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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 22 February 2010
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 22 February 2010
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 22 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 22 February of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 22 February see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 1
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of small businesses which have contracts with (a) Government departments, (b) local authorities, (c) primary care trusts, (d) education institutions and (e) Government agencies. | | (317704) | 2
| Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) Government departments, (b) local authorities, (c) primary care trusts, (d) educational institutions and (e) Government agencies have signed up to his Department's Prompt Payment Code. | | (317705) | 3
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many modern apprenticeships were started in Salford in (a) 1997 and (b) 2008-09. | | (317383) | 4
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what (a) small business start-up schemes and (b) other assistance schemes are available to assist businesses in Salford constituency. | | (317733) | 5
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many of those resident in Salford constituency have received a reduction in their working hours since the introduction of a maximum length of working week of 48 hours. | | (317734) | 6
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many residents of Salford constituency have attended university in each year since 1997. | | (317735) | 7
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people aged between 18 and 24 years old and not in employment, education or training there were in Salford constituency in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009. | | (317736) | 8
| Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the average length of maternity leave taken by women was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317190) | 9
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people have applied to their employer for flexible working arrangements to assist them with their caring responsibilities in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (317336) | 10
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the financial situation of London Metropolitan University; and what his estimate is of likely (a) student and (b) staff numbers in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (318018) | 11
| Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small businesses in each constituency in the East of England have applied for financial assistance under the (a) Enterprise Finance Guarantee and (b) Capital Enterprise scheme since inception; and how many such applications were granted. | | (317528) | 12
| Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people under 25 years old were not in employment, education or training in Mid Bedfordshire constituency in (a) 1997, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008-09. | | (318039) | 13
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students received non-repayable maintenance grants from Gloucestershire local authority in each of the last five years; and what the average grant received by such students was in each of those years. | | (317083) | 14
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of 18 to 22 year olds exclusively resident in Stroud constituency were studying at university in (a) 1997 and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (317084) | 15
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of 18 year olds in Stroud constituency participated in higher education in 2008-09. | | (317085) | 16
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) its executive agencies of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff is. | | (317906) | 17
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, in respect of how many student loan applications consideration was delayed in the period from September to December in each of the last five years. | | (317651) | 18
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the monetary value was of UK exports to Saudi Arabia in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009. | | (317989) | 19
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the monetary value was of UK exports to Morocco in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009. | | (317990) | 20
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent steps he has taken to recruit staff with direct experience of commercial exports to UK Trade and Investment to work on the promotion of exports to Saudi Arabia. | | (317992) | 21
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the cost of (a) fee loans, (b) maintenance loans and (c) maintenance grants for full-time higher education students and (i) fee grants and (ii) maintenance grants for part-time higher education students is expected to be in (A) 2009-10 and (B) 2010-11. | | (317088) | 22
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the resource cost of (a) fee loans and (b) maintenance loans for full-time higher education students in England was in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317089) | 23
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of the Higher Education Funding Council for England teaching budget was allocated to (a) full-time and (b) part-time students in the latest year for which information is available. | | (317090) | 24
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion on average of the budgets of universities in England was spent on (a) teaching undergraduates, (b) teaching graduates, (c) libraries, (d) student services, (e) non-sponsored research, (f) sponsored research and (g) administration in (i) 2000-01, (ii) 2004-05 and (iii) 2008-09. | | (315957) | 25
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what consideration his Department has given to the effect on the nature of ad hoc assignments of temporary workers of the Agency Worker Regulations. | | (316970) | 26
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has (a) sought and (b) received from representatives of the agency work industry on the drafting of the guidance to the Agency Worker Regulations. | | (316971) | 27
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has further to consult representatives of the agency work industry prior to the implementation of the Agency Worker Regulations. | | (316972) | 28
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the likely effects on the economy of an increase in the minimum level qualification for which non-EU students may come to the UK for study. | | (316973) | 29
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what impact assessment his Department has undertaken of the Agency Worker Regulations in relation to the (a) complexity of bonus arrangements, (b) cost of tracking ad hoc assignments and (c) transferral of indemnity from the end-user to the agency. | | (316975) | 30
N | Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment has been made of the likely effects of proposed changes to music licensing legislation on (a) churches and other religious establishments and (b) small voluntary organisations in North Cornwall. | | (316982) | 31
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the proportion of radio microphones and other programme-making and special events technologies which will need to be replaced with new equipment as a consequence of the clearance of the digital dividend spectrum; and if he will make a statement. | | (317612) | 32
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to announce his decision on the (a) criteria for compensation eligibility and (b) allocation of funding to be provided to those in the programme-making and special events sector who are affected by the clearance of the digital dividend spectrum. | | (317613) | 33
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has made a recent estimate of the number of jobs which depend (a) directly and (b) indirectly on the use of radio microphones and other programme-making and special events technologies. | | (317614) | 34
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agencies in each year since it was established; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317238) | 35
| Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students enrolled on their first full-time degree course in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (317338) | 36
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much was spent on advertising by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in 2009. | | (317251) | 37
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much was spent on external consultants and advisers by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in 2009. | | (317252) | 38
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many times the panel established to monitor lending to small businesses has met since 1 November 2008. | | (317253) | 39
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses have applied for funding under the Working Capital Scheme since 1 November 2008. | | (317254) | 40
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses are in receipt of assistance under the Working Capital Scheme. | | (317255) | 41
| Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will publish the financial reports of the UK Internet Governance Forum for each year since its inception. | | (317947) | 42
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, who decided on the membership of the UK Internet Governance Forum; and by what mechanisms members are nominated to that Forum. | | (317954) | 43
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will publish records of the meetings of the executive of the UK Internet Governance Forum. | | (317955) | 44
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many meetings the UK Internet Governance Forum has had since its inception. | | (317956) | 45
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, who the members are of the UK Internet Governance Forum executive committee; and if he will make a statement. | | (317957) | 46
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the remit is of the UK Internet Governance Forum. | | (317958) | Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office 47
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the level of unemployment has been in Salford in each year since 1997. | | (317394) | 48
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average life expectancy was for (a) women and (b) men in Salford in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2009. | | (317395) | 49
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many economically inactive people of working age wanted employment in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (317339) | 50
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will instruct the Cabinet Secretary to make available to the Iraq Inquiry the documents which Lord Goldsmith said he would wish to be made public during his appearance at the Inquiry on 27 January 2010. | | (317082) | 51
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2010, Official Report, column 800W, on death: liver diseases, how many alcohol-related deaths there were in the latest year for which figures are available, excluding deaths with an underlying cause of chronic liver disease and cirrhosis that do not mention alcohol as a contributing factor. | | (317565) | 52
| Christopher Fraser (South West Norfolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the age-standardised mortality rate from prostate cancer was in (a) England, (b) each primary care trust area and (c) each constituency in each year since 1997-98. | | (317707) | 53
| Christopher Fraser (South West Norfolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths from prostate cancer there were in (a) England, (b) each primary care trust area and (c) each constituency in each year since 1997-98. | | (317708) | 54
| Christopher Fraser (South West Norfolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) age-standardised incidence rate for prostate cancer and (b) number of diagnoses of prostate cancer was in (i) each strategic health authority area, (ii) each primary care trust area and (iii) each constituency in each year since 1997. | | (317709) | 55
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on the (a) buildings and (b) insurance of buildings and staff of the Leader of the House's Office in each of the last four years. | | (317268) | 56
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Leader of the House's Office has had any contracts with external consultants in 2009-10. | | (317269) | 57
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Leader of the House's Office spent on (a) first class and (b) business class flights in the last 12 months. | | (317270) | 58
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) her Department, (b) the Prime Minister's Office, (c) the Office of the Leader of the House and (d) the executive agencies for which her Department is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in each (i) Office and (ii) agency is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317902) | 59
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has spent on advertisements for Government services on (a) television and (b) commercial radio since 2005. | | (317102) | 60
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate she has made of the proportion of women with children who worked fewer than 16 hours a week in each year since 1997. | | (317140) | 61
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will request the Charity Commission to require charities which have been found by the Commission to have raised money for a purpose outside their charitable objects to post information to this effect on their website and to indicate the steps they are taking to return such donations to the donors. | | (317183) | 62
