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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 1 February 2010
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 1 February 2010
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 1 February 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 1 February of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 1 February see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 1
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2010, Official Report, 848-9W, on higher education: Chelmsford, how many applicants from (a) West Chelmsford constituency and (b) Chelmsford local authority area did not get a place at university in (i) 2005-06, (ii) 2006-07 and (iii) 2007-08. | | (314497) | 2
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors. | | (315068) | 3
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will hold discussions with his French counterpart on steps which can be taken in cases of alleged breaches of copyright by Google. | | (314823) | 4
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of students in higher education who have not received student finance payments for the academic year 2009-10. | | (314691) | 5
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of students who have left their course of study as a result of not receiving their student finance payments for the academic year 2009-10. | | (314692) | 6
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which (a) universities and (b) independent training provider institutions have been visited by Ministers in his Department since it was established. | | (314756) | 7
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many UK households do not have access to broadband internet services. | | (315026) | 8
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 10 November 2009, Official Report, column 311W, on Google adword online: advertising keywords, what keywords were paid for; and at what cost. | | (314826) | 9
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 21 July 2009, Official Report, column 1142W, on Government departments: accounts, what the nature was of the direction in relation to property and notified regularity and the Icelandic Water Trawlerman Scheme; and if he will place a copy of the letter of direction in the Library. | | (314827) | 10
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2009, Official Report, column 344W, on Risk and Regulation Advisory Council: public relations, for what reasons departmental officials were not used to undertake the work undertaken under the contracts with external public relations firms. | | (314848) | 11
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 288W, on regional development agencies: offices, what the address is of each overseas office of each regional development agency; how many staff are employed in each such office; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such office in each of the last three years. | | (314949) | 12
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what guidance his Department has given to regional development agencies on opening offices overseas. | | (314961) | 13
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list for each regional development agency (RDA) the total amount spent on (a) start-up and (b) support in respect of social enterprises in each of the last five years; and what percentage of each RDA budget this represented in each such year. | | (314860) | 14
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many social enterprises were (a) established in and (b) assisted by each regional development agency in each of the last five years. | | (314861) | 15
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which regional development agencies (RDAs) fund social enterprise networks in each county; how much each regional development agency has allocated to such networks in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (315098) | 16
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, by what mechanisms his Department monitors the (a) performance and (b) value for money of regional development agencies in assisting social enterprises. | | (315099) | 17
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many undergraduate students resident in (a) Suffolk, (b) the East of England and (c) England have declared themselves bankrupt in each year since 1997. | | (314883) | 18
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department (a) has taken in the last 12 months and (b) plans to take in the next 12 months to assist the photography industry through the recession. | | (314494) | 19
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315125) | 20
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will publish the travel guidance issued to staff of each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (314926) | 21
| Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on skills brokers under the Train to Gain programme in each of the last three years. | | (314781) | 22
| Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students in each constituency received a tuition fee loan in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (315076) | Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office 23
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate she has made of the average length of time taken by (a) her Department and (b) its agency to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315067) | 24
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many educational institutions have been investigated by the Charity Commission in each of the last five years; and what the reason was for each investigation. | | (314760) | 25
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to paragraph 10.25 of the Census 2001 General report for England and Wales, whether appropriately trained specialist field staff will be employed in the 2011 Census. | | (314843) | 26
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 101, on the Central Office of Information: public relations, if she will place in the Library a copy of the Building Britain's Future Urban Youth contract; which firm was awarded the contract; and what the monetary value is of the contract. | | (314846) | 27
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2009, Official Report, column 694W, on the Charity Commission: public relations, what the nature was of the training that mandate provided. | | (314847) | 28
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps she plans to take to encourage (a) social enterprises, (b) small and medium-sized enterprises and (c) organisations employing young people to bid for Government contracts; and if she will make a statement. | | (315085) | 29
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much she plans to spend on the use of new media to undertake public consultation in the next three years. | | (315086) | 30
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate she has made of the cost of implementing the provisions of the Personal Care at Home Bill in the first 12 months of implementation. | | (315087) | 31
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether her Department monitors the performance of social enterprise networks in each region. | | (315100) | 32
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps she plans to take to encourage the use of technology (a) new media and (b) other technology to increase the level of efficiency of delivery of public services; and if she will make a statement. | | (315111) | 33
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many citizens' juries or summits have been hosted by her Department since October 2008; on what date each event took place; and which Ministers were present at each event. | | (314593) | 34
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will publish the travel guidance issued to staff of her Department's agency and each of its non-departmental public bodies. | | (314932) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 35
N | Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the UK's net contribution to the European Union in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (314597) | 36
N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2009, Official Report, column 1007W, on employee benefit trusts, for what reasons HM Revenue and Customs does not keep a record of the number of loans taken from employee benefit trusts. | | (314689) | 37
N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2010, Official Report, column 779W, on tax avoidance, for what reasons HM Revenue and Customs does not record the amounts contributed to employee benefit trusts. | | (314690) | 38
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315138) | 39
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the likely effect on the economy between 1 January and 31 March 2010 of the return of the level of value added tax to 17.5 per cent. | | (314420) | 40
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department provides to the public on identification of (a) counterfeit coins and (b) new coinage brought into circulation. | | (314421) | 41
N | Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his Department's forecasts of future economic growth, what account is taken of the increase in business insolvencies which has followed past recessions. | | (314500) | 42
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much national insurance was paid by 16 and 17 year-olds resident in Scotland between 6 April 2008 and 5 April 1009; and what percentage of national insurance raised in Scotland this represents. | | (315044) | 43
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many 16 and 17 year-olds resident in Scotland pay income tax. | | (315045) | 44
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much income tax liability there was in respect of those resident in Scotland under the age of 18 years between 6 April 2008 and 5 April 2009. | | (315046) | 45
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what suppliers provided goods and services to the Valuation Office Agency in 2008-09. | | (314960) | 46
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects the National Insurance and Pay-As-You-Earn system to be completed; what the project's initial cost was; and what its final cost is expected to be. | | (315014) | 47
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what sources of individual income are subject to withholding requirements. | | (315015) | 48
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 9 of HM Revenue and Customs Resource Accounts 2008-09, HC (2008-09) 464, for what reason 4.5 million Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) cases will require clerical intervention under the National Insurance and PAYE Service's new PAYE system. | | (315016) | 49
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will set out the terms of reference and objectives of the Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) Improvement Group; when the PAYE Improvement Group was established; what the PAYE Improvement Group's (a) staff and (b) budget (i) was in each of the last three years and (ii) is expected to be in 2010; and what (A) documents and (B) reports the PAYE Improvement Group has produced to date. | | (315158) | 50
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to allow local authorities to use systems of tax increment financing. | | (315148) | 51
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many citizens' juries or summits have been hosted by his Department since October 2008; on what date each event took place; and which Ministers were present at each event. | | (314595) | 52
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315113) | 53
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the travel guidance issued to staff of each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (314927) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 54
