body the (a) address, (b) total floor area and (c) vacant space recorded on the electronic property information mapping service e-PIMs database. | | (311496) | 138
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Valuation Office Agency's eLearning guide for its geographical information system. | | (311497) | 139
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Valuation Office Agency uses data from its council tax banding support tool in appeals against council tax banding. | | (311498) | 140
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 109 of the Pre-Budget Report 2009, Cm 7747, whether the expected £550 million of savings from local government are to be achieved from local government in (a) England or (b) the UK. | | (311549) | 141
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 109 of the Pre-Budget Report 2009, what proportion of the planned £550 million of local government savings will be from more efficient waste collection and disposal; and how such savings will be achieved. | | (311622) | 142
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many fire stations there were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List with special category code 101 in (a) England and (b) each local authority area in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2010. | | (311664) | 143
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the health and safety advice issued to each new starter upon joining his Department. | | (311817) | 144
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which websites his Department's staff are prevented from accessing from departmental networked computers. | | (311842) | 145
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing and evaluation for its websites in each of the last three years; and what budget was allocated to each category in 2009-10. | | (311844) | 146
N | Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the temporary reduction in the rate of value added tax on the economy during the recession. | | (311365) | 147
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which five sectors of the economy contributed the (a) most and (b) least to the UK economy in each of the last five years. | | (311395) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 148
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of children in Salford schools obtained five GCSEs at grades A* to C in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009. | | (311671) | 149
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent steps have been taken to improve educational outcomes for children with (a) moderate and (b) severe learning difficulties in Salford; and what vocational training opportunities are available to such people. | | (311672) | 150
| Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he is taking to ensure that attendance records of schools which open during extreme weather conditions are not compared unfavourably with schools which close in such conditions and are notionally recorded as having 100 per cent. attendance. | | (311368) | 151
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what representations his Department has received from Coventry City Council on the recommendations made in the report of the Badman review of secondary education. | | (311282) | 152
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding he expects to be made available to support home educators in Coventry following the proposals made in the report of the Badman review of secondary education. | | (311283) | 153
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the state of relations between home educators and local authorities. | | (311284) | 154
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average class size for (a) 5, (b) 6 and (c) 7 year-olds in primary schools was in each London borough in (i) 1990, (ii) 1992, (iii) 1997, (iv) 2001, (v) 2005 and (vi) the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (311850) | 155
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much (a) primary, (b) secondary, (c) special and (d) all schools spent on maintaining email addresses for school staff and pupils in the last 12 months for which figures are available. | | (311879) | 156
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much local authorities spent on IT procurement for schools in the last 12 months for which figures are available. | | (311880) | 157
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311903) | 158
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his Department's policy is on whether books should be banned from school libraries in circumstances where they have been held to breach laws against incitement; and if he will make a statement. | | (311458) | 159
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether his Department has allocated any funding to the United Church Schools Trust in respect of sponsorships. | | (311380) | 160
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what criteria Ofsted uses in appointing school inspectors; and if he will make a statement. | | (311006) | 161
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether pupils who do not attend school because of (a) travel difficulties and (b) school closure in severe weather are classified as absent for the purposes of his Department's statistics. | | (311808) | 162
| Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many people under 20 years old in further education in (a) England, (b) the North East and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency received assistance in meeting childcare costs in each year since 1997. | | (311348) | 163
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2010, Official Report, column 728W, on pupil exclusion: disadvantaged, what the equivalent figures are for pupils on free school meals whose ethnicity is recorded as (a) white Irish, (b) white Traveller of Irish heritage, (c) white gypsy/Roma and (d) any other white ethnicity. | | (311114) | 164
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals attended schools which did not enter at least one pupil in at least one science subject at GCSE in (a) 1997 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (311212) | 165
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils eligible for free school meals passed three A levels including (a) chemistry, biology or chemistry and biology and (b) a science or mathematics subject in (i) 1997 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (311213) | 166
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils in each year cohort were eligible for free school meals in each year since 1997. | | (311425) | 167
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils not eligible for free school meals achieved three A grades at A-level in (a) 1997 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (311636) | 168
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils eligible for free school meals attended schools at which fewer than 30 per cent. of pupils achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics but excluding equivalents in (a) 1997 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (311637) | 169
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many adopted children of each age at the time of approval for adoption waited (a) less than six months, (b) more than 66 months, (c) more than 72 months and (d) more than 80 months to be adopted following the decision that adoption was in their best interest in each year since 2001. | | (311638) | 170
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in how many and what proportion of schools in the (a) highest and (b) lowest index of multiple deprivation decile less than 30 per cent. of pupils obtained five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics but excluding equivalents in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (311639) | 171
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2010, Official Report, columns 1063-4W, on the Social Work Taskforce, if he will place in the Library a copy of the draft of the final report provided on (a) 13 October, (b) 20 November and (c) 27 November 2009. | | (311869) | 172
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract of the new Children's Commissioner. | | (312040) | 173
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will publish the curriculum vitae of the head of the national Safeguarding Delivery Unit. | | (312042) | 174
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of the policies and actions of his Department and its predecessors since 2000. | | (311988) | 175
| Mr Greg Pope (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will extend the terms of reference of his Department's review of the provisions which prevent the promotion of racism in schools to include the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir. | | (311557) | 176
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of the results from his Department's most recent staff survey; which organisation carried out the survey; and what the cost of conducting the survey was. | | (311465) | 177
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which websites his Department's staff are prevented from accessing on departmental networked computers. | | (311469) | 178
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what advertising campaigns his Department has been responsible for in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10; which campaigns have (i) commenced and (ii) continued in 2009-10; and what the cost of each such campaign has been. | | (311818) | 179
N | Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will take steps to ensure that schools in Leeds that have opened during recent extreme weather conditions will not be penalised for student non-attendance during that period. | | (311379) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 180
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish a timetable for making his response to the (a) consultation and (b) further environmental assessment relating to the South West Regional Spatial Strategy; and if he will make a statement. | | (310661) | 181
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his Department's policy is on the proposed construction of 2,750 homes in the vicinity of Lytchett Minister, Dorset under the revised South West Regional Spatial Strategy. | | (310662) | 182
N | Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many empty homes there were in (a) private and (b) social housing stock in each London local authority in 2008-09; and what percentage change this represents in comparison with 2007-08. | | (311210) | 183
| Mr William Cash (Stone): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has taken steps to assess the merits of proposals by public authorities in the West Midlands to reduce levels of aggregate extractions. | | (311750) | 184
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations he has received from Helioslough regarding the former aerodrome site in St Albans following the conclusion of the inquiry. | | (311757) | 185
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311904) | 186
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many times the Assistant Regional Minister for the North West has (a) been invited to and (b) attended meetings with the Government Office for the North West in the last 12 months. | | (311367) | 187
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 7 July 2009, Official Report, column 706W, on fire services: equality, whether any Fire and Rescue Services have targets to increase recruitment of Travellers. | | (311742) | 188
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 11 November 2009, Official Report, column 378W, on the Equality Bill, what assessment has been made of the likely effect of a duty to tackle socio-economic disadvantage of the effectiveness of the Fire and Rescue Service in (a) preventing and (b) tackling fires. | | (311784) | 189
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release of 6 January 2010, on new faith advisers, what declaration of political activity was made by each adviser he has appointed; and how many advisers have declared membership of a political party. | | (311796) | 190
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release of 6 January 2010, on new faith advisers, what consideration he gave to appointing a representative of the Roman Catholic Church as an adviser. | | (311797) | 191
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1298W, on non-domestic rates, what the (a) postcode and (b) percentage change in rateable value was in respect of each of the hereditaments included in the Answer. | | (311798) | 192
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1298W, on non-domestic rates, which 50 hereditaments in (a) the North West, (b) the North East, (c) the East Midlands, (d) the West Midlands, (e) the South West and (f) the East of England have the greatest percentage increase in rateable values from the 2005 rating list to the draft 2010 rating list; what the rateable value was (i) before and (ii) after revaluation in each case; and what the (A) postcode and (B) local billing authority of each hereditament is. | | (311799) | 193
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 213W, on council tax, what information his Department holds on the (a) type and (b) level of discount offered by each authority named in the Answer. | | (311802) | 194
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 228W, on local government: pay, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance on local authority chief executive salaries issued by the Joint Negotiating Committee. | | (311803) | 195
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1261W, on the Audit Commission: procurement, how much the Audit Commission paid to (a) ComRes, (b) YouGov and (c) Consolidated Communications in 2008-09; on what dates such payments were made; and what services were provided by each organisation. | | (311827) | 196
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1261W, on the Audit Commission: procurement, how much the Audit Commission paid to (a) the Reform Club (b) AA The Driving School and (c) The Twisted Oak Pub in 2008-09; on what dates such payments were made; and what services were provided by each organisation. | | (311828) | 197
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 10 December 2009, Official Report, column 586W, on fire services: finance, what performance targets officials on the FiReControl project met in respect of which bonuses to justify the bonuses; and which performance targets are used to assess the award of bonuses to officials working on the project. | | (311831) | 198
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answers to the hon. Member for Meriden of 7 July 2009, Official Report, column 701W, and of 19 February 2008, Official Report, column 613W, on council tax: valuation, what potential numbers were established by Mr Tim Eden after contact with group valuation officers. | | (311832) | 199
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 238W, on non-domestic rates, what the (a) postcode and (b) percentage change in rateable values was of each of the 50 individual hereditaments. | | (311833) | 200
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the contribution of Lord Davies of Oldham of 2 February 2004, Official Report, House of Lords, column 444, on footpaths and roads: de-icing, whether his Department has provided guidance to local authorities on the personal liability of householders who seek to clear the pavement or highway of ice or snow. | | (311834) | 201
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether dwellings in which home working is undertaken are liable for business rates. | | (312001) | 202
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what figures his Department and its agencies hold on sale and rent back transactions of domestic properties. | | (312002) | 203
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much net revenue has been raised in business rates in (a) cash and (b) real terms based on 2010 prices in each year since 1997-98. | | (312003) | 204
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much net revenue has been raised in council tax in (a) cash and (b) real terms based on 2010 prices in each year since 1997-98. | | (312004) | 205
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much net revenue has been raised in local authority parking charges, fees and fines in (a) cash and (b) real terms based on 2010 prices in each year since 1997-98. | | (312005) | 206
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what timetable he has set for the publication of a revised Code of Conduct on Local Authority Publicity. | | (312006) | 207
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what role local authorities have in the construction of new war memorials. | | (312007) | 208
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his latest estimate is of the cost to the public purse of the FiReControl project since its inception. | | (312008) | 209