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Charity Commission is taking to ensure that charities file their accounts with the Commission within the prescribed timescales. | | (317184) | 63
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which guests were entertained at (a) Dorneywood and (b) Chevening in each month since June 2007; and on what date each guest was present. | | (317598) | 64
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for how long on average claimants aged between 18 and 24 years resident in each local authority area in the North West were in receipt of jobseeker's allowance in (a) each of the last 12 months and (b) each of the last five years. | | (317206) | 65
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in her Department and its agency in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if she will make a statement. | | (317231) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 66
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will lift the requirement for registered charities to pay value added tax on digital audio equipment. | | (317176) | 67
N | Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total rateable value is of hereditaments classified as retail properties; and for how many such properties the rateable value is (a) under £5,000, (b) between £5,000 and £14,999, (c) between £15,000 and £24,999, (d) between £25,000 and £49,999, (e) between £50,000 and £99,999, (f) between £100,000 and £499,999 and (g) at least £500,000. | | (316909) | 68
N | Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many hereditaments there are with a rateable value of (a) under £5,000, (b) between £5,000 and £14,999, (c) between £15,000 and £24,999, (d) between £25,000 and £49,999, (e) between £50,000 and £99,999, (f) between £100,000 and £499,999 and (g) at least £500,000; and what the total rateable value is of hereditaments in each category. | | (317018) | 69
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what procedures his Department has in place to ensure that (a) illegal and (b) illegally-acquired funds from African countries are not deposited with UK banks; whether his Department has undertaken any recent investigations into such practices; and if he will make a statement. | | (318067) | 70
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on the appointment of a proportion of non-executive directors of financial institutions by organisations other than the financial institution in question. | | (317356) | 71
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many warning notices were issued to companies by the Financial Services Authority in each year since 2001. | | (318001) | 72
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of non-deposit taking mortgage lenders in each year since 2004. | | (318011) | 73
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the (a) number of self-certification loans made in each year since 2004 and (b) total stock of self-certification loans which is outstanding. | | (318012) | 74
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to extend the scope of Financial Services Authority regulation to include second charge and buy-to-let mortgage lending. | | (318013) | 75
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the tripartite authorities first discussed the risks associated with (a) self-certification loans and (b) non-deposit taking mortgage lending. | | (318015) | 76
N | Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the tax gap in stamp duty land tax in each of the last five years. | | (317241) | 77
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the cost-effectiveness of recovering tax credits debt where deduction from ongoing payments is not possible. | | (317290) | 78
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps have been taken to improve data security at HM Revenue and Customs premises since 2008-09. | | (317291) | 79
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people whose personal data was put at risk by HM Revenue and Customs data security incidents in 2008-09. | | (317292) | 80
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people whose personal data was inappropriately disclosed by HM Revenue and Customs in 2008-09. | | (317293) | 81
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to reduce the number of incidents of staff misuse of customer data at HM Revenue and Customs; and by what means he plans to inform the public of such steps. | | (317294) | 82
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps are being taken in respect of HM Revenue and Customs staff found to have misused customer data. | | (317295) | 83
N | Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of tax lost as a result of the hidden economy in each of the last five financial years. | | (317296) | 84
N | Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer arising from organised fraud in relation to (a) income tax, (b) value added tax, (c) corporation tax, (d) national insurance, (e) tax credits and (f) child benefit in each of the last five years. | | (317297) | 85
N | Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the tax gap for individuals in income tax self assessment in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08. | | (317298) | 86
N | Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the loss to the Exchequer arising from official error on the part of HM Revenue and Customs staff in each of the last five years. | | (317299) | 87
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress HM Revenue and Customs has made towards meeting its target on the timeliness of reporting of data security incidents. | | (317300) | 88
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress HM Revenue and Customs has made towards meeting its target on the reduction of data security incidents. | | (317301) | 89
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what definition of a data security incident HM Revenue and Customs uses in relation to its departmental objective to reduce the number of such incidents by 2012. | | (317302) | 90
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to amend the definition of hardship used by HM Revenue and Customs when considering debt recovery; and whether he plans to align that definition with the definition used by the Department of Work and Pensions. | | (317303) | 91
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has for the treatment of the remaining £559 million of tax credits overpayments created in 2003-04 that had not been recovered by 31 March 2009. | | (317304) | 92
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the total tax credit debt was recovered (a) by deduction from ongoing tax credit payments and (b) by other means in the 2008-09 tax year. | | (317305) | 93
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to increase the number of opportunities for recovering tax credit overpayments from any subsequent tax credits payments where one award has ceased and a new award started. | | (317306) | 94
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what changes he proposes to enable a greater number of tax credits customers to repay overpayments through deduction from income and benefits. | | (317307) | 95
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effects on (a) children living in poverty and (b) households in the lowest quartile of annual income of recovery of tax credits overpayments. | | (317308) | 96
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of households from which the recovery of a tax credits overpayment is being sought. | | (317309) | 97
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the cost-effectiveness of recovering a debt in respect of which the due and payable date passed more than 12 months earlier. | | (317310) | 98
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) age and (b) likelihood of recovery is of the debt owed to HM Revenue and Customs totalling more than £27 billion at 31 March 2009; and how much such debt has been outstanding (i) less than six months, (ii) between six and 12 months, (iii) between 12 months and two years, (iv) between two and three years and (v) for more than three years since the due and payable date. | | (317311) | 99
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consideration he has given to the merits of centralising the collection of amounts owned to all Government departments through one debt collection body. | | (317332) | 100
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford & Woodford Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of HM Revenue and Customs' performance in the recovery of taxes owed to the Government. | | (317333) | 101
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for South Dorset and North Poole of 2 February 2010, Official Report, colunm 212W, on Equitable Life, what preparatory work his Department has undertaken on details of a payment scheme; what directions Ministers in his Department have given to departmental officials on the preparation of such details; and if he will make a statement. | | (317585) | 102
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what amount of gilts has been bought by (a) the Bank of England and (b) other banks operating in the UK who are regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the last 12 months. | | (316916) | 103
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) the executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317905) | 104
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what procedures are in place to communicate agreed redundancy and relocation arrangements to staff at HM Revenue and Customs offices which are scheduled to close. | | (317701) | 105
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the outcome was of the moderation process in respect of relocation of HM Revenue and Customs customer operations staff from Lingmell House, Chorley; and if he will make a statement. | | (317911) | 106
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what role (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs plays in the moderation process in respect of relocation of staff consequent on the closure of Lingmell House, Chorley; and if he will make a statement. | | (317913) | 107
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what commitments HM Revenue and Customs management have made to customer operations staff at Lingmell House, Chorley; and if he will make a statement. | | (317916) | 108
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has for the distribution of money yielded by the one-off levy on any individual discretionary bonus above £25,000 paid by banks to their employees between the Pre-Budget Report and April 2010. | | (317327) | 109
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid in working tax credits to eligible households in Rotherham in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (317510) | 110
| Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households in Newport East constituency are in receipt of tax credits. | | (317347) | 111
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many petrol retail stations were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in 1997; and how many there are on the 2010 Rating List. | | (317803) | 112
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Valuation Office Agency has spent on the Automated Valuation Model (AVM) for domestic dwellings to date; what the purpose of the AVM for domestic dwellings is; and which databases use (a) AVM technology and (b) data analysed by the AVM system. | | (317808) | 113
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 27 January 2010, Official Report, column 918W, on national insurance contributions: local government, what estimate he has made of the likely change to revenue to the Exchequer arising from changes to national insurance contributions for local government employees in each of the next three years. | | (317872) | 114
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2009, Official Report, columns 856-7W, on taxation: health professions, if he will consider the merits of bringing forward proposals to reduce to zero the rate of value added tax on medical appliances supplied by appliance contractors. | | [R] (317137) | 115
N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate HM Revenue and Customs has made of the number of UK citizens who have permanent residence in the UK that have retained domicile in (a) Belize, (b) the Turks and Caicos Islands, (c) the Cayman Islands and (d) the Bahamas. | | (316918) | 116
N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many UK citizens had permanent residence in the UK but were either not resident in the UK for tax purposes or did not have UK domicile status in each year since 2000. | | (316919) | 117
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) charged in fines to (a) partnerships and (b) companies who (i) were fined for not filing their tax returns with HMRC by 31 January 2009 and (ii) were registered as a partnership for the purpose of receiving their unique taxpayer reference from 1 October 2008. | | (317355) | 118
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what average length of time it took for HM Revenue and Customs to register a business for tax purposes in (a) September 2009, (b) October 2009, (c) November 2009, (d) December 2009 and (e) January 2010. | | (317357) | 119
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what average length of time if took for HM Revenue and Customs to register a business for tax purposes in (a) September 2008, (b) October 2008, (c) November 2008, (d) December 2008 and (e) January 2009. | | (317359) | 120
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) charged in fines to (a) partnerships and (b) companies who were fined for not filing their tax returns with HMRC by 31 January 2010 and were registered as a partnership for the purpose of receiving their unique taxpayer reference from 1 October 2009. | | (317368) | 121