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by his Department to pay invoices from (a) small and medium-sized enterprises and (b) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315066) | 55
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to his Department's press release of 24 April 2009 on community service for young people, from which budgets the funding for the programme will be drawn. | | (314842) | 56
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1645W, on local government finance, what data sets not contained in the national indicator set local authorities are required to submit to his Department. | | (314953) | 57
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether the Audit Commission will have access to the full serious case review into the case of Children J produced by Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board during its forthcoming inspection of Doncaster. | | (314489) | 58
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether any official in (a) the Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber and (b) his Department received a copy of Organisation and Management Review of Duty and Assessment and Urban CSSW Teams written by Bron Sanders for Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council in March 2007. | | (314490) | 59
N | 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 every item of correspondence between his Department, Ofsted, Doncaster children's services and the Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board, since January 2007. | | (314491) | 60
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children have been permanently excluded from (a) primary, (b) middle, (c) upper and (d) secondary schools in Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | (314870) | 61
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many headteachers there have been at each school in Suffolk since 1997. | | (314871) | 62
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children with special educational needs in Suffolk have been educated outside that county in each year since 1997; and what the cost was to the local education authority of that provision. | | (314872) | 63
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of teachers who have taken early retirement from each type of institution in (a) Suffolk, (b) Norfolk, (c) Essex, (d) Cambridgeshire, (e) Bedfordshire, (f) Hertfordshire and (g) England in each year since 1997. | | (314873) | 64
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many citizens' juries or summits have been hosted by his Department since October 2008; on what date each event took place; and which Ministers were present at each event. | | (314591) | 65
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average staff to pupil ratio is in secondary schools in (a) Mid Sussex constituency and (b) England. | | (314779) | 66
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): 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 Mid Sussex constituency, the effects on Mid Sussex of the policies and actions of his Department and its predecessors since 2000. | | (314780) | 67
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315124) | 68
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will publish the travel guidance issued to staff at each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies. | | (314931) | Questions to the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners 69
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church Commissioners have made of the effect of the Government's proposed changes to exemptions from public performance rights in sound recordings and performers' rights on (a) religious worship and (b) church halls. | | (314849) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 70
| Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of Birmingham City Council on the effects of trends in Government funding on (a) the provision of services by and (b) employment within the Council; and if he will make a statement. | | (314732) | 71
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315065) | 72
N | Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of supermarkets which have applied for planning permission for the temporary erection of marquee or tent structures on their properties within the last three months. | | (313054) | 73
N | Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning enforcement notices have been issued by his Department and local planning authorities to supermarkets in Lancashire and Merseyside in the last 12 months; and how many resulted in enforcement action. | | (313055) | 74
N | Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department provides on whether the erection of temporary marquee or tent structures by supermarkets for the storage of goods requires planning permission. | | (313056) | 75
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government has taken in respect of community development in Coventry in the last 12 months. | | (313922) | 76
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Government has spent on Government services delivered locally in Coventry in the last 12 months. | | (313923) | 77
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government has taken in respect of community safety in Coventry in the last 12 months. | | (313924) | 78
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons his Department decided not to accept the recommendation of respondees to the consultation on the Draft Regulations on Infrastructure Planning (Decisions) 2010 that decision-makers should have regard to the pre-application consultation and the consultation report. | | (315091) | 79
N | James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many representations he has received requesting the planning application to extend London Southend Airport to be called in under an Article 14 direction. | | (314718) | 80
N | James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many times he has issued an Article 14 direction (a) in total and (b) for planning applications for airports; and how many such applications in each case have been called in in each of the last five years. | | (314719) | 81
N | James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what public inquiries have been instigated as a result of an Article 14 direction on a planning submission for aviation projects in each of the last five years. | | (314720) | 82
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer from the Minister of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, of 19 February 2008, Official Report, column 559-60W, on wind power: noise, when he expects to announce permitted development rights and regulations in respect of small-scale wind generators. | | (314685) | 83
N | John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have made submissions to his Department for funding under the Bellwin Scheme as a result of the recent severe weather conditions; and what estimates have been provided of the amount each is likely to claim under the scheme. | | (314686) | 84
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many permanent dwellings of each tenure were constructed in England in each of the last 30 calendar years including 2009. | | (314943) | 85
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to announce his decision in respect of bids selected by the Local Government Association in its role as Selector under the Sustainable Communities Act 2007. | | (314944) | 86
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many powers granting or augmenting the ability of local authorities to issue fixed penalty notices his Department has introduced since May 2005. | | (314945) | 87
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release of 26 August 2008 on redress, what plans he has to require local authorities to offer (a) high street vouchers and (b) monetary compensation to local residents in cases where a local authority service has failed. | | (314965) | 88
| 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 234W, on non-domestic rates: empty property, if he will place in the Library a copy of the representations made by the other groups listed. | | (314966) | 89
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether lifeboat stations are eligible for business rate relief. | | (314967) | 90
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library the combined Comprehensive Area Assessment and Comprehensive Performance Assessment results for each local authority. | | (314968) | 91
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has issued guidance to local authorities on the use of charging orders to collect unpaid council tax. | | (314969) | 92
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of each substantive response to his Department's review into the development on garden land. | | (314970) | 93
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to local authorities of undertaking local economic area assessments. | | (314971) | 94
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations he has received from the Boundary Committee on the level of support in Norfolk for the creation of a single unitary authority in the last three months; and if he will make a statement. | | (314972) | 95
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what formula is applied to determine the number of councillors in a new unitary authority area established to replace a two-tier structure; what the recommended range for the number of electors per councillor in a non-metropolitan unitary authority is; and if he will make a statement. | | (314973) | 96
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with which (a) elected councillors and (b) council officials (i) he and (ii) officials of his Department have met since January 2009 to discuss proposals for local government reorganisation in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk. | | (314974) | 97
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance (a) his Department, (b) the Audit Commission and (c) the Standards Board for England has issued on whether the whistleblowing protection provisions of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 apply to councillors in their capacity as a member of the local authority in which they wish to disclose confidential information in the public interest. | | (314975) | 98
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's report of 18 February 2008, on Trees in Towns II, what assessment he has made of the average cost to his Department of planting a tree as part of a municipal tree planting programme; and whether his Department plans to commission follow-up research. | | (314976) | 99
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of first-time buyers purchased a home at a price of under £250,000 in 2009. | | (314978) | 100
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what (a) venues and (b) locations the Minister for Housing has visited officially in London in the last three months; and what criteria were used to determine which boroughs and constituencies to visit. | | (314979) | 101
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will list each for each unitary authority created since 2007 the period of time which elapsed between the decision to implement the Boundary Committee's proposals for unitary status and the election of councillors to a shadow unitary authority. | | (314980) | 102
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what cost savings have been made in local government in Cornwall since the date of its reorganisation; what estimate (a) his Department and (b) the Boundary Committee made of such savings prior to reorganisation; and if he will make a statement. | | (314981) | 103