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes have received Level 6 Code for Sustainable Homes certification. | | (312009) | 210
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many full time-equivalent staff work in his Department's local government review unit on unitary council restructuring. | | (312010) | 211
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has for elections to the new shadow unitary authorities. | | (312011) | 212
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has paid PA Consulting for services relating to the FiReControl project; and whether a proportion of such payments included bonus payments for meeting targets. | | (312026) | 213
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has provided guidance to local authorities on the use of stop notice powers in respect of (a) illegal dumping of material from an unauthorised traveller site and (b) the stationing of a caravan which is used as a residence. | | (312027) | 214
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what evaluation work his Department has undertaken on the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund. | | (312028) | 215
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many complaints the Local Government Ombudsman has received in relation to waste collection services in each of the last five years. | | (312029) | 216
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to make a formal response to the report of the independent review on redress for citizens chaired by David Cook. | | (312030) | 217
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his latest assessment is of the level of flood risk in the Thames Gateway development area; and what recent planning guidance his Department has provided on new-build development in areas of the Thames Gateway at risk of flooding. | | (312031) | 218
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance the (a) Housing Corporation, (b) Tenant Services Authority and (c) Homes and Communities Agency has provide to social landlords on home working by tenants. | | (312032) | 219
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, who the members are of his local government task force on value for money efficiencies; which members represent trade unions; what private sector representation there will be on that task force; and whether members of that task force have made a declaration of political activity. | | (312033) | 220
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what contribution his Department is making to the Ministry of Justice's proposed accommodation relocation and nationalisation project. | | (312034) | 221
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of businesses were participating in the business rate deferral scheme on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (312035) | 222
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the effects on the number of fire (a) stations and (b) appliances at each location of the repeal of section 19 (4) of the Fire Services Act 1947, requiring a fire authority to obtain the prior consent of the Secretary of State for the closure of a fire station and reductions in the number of fire appliances. | | (312036) | 223
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many fire stations were in operation in each local authority area in (a) 1997 and (b) the latest period for which figures are available. | | (312037) | 224
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what performance targets his Department used to determine whether to grant staff bonuses in the last financial year. | | (312038) | 225
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which recommendations of the Bain Report on the future of the Fire Service (a) have and (b) have not been implemented. | | (312039) | 226
N | John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people rescued from fires by the fire service in each (a) fire brigade area and (b) region were (i) injured and (ii) uninjured in each of the last three years for which figures are available. | | (311311) | 227
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of the policies and actions of his Department and its predecessors since 2000. | | (311987) | 228
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what volume of waste his Department generated in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a) paper, (b) plastic, (c) glass, (d) metal, (e) electrical goods and batteries and (f) food waste; and what percentage of his Department's waste was (i) disposed of securely, (ii) disposed of in landfill and (iii) recycled. | | (311371) | 229
| 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 multiple occupation: licensing, for what reasons the report has not yet been published; and if he will make a statement. | | (311377) | 230
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which websites his Department's staff are prevented from accessing on departmental networked computers. | | (311467) | 231
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the potential revenue to accrue to the Planning Inspectorate from planning appeal charges in their first full year of operation. | | (311512) | 232
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 7 December 2009, Official Report, column 58W, on the Audit Commission: public relations; if he will place in the Library a copy of the commissioned documents paid for on (a) 10 June 2009, (b) 12 June 2009 and (c) 14 September 2009. | | (311516) | 233
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release of 30 July 2009, on the Total Place initiative, if he will place in the Library a copy of the research report conducted by Deloitte for the Leicester and Leicestershire Total Place pilot. | | (311517) | 234
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Clwyd West of 8 December 2009, Official Report, column 297W, on home information packs, when the 2010 report on the effectiveness of the home information packs programme will be published; by whom the report is being produced; using what methodology; and at what cost. | | (311518) | 235
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the National Audit Office's report, Regenerating the English Coalfields, HC 84, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the Homes and Communities Agency and regional development agencies (a) claim and (b) reclaim the benefits from the English Coalfields programme against their own objectives. | | (311519) | 236
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his most recent assessment is of progress made by local authorities in obtaining the return of 100 per cent. of their deposits from the Icelandic Winding Up Board of Glitnir Bank; how much each local authority held in deposits with Glitnir Bank; and what steps are being taken to ensure recognition of UK local authority deposits as a priority claim. | | (311520) | 237
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the status is of the two-tier joint working pathfinder project; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each evaluation report for the pathfinder pilots. | | (311521) | 238
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which regional planning bodies are branded as regional assemblies. | | (311522) | 239
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of social housing (a) tenants and (b) households of working age are not in employment, education or training. | | (311524) | 240
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Government response to the Rugg Review consultation on the private rented sector, whether the proposed legislation will give Ministers the power to provide for local authorities to take over the management of a landlord's housing stock if a landlord failed to register. | | (311526) | 241
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1643W, on the Fire Brigades Union, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of each meeting referred to in the Answer. | | (311528) | 242
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1647W, on political impartiality, if he will place in the Library a copy of the pages from his Department's staff handbook relevant to politically-restricted activity. | | (311529) | 243
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's dataset Live Tables P109, on development control statistics, whether the data for planning applications which are deemed not to have been granted include applications which have been (a) refused and (b) undetermined within the 13 week period. | | (311530) | 244
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 13 of his Department's Resource Accounts 2008-09, HC 449, whether any delays in awarding grants under new Prevent grant programmes came from (a) potential applicants not having satisfied appropriate checks and (b) the time taken to perform appropriate checks; and which body undertook the checks on grant recipients. | | (311531) | 245
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the comprehensive area assessment results dataset for each local authority. | | (311532) | 246
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his latest estimate is of the monetary value of efficiency savings local authorities are expected to make in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12; and what proportion of such savings are required to be (i) cashable and (ii) non-cashable. | | (311533) | 247
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has given to local authorities on whether funding under the Connecting Communities programme may be spent during a regulated election period. | | (311534) | 248
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what timetable has been set for the transfer of arrangements for council tax enforcement from magistrates' courts to county courts; whether any consultation on the transfer will take place; and whether primary legislation will be necessary to enable the transfer to take place. | | (311535) | 249
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many persons later discovered to be illegal immigrants his Department has employed in each of the last three years. | | (311536) | 250
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reason his Department paid £309,699 to the Export Credits Guarantee Department in 2008-09. | | (311537) | 251
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what criteria (a) his Department and (b) the Valuation Office Agency use for the allocation of a hereditament to (i) the central rating list and (ii) local rating lists. | | (311538) | 252
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what research projects commissioned by his Department have not yet reported. | | (311539) | 253
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department paid to each of its suppliers of goods and services in 2007-08. | | (311540) | 254
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average business rates charge in England in 2010-11. | | (311541) | 255
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what public relations firms are on the Homes and Communities Agency's (HCA) Public Relations Panel; and whether the HCA uses public relation contractors listed in framework agreements with the Central Office of Information. | | (311542) | 256
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps are being taken to control the FiReControl project budget. | | (311543) | 257
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many full-time equivalent employees were employed by local authorities in each year since 1996-97. | | (311545) | 258
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what rate of local government (a) cost and (b) wage inflation his Department has assumed for the purposes of calculating grants under the local government finance settlement for 2010-11. | | (311546) | 259
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the speech given by the Minister for Housing and Planning to the Fabian Society on 9 December 2009. | | (311547) | 260
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 7 December 2009, Official Report, column 59W, on the Audit Commission: public relations, if he will place in the Library a copy of the perceptions and influence map commissioned by the Audit Commission. | | (311550) | 261
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of households in negative equity. | | (311623) | 262
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) original timetable was and (b) the latest timetable is for the (i) Firelink, (ii) FireBuy Integrated Clothing and (iii) FireControl project. | | (311626) | 263
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 28 October 2009, Official Report, column 471W, on local government: equality, how much funding has been provided to local authorities (a) under the formula grant sytem and (b) through specific grants to fund the new burdens imposed by equality and diversity legislation and regulation in the last 12 months. | | (311627) | 264
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of new dwellings built in London were built in areas of high flood risk in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (311628) | 265
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) original and (b) most recent cost estimate is for the (i) Firelink, (ii) Firebuy Integrated Clothing and (iii) FireControl project. | | (311629) | 266
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment (a) his Department and (b) the Valuation Office Agency have made of the merits to holding a council tax revaluation in England in the next Parliament. | | (311630) | 267
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many times the forum to co-ordinate cross-Government working in coalfield areas met in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009; and who attended each such meeting. | | (311658) | 268
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the timetable is for bringing forward secondary legislation relating to unitary local government restructuring in Norfolk, Suffolk and Devon. | | (311661) | 269
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what (a) salary and (b) other remuneration is paid to each chief executive of the new regional fire control companies. | | (311662) | 270
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what role regional development agencies have in respect of regional spatial strategies; and what timetable has been set for the implementation of the provisions of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 which relate to local planning. | | (311663) | 271
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his latest estimate is of the gross costs consequent on local government restructuring in Cornwall since 2007. | | (311666) | 272
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, to what suppliers of goods and services his Department paid over £50,000 in 2007-08. | | (311711) | 273
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what timetable has been set for the completion of the Audit Commission's study into council publicity expenditure. | | (311712) | 274
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the public purse was of the Audit Commission oneplace website on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (311713) | 275
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the provisions relating to public sector pensions announced in the Pre-Budget Report 2009 will apply to the (a) local government and (b) firefighters' pension scheme. | | (311714) | 276
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what timetable he has set for bringing forward legislation on the registration of private sector landlords; and which public body would be responsible for the register under those proposals. | | (311715) | 277
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what contribution the National Fraud Authority makes to the Audit Commission's National Fraud Initiative. | | (311745) | 278
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the intervention protocol prepared by the Secretary of State under section 23 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004. | | (311800) | 279
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government of 8 December 2009 to the Sixth Delegated Legislation Committee, on the Business Rate Supplements (Rateable Value Condition) (England) Regulations 2009, Official Report, column 8, how many and what proportion of business properties in London will be exempt from the supplementary business rate following the 2010 rates revaluation; and how much revenue he estimates the supplementary rate will raise in 2010-11. | | (311811) | 280
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what datasets are being collected under his Departmental Strategic Objective Indicator 4.4, on the extent to which domestic communities, particularly Muslim communities, reject and condemn violent extremism; what the methodology is for collecting data for this indicator; what targets have been set for it; and what the baseline is. | | (311813) | 281