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Exchequer received from stamp duty land tax in each (a) parliamentary constituency, (b) local authority area and (c) postcode area in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009. | | (318003) | 122
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Exchequer received from inheritance tax on estates in Moray constituency in the last five years. | | (318005) | 123
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the (a) number and (b) proportion of children living in poverty who would benefit from measures to benefit married couples through the tax system. | | (317963) | 124
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what interest the Crown Estate holds in the area of land to the seaward side of the Canvey Island sea defences; and if he will make a statement. | | (316905) | 125
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317201) | 126
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people aged 75 years and over resident in each local authority area in the North West with an annual income below (a) £10,000, (b) the age-related personal allowance of £9,640 and (c) the basic level of personal allowance of £6,475 in 2009-10. | | (317208) | 127
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people aged between 65 and 74 years old resident in each local authority area in the North West with an annual income below (a) £10,000, (b) the age-related personal allowance of £9,640 and (c) the basic level of personal allowance of £6,490 in 2009-10. | | (317209) | 128
| Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many legal proceedings have been instigated for recovery of tax credit overpayments in each quarter since April 2003; what the average overpayment outstanding is for which legal action has been instigated; what the total monetary value is of such overpayments; what estimate he has made of the average cost to the public purse of pursuing such cases through the courts; and how much has been recovered through court action. | | (317146) | 129
| Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Adjudicator's Office has recommended in relation to tax credit cases that HM Revenue and Customs (a) pay in compensation to claimants, (b) forego in tax and interest and (c) write off in overpaid tax credits since March 2008. | | (317178) | 130
| Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit overpayments were written off in each month of (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2007-08 and (d) 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (317179) | 131
| Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many disputed tax credit overpayments have resulted in no repayment (a) because of official error and (b) in total in each month of each year since their introduction; and if he will make a statement. | | (317180) | 132
| Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit overpayments were disputed in each month (a) between June 2007 and March 2008 and (b) since December 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (317182) | 133
| Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many individual tax credit cases which involved overpayments made in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08 the claimants were prosecuted by his Department for the purposes of recovering such overpayments in each year in which such prosecutions were initiated. | | (317581) | 134
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the collection rate of income tax was in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK in each year since 2007. | | (317920) | 135
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Exchequer received from inheritance tax from estates in Perth and North Perthshire constituency over the last five years. | | (317921) | 136
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was spent on each element of (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit in each (i) county and (ii) region in each of the last four years. | | (317923) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 137
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools in Salford have been (a) rebuilt and (b) significantly refurbished since 1997. | | (317384) | 138
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the unauthorised absence rate was for pupils in Salford in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009. | | (317385) | 139
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of pupils in Salford obtained five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009. | | (317386) | 140
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of pupils in Salford obtained five A* to C grades at GCSE in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009. | | (317387) | 141
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average class size in schools in Salford was in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009. | | (317388) | 142
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of pupils in Salford have participated in gifted and talented programmes in each year for which information is available. | | (317389) | 143
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what capital funding was allocated to schools in Salford in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009. | | (317390) | 144
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what discussions he has had with the General Teaching Council on arrangements for implementation of his Department's proposed licence to practise; how much funding has been allocated to the implementation of that scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (316908) | 145
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what statutory duties there are on local authorities in England to provide nursery places for three and four year olds; what remedies are available to parents in instances where a local authority fails to fulfil that duty; and if he will make a statement. | | (317721) | 146
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether he has made a recent estimate of the number of schoolchildren who regularly wear the kirpan on school premises. | | (317004) | 147
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent representations he has received on the wearing of the kirpan by schoolchildren. | | (317005) | 148
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools rated inadequate for (a) behaviour and (b) leadership by Ofsted are also rated (i) inadequate overall, (ii) satisfactory overall, (iii) good overall and (iv) outstanding overall. | | (316913) | 149
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools Ofsted rates (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) satisfactory and (d) inadequate. | | (316914) | 150
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools Ofsted rates as outstanding for leadership. | | (316915) | 151
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much on average an Ofsted inspection of (a) a nursery, (b) a children's centre, (c) a primary school, (d) a secondary school and (e) local authority children's services cost in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317081) | 152
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many qualified teachers below retirement age were not teaching in the state sector in (a) 1997, (b) 2005 and (c) the latest year for which figures are available. | | (317817) | 153
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teachers took early retirement in (a) 1997, (b) 2005 and (c) the latest year for which figures are available. | | (317818) | 154
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many parenting orders were issued because of (a) poor behaviour in school and (b) truancy in (i) 1997, (ii) 2005 and (iii) the latest year for which figures are available. | | (317819) | 155
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many incidents of pupils carrying a dangerous weapon into school were reported in (a) 1997, (b) 2005 and (c) the latest year for which figures are available. | | (317820) | 156
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, on how many occasions police were called to schools in (a) 1997, (b) 2005 and (c) the latest year for which figures are available; and for what reason in each such case. | | (317821) | 157
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many assaults were officially recorded where the incident took place on school premises in (a) 1997, (b) 2005 and (c) the latest year for which figures are available. | | (317822) | 158
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of providing one-to-one or small group tuition to every child not reaching the expected level at Key Stage 1 and 2 in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (317823) | 159
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils are receiving one-to-one or small group tuition in (a) secondary and (b) primary schools; and how many pupils he expects to receive such tuition in each such case in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12. | | (317824) | 160
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department are disabled; and what the average salary in his Department is of (a) full-time disabled staff, (b) full-time non-disabled staff, (c) part-time disabled staff and (d) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317907) | 161
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many parents aged between 16 and 18 years old were not in education, employment or training in each quarter of each year since 1997. | | (317652) | 162
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's evaluation of the Choice Advice service. | | (317091) | 163
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of pupils (a) entitled and (b) not entitled to free school meals attained five GCSEs at grades A* to C, including English and mathematics in each constituency in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (317730) | 164
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what vetting and barring guidance applies to visits to schools by representatives of religious organisations; and how many such representatives have been refused access to schools in accordance with that guidance in each of the last three years. | | (317168) | 165
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils eligible for free school meals were entered for GCSEs in (a) biology and chemistry but not physics, (b) biology and physics but not chemistry, (c) physics and chemistry but not biology and (d) physics, chemistry and biology in (i) 1997 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (317219) | 166
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which secondary schools did not enter any pupils for GCSE (a) biology, (b) chemistry and (c) physics in (i) 1997 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (317220) | 167
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils eligible for free school meals were entered for a GCSE in biology in (a) 1997 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (317221) | 168
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of state schools in England have a facility for the sound amplification of teachers' voices fitted in the majority of classrooms. | | (315955) | 169
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether his Department has commissioned any recent research on the effects on pupil (a) learning and (b) behaviour of the sound amplification of teachers' voices in classrooms. | | (315956) | 170
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children achieved at least level 2b in each subject at Key Stage 1 in each year since such assessments were introduced. | | (317740) | 171
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children achieved at least level 3 in each subject at Key Stage 1 in each year since such assessments were introduced. | | (317741) | 172
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) maintained and (b) private, voluntary and independent nurseries have closed in each quarter of the last five years. | | (317742) | 173
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children in the 10 per cent. (a) most and (b) least deprived areas of the country achieved at least level (a) 2, (b) 2b and (c) 3 in each subject at Key Stage 1 in each year since such assessments were introduced. | | (317743) | 174
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children achieved at least level 2 in each subject at Key Stage 1 in each year since the introduction of such assessments. | | (317744) | 175
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children in receipt of free school meals achieved at least level (a) 2 and (b) 2b in each subject at Key Stage 1 in each year since the introduction of such assessments. | | (317745) | 176
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children in receipt of free school meals achieved at least level 3 in each subject at Key Stage 1 in each year since the introduction of such assessments. | | (317746) | 177
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the number of childminders to have entered the profession in each year since 1997. | | (317747) | 178
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland of 2 February 2010, Official Report, column 292W, on education maintenance allowance, if he will direct the acting chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council to send a copy of the letter to the Editor of the Official Report for publication. | | (317136) | 179
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which companies were contracted by his Department and its predecessor for the provision of temporary staff in each of the last three years; how many temporary staff were employed by his Department in each such year; and what the monetary value was of contracts with each such company in each such year. | | (317998) | 180