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will list the members of his Department's working group on condition information in the home buying and selling process; how many times the working group has met to date; and what the timetable is for it to report. | | (314982) | 104
| 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 15 June 2009, Official Report, column 18W, on departmental procurement, if he will place in the Library a copy of the list of the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods or services to the Government Office for (a) the South West, (b) the South East, (c) London, (d) the West Midlands, (e) the East Midlands, (f) the East of England, (g) the North East, (h) the North West and (i) Yorkshire and the Humber in 2008-09. | | (314983) | 105
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate (a) he and (b) the Boundary Committee has made of the level of savings made by (i) district councils and (ii) other local authorities in Norfolk since the financial year 2007-08. | | (314984) | 106
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what account his Department takes of the level of support from the relevant local authorities in considering the creation of a new unitary authority. | | (314985) | 107
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment (a) he and (b) the Boundary Committee has made of support among residents for a new unitary authority for Norfolk. | | (314986) | 108
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many posts in each of the unitary authorities created since 2007 have been abolished as a result of reorganisation; and how much in total has been paid in redundancy payments. | | (314987) | 109
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much area-based grant was allocated in respect of waste collection and waste disposal in the most recent year for which figures are available; what proportion of the total area-based grant this represented; and what targets and performance indicators there are for local authorities in respect of such funding. | | (314989) | 110
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much and what proportion of business rate revenue was raised from the (a) local and (b) central rating list in each the last three years. | | (314990) | 111
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department has taken to update the financial information on which the Boundary Committee based its advice for unitary status in Norfolk. | | (314991) | 112
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will list for each unitary authority created since 2007 (a) the projected cost savings prior to the creation of the new authority, (b) the target for cost savings set when the new authority was established and (c) the cost savings achieved to date. | | (314992) | 113
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release of 14 January 2010 on urban development corporations, whether any changes are to be made to levels of regeneration funding as a consequence of the merger or closure of the Development Corporations; whether he expects any staff to be made redundant; and what estimate he has made of the gross monetary value of the savings from such changes. | | (314993) | 114
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what legal costs his Department incurred in respect of each completed judicial review on local government restructuring. | | (315034) | 115
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will list the addresses of each overseas office of each (a) regional assembly and (b) regional leaders' board; how many staff are employed in each such office; and what the cost to the public purse was of each in the last 12 months for which figures are available. | | (315036) | 116
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on whether reductions in the number of (a) fire stations, (b) fire appliances and (c) fire-fighters may be classified as efficiency savings for the purposes of (i) annual efficiency statements to his Department and (ii) calculating the value of efficiency savings on council tax bills. | | (315038) | 117
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons his Department's consultation on proposals for unitary local government draft structural change orders is shorter than the 12 weeks recommended in the Code of Practice on Consultation. | | (315039) | 118
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many owner-occupiers owned their home (a) outright and (b) with a mortgage in each of the last 30 years. | | (315041) | 119
| 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 Meriden of 16 October 2009, Official Report, column 1139W, on regional planning and development: South East, what the status of the South East Regional Spatial Strategy is; and whether there are plans to (a) revise the Strategy and (b) undertake further environmental assessments. | | (315042) | 120
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has given to (a) local authorities and (b) regional assemblies on opening offices overseas. | | (315096) | 121
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consideration he has given to redrawing (a) ward and (b) district boundaries in (i) Norfolk, (ii) Suffolk and (iii) Devon consequent on proposals for the reorgansiation of local government in each in order to meet requirements for the equal distribution of councillors. | | (315156) | 122
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of Supporting People contracts what will not be renewed in 2010-11; and if he will make a statement. | | (314857) | 123
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have (a) sold community assets to social enterprise or third sector organisations and (b) taken decisions to sell such assets in each of the last three years. | | (314858) | 124
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many contracts were awarded to social enterprises by each regional development agency (RDA) in each of the last five years; and what percentage of the RDAs budget this represented in each such year. | | (314859) | 125
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much (a) his Department and (b) local authorities has paid to each external consultant contracted to undertake public consultations in each of the last five years. | | (315088) | 126
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has made a recent estimate of the cost of (a) on and (b) off-line electronic consultation by his Department; whether he has plans to increase his Department's use of new media technologies to undertake consultations; and if he will make a statement. | | (315089) | 127
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent guidance his Department has given to (a) the Homes and Communities Agency, (b) the Tenant Services Authority and (c) registered social landlords on (i) procurement priorities and (ii) social enterprises in the last three years. | | (315090) | 128
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the outcomes have been of the work of his Department's social enterprise unit since its inception. | | (315101) | 129
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many social enterprises have received assistance from his Department's social enterprise unit; and if he will make a statement. | | (315102) | 130
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much and what proportion of its budget his Department has allocated for assistance to social enterprises in the next three years. | | (315103) | 131
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department's social enterprise unit has provided to (a) local authorities, (b) regional development agencies and (c) non-governmental organisations on procurement since its inception. | | (315104) | 132
N | Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average time taken by the Planning Inspectorate was for dealing with complaints relating to tree appeals in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (314687) | 133
N | Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average time taken by the Planning Inspectorate was for dealing with fast track tree appeals in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (314688) | 134
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much expenditure each local authority in Suffolk had incurred in respect of the proposed reorganisation of local government in Suffolk on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (314865) | 135
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 19 October 2009, Official Report, column 1299W, on empty dwelling management orders, how many empty dwelling management orders have been issued by each local authority since the date of that Answer; how many resulted in the re-occupation of empty dwellings; and if he will make a statement. | | (314844) | 136
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many citizens' juries or summits have been hosted by his Department since October 2008; on what date each event took place; and which Ministers were present at each event. | | (314592) | 137
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of empty (a) residential and (b) commercial properties in (i) Mid Sussex constituency and (ii) Mid Sussex local authority area in the last five years. | | (314782) | 138
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315123) | 139
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the travel guidelines issued to staff of each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (315143) | 140
| Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of commercial buildings (a) built, (b) rented and (c) sold without the required energy performance certificate in each local authority area since 1 October 2008; and how many penalties have been issued in respect of each such area in that period. | | (314783) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 141
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agency to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315064) | 142
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport of 13 January 2010, Official Report, column 290WH, on local authority newspapers, what the timetable is for asking (a) the Office of Fair Trading and (b) Ofcom to consider the potential impact of local authority newspapers on the paid-for newspaper market. | | (314941) | 143
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1645W, on local government finance, what data sets not contained in the national indicator set (a) municipal libraries and (b) local authorities are required to submit to his Department and its agencies. | | (314956) | 144
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether TV Licensing is authorised to undertake surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000; and what powers of entry it has. | | (314962) | 145
N | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 10 October 2008, Official Report, column 51W, on sports: finance, and pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2010, Official Report, column 540W, on sports: National Lottery, for what reason the information requested in the Question tabled on 19 January 2010 is not held by his Department. | | (314488) | 146
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps his Department has taken to encourage young people to participate in (a) drama production and (b) acting. | | (314736) | 147
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his most recent estimate is of the average number of people in each age group who use a local library each month. | | (314753) | 148
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps his Department has taken to encourage the use of public libraries. | | (314754) | 149
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent representations he has received on the television licence fee. | | (314755) | 150