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the letter from the Head of the Home Civil Service of 12 January 2009 on non-departmental public bodies: attendance at party conferences, which individual in his Department approved the attendance of Audit Commission representatives at party conferences in 2009. | | (311814) | 282
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 8 December 2009, Official Report, column 302W, on fires, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of the meetings of (a) 13 October, (b) 1 December and (c) 3 December 2009. | | (311845) | 283
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 7 December 2009, Official Report, column 60W, on the Audit Commission: public relations, if he will make an assessment of the compliance of the Audit Commission's engagement of a public affairs firm with Cabinet Office's guidance on use of public relations consultancy and agencies by non-departmental public bodies. | | (311846) | 284
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 9 December 2009, Official Report, column 390W, on departmental electronic equipment, how much his Department spent on photocopier paper in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (311847) | 285
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many sessions of media training were organised for Ministers in his Department in each of the last three years. | | (312023) | 286
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding the Government has allocated for housing regeneration in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency since 1997. | | (311560) | 287
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities require applicants for independent living adaptations and equipment to disclose former service as armed forces personnel. | | (311204) | 288
| Mr Edward Timpson (Crewe & Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people resident in Crewe and Nantwich constituency have received funding from the Mortgage Rescue Scheme. | | (311430) | 289
| Mr Edward Timpson (Crewe & Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people resident in Crewe and Nantwich constituency have received funding from the Homeowners Mortgage Support Scheme. | | (311431) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 290
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the cost to the public purse is of the provision of a free television licence. | | (312013) | 291
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to encourage the development of indoor cricket. | | (312017) | 292
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what percentage of Scottish households are able to receive digital radio services; what plans his Department has to increase coverage for digital radio in Scotland before 2015; what the cost of implementing those plans will be; and who will pay for the implementation. | | (311894) | 293
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of any link between the number of machines allowed in casinos and the extent of problem gambling. | | (311951) | 294
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has plans to increase the number of machines allowed in casinos. | | (311955) | 295
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many times compulsory purchase powers under (a) the Ancient Monuments and Archaelogical Areas Act 1979 and (b) other legislation to protect sites and monuments of national importance have been used by local authorities in the last 10 years; what sites have been so purchased; and on what dates. | | (311612) | 296
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many sites and monuments are in the guardianship of local authorities under the provisions of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. | | (311613) | 297
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which sites and monuments in the guardianship of the Secretary of State are covered by local management agreements with local authorities. | | (311614) | 298
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will undertake an investigation into (a) the appropriateness of the appointment of the Chief Executive of the Gambling Commission to the Commission's Board of Commissioners and (b) the effect on levels of transparency and accountability of the separation of both roles. | | (311640) | 299
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions the Gambling Commission has had with regulators outside the European Economic Area and the white list of countries permitted to advertise gambling services in the UK on the effectiveness of the regulation of operators providing gambling services to customers in the UK. | | (311641) | 300
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many iPODS have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311906) | 301
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many complaints regarding fraudulent schemes conducted by telephone Ofcom has received in each of the last 10 years. | | (311285) | 302
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding the Big Lottery Fund has provided to Developing Discrimination Advice Regional Events in 2009-10. | | (311801) | 303
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance the Gambling Commission has produced on the practice of adult gaming centres without a casino licence branding themselves as casinos. | | (311835) | 304
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies plans to sign up to the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10 per cent. in 2010. | | (311433) | 305
N | Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons the Serpentine in Hyde Park has been closed to swimmers. | | (311583) | 306
N | Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on how many occasions the Serpentine in Hyde Park has been closed to swimmers since 1980. | | (311643) | 307
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of the policies and actions of his Department and its predecessor since 2000. | | (311986) | 308
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether written health and safety advice is issued to each new employee in his Department. | | (311375) | 309
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much accrued to the Royal Parks Agency from the encroachment rate payable in Bushy Park in each of the last 10 years; when the rate was first levied; what rate was charged in each of the last 10 years; how many dwellings and hereditaments are liable for the rate; and whether the rate is classified as a tax by the Office of National Statistics. | | (311475) | 310
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps his Department has taken to promote tourism in Britain. | | (311298) | 311
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons the Serpentine has been closed to swimmers in January 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (310947) | 312
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on which occasions the Serpentine has been closed to swimmers due to icy conditions in the last 30 years. | | [R] (310948) | 313
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to answer Question 307583, on the reorganisation of Arts Council England, tabled on 14 December 2009. | | (311445) | 314
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make it his policy to have printed in the Official Report all letters sent by Arts Council England to hon. Members in response to parliamentary questions. | | (311875) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 315
| Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what dates in 2008, 2009 and 2010 his Department's lawyers met legal representatives of the Atomic Veterans Claimant Group. | | (311462) | 316
| Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department (a) has and (b) has had contracts with Watan Risk Management in Afghanistan. | | (311424) | 317
| Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what sub-contracts have been awarded in his Department's aircraft carriers procurement programme; and what the monetary value is of each such sub-contract. | | (311746) | 318
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, to whom Haslar Hospital was sold. | | (311289) | 319
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many iPODS have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311907) | 320
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress has been made on the army uniform contract; and if he will make a statement. | | (311005) | 321
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies plans to sign up to the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10 per cent in 2010. | | (311464) | 322
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) financial and (b) other assistance the UK is providing to the NATO Cyber-security Centre of Excellence in Estonia. | | (311352) | 323
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) financial and (b) other assistance the UK is providing to the NATO Defence College in Estonia. | | (311353) | 324
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many students from Estonia have attended the UK Defence Academy at Shrivenham in the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (311354) | 325
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Estonian military personnel are serving with British Forces in Afghanistan; and in what capacity. | | (311355) | 326
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what visits were made to Estonia by (a) units and (b) personnel of HM armed forces in 2009. | | (311356) | 327
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what air policing cover is in place to assist in fulfilling NATO's commitment to the Baltic states. | | (311357) | 328
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many turbines other than those delivered in September 2008 are operational at Kajaki dam; in what year such turbines were installed; and what the volume of electricity output has been of such turbines in the last five years for which figures are available. | | (311001) | 329
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) UK armed forces personnel and (b) personnel of other coalition forces were deployed in the operation to deliver a turbine to Kajaki dam in September 2008; and what the duration was of that operation. | | (311002) | 330
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the turbine delivered to Kajaki dam by UK forces in September 2008 is not functioning; whether that turbine has functioned since its delivery; when he expects that turbine to function; and if he will make a statement. | | (311003) | 331
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) deaths and (b) injuries to personnel were sustained in the operation to deliver and install the turbine to Kajaki dam in September 2008. | | (311004) | 332
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to answer Question 301552, on taxis, tabled on 19 November 2009. | | (311007) | 333
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cash equivalent transfer value is of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme pension of each of the 10 highest paid members of staff in his Department and its agencies. | | (311008) | 334
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of the enhanced early retirement scheme for civil servants in his Department and its agencies has been in each year since 1997. | | (311009) | 335
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) required and (b) actual strength is of deployable troops of each infantry battalion. | | (311107) | 336
| 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 Scotland were in the last 12 months. | | (311895) | 337
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of each helicopter type in the (a) Army Air Corps, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air Force is (i) in service and (ii) fit for purpose. | | (311896) | 338
| Sir Malcolm Rifkind (Kensington & Chelsea): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of the cost of the UK's mission to Afghanistan was funded from (a) contingency reserve funds and (b) other sources in 2007-08. | | (311386) | 339
| Sir Malcolm Rifkind (Kensington & Chelsea): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of all Urgent Operational Requirements for expenditure in Afghanistan in the year 2007-08 was funded from (a) the contingency reserve and (b) his Department's core budget. | | (311391) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 340
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, 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. | | (311506) | 341
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department spent on news and public relations in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10. | | (311569) | 342
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has spent on strategic consultancy in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10. | | (311570) | 343
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of his Department's expenditure on (a) print, (b) online, (c) television and (d) radio advertising in 2008-09; how much has been spent on advertising in 2009-10 to date; and what percentage of such advertising expenditure in each year was managed by the Central Office of Information. | | (311571) | 344
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many working days were lost in his Department as a result of (a) stress and (b) other illnesses in 2008-09. | | (311572) | 345
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many tribunals at which his Department was represented have been held; and at what cost to the public purse. | | (311579) | 346
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many planned visits by Ministers in his Department within the UK were cancelled within 72 hours of the visit taking place in the last 12 months; and what the planned destination of each such visit was. | | (311580) | 347
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many sessions of media training were organised for Ministers in his Department in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10 to date. | | (311631) | 348
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) press officers and (b) communications staff were employed by his Department on the latest date for which figures are available; and what the cost of employing such staff was in 2008-09. | | (311632) | 349
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what expenditure his Department incurred 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 2008-09; and what budget has been allocated for each such activity in 2009-10. | | (311633) | 350
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what guidance his Department provides to its employees on involvement in online social media in an official capacity. | | (311634) | 351
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, for what reasons the Carbon Reduction Commitment User Guide on his Department's website has not been updated to reflect changes made since the publication of the Government's responses to the consultation on the draft order to implement the commitment in October 2009. | | (311635) | 352
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what response the Government has made to the offer by the President of Guyana for the Government to take responsibility for that country's rainforest; and if he will make a statement. | | (311309) | 353
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer to Baroness Neville-Jones of 11 January 2010, Official Report, House of Lords, column WA128, what the outcome was of the inquiry into the removal of protectively marked information from a nuclear licensed site in 2006. | | (311291) | 354
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, by what process he plans to take into account submissions made to his Department's consultations on (a) the National Nuclear Policy Statement and (b) the regulatory justification of new nuclear power stations; and when he expects to respond to each consultation. | | (311292) | 355
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the evidential basis is for his Department's announcement of 8 January 2010 that 70,000 jobs will be created by the 32 gigawatts of off-shore wind power generation; what proportion of the funding for such generating capacity he expects to come from public funds; and how many of the new jobs he estimates will arise from construction and maintenance of port facilities to service wind power developments. | | (311294) | 356
| David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what historical data his Department uses in its climate change calculations. | | (311916) | 357
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what funding is available to Eaga under the Warm Front scheme to provide emergency assistance to households in which a boiler or central heating system has failed in extreme weather conditions. | | (311646) | 358
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what targets there are in respect of the time taken by Eaga to complete boiler or central heating installations in circumstances in which a boiler or central heating system has been classified as unfit for use; and what factors Eaga takes into account, with particular reference to the needs of elderly and other vulnerable groups, in setting timetables for the completion of such work. | | (311647) | 359