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will set out, with statistical information as closely related to Mid Sussex constituency as possible, the effect on that constituency of the policies of his Department and its predecessors since 1997. | | (317325) | 181
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317227) | 182
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will make an assessment of the extent to which anxiety about liability for slipping injuries influenced decisions on school closures during the recent severe weather episode. | | (317508) | 183
| Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much was spent on external consultants and advisers by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in 2009. | | (318051) | 184
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department has spent on (a) written consultations, (b) consultation road shows and (c) focus groups in each of the last three years. | | (317839) | 185
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, with which public relations companies (a) his Department, (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible and (c) other bodies sponsored by his Department have had contracts in each year since 2004. | | (317840) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 186
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Rossendale Borough Council's supervision of private bailiffs acting on that authority's behalf. | | (317174) | 187
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to respond to the letter of 5 January 2010 from the hon. Member for Billericay on his constituent Mr M Beiley. | | (317547) | 188
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on increasing the standard of social housing in Salford since 1997. | | (317391) | 189
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will begin the proposed consultation on reforms to the Mobile Homes Act 1983 within the next two months. | | (317279) | 190
| Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what grounds his Department rejected the exceptional circumstances case put to it by West Oxfordshire District Council in relation to the Rate Support Grant Settlement on 23 December 2009. | | (317748) | 191
| Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities' requests for permission to capitalise potential losses on investments held in Icelandic banks have been (a) granted and (b) rejected; and on what grounds such bids have been rejected. | | (317749) | 192
N | Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of properties in West Lancashire constituency which have been empty for more than (a) two and (b) five years. | | (317777) | 193
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations he has received from Your Homes Newcastle on the funding for asbestos removal under the decent homes programme; and if he will place in the Library a copy of those representations. | | (318004) | 194
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been bought under the Rent to Homebuy scheme in each (a) local authority and (b) region since the inception of that scheme; and what the monetary value of such sales was in each area on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (318014) | 195
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in how many business improvement districts in England more than one retail area is working in partnership; and if he will make a statement. | | (317722) | 196
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance he has issued to (a) local authorities and (b) businesses on establishing a business improvement district which includes more than one retail centre; and if he will make a statement. | | (317723) | 197
| Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to protect the green belt in (a) England, (b) East of England, (c) Bedfordshire and (d) Mid Bedfordshire constituency. | | (317530) | 198
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on (a) staffing, (b) administration and (c) publicity for the Working Neighbourhoods Fund. | | (317211) | 199
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on (a) staffing, (b) administration and (c) publicity for the Supporting People programme. | | (317212) | 200
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on the Supporting People programme; and how many people have received assistance under the programme since its inception. | | (317213) | 201
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on the Working Neighbourhoods Fund; and how many people have received assistance from the funds. | | (317214) | 202
| Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has allocated to the (a) Supporting People programme, (b) New Communities fund, (c) New Deal for Communities fund, (d) Safer and Stronger Communities fund, (e) Local Enterprise Growth Initiative and (f) Working Neighbourhoods fund in each financial year from 2009-10 to 2014-15. | | (317361) | 203
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which programme budgets are administered for each Government Department by the Government Offices for the Regions. | | (317369) | 204
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on (a) assistance to businesses, (b) staffing, (c) administration and (d) publicity under the Local Enterprise Growth Initiative since its inception; and how many businesses have been assisted by the initiative. | | (317702) | 205
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on (a) programmes, (b) staffing, (c) administration and (d) publicity by the Safer and Stronger Communities Fund; and what estimate he has made of the number of people assisted by the fund. | | (317841) | 206
N | Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent by the New Deal for Communities programme since its inception; and what estimate he has made of the number of people assisted by the programme. | | (317910) | 207
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) the executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317908) | 208
N | Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the area of farmland of grade (a) 1, (b) 2, (c) 3a, (d) 3b, (e) 4 and (f) 5 taken for development in each of the last five years. | | (317138) | 209
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homeowners are in receipt of assistance under the Homeowner Mortgage Protection Scheme. | | (317344) | 210
| 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 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1645W, on local government finance, how many separate data attributes or indicators are collected as part of each of the datasets listed in the Answer. | | (317114) | 211
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 20 January 2010, Official Report, column 377W, on the Audit Commission: public opinion, what the purpose was of the public affairs consultancy work undertaken by Consolidated Communications for his Department; and what (a) documents and (b) other deliverables the Audit Commission received from Consolidated Communications under that contract. | | (317524) | 212
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 79 of the final report of the Lyons Inquiry into local government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the written submission to that Inquiry made by the National Audit Office. | | (317567) | 213
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 214W, on council tax, whether local authorities may levy a surcharge on council tax bills paid by credit card. | | (317571) | 214
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1261W, on the Audit Commission: procurement, how much the Audit Commision spent in respect of each organisation that supplied goods or services to it in 2008-09. | | (317572) | 215
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the names and addresses are of each organisation that supplied goods or services to the (a) Standards Board for England and (b) Homes and Communities Agency in 2008-09. | | (317573) | 216
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): 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 1132W, on non-domestic rates: empty properties, if he will place in the Library a copy of the data on empty properties provided by each local authority as part of the most recent national non-domestic rates return. | | (317599) | 217
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 16 October 2009, Official Report, column 1129W, on local government: Barnet, if he will place in the Library a copy of the final report on the pilot study. | | (317600) | 218
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): 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 1124W, on land: databases, what (a) type of information and (b) level of detail provided by infra-red aerial photography as part of the Pan-Government Agreement on geographical information. | | (317601) | 219
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): 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 1117W, on FlexSpace, if he will place in the Library a copy of the staff survey carried out in January 2009. | | (317602) | 220
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the oral Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of 14 July 2009, Official Report, column 69WH, on Travellers, what his Department's definition of (a) fairness and (b) equality is in relation to planning applications for sites for Gypsy and Traveller caravans. | | (317605) | 221
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much and what proportion of gross revenue to local authorities from council tax was funded by council tax benefit in 2008-09. | | (317800) | 222
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the correspondence received from GEFCO UK in relation to the new business rate regime affecting port businesses. | | (317801) | 223
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has granted requests from its employees for permission to stand as a candidate in local government elections due to take place in 2010. | | (317802) | 224
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of each of the interim pilot reports published as part of the Total Place initiative. | | (317804) | 225
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance (a) his Department and (b) the Planning Inspectorate has issued on the length of time a (i) traveller and (ii) demonstration encampment may be in place before it is deemed permanent for planning purposes; and how long temporary encampments may be in place before becoming rateable for (A) council tax and (B) business rate purposes. | | (317805) | 226
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average employer contribution rate to each fund of the Local Government Pension Scheme is. | | (317806) | 227
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of eligible small firms which do not claim small business rate relief. | | (317807) | 228
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has provided to local authorities (a) under the formula grant system and (b) through specific grants to fund new burdens arising from new equality and diversity duties in each year since 2005-06. | | (317809) | 229
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 19 January 2010, Official Report, column 290W, on local government: cost effectiveness, for what reason the £250 million cost to local authorities of the Personal Care at Home Bill is not being classified as a new burden under his Department's new burdens principle; over what period and in which financial years local authorities will be required to make the personal care efficiency savings; and whether local authorities will be required to increase council tax or cut services if the personal care efficiency savings are not made. | | (317810) | 230
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2010, Official Report, column 285W, on departmental manpower, when each of the three policy advisers on fixed term contract was appointed; which appointments were subject to open competition; and what the names are of each such specialist adviser. | | (317812) | 231
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 19 January 2010, Official Report, column 297W, on travelling people: caravan sites, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) planning and enforcement appeal rulings made by the Planning Inspectorate that resulted in the appeal being granted in part or in full and (b) representations of 24 February 2009. | | (317813) | 232
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the oral Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 26 January 2010, Official Report, column 660, on planning, which part of the 1992 planning guidance defined gardens as brownfield land for planning purposes. | | (317814) | 233
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 16 June 2009, Official Report, column 368W, on council tax: statistics, what decision was taken on the designation of council tax statistics. | | (317815) | 234
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 16 June 2009, Official Report, column 204W, on the Infrastructure Planning Commission, what the monetary value is of the remuneration paid to the chairman of the Commission is including (a) salary, (b) employee pension contribution, (c) travel expenses and (d) benefits in kind; whether any form of bonus or incentive payment is included in the package; and what (i) minimum length of contract and (ii) notice period applies. | | (317816) | 235
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which parish councils levy a precept on council tax. | | (317854) | 236
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many core strategies have been approved by the relevant local planning authority to date; and how many Local Development Frameworks include a full set of documentation as required under the Local Development Scheme. | | (317855) | 237
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department allocated to local authorities for youth services in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11 through (i) formula funding, (ii) specific grants, (iii) special grants and (iv) area-based grants; and how much such funding of each type was earmarked for (A) revenue support and (B) capital expenditure in each such year. | | (317856) | 238