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many times a Minister in his Department has visited the (a) British Museum, (b) Natural History Museum and (c) Science Museum on official duties in the last 12 months. | | (314757) | 151
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of places of worship on the effects on them of the digital switchover. | | (314763) | 152
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with local radio stations on the (a) financial and (b) other effects on them of the digital switchover. | | (314764) | 153
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his latest assessment is of the effects on the arts industries of the recession. | | (314766) | 154
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his latest estimate is of the number of jobs in the arts industries lost as a consequence of the recession. | | (314767) | 155
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on (a) theatre, (b) opera, (c) musical and (d) film tickets for young people since 1997. | | (314890) | 156
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on programmes related to libraries in each year since 1997. | | (315010) | 157
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on support for the Football Association's FIFA 2018 World Cup bid. | | (315011) | 158
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials of his Department are working on the bid for the UK to host the 2018 World Cup. | | (315012) | 159
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the cost to his Department was of maintaining its media and social networking sites in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (315157) | 160
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has taken steps to encourage participation in sport in Torbay constituency in order to reduce levels of obesity; and whether it has made funding available for this purpose in 2009-10. | | (315149) | 161
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315122) | 162
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish the travel guidelines issued to staff of each of his Department's agency and non-departmental public bodies. | | (315144) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 163
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315130) | 164
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons he plans to separate the Ministry of Defence Police from the Ministry of Defence Guarding Service Agency; and if he will make a statement. | | (314825) | 165
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the names are of service personnel who have died in the UK following injuries sustained on active service in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan who are not included in the published statistics of those who have died on active service in each of those countries. | | (314426) | 166
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many units of service family accommodation which did not meet move-in standards were occupied following the signing of a waiver by the tenants in 2009. | | (315004) | 167
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to expedite the issuing of MK7 helmets to troops serving within theatre. | | (314598) | 168
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2010, Official Report, column 796W, on Departmental pay, how many senior fixed-term appointees in each organisation were paid bonuses of over £50,000 in 2008-09. | | (314600) | 169
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many citizens' juries or summits have been hosted by his Department since October 2008; on what date each event took place; and which Ministers were present at each event. | | (314594) | 170
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315121) | 171
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the travel guidelines issued to staff of each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (315150) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 172
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what evidence his Department is using to decide on the minimum burial depth for each grade of nuclear waste. | | (314721) | 173
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what account was taken of scientific predictions of future rising sea levels in the process of deciding upon nuclear waste storage sites; and if he will make a statement. | | (314723) | 174
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps have been taken to ensure that geological disposal of nuclear waste is safe in relation to the possibility of a seismic event in the future. | | (314724) | 175
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many domestic properties in (a) West Chelmsford constituency and (b) the Chelmsford local authority area have received insulation improvements under the Warm Front scheme since its inception. | | (314587) | 176
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in (a) West Chelmsford constituency and (b) the Chelmsford local authority area have received assistance from his Department and its predecessors to meet or reduce fuel and heating costs in each of the last five years. | | (314588) | 177
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households were in fuel poverty in (a) West Chelmsford constituency and (b) the Chelmsford local authority area in (i) 2003 and (ii) 2009. | | (314589) | 178
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by his Department to pay invoices from (a) small and medium-sized enterprises and (b) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315129) | 179
N | Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much has been paid in compensation to coalminers and their families in Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill constituency from each of his Department's two major personal injury compensation schemes since May 2005. | | (314419) | 180
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department has made of the average cost of planting a tree as part of a carbon offset programme. | | (314963) | 181
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he plans to reply to the letter of 15 December 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Miss M Granath. | | (315019) | 182
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315120) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 183
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315131) | 184
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people have (a) been prosecuted under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and (b) received the maximum sentence for ownership of a banned dog in each year since 1998; and how many weapon dogs have been seized by police in England and Wales in each of those years. | | (314771) | 185
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what targets have been set for local authorities in relation to collection of (a) residual and (b) recyclable household waste; and which such targets are based on policies of (i) his Department and (ii) the European Commission. | | (314946) | 186
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the role is of the new North East Sustainable Resources Board; how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to it; and in what other Government office regions such a board has been (a) established and (b) proposed. | | (314948) | 187
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1645W, on local government finance, what data sets not contained in the national indicator set local authorities are required to submit to (a) the Environment Agency and (b) his Department. | | (314950) | 188
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to phase-out phosphorus in domestic laundry cleaning products; and if he will make a statement. | | (314765) | 189
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much Natural England has spent on the administration of agri-environment schemes under the Rural Development Programme England in each year of the programme; and how many (a) administration and (b) operational staff it employed on the administration of such schemes in each such year. | | (315005) | 190
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what dates the Cabinet Sub-Committee on food has met since its creation; and who attended each meeting. | | (315006) | 191
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much (a) his Department, (b) the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and (c) other public bodies spent on each category of agricultural research in each of the last 10 years. | | (315151) | 192
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the return on investment in agricultural research and development. | | (315152) | 193
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of public expenditure on research and development on agriculture as a proportion of total spending on research and development in each of the last 10 years. | | (315153) | 194
| Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of publicly-funded research and development related to agriculture is (a) basic and (b) applied research. | | (315162) | 195
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315119) | 196
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the travel guidelines issued to staff of each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (315142) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 197
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what conditions will be placed on Peru to ensure its compliance with human rights requirements, with particular reference to the human rights of indigenous people, in negotiations on an EU-Peru free trade agreement; and what sanctions will be imposed if Peru does not meet those conditions. | | (314722) | 198
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315132) | 199
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to the government of Colombia on reports of its treatment of representatives of (a) trade unions, (b) students, (c) indigenous peoples and (d) other groups. | | (314839) | 200
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Colombia on the case of the trade union representative, Alirio Garcia. | | (314840) | 201
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the operation of the justice system in Colombia. | | (314841) | 202
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of Britons killed or injured in the Haiti earthquake. | | (314693) | 203
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Colombian counterpart on human rights in Colombia. | | (314729) | 204
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) his Colombian counterpart and (b) his EU counterparts on a free trade agreement with Colombia. | | (314730) | 205
N | Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Chinese counterpart on the political situation in Tibet. | | (314418) | 206
N | Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of violence in the city of Jos and Plateau state, Nigeria; and if he will make a statement. | | (314422) | 207
N | Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Commonwealth governments on the restoration of democracy in Zimbabwe; and if he will make a statement. | | (314423) | 208
N | Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his most recent assessment is of the political situation in Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement. | | (314425) | 209
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315118) | 210
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent progress has been made on negotiations on the accession of Turkey to the EU; and if he will make a statement. | | (314495) | 211
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 such visit. | | (314496) | 212
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish the travel guidelines issued to staff of each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (315145) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 213