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken on claims by airlines that they are able to prove reductions in greenhouse gas emissions arising from their activities. | | (311945) | 360
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many iPODS have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311909) | 361
N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many Government departments have (a) applied for and (b) been awarded a grant to fund carbon saving initiatives. | | (311214) | 362
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in (a) Chesterfield and (b) Derbyshire have received grants under the Warm Front Scheme in each year since the inception of the scheme. | | (311382) | 363
N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, for how long public consultation on his Department's draft national policy statements for energy infrastructure will run. | | (311644) | 364
N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his policy is on responding to complaints arising from consultations on draft national policy statements for energy infrastructure. | | (311645) | 365
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the National Policy Statement on nuclear energy will include provisions on policy on disposal sites for nuclear waste. | | (311807) | 366
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of his Department's policies and actions since it was established. | | (311985) | 367
N | John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what financial support his Department makes available for the development of (a) onshore and (b) offshore wind farms. | | (311573) | 368
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, for what reasons he decided that households with no eligible adults but with children in receipt of disability living allowance would not be eligible for assistance under the Warm Front scheme. | | (311649) | 369
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make it his policy to extend eligibility for the winter fuel payment to all families with children in receipt of the middle or higher rate of care disability living allowance or the higher rate of mobility disability living allowance. | | (311650) | 370
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what timetable has been established for the implementation of the boiler scrappage scheme; what homes will be eligible; and whether local authorities are required to participate in the scheme. | | (311548) | 371
| Ann Winterton (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much Government funding from all sources has been provided to (a) the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), (b) TERI Europe, (c) the Asian Energy Institute and (d) the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership in each of the last five years. | | (311809) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 372
| Ms Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the Environment Agency on amendments to Section 1.1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007, with particular reference to recognition of the end-of-waste concept. | | (311867) | 373
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which sites and monuments in the guardianship of the Secretary of State have (a) current and (b) lapsed conservation or management plans. | | (311615) | 374
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sites and monuments in the guardianship of the Secretary of State have been damaged by vandalism requiring remedial repair action in each of the last five years. | | (311616) | 375
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any sites and monuments in the guardianship of the Secretary of State are on the English Heritage Monuments at Risk register. | | (311617) | 376
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's strategy is in respect of deterrence of vandalism to sites and monuments in the guardianship of the Secretary of State, with particular reference to those in (a) remote and (b) economically deprived areas. | | (311618) | 377
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311908) | 378
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department and Natural England has issued to local authorities on banning residents in new housing developments owning cats as a planning condition in areas with Special Protection Areas Status; and which local authorities have implemented Avoidance Strategies with suggested or recommended domestic cat bans. | | (311657) | 379
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information the Environment Agency holds on the number of fixed-penalty notices issued by local authorities for household waste offences. | | (311829) | 380
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to finalise the draft end-of-waste protocol. | | (311360) | 381
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to respond to comments made under Article 8(2) of the Technical Standards Directive (98/34/EC) on the draft end-of-waste protocol. | | (311361) | 382
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of the policies and actions of his Department and its predecessors since 2000. | | (311977) | 383
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he made of the sustainability of fish stocks in each of the last three years. | | (311755) | 384
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether guidance has been issued to waste collection authorities on the provision of wheeled refuse containers to households with (a) disabled and (b) frail or elderly residents. | | (311482) | 385
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's research report WR0105 on measuring waste prevention. | | (311484) | 386
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Flycapture Fixed Penalty Notice dataset for each local authority for 2008-09. | | (311485) | 387
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for High Peak of 14 December 2009, Official Report, column 646W, on common land: property development, whether the planned consultation on registration of village greens will consider restrictions on the ability to register a village green. | | (311488) | 388
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of local authorities provide flycapture fixed penalty notice data for waste receptacle offences to his Department. | | (311495) | 389
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations he has received on the (a) safety and (b) regulatory approval process of genetically modified crops and foods. | | (311435) | 390
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will commission a study into the possible effects of consumption of genetically modified maize on animal health. | | (311436) | 391
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effects of consumption of genetically-modified feedstuffs on animal health in the last two years; and if he will make a statement. | | (311440) | 392
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which genetically-modified products are authorised for sale in the UK. | | (311441) | 393
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent research he has evaluated on the effects on mammalian health of genetically-modified products. | | (311871) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 394
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Mongolian counterpart on the recent announcement of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty in that country; and what assistance he can provide to encourage the government of Mongolia to abolish the death penalty. | | (311889) | 395
| Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Colombian government to seek to ensure the safety of human rights activists and lawyers in Colombia. | | (311363) | 396
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what role independent international election monitors will play in Sri Lanka's forthcoming elections; and if he will make a statement. | | (311849) | 397
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to seek to ensure the complete implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan; what assistance the UK plans to provide in co-operation with other countries for elections and referendums in the next 18 months in Sudan; and if he will make a statement. | | (311851) | 398
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects the EU to make a final decision on existing preferential trade concessions for Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement. | | (311864) | 399
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what role he expects the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to play in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear policy. | | (311293) | 400
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Chinese government on its policy towards practitioners of Falun Gong. | | (311426) | 401
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his most recent assessment is of progress on the objectives of the Sudanese Comprehensive Peace Agreement; and what plans he has for the Government's role as guarantor of that agreement. | | (311619) | 402
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations has he made to the government of Iran regarding the number of Bahá'is in prison or awaiting trial; whether he has discussed with that government his policy on the death penalty; and if he will make a statement. | | (311620) | 403
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the number of Bahá'is imprisoned in Iran. | | (311621) | 404
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2009, Official Report, column 1029W, on departmental manpower, what change there has been in the number of locally-engaged staff at the UK post in (a) Washington, (b) Istanbul, (c) Abuja, (d) Accra, (e) Amman, (f) Ankara, (g) Beijing, (h) Brussels, (i) Lagos, (j) Moscow and (k) Madrid since the withdrawal of the overseas price mechanism. | | (311483) | 405
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 192W, on departmental manpower, what the main findings were of the joint pay review in each of the five UK overseas missions that have completed the exercise; and if he will make a statement. | | (311505) | 406
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2009, Official Report, column 300W, on Afghanistan: corruption, how many officials from his Department are seconded to the multi-agency task force to support the implementation of an anti-corruption strategy in Afghanistan. | | (311584) | 407
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to answer Question 307049, on officials serving at overseas posts, tabled on 9 December 2009. | | (311589) | 408
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to his Department's amended travel advice for Bosnia-Herzegovina issued on 12 January 2010, what asssessment he has made of (a) the threat from terrorism in Bosnia-Herzegovina and (b) the respects in which Bosnia-Herzegovina differs from other countries in the region; and if he will make a statement. | | (311590) | 409
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1225W, on departmental training, how many face-to-face training places his Department will provide for its staff in financial year 2010-11; and what change this represents on the previous financial year. | | (311591) | 410
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the evidence of the Permanent Under Secretary to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 9 December 2009, HC 145-i, question 10, at which overseas posts local staff have (a) lost overtime payments, (b) been asked to take involuntary unpaid leave and (c) been asked to work four-day weeks. | | (311592) | 411
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the evidence of the Permanent Under Secretary to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 9 December 2009, HC 145-i, question 10, what guidance has been given to the heads of overseas posts on expenditure on (a) travel and (b) hospitality; and if he will make a statement. | | (311593) | 412
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the evidence of the Permanent Under Secretary to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 9 December 2009, HC 145-i, question 10, at which overseas posts programme activity has been stopped; and what estimate he has made of the aggregate expenditure not incurred as a result. | | (311594) | 413
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the evidence of the Permanent Under Secretary to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 9 December 2009, HC 145-i, question 26, what plans he has for further reductions in the number of overseas posts; and which posts will be affected. | | (311595) | 414
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his latest assessment is of the status of talks with (a) the government of Iran and (b) his international counterparts on a fuel supply for the Tehran nuclear research reactor; and if he will make a statement. | | (311596) | 415
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on further (a) UN and (b) EU sanctions on Iran; and if he will make a statement. | | (311597) | 416
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on proposals to extend the provisions of the Vienna Convention to locally-engaged staff in countries where embassy employees have been subject to harassment by state authorities; and if his will make a statement. | | (311598) | 417
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions officials in his Department have had with the US administration on the passage of the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Bill; and what his policy is on the passage of the legislation. | | (311599) | 418
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects Bosnia-Herzegovina to be ready to be invited to participate in the NATO Membership Action Plan; and what his policy is on such membership. | | (311600) | 419
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2009, Official Report, column 300W, on Afghanistan: corruption, from which Government departments other than his Department staff have been seconded to the multi-agency task-force. | | (311667) | 420
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311910) | 421
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, under what authority smoking rooms were set up for participants in the G20 summit. | | (311993) | 422
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies have plans to sign up to the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10 per cent. in 2010. | | (311432) | 423
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what environmental projects in Estonia received support from the British Embassy in that country in the last three years. | | (311350) | 424
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent travel advice he has issued in respect of the security of British citizens to Africa; and if he will make a statement. | | (312000) | 425
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when HM Ambassador to Nigeria last met (a) the President and (b) the Vice President of that country. | | (311651) | 426
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of UK relations with Nigeria, with particular reference to recent developments in that country. | | (311652) | 427
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the President or Vice President of Nigeria; what reports his Department has received on the state of health of the President; whether he is taking steps to encourage the Nigerian government and military to adhere to the Nigerian Constitution; and if he will make a statement. | | (311653) | 428
| Mr Greg Pope (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what criteria the Government uses to select candidates for nomination to serve on Section III of the European Economic and Social Committee. | | (311423) | 429
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what volume of waste his Department generated in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a) paper, (b) plastic, (c) glass, (d) metal, (e) electrical goods and batteries and (f) food waste; and what percentage of his Department's waste was (i) disposed of securely, (ii) disposed of in landfill and (iii) recycled. | | (311370) | 430
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which websites his Department's staff are prevented from accessing from departmental networked computers. | | (311468) | 431
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many sessions of media training were organised for Ministers in his Department in each of the last three years. | | (311514) | 432
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2010, Official Report, column 951W, on departmental flags, whether any EU flags were purchased by his Department in each of the last five years. | | (311552) | 433
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions a Minister from his Department has visited Gaza to assess the (a) human rights and (b) political situation there since the conflict in Gaza began; and if he will make a statement. | | (311398) | 434