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the gross revenue raised from parish precepts was on council tax in England in each year since 1997-98; and what the average parish precept on a Band D bill was in each such year. | | (317857) | 239
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effects on the protection of the green belt of the introduction of National Policy Statements. | | (317858) | 240
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate the Audit Commission has made of the cost to local authorities of central government inspection, audit and compliance in 2008-09. | | (317859) | 241
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his latest estimate is of the (a) capital and (b) running costs of the Infrastructure Planning Commission in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11. | | (317861) | 242
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost to local authorities of the planned increase in employers' National Insurance Contributions in each of the next three years. | | (317862) | 243
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households have been refused assistance under the Mortgage Rescue Scheme because the value of the property exceeded the eligibility criteria. | | (317863) | 244
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many employment disputes involving staff of his Department have been taken to an employment tribunal since 2003; what the outcome was in each case which has been concluded; and what the grounds for dispute were in each case. | | (317865) | 245
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of general needs lettings to new social housing tenants made to foreign nationals in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c) 2008-09. | | (317866) | 246
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much gross council tax revenue in (a) cash and (b) real terms at 2010 prices was raised in each region in (i) 1997-98 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (317868) | 247
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) communications audit, (b) campaign book, (c) communications plan and (d) political and key stakeholder outreach plan provided to the Tenant Services Authority under its contract with APCO Worldwide. | | (317869) | 248
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much on average his Department paid for a typical (a) laptop and (b) desktop computer (i) including and (ii) excluding value added tax in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317870) | 249
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to Lord Bates of 25 January 2010, Official Report, House of Lords, column 1190, on energy performance certificates, what the evidential basis is for the assessment that home information packs have (a) bedded down well and (b) proved to be a useful instrument to help purchasers. | | (317871) | 250
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 27 January 2010, Official Report, columns 914-5W, on affordable housing, what steps the Tenant Services Authority is taking to assist social landlords with the sexual orientation surveys of tenants. | | (317873) | 251
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 27 January 2010, Official Report, columns 914-5W, on affordable housing, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's guidance on the monitoring and evaluation systems; whether any additional funding has been allocated by his Department to local authorities to assist the monitoring and evaluation of the sexual orientation of tenants; whether completing such a form will be a condition of tenancy; and whether requirements will apply to social landlords to report the findings of their sexual orientation surveys to (a) his Department, (b) the Tenant Services Authority, (c) the Government Equalities Office and (d) the Equality and Human Rights Commission. | | (317874) | 252
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the Written Ministerial Statement of 27 January 2010, Official Report, columns 54-6WS, on planning, what estimate has been made of the increase in the number of planning applications likely to result from the proposed changes. | | (317875) | 253
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 26 January 2010, Official Report, column 770W, on local government and fire services: pensions, what the level is at which employer pension contributions to the local government pension scheme will be (a) capped and (b) shared. | | (317876) | 254
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 26 January 2010, Official Report, column 770W, on local government and fire services: pensions, what the timetable is for the review of whether to restrict the employer contributions made to the firefighters' pension scheme. | | (317877) | 255
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether unmet need for traveller sites is a material consideration in the planning process when considering a retrospective application of the development of an unauthorised traveller site. | | (317879) | 256
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the average cost, including value added tax, to a certificate holder of a domestic energy performance certificate for an average family home in London. | | (317880) | 257
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 20 January 2010, Official Report, column 378W, on council tax, what types of council tax discount are made available by each individual local authority; and what the monetary value was of such discounts in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317937) | 258
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's publication entitled FiReControl Project: Equalities Impact Assessment, December 2009, what the reasons were for the time taken to undertake the SMS emergency number project; and how much had been spent on that project on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (317961) | 259
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much area-based grant was allocated to (a) waste disposal and (b) waste collection authorities in 2008-09; and how much such grant he plans to allocate to each type of authority in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11. | | (317969) | 260
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the amount of area-based grant funding to be distributed to local authorities in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | (317983) | 261
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the levy charged on the business rate multiplier to offset estimated losses in revenue due to rating appeals was in each year since 2005-06. | | (317984) | 262
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) running cost and (b) aggregate programme expenditure was of each of Government Office of the Regions in 2008-09. | | (317985) | 263
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to change the employee contribution rate for the Local Government Pension Scheme. | | (317986) | 264
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have used their powers to reduce the council tax discount on (a) empty and (b) second homes; what revised discount rate was set in each case; and what estimate has been made of the total additional council revenue raised as a result of such revisions in each year since 1993. | | (318062) | 265
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the merits of extending the current empty property rate relief scheme beyond April 2010. | | (317078) | 266
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much empty property rate relief has cost the Exchequer since 2007. | | (317112) | 267
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much empty property rate relief has cost the Exchequer since April 2009. | | (317113) | 268
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many applications were made to the Homeowner Mortgage Protection Scheme from homeowners in Moray constituency in 2009; and how many of these met the eligibility criteria. | | (317971) | 269
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many receptions he has hosted for representatives of print and broadcast media since October 2008; how much each reception cost; and how many attended each. | | (317999) | 270
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homeowners are in receipt of help under the Homeowner Mortgage Protection Scheme in Moray constituency. | | (318002) | 271
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2010, Official Report, columns 866-8W, on affordable housing, what expenditure his Department has incurred on (a) HomeBuy Direct, (b) New Build HomeBuy, (c) Open Market HomeBuy, (d) First Time Buyer's Initiative, (e) Social HomeBuy and (f) Rent to HomeBuy in 2009-10. | | (317535) | 272
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties there were on the Domestic Energy Performance Certificate Register in (a) November 2009, (b) December 2009 and (c) January 2010. | | (317540) | 273
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the (a) start-up and (b) ongoing costs of his Department's telephone helpline for tenants in the private rented sector. | | (317543) | 274
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department plans to allocate to its new telephone helpline for tenants in the private rented sector. | | (317544) | 275
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which companies were contracted by his Department for the provision of temporary staff in each of the last three years; how many temporary staff were employed by his Department in each such year; and what the monetary value was of contracts with each such company in each such year. | | (317994) | 276
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317226) | 277
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the public purse has been of all legal proceedings relating to the structural review of Norfolk, Suffolk and Devon. | | (317343) | 278
N | Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many officials in his Department administer the HomeBuy scheme. | | (316968) | 279
N | Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many times the eligibility criteria for participation in the HomeBuy scheme have changed since the inception of the scheme; and if he will list each such change. | | (316969) | 280
N | Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which programmes are included in the HomeBuy scheme; how much has been allocated to each such programme to date; and how many dwellings have been sold under each such programme to date. | | (316974) | 281
N | Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has allocated to the HomeBuy scheme in financial year 2009-10 to date; how much such funding it expects to allocate in financial years (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and how much such funding it expects to allocate beyond financial year 2014-15. | | (317007) | 282
N | Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has allocated to low cost income ownership programmes in financial year 2009-10 to date; how much such funding it expects to allocate in financial years (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and how much such funding it expects to allocate beyond financial year 2014-15. | | (317008) | 283
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the projected (a) minimum and (b) maximum cost savings estimated for each unitary authority established since 2007 were prior to the authority's inception; what cost saving targets were set when each was established; and what savings each has achieved to date. | | (318038) | 284
| Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many applications were made to the Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme by homeowners in Angus constituency in 2009; and how many of these met the eligibility criteria. | | (318068) | 285
| Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was spent on advertising by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in 2009. | | (318069) | 286
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08 expressed in current prices. | | (317345) | 287
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many receptions he has hosted for representatives of print and broadcast media since 3 October 2008. | | (317346) | 288
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homeowners in Perth and North Perthshire constituency are in receipt of help under the Homeowner Mortgage Protection Scheme. | | (317922) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 289
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to ensure that viewers in Rossendale and Darwen constituency are able to receive the full range of digital television channels. | | (317175) | 290
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many of those aged (a) under 16 and (b) over 60 years old resident in Salford have participated in his Department's free swimming programmes. | | (317551) | 291
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps his Department has taken to increase the level of media literacy in Coventry; and how much funding his Department has allocated to Coventry for that purpose since 2005. | | (316906) | 292
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his spent on each (a) survey and (b) independent report it commissioned in each of the last five years; and which organisation was contracted in each such case. | | (317158) | 293
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many tickets have been (a) made available and (b) used in relation to each theatre participating in the free theatre tickets scheme. | | (317186) | 294
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding was provided to each theatre participating in the free theatre tickets scheme; and how many tickets each theatre agreed to make available. | | (317187) | 295