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many persons with cancer in Northampton South constituency did not receive drugs designed to prolong their life following a report for such drugs in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (315007) | 214
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315133) | 215
N | Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the net financial effect on the NHS of the withdrawal of reciprocal health arrangements with the Isle of Man. | | (314584) | 216
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made in implementing the commitment to exempt from prescription charges those with long-term conditions. | | (314332) | 217
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have attended hospital for treatment for injuries consistent with a dog attack in each year since 1998. | | (314768) | 218
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in England and Wales aged under (a) 11 and (b) 16 years old and under have been admitted to hospital with (i) symptoms of alcohol poisoning, (ii) symptoms of substance abuse, (iii) stab wounds and (iv) gunshot wounds in each year since 1998. | | (314775) | 219
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1645W, on local government finance, what data sets not contained in the national indicator set local authorities are required to submit to his Department. | | (314952) | 220
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2010, Official Report, columns 366-7W, on health services: Isle of Man, what types of personal data are contained in the dataset; and if he will publish a version of the dataset with personal data removed. | | (314590) | 221
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the health effects of low level laser therapy. | | (315072) | 222
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses had not secured a nursing position within (a) one month, (b) three months, (c) six months, (d) one year, (e) two years and (f) five years after qualifying in each of the last five years. | | (315073) | 223
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has made an estimate of the number of registered nurses who were in receipt of benefits in each month for the last five years. | | (315074) | 224
| Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses qualified in each of the last five years. | | (315075) | 225
N | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reports he has received of (a) the safety of and (b) serious adverse reactions to the human papillomavirus vaccine; and if he will make a statement. | | (314586) | 226
N | Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made towards exempting from prescription charges patients with long-term medical conditions. | | (314599) | 227
N | Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects Professor Ian Gilmore's review of prescription charges to be published. | | (314681) | 228
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions to hospital from accident and emergency departments for an alcohol-related diagnosis there were of people (a) under the age of 18 years in (i) the former Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire strategic health authority area, (ii) the East of England strategic health authority area, (iii) the West Suffolk Hospital NHS trust area and (iv) the Suffolk primary care trust area in each year since 1997. | | (314880) | 229
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many acute hospital beds there were per head of population in (a) the former Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire strategic health authority area, (b) the East of England strategic health authority area, (c) the former Suffolk west primary care trust area and (d) Suffolk primary care trust area in each relevant year since 1997. | | (314886) | 230
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his most recent estimate is of the average body mass index of people in (a) England, (b) the East of England, (c) Suffolk, (d) Bedfordshire, (e) Cambridgeshire, (f) Essex, (g) Hertfordshire and (h) Norfolk. | | (314887) | 231
| Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of (a) training and (b) qualifications will be required by professionals working with adults with autism in the forthcoming Adult Autism Strategy. | | (314737) | 232
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) Anguillan nationals treated by the NHS and (b) UK nationals treated in Anguilla under reciprocal healthcare obligations in the last 12 months; and what the estimated cost was in each case. | | (314492) | 233
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS of treating non-UK residents for cardiovascular disease was in (a) the latest period for which figures are available and (b) each of the last five years. | | (314493) | 234
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will visit Southend Hospital Trust to discuss (a) the time taken by nurses to respond to patient buzzers and (b) ways of improving standards of care on wards; and if he will make a statement. | | (314498) | 235
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS was of treating non-UK residents for HIV in each of the last five years. | | (314499) | 236
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315117) | 237
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the travel guidance issued to staff of each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (315024) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 238
| Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will give interim permission to work to asylum applicant Mr Joseph Bashir Yousif Bunni (HO Ref: B1135644). | | (315053) | 239
| Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the UK Border Agency to decide on the application for asylum in respect of Ms Rachel Muadi Kumba (HO Ref: K1209955). | | (315054) | 240
| Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the UK Border Agency to decide on the application for asylum in respect of Mr Joseph Bashir Yousif Bunni. | | (315055) | 241
| Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the UK Border Agency to decide on the application for asylum in respect of Mr Jean Paul Manegabe (HO Ref: MBM348/EW/MANEGABE). | | (315056) | 242
| Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the UK Border Agency to decide on the application for asylum in respect of Mr Bruno Medjiako Tcheuleu (HO Ref: T1053805). | | (315057) | 243
| Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the UK Border Agency to decide on the application for asylum in respect of Mr Abdi Mohamed Nur (HO Ref: Y1079438). | | (315058) | 244
| Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the UK Border Agency to decide on the application for asylum in respect of Ms Sara Kidane (HO Ref: K1203107). | | (315059) | 245
| Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the UK Border Agency to decide on the application for asylum in respect of Mr Bavell Makdir Karim (HO Ref: K1061849). | | (315069) | 246
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the potential for use by the police of the extended range electronic projectile Taser. | | (314784) | 247
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315134) | 248
N | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria apply in the selection of candidates to become (a) a special constable and (b) a police community support officer. | | (313122) | 249
N | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether time spent (a) living abroad and (b) abroad as part of a modern languages degree course at a UK university counts against a person's application to become (i) a special constable and (ii) a police community support officer. | | (313123) | 250
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken to reduce the incidence of graffiti in Coventry in the last 12 months. | | (313925) | 251
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been re-arrested whilst released on bail for committing (a) a sexual offence, (b) an offence of violence against the person and (c) homicide in Greater London in each year since 1998. | | (314740) | 252
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many counterfeit (a) passports and (b) driving licences have been confiscated in each year since 1998-99; and how many counterfeit identity cards have been confiscated. | | (314773) | 253
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what means police in Greater Manchester are able to verify that an identity card is valid. | | (314774) | 254
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any citizens of Haiti in the UK are subject to deportation proceedings. | | (314776) | 255
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences of bigamy have been recorded in each year since 1998; and how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of an offence related to bigamy in each police force area in each of those years. | | (314814) | 256
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers from each country of origin whose application for asylum in the UK had failed have been convicted of each category of a criminal offence in each year since 1998. | | (314816) | 257
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many registered sex offenders in England and Wales have been found not to be residing at their registered address in each year since 1998. | | (314822) | 258
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2010, Official Report, column 429W, on antisocial behaviour: Greater London, which areas in Greater London have been designated priority areas for combating anti-social behaviour. | | (315000) | 259
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2010, Official Report, column 637W, on crime, which universities received such expenditure; and what crime awareness campaigns were undertaken in each case. | | (315001) | 260
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2010, Official Report, column 819W, on passports, what proportion of the estimated 49 million products to be issued betwseen April 2012 and March 2017 he estimates will be identity cards. | | (315002) | 261
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2010, Official Report, column 822W, on stop and search: Greater London, how many (a) searches and (b) subsequent actions taken in each year, were carried out on people aged (i) under 10, (ii) under 16 and (iii) between 17 and 25 years. | | (315003) | 262
| Patrick Hall (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were issued more than six months following a successful appeal against a refusal to issue entry clearance in 2009. | | (315146) | 263
| Patrick Hall (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time taken between the date of adjudication of an entry clearance case in favour of the applicant and the date of issue of a visa at the British High Commission in (a) New Delhi and (b) Islamabad was in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (315147) | 264
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department and its agencies have spent on font licensing in the last three years. | | (314752) | 265
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many job vacancies in his Department and its agencies were filled through the use of external recruitment companies in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (314769) | 266
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department and its agencies spent on external recruitment companies in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (314770) | 267
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his most recent estimate is of the cost of the Interception Modernisation Programme. | | (314772) | 268