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to raise the restrictions placed by the government of Israel on access for humanitarian aid and reconstruction materials into Gaza at the next discussion of the Middle East Quartet; and if he will make a statement. | | (311399) | 435
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what Government policy is on the legality under international law of the blockade of Gaza; and if he will make a statement. | | (311402) | 436
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effects of the restrictions on access into Gaza of aid and reconstruction materials on the prospects for progress in negotiations on peace in the Middle East; and if he will make a statement. | | (311403) | 437
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effects of restrictions on access into Gaza via Israel for representatives of the international media; and if he will make a statement. | | (311404) | 438
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Syria. | | (311405) | 439
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Lebanon. | | (311406) | 440
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Pakistan. | | (311407) | 441
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Cuba. | | (311408) | 442
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Kazakhstan. | | (311409) | 443
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Mexico. | | (311410) | 444
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Turkmenistan. | | (311411) | 445
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Yemen. | | (311412) | 446
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Turkey. | | (311413) | 447
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it is the policy of the Government that linking access for aid and reconstruction materials to Hamas's refusal to renounce violence constitutes collective punishment of the people of Gaza within the meaning of the Fourth Geneva Convention; and if he will make a statement. | | (311586) | 448
| Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the proportion of essential supplies which have been able to enter Gaza through Israeli-controlled checkpoints; and if he will make a statement. | | (311489) | 449
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2010, Official Report, column 954W, on Government hospitality: wines, what software package is used to maintain a record of wine (a) used and (b) purchased for the Government wine cellar. | | (311438) | 450
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2010, Official Report, column 954W, on Government hospitality: wines, what the cost to the public purse was of bottles of wine purchased for the Government wine cellar in 2008-09. | | (311439) | 451
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many visits he has made to UK overseas territories in the last 12 months; and what the purpose was of each visit. | | (311443) | 452
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance his Department is providing to British citizens in Haiti following the recent earthquake in that country. | | (311444) | 453
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department provided travel advice to the organisers of the (a) Plymouth-Dakar Challenge and (b) Adventurists Africa Rally prior to those events. | | (311876) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 454
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of time was for an individual to wait for a hospital operation in Salford (a) in 1997 and (b) in the latest year for which information is available. | | (311673) | 455
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent per capita on healthcare for residents of Salford (a) in 1997 and (b) in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (311674) | 456
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) mixed-sex and (b) single-sex wards there are in Mid Essex NHS Trust hospitals. | | (310738) | 457
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received from the Charity Commission on changes to accounting standards in respect of charitable donations to hospital funds. | | (311762) | 458
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effects that changes to accounting standards will have on charitable giving to hospital funds. | | (311763) | 459
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure changes to accounting standards do not affect the independence of organisations in receipt of charitable funds donated to hospitals. | | (311764) | 460
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that funds donated to NHS services are spent in an accountable manner. | | (311765) | 461
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS benefits and pensions sub-departments spent on information technology in the last three financial years; how much of this was spent on (a) software development and testing and (b) application including (i) staff training, (ii) the cost of new hardware and software and (iii) the cost of launching into the live environment. | | (311383) | 462
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS IT projects have been outsourced to companies based overseas in the last three years; and what the monetary value is of each such contract. | | (311384) | 463
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has allocated for the (a) procurement, (b) maintenance, (c) compliance testing and (d) security of IT systems in 2010-11. | | (311385) | 464
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support his Department provides for each primary care trust in London to establish and run of polyclinics; and if he will make a statement. | | (311852) | 465
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) financial and (b) other assistance his Department is providing to the social enterprise Your Health proposed by Kingston's Primary Care Trust; and if he will make a statement. | | (311853) | 466
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reviews of hospital services in London (a) have been concluded in the last 12 months and (b) are underway; what the remit is of each review; and if he will publish (i) all final and interim reports of such reviews and (ii) all studies and reports commissioned in support of such reviews. | | (311854) | 467
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate has been made of the proportion of people who have mental health problems; and on what basis that estimate is made. | | (311952) | 468
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of children in the London Borough of Bexley were treated by a dentist providing NHS services in the last 12 months. | | (311563) | 469
N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on preparations for a possible swine influenza pandemic in the last three years. | | (310839) | 470
N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the monetary value is of the NHS stock of swine influenza vaccine. | | (310840) | 471
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies plans to sign up to the 10:10 campaign to cut its carbon emissions by 10 per cent. in 2010. | | (311388) | 472
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311915) | 473
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which local authorities primarily purchase their social care services through (a) block and (b) spot purchasing; and if he will make a statement. | | (311576) | 474
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his latest estimate is of the number of people who are in receipt of a direct payment. | | (311577) | 475
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his latest estimate is of the number of people who are in receipt of an individual budget. | | (311578) | 476
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of GP surgeries in (a) Chorley and (b) each Lancashire district are open (i) in the evenings and (i) at weekends. | | (311306) | 477
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on requiring (a) NHS foundation trusts and (b) Monitor to provide information in response to parliamentary questions on the operation of NHS foundation trusts; and if he will make a statement. | | (311414) | 478
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to issue guidance to NHS bodies on the provision of information to blind and partially-sighted people at the time of their diagnosis with another condition or illness. | | (311288) | 479
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has accrued in charitable funds donated (a) to each primary care trust and (b) in each strategic health authority area in the last three years. | | (311778) | 480
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the effect on response times of ambulances travelling between Bridlington and Scarborough Hospital of snow and bad weather was in (a) December 2009 and (b) January 2010. | | (311110) | 481
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to answer Question (a) 301022 and (b) 300382 on non-consolidated performance pay awards, tabled on 18 November 2009. | | (311855) | 482
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2009, Official Report, column 655W, on influenza, under what budget the funding which was transferred was first allocated. | | (311974) | 483
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 48 of his Department's Annual Report 2009, if he will provide details of the (a) central strategic health authority allocation, (b) centrally managed funds, (c) research and development, (d) Department for Health administration, (e) technical, (f) other central and (g) contingency dispositions; and how much has not yet been allocated in each case. | | (311976) | 484
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2010, Official Report, column 758W, on hotels, what the cost of his Department's hotel booking contract has been since 2007. | | (311982) | 485
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of (a) all patients and (b) patients aged (i) under 16 years old, (ii) between 16 and 74 years old and (iii) over 74 years old required emergency readmission within 28 days of emergency admission to hospital in each of the last three years. | | (311991) | 486
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many officials in his Department earn a salary over £100,000 per annum. | | (311992) | 487
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Pre-Budget Report, which budgetary headings of NHS spending will comprise (a) the 95 per cent. of NHS front line spending due to rise in line with inflation and (b) the five per cent. that will not. | | (311995) | 488
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's estimated expenditure under each budgetary heading has been on the swine influenza outbreak. | | (311997) | 489
| Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) boys and (b) girls aged (i) under 10, (ii) 10, (iii) 11, (iv) 12, (v) 13, (vi) 14, (vii) 15, (viii) 16, (ix) 17 and (x) 18 years old were admitted to hospital for illnesses or conditions relating to eating disorders in the last year for which figures are available. | | (311998) | 490
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have attended the accident and emergency department of each hospital in Greater Manchester as a result of injuries sustained by slipping or falling due to adverse weather conditions on each day since 20 December 2009. | | (311303) | 491
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of his Department's policies and actions since 2000. | | (311984) | 492
| Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the additional cost to the NHS arising from incidents attributable to weather conditions in January 2010. | | (311773) | 493
| Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each primary care trust has paid in staff overtime in January 2010. | | (312015) | 494
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the healthy life expectancy rate was for people from each socio-economic group in each of the last three years. | | (311718) | 495
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the healthy life expectancy rate was for (a) men and (b) women in each of the last three years. | | (311719) | 496
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average life expectancy was for people in each (a) local authority and (b) health authority area in each of the last three years. | | (311722) | 497
N | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has discussed in the Council of Ministers the policy of other EU member states on prisoners with acquired brain injuries; and if he will make a statement. | | (311490) | 498
N | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the proportion of the prison population with an acquired brain injury; and if he will make a statement. | | (311491) | 499
N | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of prisoners with an acquired brain injury; and if he will make a statement. | | (311493) | 500
N | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the assessment of prisoners commencing a prison sentence for evidence of an acquired brain injury; and if he will make a statement. | | (311494) | 501
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which websites his Department's staff are prevented from accessing from departmental networked computers. | | (311470) | 502
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to local authorities on placing people in (a) sheltered accommodation and (b) accommodation with wardens. | | (311544) | 503
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the health and safety advice issued to each new starter upon joining his Department. | | (311816) | 504
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on interpreters in each of the last five years. | | (311396) | 505
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS charities which have NHS bodies as corporate trustees have submitted requests to change to independent trustees in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (311760) | 506
| Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS charities will be required to consolidate their funds into the accounts of the relevant NHS body under the new International Accounting Standard 27 being introduced in April 2010; and if he will make a statement. | | (311761) | 507
N | Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will reverse the decision to discontinue the reciprocal health arrangements between the NHS and the Isle of Man with effect from 1 April 2010; and if he will make a statement. | | (311112) | 508
N | Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received from the Isle of Man government on his Department's decision on the discontinuance of reciprocal health arrangements between the NHS and the Isle of Man with effect from 1 April 2010; if he will meet Members of the House of Keys to discuss the decision; and if he will make a statement. | | (311113) | 509
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what financial contribution the Isle of Man government made to the NHS in England under the current reciprocal agreement in 2008-09; what estimate he has made of the cost of the arrangements under the reciprocal agreement with Isle of Man government to the NHS in England in 2008-09. | | (311305) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 510
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, What his most recent estimate is of the number of people in West Chelmsford constituency who are awaiting a decision on an application for leave to remain in the UK; and what estimate he has made of the number of people in West Chelmsford constituency who made an application for leave to remain in the UK in the last 12 months. | | (310737) | 511
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visitor visa applications have been made from British missions in Thailand in the last 12 months for which figures are available; how many of those applications have been (a) accepted and (b) rejected; and how many have been the subject of appeal. | | (311308) | 512
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) national guidelines and (b) international agreements apply to women seeking asylum who have been rape victims; what account is taken of the provisions of such guidelines and agreements in assessing such applications; in what circumstances such women may be deported if their asylum applications fail; and what (i) support and (ii) advice is provided for such women who are held in immigration removal centres. | | (311434) | 513
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding his Department has given to local authorities in Greater London for the provision of CCTV in each of the last five years. | | (311564) | 514
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding his Department has allocated to initiatives to tackle anti-social behaviour in (a) the London Borough of Bexley and (b) Greater London in each year since 2005. | | (311566) | 515
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people resident in the London Borough of Bexley have been arrested but released without charge in each of the last five years. | | (311567) | 516