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) surveys and (b) independent reports commissioned by his Department were undertaken in each of the last five years; how much each cost; and which organisation undertook each. | | (317521) | 296
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agency for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) the executive agency is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317909) | 297
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on how many occasions he has met representatives of each of the advisory non-departmental public bodies sponsored by his Department in the last 12 months. | | (317009) | 298
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which constituencies he has visited on official duties in the last 12 months. | | (317010) | 299
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people have registered for Arts Council England's A Night Less Ordinary scheme. | | (317147) | 300
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Arts Councils England's A Night Less Ordinary scheme in achieving its objectives. | | (317185) | 301
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which projects undertaken by his Department have incurred expenditure of more than £1,000 on advertising in the last 12 months; and what the respective spend is in each such case. | | (317566) | 302
N | Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the energy requirements of (a) digital and DAB radios and (b) analogue radios. | | (316981) | 303
N | Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many complaints his Department and Digital UK have received relating to digital switchover from residents of (a) North Cornwall constituency, (b) Cornwall, (c) the South West region and (d) England in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317003) | 304
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he made of the revenue which would accrue to the Exchequer in circumstances in which Ofcom re-auctioned the three existing independent national radio licences. | | (317595) | 305
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason he decided to propose a digital radio switchover date of 2015; what assessment he made of the merits of proposing the switchover date of 2017 recommended in the Digital Radio Working Group report; and if he will make a statement. | | (317597) | 306
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which companies were contracted by his Department for the provision of temporary staff in each of the last three years; how many temporary staff were employed by his Department in each such year; and what the monetary value was of contracts with each such company in each such year. | | (317997) | 307
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many members of the board of the National Gallery receive (a) remuneration and (b) expenses only. | | (317964) | 308
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agency in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317237) | 309
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with Snowsport GB on its finances; and when he first became aware of Snowsport GB's financial situation. | | (317371) | 310
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) the British Olympic Association and (b) others on Snowsport GB. | | (317372) | 311
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding he is providing to Team GB (Ltd) and the British Ski and Snowboard Federation to support participation in the Vancouver Winter Olympics. | | (317373) | 312
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he met the Snowsport GB team before its departure for the Winter Olympics. | | (317374) | 313
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his policy is on the funding of British teams to participate in Winter Olympics events. | | (317375) | 314
N | Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that those in vulnerable groups will be eligible for the scheme to provide free digital equipment during the digital switchover. | | (316963) | 315
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to support local commercial radio stations in Scotland in the transition to digital broadcasting. | | (317563) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 316
| Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he plans to take to integrate the activities of the three services. | | (317692) | 317
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the monetary value is of awards of legal aid made in respect of the Baha Mousa inquiry; and whether an estimate has been made of the total value of such awards made during the course of that inquiry. | | (317370) | 318
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on the maintenance, operation and re-fitting of Trident submarines in each of the last 10 years. | | (317850) | 319
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2010, Official Report, columns 811-12W, on chemical weapons: animals, what the reasons are for the increase in the number of non-human primate tests between 2008-09; and whether any such tests have been conducted on human beings since 2005. | | (317541) | 320
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2010, Official Report, columns 811-12W, on chemical weapons: animals, what quantities of each (a) chemical and (b) biological warfare agent are held in the UK; when such agents were manufactured; and what quantity of each agent is permitted to be held under the (a) Chemical Weapons Convention and (b) Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention. | | (317542) | 321
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what dates members of the Intelligence and Security Committee have visited Menwith Hill since 2000; and which members of the Committee participated in each such visit. | | (317979) | 322
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the Missile Defence System operations at RAF Menwith Hill in the next two years. | | (317980) | 323
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what dates US (a) military personnel, (b) civilians and (c) contractors moved from RAF Fairford to RAF Croughton. | | (317981) | 324
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what expenditure his Department has incurred on the Missile Defence Centre since it opened. | | (318010) | 325
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the capacity of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel Largs Bay's capacity was full at the point at which the vessel departed Southampton for Haiti in February 2010. | | (316979) | 326
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to use members of the Military Stabilisation and Support Team to assist in humanitarian efforts in Haiti. | | (317517) | 327
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations the Military Stabilisation and Support Group has at the Permanent Joint Headquarters. | | (317518) | 328
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the merits of changing the rules under which members of the Royal Air Force Aero-Medical Evacuation Squadron at RAF Lyneham are ineligible for the Afghan Campaign Medal. | | (317537) | 329
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies are disabled; and what the average salary of (i) full-time disabled staff, (ii) full-time non-disabled staff, (iii) part-time disabled staff and (iv) part-time non-disabled staff is in (A) his Department and (B) its agencies. | | (317888) | 330
N | Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to answer Question 312672, on the crash of Nimrod XV230, tabled on 19 January 2010. | | (317506) | 331
N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to provide assistance to soldier normally resident in Derbyshire following active service in Afghanistan and Iraq. | | (317697) | 332
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2010, Official Report, column 742W, on Colombia: military aid, how many UK service personnel are assigned to conducting counter narcotics capacity building activities in Colombia. | | (317580) | 333
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the definition of the Met Office's Public Task has been amended to take account of the reference to it in the most recent edition of the Cabinet Office Asset Portfolio; and if he will make a statement. | | (317583) | 334
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times the Prison-in-Reach working group referred to on the service personnel and veterans website has met in the last 12 months. | | [R] (317634) | 335
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) budget, (b) expenditure on administration and (c) expenditure on grants has been of the Veterans' Challenge Fund in each year since its inception. | | [R] (317637) | 336
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which projects have been supported by the Veterans' Challenge Fund in each year since its inception; and how much funding has been allocated to each such project in each such year. | | [R] (317638) | 337
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many calls have been received by the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency Veterans-UK Helpline in the month since that service was started. | | [R] (317639) | 338
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) cost and (b) circulation was of the publication Veterans World in the latest period for which figures are available. | | [R] (317640) | 339
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the Veterans-UK Helpline. | | [R] (317644) | 340
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the monthly occupancy rate for (a) ward and (b) other beds has been at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court since January 2003. | | (318022) | 341
N | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to monitor the effectiveness of the changes to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme announced on 10 February 2010. | | (318023) | 342
N | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, by what means lifetime earnings lost by reservists as a result of injuries sustained in service be (a) calculated and (b) accounted for in the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme following implementation of the changes to the Scheme announced on 10 February 2010. | | (318024) | 343
N | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost in 2009-10 to his Department of the changes to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme announced on 10 February 2010. | | (318027) | 344
N | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the compensation review for people injured since April 2005 announced on 10 February 2010 to be completed. | | (318028) | 345
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many follow-up visits former in-patients at DMRC Headley Court had on average in 2009. | | (318029) | 346
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many employees there have been in the Service Personnel and Veteran Agency in each month since its creation; and what expenditure his Department has incurred on the Agency in each year since it was established. | | (318030) | 347
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Director General Land Warfare has spent on entertainment in each of the last 12 months. | | (316901) | 348
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the salary is of a major general. | | (316902) | 349
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) major generals and (b) brigadiers there are in the army; and what the establishment is for each such rank. | | (316903) | 350
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) major generals and (b) brigadiers in the army are on gardening leave. | | (316904) | 351
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Director General Land Warfare spent on (a) car hire, (b) accommodation, (c) hotels and (d) air fares in each of the last 12 months. | | (316966) | 352
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2010, Official Report, column 654W, on housing, how much his Department spent on those properties in 2008-09. | | (317117) | 353
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was charged to occupants of Modern Housing Solutions accommodation for repair of damage caused by them to the accommodation in each of the last 12 months. | | (317328) | 354
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was charged to occupants of family accommodation owned by Amec Turner for repair of damage caused by them to the accommodation in each of the last five years. | | (317329) | 355
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) military equipment and (b) sensitive personal data was lost by his Department in the last 12 months. | | (317330) | 356
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2010, Official Report, column 810W, on armed forces: housing, who rented each of the 17 properties listed in the last 12 months. | | (317887) | 357
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many search and rescue missions were flown from HMS Gannet in each of the last five years. | | (317779) | 358
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) civilian and (b) service staff have been employed at HMS Gannet, Royal Navy Unit Prestwick in each of the last five years. | | (317780) | 359
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the maintenance costs were of HMS Gannet, Royal Navy Unit Prestwick in each of the last five years. | | (317781) | 360
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the end of service dates are of the helicopters in the Sea King fleet. | | (317782) | 361
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many naval vessels are permanently based in Scotland; and how many have been permanently based in Scotland in each year since 1997. | | (317783) | 362
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of each grade of his Department's single living accommodation housing stock in Scotland was empty in each of the last five years. | | (317784) | 363