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department paid to each management consultancy for client-side advice in relation to the Identity and Passport service National Identity Scheme Procurement programme; how much time was taken (a) to complete the pre-procurement process and (b) between issue of prior indicative notice and the award of contracts; what the value was of each contract awarded; what requirements there were on bidders in respect of the presentation of their bids; and how many submissions bidders were required to make. | | (314812) | 269
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many separate bookings for stays at hotels rated five stars or above were made through the Expotel booking service by his Department in the latest year for which figures are available; and at what cost those bookings were made. | | (314813) | 270
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1645W, on local government finance, what data sets not contained in the national indicator set local authorities are required to submit to his Department. | | (314951) | 271
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Monmouth of 7 January 2010, Official Report, column 528W, on UK Border Agency: empty property, how many empty (a) dwellings and (b) business premises for which the UK Border Agency is responsible were empty in 2008-09. | | (314958) | 272
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to reply to the letter of 7 December 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr R. A. Ansari. | | (315017) | 273
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to reply to the letter of 30 November 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Zaheer Iqbal. | | (315022) | 274
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to reply to the letter of 10 December 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Safina Hussain. | | (315023) | 275
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people affected by forced marriage have received (a) direct assistance from the Forced Marriage Unit and (b) assistance from third sector organisations funded by the Forced Marriage Unit. | | (315081) | 276
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what mechanisms the outcomes achieved by third sector organisations funding by the Forced Marriage Unit are evaluated. | | (315082) | 277
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the procedure is for (a) bidding for Forced Marriage Unit funding and (b) assessing such bids. | | (315083) | 278
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has plans to increase the level of funding allocated to the Forced Marriage Unit for expenditure on services provided by the third sector. | | (315084) | 279
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of vandalism have been reported in (a) England, (b) Suffolk, (c) Bedfordshire, (d) Cambridgeshire, (e) Essex, (f) Hertfordshire and (g) Norfolk in each year since 1997. | | (314884) | 280
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2010, Official Report, column 344W, on drugs: crime, what the equivalent figures are for 2008. | | (315008) | 281
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers have failed work-based assessments in the pilot areas for such assessments. | | (315077) | 282
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effects on the workload of police sergeants and inspectors in the pilot areas for work-based assessments of those assessments; and what the cost to the police has been of implementing and managing those assessments. | | (315078) | 283
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on the pilots work-based assessments for the police; and whether he has plans to implement work-based assessments outside the pilot areas. | | (315079) | 284
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315116) | 285
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the travel guidance issued to staff of each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (315025) | Questions to the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 286
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the average purchase price, excluding value added tax was of a 500 sheet ream of white A4 photocopier paper for use in the House of Commons; and how much the House of Commons Commission spent on photocopier paper in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (314938) | 287
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what expenditure the House of Commons Commission has incurred on (a) rent, (b) refurbishment, (c) business rates and (d) utility provision in respect of 14 Tothill Street in the last 12 months. | | (315095) | 288
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will take steps to ensure that all House of Commons food outlets mark salt awareness week from 1 to 7 February 2010; and if he will make a statement. | | (314210) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 289
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by his Department to pay invoices from (a) small and medium-sized enterprises and (b) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315128) | 290
N | Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his most recent assessment is of the humanitarian situation in Haiti; and if he will make a statement. | | (314424) | 291
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will publish the travel guidance issued to staff of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK. | | (314923) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 292
N | Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2010, Official Report, column 1158W, on youth custody: manpower, how many (a) children and young people and (b) staff there are in each (i) secure children's home and (ii) secure training centre. | | (314682) | 293
N | Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2010, Official Report, column 1158W, on youth custody: manpower, what the ratio of staff to prisoners is in the (a) Down View, (b) Eastwood Park, (c) Foston Hall, (d) New Hall, (e) Parc and (f) Keppel Unit, Wetherby young offenders institution. | | (314683) | 294
N | Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2010, Official Report, columns 940-1W, on youth custody, how many accommodation units there are in (a) Down View, (b) Eastwood Park, (c) Forston Hall, (d) New Hall, (d) Parc and (e) Keppel Unit, Wetherby young offenders institution; how many staff are employed in each such unit; and how many young people each such unit accommodates. | | (314684) | 295
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315135) | 296
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps are being taken to encourage voter registration in the run-up to the next general election. | | (314761) | 297
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of an offence relating to organised immigration crimes in each year since 1998. | | (314742) | 298
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of a firearms offence for which a mandatory minimum sentence was applicable in each year since 1998. | | (314743) | 299
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of an offence of (a) knife possession and (b) firearms possession have received the maximum sentence applicable in each year since 1998. | | (314744) | 300
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) males and (b) females aged (i) under 17, (ii) between 17 and 21, (iii) between 21 and 25, (iv) between 25 and 29 and (v) over 30 years of age have been convicted of a drug offence in England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (314745) | 301
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of an offence involving violent behaviour on the rail network in each year since 1998. | | (314746) | 302
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged 21 years or over have been convicted of an offence related to sexual activity with a child under 13 years old in each year since 1998. | | (314748) | 303
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) British and (b) non-British citizens have been (i) convicted and (ii) imprisoned in relation to human trafficking offences in each year since 1998. | | (314749) | 304
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged (a) 18 years or over and (b) 21 years or over have received a caution for sexual activity with a child under 13 years in each year since 1998. | | (314750) | 305
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of a drug trafficking offence (a) as a result of an investigation by the Serious Organised Crime Agency and (b) in total in each year since 1998. | | (314751) | 306
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of an offence arising from tackling an intruder in (a) residential property and (b) retail property in each year since 1998. | | (314815) | 307
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of an offence of absconding by person released on bail in England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (314817) | 308
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) lowest, (b) average and (c) highest fine given to a person fined on conviction for possession of (i) cannabis, (ii) ecstasy, (iii) cocaine, (iv) crack cocaine and (v) heroin was in each year since 1998. | | (314818) | 309
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people convicted of an offence of selling tobacco to a minor have received (a) a fine, (b) a community sentence, (c) a custodial sentence and (d) an alternative punishment in each year since 1998; and what the (i) lowest, (ii) average and (iii) highest fine was for such people who were fined in each such year. | | (314819) | 310
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in each age group have been convicted of an offence relating to sale or use of fireworks in each year since 1998. | | (314820) | 311
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of a criminal offence in England and Wales in each year since 1998 had never previously been convicted. | | (314821) | 312
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of an offence of (a) handling stolen goods and (b) fraud and forgery in (i) Greater London and (ii) England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (314995) | 313
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in each age group were convicted of robbery in (a) Greater London and (b) England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (314996) | 314
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in each age group were convicted for (a) rape, (b) attempted rape and (c) another sexual offence in each year since 1998. | | (314997) | 315
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hit and run traffic incidents led to an individual being convicted in (a) England and Wales and (b) each police force area in each year since 1998. | | (315061) | 316
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in England and Wales were convicted of an offence of (a) causing death through careless driving under the influence of (i) drink and (ii) drugs, (b) driving or attempting to drive with alcohol level above the limit and (c) being in charge of a vehicle when unfit through the influence of drink in each year since 1998. | | (315062) | 317
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of an offence of criminal damage in England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (315070) | 318
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children under the age of 16 years have been convicted of criminal offences in (a) each year between 1998 and 2002 and (b) 2008. | | (315092) | 319
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of an offence related to possession of a knife in (a) England and Wales and (b) each police force area in each year since 2006. | | (315093) | 320
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many under 18 year olds were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for (i) a sexual ofence, (ii) robbery, (iii) criminal damage, (iv) a drug offence and (v) a violent offence in (A) 1998, (B) 2008 and (C) 2009. | | (315094) | 321