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1388W, on departmental legal costs, what the reasons are for the costs incurred by the Identity and Passport Service in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09. | | (311740) | 517
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2009, Official Report, column 416W, on passports: fees and charges on which date fingerprint biometric passports will be introduced. | | (311766) | 518
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Public Service Agreement 25 on drug-related offending, referred to on page 15 of his Department's Autumn Performance Report 2009, what data were used to establish the baseline measure of 260.1 proven offences per 100 offenders; how many offences of each type were defined as drug-related; and what the size was of the offender cohort. | | (311868) | 519
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had registered an interest in identity cards and the National Identity Service on the Identity and Passport Service website on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (312043) | 520
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2010, Official Report, column 703W, on the UK Border Agency, who his Department's commercial partners are; and which are the 110 locations referred to. | | (311463) | 521
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's guidance to immigration officials relating to admission policy at port of entry for students where the authenticity of the documentation supplied is under question. | | (311457) | 522
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many publications have been held to breach laws against incitement since 1997. | | (311459) | 523
N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many records on the Police National Computer are held in respect of individuals arrested but not charged with or convicted of a criminal offence. | | (310958) | 524
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the criminal record checking systems completed by the Criminal Records Bureau were last reviewed in respect of (a) their efficiency and (b) their cost to (i) his Department and (ii) the applicant. | | (311136) | 525
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his most recent assessment is of the future of the Forensic Science Service laboratory at Chorley. | | (311366) | 526
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 21 October 2009, Official Report, column 1529W, on asylum: housing, how much funding was given to each of the 18 suppliers in each of the last three years; and how many asylum seeker households were housed by each supplier in each of those years. | | (311728) | 527
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 21 October 2009, Official Report, column 1529W, on asylum: housing, what the policy is of (a) the UK Border Agency and (b) its suppliers on housing asylum seekers in vacant (i) council and (ii) housing association housing. | | (311729) | 528
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 21 October 2009, Official Report, column 1529W, on asylum: housing, how much has been spent on each of the 30 contracts for providing housing for asylum seekers. | | (311730) | 529
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers the interim CCTV regulator will have to investigate complaints of the abuse or misuse of CCTV; and what sanctions the regulator will be able to invoke against such abuse or misuse. | | (311781) | 530
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Criminal Record Bureau checks have been made on individuals who were under the age of 18 at the time of checking in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (311793) | 531
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department and its agencies has given to local authorities on the use of CCTV cameras fitted with microphones. | | (311794) | 532
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff work for the Office of the Identity Commissioner. | | (311994) | 533
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 7 January 2010, Official Report, column 487W, on Members: surveillance, whether guidance has been given to public authorities on the use of surveillance authorised under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 in respect of hon. Members and noble Lords. | | (312020) | 534
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the public consultation to be undertaken as part of Lord West's review of powers of entry will commence. | | (312021) | 535
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 7 January 2010, Official Report, column 524W, on the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, which 34 local authorities supported the use of the Act by local authorities for surveillance related to dog fouling, littering or school enrolment checking. | | (312022) | 536
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to reply to the letter to him dated 15 October 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Mrs Saima Noreen Rashid. | | (311509) | 537
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2010, Official Report, column 518W, on extradition: USA, and pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2010 by the Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonweath Office, Official Report, columns 419-20W, on USA: extradition, how he ensures that he exercises his powers in respect of such extraditions to the US in accordance with the obligations of the Human Rights Act 1998. | | (311000) | 538
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of his Department's policies and actions since 2000. | | (311983) | 539
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many colleges which have had tier 4 sponsor licences revoked are registered with Companies House. | | (311359) | 540
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fake British passports have been recovered (a) in the UK and (b) overseas in each year since 2005. | | (311304) | 541
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will inquire into the whereabouts of the passport of Miss Inaaya Khurram post ref Abu Dhabi 296566; and if he will make a statement. | | (311378) | 542
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of people in North Wales was reported by the British Crime Survey as very worried about (a) theft from a car, (b) burglary and (c) physical attack in each of the last three years. | | (311716) | 543
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what crime rates were reported for (a) vehicle-related theft and (b) burglary in a dwelling in North Wales in each of the last three years. | | (311717) | 544
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) 10 police forces and (b) basic command units recorded the (i) largest reductions in crime and disorder rates in the last 10 years and (ii) lowest overall crime rates in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (311752) | 545
N | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research he has undertaken on the efficacy of crime prevention measures in respect of persons who have an acquired brain injury; and if he will make a statement. | | (311492) | 546
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the former Ministerial residence at 62 South Eaton Place has not yet been sold; and what advice his Department has commissioned on the marketing of the property. | | (311551) | 547
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contribution of Lord Brett, 7 December 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, column 907, on the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Order 2009, what guidance is being given to local authorities on the use of new powers to collect unpaid (a) parking and (b) congestion charge fines. | | (311554) | 548
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many powers of entry have been (a) created and (b) amended by legislation sponsored by his Department since 1997. | | (311555) | 549
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place in the Library a copy of the health and safety advice issued to each new starter upon joining his Department. | | (311815) | 550
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sessions of media training were organised for Ministers in his Department in each of the last three years. | | (312024) | 551
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those granted visas to study in the UK in the last three years subsequently did not complete their courses. | | (311856) | 552
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many colleges were approved by the UK Border Agency between December 2008 and December 2009. | | (311857) | 553
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many colleges approved by the UK Border Agency between December 2008 and December 2009 were subsequently suspended and their licence either not issued or cancelled. | | (311858) | 554
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many students who failed to attend college or to pay their fees were returned to their country of origin between December 2008 and December 2009. | | (311859) | 555
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student spouse visas were issued from the beginning of December 2008 to December 2009. | | (311860) | 556
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas were issued from the beginning of December 2008 to December 2009; and how many such visas were issued to students from (a) India, (b) Pakistan and (c) Bangladesh. | | (311861) | 557
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether applicants from South Asia for visas to study in the UK received a face-to-face interview prior to the issue of a visa from the beginning of December 2008 to December 2009. | | (311862) | 558
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) husbands and (b) wives of persons studying in the UK from (i) India, (ii) Pakistan and (iii) Bangladesh were issued with visas for the purpose of entering the UK to join their spouses between January 2007 and December 2009. | | (311863) | 559
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many representations his Department has received in the last 12 months on the issue of a two-year visa for a person to visit a spouse studying in the UK where the marriage has ended before the expiry of the visa. | | (311865) | 560
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how many referrals of potential victims of trafficking to the National Referral Mechanism (a) a positive conclusive grounds decision has been made, (b) a negative conclusive grounds decision has been made, (c) a decision is pending and (d) no decision has been made. | | (310949) | Questions to the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 561
| Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2010, Official Report, columns 825-6W, on bars, what the existing provision on the House of Commons part of the Parliamentary estate is for staff of the House and hon. Members; what the aggregate revenue accrued for Bellamy's Bar, the Astor Suite and the Bellamy's Club Room was in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and what estimate the House of Commons Commission has made of the amount of space required to operate a nursery for the children of staff of hon. Members and of the House. | | (311890) | 562
| Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2010, Official Report, columns 825-6W, on bars, when staff assigned to duties in Bellamy's Bar, Bellamy's Club Room and the Astor Suite were informed of the proposed closure of these facilities; and whether the House of Commons has consulted associations representing those staff on the matter. | | (311891) | 563
| Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2010, Official Report, columns 825-6W, on bars, what advice the House of Commons Commission received from fire safety officers on the siting of a nursery on the Parliamentary estate in the area currently used by Bellamy's Bar, the Bellamy's Club Room and the Astor Suite; and if he will make a statement. | | (311892) | 564
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, how long the offices at 14 Tothill Street assigned to the House of Commons have been empty; what the cost of (a) rent and (b) business rates in respect of the property has been in this period; and when the offices are expected to be occupied by the House of Commons Service. | | (311525) | 565
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the cost to the public purse was of the residence on the Parliamentary estate occupied by (a) the Serjeant-at-Arms and (b) Clerk of the House in the last financial year; and what arrangements are in place for the payment of tax on those residences. | | (311417) | 566
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the cost to the public purse has been of Regional (a) Select and (b) Grand Committees since their appointment. | | (311582) | 567
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2009, Official Report, column 959W, on Members: allowances, how many days work Sir Thomas Legg undertook on his review; whether he was required to declare other remunerated positions which he may have held during the course of the review; and if he will make a statement. | | (311741) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 568
| Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to develop links between schools in the UK and in developing countries. | | (311877) | 569
| Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to assist the development of a safe, effective and affordable malaria vaccine. | | (311878) | 570
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what aid his Department provided to China in 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (312018) | 571
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 201W, on the Middle East: armed conflict, what steps are being taken to remove white phosphorus contamination from rubble in Gaza; how many sites have been found to be contaminated; what timetable is envisaged for decontamination; and what assessment has been made of the risk to public health arising from such contamination. | | (311486) | 572
| Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 256W, on the Middle East: armed conflict, what arrangements his Department has made to meet the housing needs of the 60,000 families identified as being in need; and if he will make a statement. | | (311487) | 573
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311914) | 574
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 17 June 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, column 210WA, in respect of which countries co-location with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been explored but rejected; and for what reasons co-location was rejected in each case. | | (311568) | 575
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, in which countries his Department share procurement arrangements with the British Embassy, Consultate or High Commission. | | (311588) | 576
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any citizen juries or summits have been hosted by his Department since October 2008. | | (311624) | 577
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what volume of waste his Department and its predecessors generated in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a) paper, (b) plastic, (c) glass, (d) metal, (e) electrical goods and batteries and (f) food waste; and what percentage of his Department's waste was (i) disposed of securely, (ii) disposed of in landfill and (iii) recycled. | | (311839) | 578
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department has spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing and evaluation for its websites in each of the last three years; and what budget was allocated to each category in 2009-10. | | (311843) | 579
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, on how many occasions a Minister from his Department has visited Gaza to assess the humanitarian situation since the conflict in Gaza began; and if he will make a statement. | | (311397) | 580
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans the Government has to raise the restrictions placed by the government of Israel on access for humanitarian aid and reconstruction materials into Gaza at the UN Security Council; and if he will make a statement. | | (311400) | 581
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what Government policy is on the legality under international law of Israeli restrictions on the access into Gaza of humanitarian aid. | | (311401) | 582
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks, of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 255W, on Palestinians: overseas aid, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the decision of the governnment of Israel to link aid and reconstruction materials access to Hamas's refusal to renounce violence constitutes collective punishment of the people of Gaza; and if he will make a statement. | | (311581) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 583