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) service family and (b) single living properties designated as empty were subsequently removed from his Department's housing stock in Scotland in each of the last five years. | | (317785) | 364
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the estimated monetary value is of the property comprising Royal Navy Unit Prestwick; how much is planned to be spent on its redevelopment; and if there are plans to sell this facility. | | (317786) | 365
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs that will be lost as the result of the transfer of search and rescue operations from the Royal Navy Unit Prestwick to Glasgow; and what plans there are for the transfer of existing staff. | | (317787) | 366
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the monetary value is of the contract agreed with the Soteria Consortium for the provision of search and rescue services in Scotland. | | (317788) | 367
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect of the privatisation of search and rescue operations on local economies in Scotland. | | (317789) | 368
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department provides to military personnel upon discharge with regard to (a) employment needs, (b) housing needs and (c) financial planning advice; and if he will make a statement. | | (317790) | 369
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there is a minimum length of time that must be served by military personnel to qualify for entitlement to support services provided by his Department upon discharge. | | (317791) | 370
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the budget for support services offered by his Department to military personnel upon discharge has been in each of the last 10 years. | | (317792) | 371
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support is provided by his Department to military personnel upon discharge in respect of (a) trauma and psychological problems, (b) alcohol abuse and (c) drug abuse. | | (317793) | 372
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the 1999 protocol between the Deputy Chief of Defence Staff and the Director General of the Prison Service on the identification of former service personnel in prison to link them with their former regiment upon release is still in force; and if he will make a statement. | | (317794) | 373
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate the total expenditure under the defence budget of the military presence in the Falkland Islands since 1982; and what estimate he has made of such expenditure in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11. | | (317591) | 374
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2010, Official Report, column 813W, on departmental training, what the cost was of each media and communications training session. | | (317536) | 375
| Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what tasks (a) HMS Pembroke and (b) HMS Lancaster are currently deployed in the Middle East. | | (317326) | 376
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he will reply to the email from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire, dated 10 November 2009, on citation. | | (317249) | 377
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of improvised explosive devices identified by the armed forces in Afghanistan in each quarter of each of the last three years. | | (317965) | 378
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317235) | 379
N | Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future of Blandford Camp; and if he will make a statement. | | (317350) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 380
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the proportion of households in the priority group under (a) phase one of the Energy Efficiency Commitment (EEC), (b) phase two of the EEC and (c) the Carbon Emission Reduction Target programme which were in fuel poverty on the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (317064) | 381
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of fuel poor households which (a) have received assistance in respect of his Department's provision for each energy saving measure under each of the first two phases of the Energy Efficiency Commitment and the Carbon Emission Reduction Target (CERT) programme in each year since 2002-03 and (b) will receive assistance in respect of his Department's provision for each such measure under the extended CERT programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (317065) | 382
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will publish the findings of his Department's research on Willingness to Pay, prepared in conjunction with the Energy Saving Trust; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of that research | | (317066) | 383
| Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has paid to the legal firm Nabarro for services related to compensation to miners for (a) chest diseases, (b) vibration white finger and (c) miners' knee. | | (317257) | 384
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the level of fuel poverty in Salford. | | (317392) | 385
| Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of back boilers which have been replaced under the Warm Front scheme in (a) Mid Bedfordshire constituency, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) the East of England and (d) England in each year since its inception. | | (317531) | 386
| Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate his Department has made of the average waiting time for the installation of (a) heating and (b) insulation measures under the Warm Front scheme in (i) Mid Bedfordshire constituency, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) the East of England and (iv) England, Wales and Northern Ireland in each year since the scheme's inception. | | (317703) | 387
| Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will place in the Library a copy of (a) each leaflet and poster used to publicise each public consultation event held in the communities named as prospective sites for new nuclear build, (b) the printout of any Powerpoint presentation shown, (c) each DVD used and (d) all speeches made by Ministers or departmental officials at each such event. | | (317886) | 388
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department are disabled; and what the average salary in his Department is of (a) full-time disabled staff, (b) full-time non-disabled staff, (c) part-time disabled staff and (d) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317889) | 389
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions arising from the aviation industry in the UK in each of the last five years. | | (317630) | 390
| Alan Keen (Feltham & Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Feltham and Heston constituency, the effects on that constituency of changes to his Department's policies since its inception. | | (317106) | 391
N | Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what procedures govern the manner in which his Department replies by email to email correspondence from (a) hon. Members and (b) members of the public. | | (316980) | 392
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much electricity was supplied to the City of Nottingham from the national grid in each of the last 10 years. | | (317223) | 393
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the (a) consumable electrical output and (b) proportion of the maximum potential output generated by wind turbines during the severe weather conditions in December 2009 and January 2010; and what estimate he has made of the cost per unit of generating electricity from (i) wind turbines and (ii) non-renewable sources during that period. | | (316911) | 394
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department in each year since it was established; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317228) | 395
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when the Government plans to publish a response to the report Energy Security: a national challenge in a changing world. | | (317099) | 396
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what public relations companies have had contracts with (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible since his Department was established. | | (317365) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 397
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve the (a) coverage and (b) consistency of its long-term monitoring of the marine environment. | | (317959) | 398
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he last discussed air quality in London with the Mayor of London; and if he will make a statement. | | (317718) | 399
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that London meets air quality standards provided for in legislation; and if he will make a statement. | | (317724) | 400
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the Rural Payments Agency has decided to carry out remote sensing mapping induction in Gloucestershire; what the average time taken to process information gathered by the process is; for what reason such processes have delayed the award of single farm payments; and if he will take steps to expedite any payments so delayed. | | (317706) | 401
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his estimate is of the proportion of fish procured by the public sector which has stewardship council certification. | | (318031) | 402
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which public sector organisations have implemented the public sector procurement initiative guidance on procuring sustainable fish to date. | | (318032) | 403
N | Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of trees planted in England in each of the last 10 years. | | (317023) | 404
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to increase the net number of trees in the next five years. | | (317396) | 405
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) the executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317890) | 406
N | Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the estimated completion date is of his Department's review of the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations. | | (317795) | 407
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications he has received for EU (a) Protected Geographical Indication and (b) Protected Designation of Origin status for UK products in each of the last four years. | | (318008) | 408
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse of international travel undertaken by his Department has been since May 2007. | | (318009) | 409
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which companies were contracted by his Department for the provision of temporary staff in each of the last three years; how many temporary staff were employed by his Department in each such year; and what the monetary value was of contracts with each such company in each such year. | | (317996) | 410
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effects of ragwort on the health of horses and grazing stock. | | (317321) | 411
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward proposals to make his Department's guidance on controlling the spread of ragwort more effective. | | (317322) | 412
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations he has received on the consideration by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of complaints relating to veterinary services; and if he will bring forward proposals to amend the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 to provide for the regulation by his Department of complaints procedures in relation to veterinary services. | | (317006) | 413
| Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how frequently the Environment Agency monitors the effect on air quality of emissions from Langage power station. | | (317348) | 414
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317205) | 415
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications he has received for an EU Traditional Speciality Guaranteed designation for UK products in each of the last four years. | | (317924) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 416
N | Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what consideration his Department has given to pursuing the proposed Marine Protected Area project as a joint initiative with the government of Mauritius. | | (317696) | 417
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Algerian counterpart on responsibility for the treatment of Sahrawi refugees on Algeria's territory; and if he will make a statement. | | (317280) | 418
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Algerian counterpart on allowing exit visas for Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps; and if he will make a statement. | | (317281) | 419
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Algerian government on the case of Mr Sghair, a Sahrawi refugee, detained by the Polisario for three months for attempting to cross into Morocco; and if he will make a statement. | | (317282) | 420
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Algerian counterpart on allowing entire families overland visits from the refugee camps in Tindouf; and if he will make a statement. | | (317283) | 421
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) his Algerian counterpart and (b) the Polisario on a census to count and register the Sahrawi refugee population in the Tindouf camps; and if he will make a statement. | | (317284) | 422
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Algerian counterpart on Algeria's obligations under the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees in relation to the Sahrawi refugee camps; and if he will make a statement. | | (317285) | 423