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of an offence of impersonating a police officer in each year since 2006. | | (315097) | 322
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many males have been convicted for each offence involving violence against the person in each year since 1998. | | (315155) | 323
N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has commissioned research on reoffending patterns. | | (313773) | 324
N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has set targets for the recruitment of prison officers in the next five years. | | (313774) | 325
N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) male and (b) female prisoners have been held under an indeterminate sentence for public protection in each year since their inception. | | (313786) | 326
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the effect on the financial markets of the election counts taking place the day after polling at the next general election. | | (314939) | 327
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to make an order under section 76A of the Representation of the People Act 1983 to vary the maximum amount of candidates' election expenses. | | (314942) | 328
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1645W, on local government finance, what data sets not contained in the national indicator set local authorities are required to submit to the Youth Justice Board. | | (314954) | 329
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to repeal the provisions of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 which provide for (a) the extension of bailiffs' powers of entry and the use of force by enforcement agents and (b) charging orders to be granted when the borrowers are repaying debt in accordance with a county court judgment. | | (314964) | 330
| Mr Elliot Morley (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions, (b) convictions and (c) cautions there were in 2008 for offences under the Hunting Act 2004. | | (315013) | 331
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2010, Official Report, column 733W, on prisons: budgets, which prison governors have been required to identify savings in their budgets for 2009-10 by Directors of Offender Management. | | [R] (314596) | 332
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) convictions, (b) cautions and (c) fixed penalty notices have been given to people arrested for speeding offences on (i) the A143 and (ii) the A14 in Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | (314867) | 333
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) convictions, (b) cautions and (c) fixed penalty notices have been given to people arrested for speeding offences in Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | (314868) | 334
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) convictions, (b) cautions and (c) fixed penalty notices have been given to people arrested for driving without a valid MOT certificate in Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | (314869) | 335
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drivers have been prosecuted for offences under sections (a) 3 and (b) 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 in Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | (314875) | 336
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drivers have been prosecuted for failing to stop after an accident under the Road Traffic Act 1988 in Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | (314882) | 337
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance is used by parole boards to decide on parole applications by prisoners serving (a) a life sentence and (b) an indeterminate sentence for public protection. | | (314778) | 338
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315115) | 339
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the travel guidance issued to staff of each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (314924) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 340
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315136) | 341
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will publish the travel guidance issued to staff of each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (315033) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 342
| Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many construction vehicles were in use on all Olympic construction sites on 1 January 2010; and how many such vehicles were fitted with carbon particulate filters. | | (314733) | Questions to the Prime Minister 343
N | John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead): To ask the Prime Minister, what further consideration he has given to the matters raised in the letters from the hon. Member for Erith and Thamesmead of 15 April, 28 May and 8 December 2009 on the treatment of compensation payments and calculation of benefits in respect of service personnel killed in action. | | (313124) | 344
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will release for publication the documents to which Lord Goldsmith made specific reference during his appearance at the Chilcot Inquiry on 27 January 2010 and which he stated he would wish were made public. | | (314888) | 345
| Mr Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Prime Minister, for what reasons he has not appointed a Deputy Prime Minister. | | (314738) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 346
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by his Department to pay invoices from (a) small and medium-sized enterprises and (b) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315127) | Questions to the Solicitor General 347
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Solicitor General, what estimate she has made of the average length of time taken by (a) the Law Officers' Departments and (b) its agency to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315141) | Questions to the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 348
| 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 Meriden of 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1645W, on local government finance, what data sets not contained in the national indicator set local authorities are required to submit to the Electoral Commission. | | (314955) | 349
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how much was spent on electoral registration initiatives in each of the last 10 years. | | (315043) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport 350
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315137) | 351
N | Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what categories of air passenger will be exempt from full body scans when departing from UK airports. | | (314585) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport 352
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what steps the Government has taken to maintain roads serving Coventry in the last 12 months. | | (313926) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport 353
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of speed cameras in (a) the London Borough of Bexley and (b) London in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2009. | | (314762) | 354
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what the accident cluster sites are in the (a) St Edmundsbury Borough Council and (b) Mid Suffolk District Council area. | | (314866) | 355
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there were involving drivers under the age of 21 years in (i) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (ii) Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | (314874) | 356
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities have occurred (i) on the A14 and (ii) elsewhere in Suffolk between the hours of 8pm and 8am in each year since 1997. | | (314877) | 357
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many road traffic accidents have occurred in Suffolk on each day of the week in each year since 1997. | | (314878) | 358
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many road traffic accidents have occurred on the A14 in Suffolk on each day of the week in each year since 1997. | | (314879) | 359
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how much funding the local transport authority in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk has received from his Department (i) in total, (ii) per mile of road and (iii) per head of population in each year since 1997. | | (314885) | 360
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if he will make a statement. | | (315114) | 361
| Ian Stewart (Eccles): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of heavy trucks and lorry drivers (a) employed and (b) self-employed in the UK; what estimate he has made of the average hours worked by each category of driver in the latest period for figures are available; and what estimate he has made of the average (i) hourly and (ii) weekly earnings of heavy truck and lorry drivers in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (314739) | 362
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will publish the travel guidance issued to staff of each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (314928) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 363
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the average length of time taken by his Department to pay invoices from (a) small and medium-sized enterprises and (b) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315126) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 364
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what estimate she has made of the average length of time taken by (a) the Government Equalities Office and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315140) | 365
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2010, Official Report, column 1003W, on Equality and Human Rights Commission: databases, what the budget is for the new equality measurement framework database; whether it will hold personal data; what anonymised Census data it will use; whether a privacy impact assessment for that database will be prepared; and which organisations will be asked to provide data for that database. | | (314959) | 366
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, whether guidance has been prepared for those organisations which would have duties under the provisions proposed in the Equality Bill. | | (315110) | 367
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, if she will publish the travel guidance issued to staff of the Government Equalities Office's non-departmental public bodies. | | (314930) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 368
N | Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the population in (a) the UK and (b) Wellingborough constituency is in receipt of jobseeker's allowance. | | (314119) | 369
N | Mr Stephen Byers (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in North Tyneside whose occupation is registered as electrician or electrical fitter are receiving jobseeker's allowance. | | (314501) | 370
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the average length of time taken by (a) her Department and (b) its agencies to pay invoices from (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) all creditors in the last 12 months. | | (315139) | 371
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure that the effects of retrovirus and other illnesses associated with myalgic encephalomyelitis are fully taken into account in assessments of claimants' capability to work. | | (314824) | 372