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many indeterminate sentences for public protection were given tariffs of 23 months or less in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008. | | (310660) | 584
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has contributed to victim support schemes in Gloucestershire in each year since 1999. | | (311429) | 585
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had with the US authorities on the Red Hook Project; and whether he plans to introduce such a project. | | (311943) | 586
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has for the further use of restorative justice schemes in respect of young people. | | (311944) | 587
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will estimate the number of marriages and divorces registered by sharia courts in England and Wales in each year since 1997. | | (311454) | 588
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there have been under section (a) 9, (b) 10, (c) 11, (d) 12, (e) 13 and (f) 14 of the Video Recordings Act 1984 as amended by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in each year since each such section came into force. | | (311771) | 589
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) how much was levied in fines, (b) how many custodial sentences were handed down and (c) what the average length was of sentences imposed following conviction under the provisions of section (i) 9, (ii) 10, (iii) 11, (iv) 12, (v) 13 and (vi) 14 of the Video Recordings Act 1984 as amended by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in each year since each such section came into force. | | (311810) | 590
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) convcited and (b) prosecuted for offences committed while working as a volunteer with vulnerable adults. | | (311109) | 591
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311905) | 592
N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders imprisoned with an indeterminate sentence for public protection have been held in secure hospitals since 2005; and if he will make a statement. | | (310956) | 593
N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding his Department and its predecessors have allocated to Victim Support in each year since 1997. | | (310957) | 594
| David Howarth (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many juveniles remanded in custody were subsequently (a) acquitted and (b) given a non-custodial sentence in (i) a magistrates' court and (ii) the Crown Court in 2008. | | (311655) | 595
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 19 October 2009, Official Report, column 1321W, on the Standards Board for England: finance, what the budget is of the Adjudication Panel for England in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11. | | (311826) | 596
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is for the introduction of individual electoral registration. | | (311956) | 597
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many certificated bailiffs have been struck off the HM Courts Service bailiff register in the last 36 months; and on what grounds such bailiffs may be struck off. | | (311958) | 598
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the National Standards for Enforcement Agents. | | (312044) | 599
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is for the commencement of the provisions of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 relating to allowing a judgment creditor to apply for a charging order in circumstances in which a debtor is up to date with an instalment arrangement. | | (312045) | 600
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of the policies and actions of his Department and its predecessors since 2000. | | (311981) | 601
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether written health and safety advice is issued to each new employee in his Department. | | (311374) | 602
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many warrants magistrates have issued for the courts to enter premises by force under section 78 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005. | | (311480) | 603
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sessions of media training were organised for Ministers in his Department in each of the last three years. | | (311513) | 604
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what volume of waste his Department generated in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a) paper, (b) plastic, (c) glass, (d) metal, (e) electrical goods and batteries and (f) food waste; and what percentage of his Department's waste was (i) disposed of securely, (ii) disposed of in landfill and (iii) recycled. | | (311840) | 605
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving indeterminate sentences for public protection have (a) had access to and (b) completed (i) one or more sex offender treatment programme courses, (ii) the Controlling Anger and Learning How to Manage It course and (iii) the Enhanced Thinking Skills course in each of the last five years. | | (311881) | 606
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many prisons the Healthy Relationships offender behaviour course is offered and how many prisoners are waiting to participate on that course in each prison where it is offered. | | (311882) | 607
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving indeterminate sentences for public protection (a) have been assessed as needing the Healthy Relationships programme and (b) have completed the Healthy Relationships programme, in each prison providing the programme in each year since such programmes were introduced. | | (311883) | 608
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of those prisoners serving indeterminate public protection sentences who have reached their tariff expiry date had completed (a) none, (b) one and (c) two or more of the offender behaviour courses specified on their sentence plans prior to the expiry of the tariff. | | (311884) | 609
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving indeterminate public protection sentences had completed (a) no, (b) one and (c) two or more offender behaviour courses on the most recent date for which figures are available. | | (311885) | 610
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners of each (a) age group, (b) sex and (c) ethnicity were serving indeterminate sentences for public protection on the most recent date for which figures are available. | | (311886) | 611
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persons who received indeterminate sentences for public protection and who have passed their minimum tariff date have been released in each month since the sentence was introduced; and how many people released from such sentences have subsequently been recalled in each such year. | | (311887) | 612
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners who received indeterminate sentences for public protection at each tariff length have been received into custody in each month since the sentence was introduced. | | (311888) | 613
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many indeterminate sentences for public protection have been handed down for each type of offence in each month since December 2008. | | (311965) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 614
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what his estimate is of the number of terrorist sleeper cells in Northern Ireland. | | (311954) | 615
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311911) | 616
| Dr Alasdair McDonnell (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will take steps to ensure that employees of (a) his Department, (b) the Police Service of Northern Ireland and (c) the Northern Ireland Courts Service receive settlement terms and back-pay the same as those awarded to civil servants in equivalent paybands working for departments of the Northern Ireland Executive under the Northern Ireland Civil Service Equal Pay Settlement. | | (311772) | 617
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will place in the Library a copy of the results from his Department's most recent staff survey; which organisation carried out the survey; and what the cost of the survey to his Department was. | | (311477) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 618
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, with reference to the Answer of 11 November 2009, Official Report, column 373W, on Olympic Games 2012: human trafficking, what progress she has made in developing a plan for action to deter human traffickers from taking advantage of the London 2012 Olympics. | | (312016) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 619
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311900) | Questions to the Solicitor General 620
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Solicitor General, how many iPODs have been bought by the Law Officers' Departments since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311893) | Questions to the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 621
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the merits of holding a national referendum on the same day as a general election. | | (311782) | 622
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1629W, on general elections, what evidence the Electoral Commission holds on the effects on timing of vote counting on the accuracy of the count. | | (311819) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport 623
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of damage to roads as a result of the weather since December 2009; what estimate he has made of the costs to local authorities of such damage; and what assistance his Department plans to provide to local authorities for their repair. | | (311205) | 624
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, for what reason powers to ban pavement parking outside London were not included in the revised civil enforcement powers introduced in 2009. | | (311206) | 625
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, when the bus rail replacement service between Ealing Broadway and Wandsworth Road first began operation; how much it has cost to date; and whether it is still running. | | (311207) | 626
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, on how many occasions the Highways Agency has requested to borrow (a) grit and (b) salt from local authorities in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) the last six months; how many such requests were granted; and how many tonnes of (A) grit and (B) salt were borrowed in each such case. | | (311208) | 627
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of salt which has been stolen from (a) the Highways Agency and (b) local authorities since 1 December 2009. | | (311209) | 628
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what the cost to his Department was of the provision of free off-peak bus travel to pensioners in the last 12 months. | | (312012) | 629
N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 142WS, on Liverpool Cruise Terminal, whether he has received a further application from Liverpool City Council for change of use linked to repayment of (a) grant funding from the European Regional Development Fund and (b) funding from the North West Development Agency. | | (309982) | 630
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether he has received recent representations on (a) damage to roads in Wirral caused by ice and (b) (i) main roads and (ii) side roads in Wirral which have not yet been cleared of snow. | | (311351) | 631
| Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether he has received recent representations on the damage caused to pavements on (a) main and (b) side roads in Wirral caused by ice and snow. | | (311390) | 632
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will extend the derogation on drivers' hours for the delivery of home heating fuels beyond 18 January 2010. | | (311307) | 633
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311913) | 634
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, which local authorities use CCTV cameras for parking enforcement. | | (311787) | 635
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of (a) the code of practice for operation of CCTV enforcement cameras and (b) a code of practice for bus lane camera enforcement using attended CCTV equipment for approved English local authorities outside London. | | (311788) | 636
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what changes have been made to the requirements on local highways authorities to clear (a) roads and (b) pavements of snow and ice since 1997. | | (311789) | 637
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what guidance has been issued to local authorities on the technical aspects of repairing potholes in roads. | | (311790) | 638
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether there are plans for the Highways Agency to hold a central strategic reserve of salt. | | (311791) | 639
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what local transport notes have been provided to local highways authorities on the use of guard railing in residential streets. | | (311792) | 640
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, which public bodies are responsible for the content of (a) regional transport plans and (b) transport chapters of regional spatial strategies. | | (311795) | 641
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, with reference to the contribution of Lord Davies of Oldham of 2 February 2004, Official Report, House of Lords, column 444, on footpaths and roads: de-icing, what guidance his Department has given to local authorities on (a) the personal liability of householders who seek to clear the pavement or highway of ice or snow and (b) whether local authorities should seek to discourage householders from clearing highways. | | (311830) | 642
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many tonnes of salt are held by each local authority in England. | | (311996) | 643
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 7 July 2009, Official Report, column 644W, on parking: fines, which local authority uses automatic number plate recognition technology for civil parking enforcement; and for what purpose that option was certified. | | (312025) | 644
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 90W, on departmental buildings, what the addresses of the 13 properties which are beyond economic repair are; for how long each has been empty; how much his Department paid in empty property council tax in respect of such buildings in 2008-09; and what plans there are to sell such properties for redevelopment. | | (312050) | 645
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 90W, on departmental buildings, for what reasons there are 34 properties vacant in the disposal process. | | (312051) | 646
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of the policies and actions of his Department and its predecessors since 2000. | | (311980) | 647
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how frequently the Government's salt cell meets during periods of extreme weather; how many times it has met since 19 December; and how frequently it plans to meet in 2011. | | (311461) | 648
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many and what proportion of drivers in each five-year age cohort were involved in a road traffic accident causing (a) death and (b) serious injury in each of the last three years for which figures are readily available. | | (311727) | 649
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many (a) adults and (b) children who were (i) killed and (ii) seriously injured in road accidents involving drivers who were under the influence of (A) drink, (B) drugs and (C) both drink and drugs in each of the last three years. | | (311866) | 650
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many and what proportion of children travelled to school by (a) walking or cycling, (b) private motor vehicle and (c) public transport in each of the last three years. | | (311870) | 651
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what volume of waste his Department generated in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a) paper, (b) plastic, (c) glass, (d) metal, (e) electrical goods and batteries and (f) food waste; and what percentage of his Department's waste was (i) disposed of securely, (ii) disposed of in landfill and (iii) recycled. | | (311372) | 652
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many sessions of media training were organised for Ministers in his Department in each of the last three years. | | (311515) | 653
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether any citizen juries or summits have been hosted by his Department since October 2008. | | (311625) | 654
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, which websites his Department's staff are prevented from accessing from departmental networked computers. | | (311841) | 655
N | Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what guidance his Department issues to local authorities on responsibility for clearing pavements which are unsafe as a consequence of adverse weather conditions. | | (311587) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 656
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311899) | 657
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether written health and safety advice is issued to each new employee in his Department. | | (311373) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 658
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many iPODs have been bought by the Government Equalities Office since its establishment; and at what cost. | | (311897) | 659
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what recent assessment she has made of the gender pay gap in Derbyshire. | | (311381) | 660
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what the (a) title and (b) remit is of each individual project being undertaken as part of the Human Rights and Local Government Project; and when each individual report will be published. | | (311783) | 661
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, whether an assessment has been made of the effects of the employment provisions of the Equality Bill on the Roman Catholic Church's prohibition of women priests. | | (311806) | 662
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, with reference to the Equality and Human Rights Commission's press release of 11 December 2009, on the Hirst decision of the European Court of Human Rights, what representations she has received from the Equality and Human Rights Commission on giving convicted prisoners the right to vote. | | (312014) | 663
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 12 October 2009, Official Report, column 31W, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission: industrial disputes, what the outcome was of each of the 15 employment disputes that were taken to an employment tribunal; and what the grounds of the dispute were in each case, anonymised where necessary. | | (312052) | 664
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 12 October 2009, Official Report, column 28W, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which private sector organisation was given permission to use the resources of the Commission; what payments that organisation made in respect of such usage; whether such usage was approved by a member of the Commission's board; and for what reason permission was given. | | (312053) | 665
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 7 January 2010, Official Report, column 524W, on religious buildings: registration, what the policy of the Government Equalities Office is on the application of the 1970 Court of Appeal Segerdal case to public authorities in respect of religious worship which does not not involve reverence to a deity. | | (312054) | 666
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, if she will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of the policies and actions of the Government Equalities Office since it was established. | | (311979) | 667
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, if she will place in the Library a copy of the results from her Department's most recent staff survey; which organisation carried out the survey; and what the cost of the survey to her Department was. | | (311476) | 668
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what advertising campaigns her Office has been responsible for in each of the last three years; which campaigns have (a) commenced and (b) continued in 2009-10 to date; and what the cost of each such campaign has been | | (312055) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 669
N | Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information is contained in the notification of a cold weather payment sent to each recipient of the payment. | | (311358) | 670
N | Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2010, Official report, Column 651W, on cold weather payments, if she will bring forward proposals to enable wind chill factors to be taken into account in determining eligibility for cold weather payments. | | (311387) | 671
N | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long on average her Department took to investigate alleged instances of benefit overpayment following the death of the claimant in the last 12 months. | | (310950) | 672
N | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions her Department has had with the Law Society on the number of personal estates that are prevented from winding up because of an ongoing investigation into alleged benefit overpayments by her Department. | | (310951) | 673
N | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on investigating alleged benefit overpayments to claimants in the last 12 months in cases where the claimant had since deceased. | | (310952) | 674
N | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of alleged benefit overpayments her Department investigated on cases where the claimants had since died in each of the last five years. | | (310953) | 675
N | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money her Department recovered from the estates of recently-deceased benefit claimants who had received overpayment of benefit in the last 12 months. | | (310955) | 676
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many residents of Salford have received the winter fuel payment in this winter; and what the cost of such payments was in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (311668) | 677
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many young people in the City of Salford have participated in the New Deal for Young People in each year since its introduction. | | (311670) | 678
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) claimants and (b) claimants aged 16 to 24 years registered as new claimants in respect of jobseeker's allowance following the completion of their period on the New Deal without finding employment in each year since the inception of the New Deal. | | (311758) | 679
| Mrs Janet Dean (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the average annual cost of implementing the Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008; and whether her Department received additional funding from the Exchequer to implement that Regulation. | | (311601) | 680
| Mrs Janet Dean (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the average annual cost of implementing amended deemed income rules to provide for income from student loans to be disregarded in respect of the entitlement to benefits of those students who suspend their studies because of serious ill health. | | (311602) | 681
| Mrs Janet Dean (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of students who have received assistance under the provisions of the Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008. | | (311605) | 682
| Mrs Janet Dean (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of students who would be affected by the amendment of the deemed income rules to provide for income from student loans to be disregarded in respect of the eligibility for benefits of those students who suspend their studies because of serious ill health. | | (311606) | 683
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance claimants there were resident in (i) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (ii) the London Borough of Bexley on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (311565) | 684
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many iPODs have been bought by her Department since 2005; and at what cost. | | (311912) | 685
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's White Paper on Building Britain's Recovery, what additional health support will be provided to existing claimants of jobseeker's allowance; who will provide that support; when that support will become available; and in respect of what health conditions she expects claimants to be eligible for that support. | | (311574) | 686
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the announcement of the review of the Pathways to Work scheme in her Department's White Paper on Building Britain's Recovery, who will conduct the review; what timetable has been set for that review; when she plans to publish the findings of the review; and what her latest assessment is of the performance of the Pathways to Work scheme. | | (311575) | 687
N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners her Department estimates were in absolute poverty in (a) the East Midlands Government Office Region and (b) England in each year since 1997. | | (311111) | 688
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance the Health and Safety Executive has published on clearing pavements, roads and paths of ice and snow; what assessment has it made of the public legal liability implications of members of the public clearing public paths and pavements; and what discussions it has had with the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health on the issue. | | (311785) | 689
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding (a) her Department and (b) the Health and Safety Executive has provided to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health in 2009-10. | | (311786) | 690
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 116W, on housing benefit, what guidance her Department and its agencies has issued to rent officers on the assessment of the appropriate level of housing benefit on a caravan or mobile home site which does not have planning permission. | | (312019) | 691
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the percentage take-up-rate of council tax benefit was amongst pensioners in (a) 1996-97 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (312059) | 692
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will estimate the number of children in relative poverty who will not be in relative poverty in January 2012. | | (311770) | 693
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Tamworth constituency have received cold weather payments in 2009-10. | | (311775) | 694
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners received winter fuel allowance on the most recent date for which figures are available. | | (311776) | 695
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in poverty there were in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009. | | (311777) | 696
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to reply to the letter dated 23 November 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Mr P McCarty. | | (311508) | 697
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to reply to the letter dated 30 November 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Mrs Alice Winter. | | (311510) | 698
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women under the age of 18 years were in receipt of housing benefit on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (312041) | 699
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of her Department's policies and actions since 2000. | | (311978) | 700
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many young people were employed in each area where the Future Jobs Fund is operating in each month since its introduction. | | (311721) | 701
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which websites her Department's staff are prevented from accessing from departmental networked computers. | | (311466) | 702
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of local authorities disregard war pension payments for the purposes of means testing for (a) council tax and (b) housing benefit. | | (311478) | 703
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what timetable has been set for implementation of the recommendations of the Lyons Inquiry into Local Government on an automated system of payment of council tax benefit to pensioners. | | (311479) | 704
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what volume of waste her Department and its predecessors generated in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a) paper, (b) plastic, (c) glass, (d) metal, (e) electrical goods and batteries and (f) food waste; and what percentage of her Department's waste was (i) disposed of securely, (ii) disposed of in landfill and (iii) recycled. | | (311837) | 705
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what advertising campaigns her Department has been responsible for in each of the last three years; which campaigns have (a) commenced and (b) continued in 2009-10 to date; and what the cost of each such campaign has been | | (312056) | 706
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency have received winter fuel payments during this winter. | | (311300) | 707
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps her Department has taken to assist those in receipt of jobseeker's allowance in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency to secure employment. | | (311559) | 708
N | Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cold weather payments were made in each postcode area (a) between 1 November 2008 and 31 March 2009 and (b) since 1 November 2009. | | (310828) | 709
N | Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has plans to (a) increase the level of and (b) extend the eligibility criteria for the cold weather payment. | | (310829) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 710
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what proportion of people in work in Salford have received pay at the national minimum wage rate since its introduction. | | [Transferred] (311946) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 711
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 7 July 2009, Official Report, column 779W, on non-domestic rates, how many mobile telephone masts were on the Rating List in each local authority area in 1997. | | [Transferred] (311744) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 712
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1650W, on domestic waste: waste disposal, how much and what proportion of the formula grant given to local authorities in the most recent year for which figures are available related to (a) waste collection and (b) waste disposal duties. | | [Transferred] (311527) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 713
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what account the Infrastructure Planning Commission will take of the (a) method and (b) siting of nuclear waste storage when deciding on planning applications for nuclear power stations. | | [Transferred] (311523) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 714
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has issued guidance to local authorities on the contribution of savings made as a consequence of moving from weekly to alternate weekly collections of household waste to the efficiency gains reported in annual efficiency statements. | | [Transferred] (311848) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 715
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people on the drug rehabilitation requirements scheme have been imprisoned for breaching the conditions of the scheme; and how many people have remained addicted to drugs after participating in the scheme. | | [Transferred] (311950) | 716
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are on the drug rehabilitation requirements scheme. | | [Transferred] (311953) | 717
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what subjects at what level had been taught to foreign national students who have been deported from the UK on grounds of national security since 2001. | | [Transferred] (311504) | 718
N | John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many convictions for criminal offences evidence from the National DNA database played a material part in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007, (d) 2008 and (e) 2009. | | [Transferred] (311556) | Questions to the Leader of the House 719
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Leader of the House, how much was spent on (a) stategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing and evaluation for the Leader of the House's website in each of the last three years; and how much has been allocated for each such category of expenditure in 2009-10. | | [Transferred] (311812) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport 720
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many and what proportion of drivers involved in road traffic accidents did not have (a) insurance, (b) a valid MOT certificate and (c) a driver's licence in each of the last three years. | | [Transferred] (311726) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 721
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 7 July 2009, Official Report, column 747W, on pensions, if she will place in the Library a copy of each of the three written representations. | | [Transferred] (311743) |
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