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was between the making of a claim for employment and support allowance by a person diagnosed with a terminal illness and the placing of that person in the Support Group in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many such claims had not been determined within 13 weeks of the claim in that period. | | (314725) | 373
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of employment and support allowance with a diagnosis of terminal cancer had not been placed in the Support Group on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (314726) | 374
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of employment and support allowance who during the assessment phase of their claim were receiving chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment for cancer or were recovering from that treatment had (a) been requested to attend and (b) been recorded as having attended a (i) work capability assessment and (ii) work-focused interview in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (314727) | 375
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of employment and support allowance with a diagnosis of terminal cancer or other terminal illness had been (a) requested to attend and (b) recorded as having attended a (i) work capability assessment and (ii) work-focused interview in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (314728) | 376
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training (a) Jobcentre Plus staff and (b) medical staff in her Department have received in relation to the administration of special rules for employment and support allowance for people with cancer. | | (314731) | 377
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average cost to Jobcentre Plus is of supporting clients on (a) Pathways to Work, (b) Workstep and (c) New Deal for Disabled People into (i) work and (ii) sustained work defined as 26 weeks in respect of clients diagnosed with (A) mental health conditions, (B) musculoskeletal diseases and (C) visual impairment. | | (315047) | 378
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to expand the number of Right to Control Trailblazer sites. | | (315048) | 379
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what timetable she has proposed in respect of the receipt of applications from local authorities to become a Right to Control Trailblazer site; and when her Department expects to complete its evaluation of such bids. | | (315049) | 380
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she expects to publish a framework for use by local authorities for the implementation of the Right to Control Trailblazer sites. | | (315050) | 381
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2009, Official Report, column 1278W, on Employment and Support Allowance, when she expects to publish details of the strategy to migrate existing claimants from incapacity benefit to Employment and Support Allowance. | | (315051) | 382
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claimed incapacity benefit in each year since1997; and how many such claimants (a) reached retirement age and (b) died in each such year. | | (315052) | 383
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what survillance powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission has applied; and whether it has applied for powers of entry. | | (314947) | 384
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to reply to the letter of 14 December 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr J Duncan. | | (315018) | 385
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to reply to the letter of 21 December 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr P Harris. | | (315020) | 386
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to reply to the letter of 22 December 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr M Naseem. | | (315021) | 387
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobs created under the Future Jobs Fund have been in (a) local authorities and (b) third sector organisations. | | (315105) | 388
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which local authorities have taken on more staff under the Future Jobs Fund; how many such staff have been employed by each such local authority; and how many such staff each local authority plans to employ in the next three years. | | (315106) | 389
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many social enterprises have participated in the Future Jobs Fund. | | (315107) | 390
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobs have been created under the Future Jobs Fund by social enterprises. | | (315108) | 391
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on the role of social enterprises in the Future Jobs Fund. | | (315109) | 392
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to her Department of the introduction of an additional public holiday; and if she will make a statement. | | (315112) | 393
| Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the travel guidance issued to staff of her Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. | | (314929) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 394
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 17 December 2007, Official Report, column 1156W, on regional European offices: expenditure, what the postal address is of each regional European office in (a) Brussels and (b) Strasbourg; how many staff work at each; and how much each received from the public purse in the latest period for which figures are available. | | [Transferred] (314977) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 395
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many post offices branches were on the rating list in (a) 1997 and (b) 2010, according to Special Category code information held by the Valuation Office Agency. | | [Transferred] (315035) | 396
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what types of property are on the National Rating List for business rates; and what criteria are used in their designation. | | [Transferred] (315037) | 397
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) domestic and (b) composite properties in (i) England and (ii) Wales have an entry on the Valuation Office Agency's central council tax database; and how many have one or more associated digital photographs on the Agency's database. | | [Transferred] (315040) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 398
N | Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2010, Official Report, column 27W, on youth custody, how many hours on average a young person under the age of 18 years spent per day in education, training and personal development in each (a) secure children's home, (b) secure training centre and (c) young offenders institution in the latest period for which figures are available. | | [Transferred] (314583) | 399
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what formula was used to determine the funding allocated to local authorities for 16-plus skills provision in 2010-11. | | [Transferred] (314758) | 400
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much funding has been awarded to each local authority for 16-plus skills provision in 2010-11. | | [Transferred] (314759) | 401
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many child curfew orders have been (a) issued and (b) breached in Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (314881) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 402
N | Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hours young offenders on remand aged under 18 years spent on education, training and personal development in each young offenders institution serving as a remand centre in the latest period for which figures are available. | | [Transferred] (314582) | 403
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign prisoners convicted of an offence of (a) illegal gun possession and (b) drug dealing have been deported to their country of origin in each year since 1998. | | [Transferred] (314741) | 404
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been convicted under counter-terrorism legislation of an offence relating to fundraising in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (314747) | 405
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been convicted for offences related to purchasing alcohol on behalf of a person aged under 18 years in each year since 1998. | | [Transferred] (314994) | 406
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were convicted of (a) each category of terrorism offence and (b) terrorism offences involving the internet in each year since 1998. | | [Transferred] (314998) | 407
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for an offence of not obeying an instruction to stop drinking in a designated public place in each year since 1998. | | [Transferred] (314999) | 408
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many penalty notices for disorder were issued to persons aged 16 and over for an offence of being drunk and disorderly in England and Wales in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (315063) | 409
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many convictions for being drunk and disorderly there have been in each year since 1998. | | [Transferred] (315071) | 410
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged (a) under 10, (b) from 10 to 17, (c) from 18 to 20 and (d) 21 years and over were (i) arrested, (ii) charged and (iii) convicted for (A) violent and (B) non-violent offences in each year since 1998. | | [Transferred] (315080) | 411
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many retailers have been convicted of an offence of persistent sale of alcohol to a person under 18 years in each year since 2006. | | [Transferred] (315154) | 412
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech at the University of Westminster on 25 October 2007, on liberty, for what reasons the proposed new test for powers of entry has not been implemented. | | [Transferred] (314957) | 413
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people serving prison sentences in England are liable for deportation on their release; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (315009) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 414
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been issued with (a) drug rehabilitation requirements and (b) a drug treatment and testing order in (i) England and Wales, (ii) Greater London and (iii) each police force area in each year since 1998. | | [Transferred] (314777) | 415
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many retailers have been (a) cautioned, (b) fined and (c) imprisoned for selling knives to people under the necessary purchasing age in each police force area in each year since 1998-99. | | [Transferred] (315060) | 416
| Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to bring forward proposals to ensure that general election counts take place on the evening of polling day. | | [Transferred] (314940) | Questions to the Solicitor General 417
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions there were for offences relating to domestic violence in Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (314876) | Questions to the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 418
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many Boundary Committee employees have visited Suffolk for the purposes of their work on the reorganisation of local government in Suffolk; what the duration of the stay was of each such visit; and what the cost was of (a) accommodation and (b) subsistence in respect of each such visit. | | [Transferred] (314863) | 419
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how much had been spent on the Boundary Committee's review of the reorganisation of local government in Suffolk on the latest date for which figures are available. | | [Transferred] (314864) |
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