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) his Algerian counterpart and (b) the Polisario on the United Nations High Commission on Refugees' confidence-building measures programme for the Sahrawi refugee population in the Tindouf camps; and if he will make a statement. | | (317286) | 424
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Ambassador of Algeria on conditions imposed by the Algerian government and the Polisario on refugee camps in Tindouf; and if he will make a statement. | | (317287) | 425
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the US Ambassador on the report of the United States Committee on Refugees and Immigrants on conditions imposed by Algeria and the Polisario on refugee camps in Tindouf; and if he will make a statement. | | (317288) | 426
| Derek Conway (Old Bexley & Sidcup): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Algerian counterpart on permission for entire families to leave the Sahrawi refugee camps to travel to Mauritania; and if he will make a statement. | | (317289) | 427
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects to publish a statement of the Government's approval to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review conference to be held in May 2010. | | (317849) | 428
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list all official visits to Gaza made by (a) Ministers, (b) Embassy officials based in Tel Aviv, (c) consular officials based in Jerusalem and (d) Embassy officials based in Cairo in each of the last three years. | | (318021) | 429
| Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the government of Thailand on its proposals to deport Karen refugees back to Burma. | | (317192) | 430
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of UK citizens living abroad in (a) each other EU member state and (b) all non-EU countries in (i) 1980, (ii) 1990, (iii) 2000 and (iv) the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (317719) | 431
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the merits of entering the Trident system into multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations prior to the start of the nuclear non proliferation treaty review conference in May 2010. | | (317577) | 432
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) the executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317891) | 433
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will provide assistance to the Libyan and Egyptian governments to help clear land mines between Tobruk and El Alamein left over from the Second World War. | | (317331) | 434
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bolton South East of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 234W, on Ukraine: human rights, what the policy of the Government is on the recognition as genocide of events which led to the Holodomor famine in Ukraine in 1932-33; and if he will make a statement. | | (317564) | 435
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will provide assistance to Morocco to seek to ensure that it receives UN recognition of its sovereignty over the Western Sahara. | | (317588) | 436
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will consider the merits of removing charges for the use of the premises of overseas posts by UK entrepreneurs holding receptions to promote products and services offered by their companies. | | (317991) | 437
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 10 February 2010, Official Report, columns 54-58WS, on Foreign and Commonwealth Office finances, how the planned foreign exchange adjustment account will operate; and in what ways it will (a) resemble and (b) differ from the Overseas Price Mechanism. | | (317625) | 438
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 10 February 2010, Official Report, columns 54-58WS, on Foreign and Commonwealth Office finances, which assets he expects to sell in order to raise the sum intended in the Statement; and what the (a) current book value and (b) estimated market value is of each such asset. | | (317627) | 439
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 10 February 2010, Official Report, columns 54-58WS, on Foreign and Commonwealth Office finances, what the (a) original agreed budget for 2010-11 and (b) budget reduction agreed in consequence of the effect of changes in the value of sterling is for (i) the British Council, (ii) the BBC World Service, (iii) Foreign and Commonwealth Office Services and (iv) each other agency and non-departmental public body for which his Department is responsible. | | (318025) | 440
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 10 February 2010, Official Report, columns 54-58WS, on Foreign and Commonwealth Office finances, how much his Department expects to save in 2010-11 as a result of each of the measures set out in the Statement. | | (318026) | 441
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to close any overseas posts during 2010-11. | | (318034) | 442
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what contact his Department has had with staff of the Colombian Embassy in relation to prisoners held for political reasons by the Colombian authorities in the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317799) | 443
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's policy is on meeting representatives of the democratic opposition in Cuba. | | (317110) | 444
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations the Government has made to the government of Colombia on the fate of (a) human rights defender Carmelo Agamez Berrio and (b) trade unionist Liliany Obando. | | (317882) | 445
| Mr Brooks Newmark (Braintree): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo on the arrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court of General Bosco Ntaganda. | | (317732) | 446
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much Government funding for non-military purposes has been allocated to the Falkland Islands since 1982. | | (317590) | 447
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of (a) profits and (b) royalties from oil reserves from the South Atlantic he expects to be allocated to (i) the Falkland Islands, (ii) other Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic and (iii) the UK. | | (317593) | 448
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will discuss with Ministerial colleagues the merits of sharing by all overseas territories in the South Atlantic the anticipated financial revenues generated from oil reserves in that region; and if he will make a statement. | | (317594) | 449
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will estimate the number of residents of the Falkland Islands, excluding military pesonnel, who are (a) permanent residents, (b) UK citizens from the Island of St Helena, (c) other UK citizens and (d) not UK citizens. | | (317596) | 450
N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Mauritius on the creation of a marine protected area around the Chagos archipelago. | | (317118) | 451
N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the state of relations between the UK and Mauritius. | | (317119) | 452
N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when Ministers and officials in his Department last met the Mauritian government to discuss bilateral issues. | | (317120) | 453
N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the remit is of the PEW Environment Group in providing services under his Department's contract for public consultation on the proposed marine protected area around the Chagos Archipelago; what the cost to his Department was of that contract; when he expects that group to report; to whom that group will report; and when he plans to publish the outcome of that consultation. | | (317121) | 454
| Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to submit his response to the request from the UN Secretary-General under paragraph 1 of UN General Assembly Resolution 64/117 for information and observations on the scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction, including information on judicial practice; whether that response will include details of the arrest warrant procedure in the UK; and if he will publish the response. | | (317364) | 455
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317202) | 456
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission employs; and what the Commission's salary cost was in the last 12 months for which figures are available. | | (317020) | 457
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many applications the Polar Regions Unit has (a) received and (b) granted for British expeditions to Antarctica in the last three years. | | (317079) | 458
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times the Diplomatic Service Appeal Board has met in each of the last three years. | | (317080) | 459
N | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission's scholarship programme. | | (317758) | 460
| Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what equipment owned by his Department has been (a) stolen and (b) otherwise unaccounted for in (i) Iraq and (ii) Afghanistan in each of the last three years; and what the cost of such equipment was. | | (317970) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 461
N | Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the median waiting time for (a) in-patient and (b) out-patient treatment was for patients in York in each year since 1997. | | (317222) | 462
| Hazel Blears (Salford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practitioner surgeries in Salford offered extended opening times in (a) 1997 and (b) the latest date for which information is available. | | (317393) | 463
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consideration his Department gives to (a) progression-free and (b) overall survival factors in its health technology appraisals. | | (317948) | 464
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what medicines (a) have been and (b) are being appraised through the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for supplementary advice for treatments extending life; which have met National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence criteria; what the outcomes were; and if he will make a statement. | | (317950) | 465
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's supplementary advice on the appraisal of end of life treatments in securing improved patient access to such treatments. | | (317951) | 466
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to encourage appropriate self-care by patients in treatment of minor ailments. | | (317952) | 467
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to educate patients on circumstances where (a) self-care is appropriate in the treatment of a minor ailments and (b) it is appropriate to seek medical advice. | | (317953) | 468
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has collected in charges for services to patients not entitled to free services in each year since such charges were introduced; and if he will make a statement. | | (317337) | 469
N | Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with (a) the West Midlands Specialised Commissioning Group and (b) primary care trusts in the West Midlands on the implementation of the West Midlands Neuromuscular Strategy. | | (316910) | 470
| Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to reduce the time taken for individual funding requests for drug treatment from patients with metastatic cancer to be processed. | | (317381) | 471
| Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the performance of each primary care trust in meeting the timescales set out in the National Prescribing Centre's guidance on Principles for Processes Supporting Local Decision-making about Medicines in (a) decision making, (b) communication of outcome, (c) case type and (d) appeals processes. | | (317382) | 472
| Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the incidence of kidney cancer was in each region in each of the last five years. | | (317509) | 473
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the use of accident and emergency departments at (a) University College Hospital, (b) the Royal Free Hospital, (c) Whittington Hospital, (d) Barnet General Hospital, (e) North Middlesex Hospital and (f) Chase Farm Hospital in each year since 2000. | | (318019) | 474
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with officials of North Central London Health Authorities on the provision of accident and emergency departments; and what consultation there has been on the future provision of emergency and intensice care facilities. | | (318020) | 475
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what comparative information on health inequalities in Islington his Department holds on (a) teenage pregnancy, (b) infant mortality, (c) life expectancy, (d) obesity and (e) HIV/AIDS in (i) 1990, (ii) 1995, (iii) 2000, (iv) 2005 and (v) the latest date for which figures are available. | | (318033) | 476
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements are being made for the relocation of Health Protection Agency staff and activities from Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle; and how many such (a) staff and (b) activities have so far been relocated and to each site. | | (318000) | 477
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding has been allocated under the National Stroke Strategy to each local authority in Tyne and Wear; and in which years those allocations were (a) made and (b) spent on each (i) project and (ii) service. | | (318007) | 478
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has given to regional health authorities in England who are undertaking reviews of acute hospital sectors; and if he will make a statement. | | (317716) | 479
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of non-UK citizens working for the NHS in England; and if he will make a statement. | | (317720) | 480
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the expenditure envelope for the NHS in England is for the next five years. | | (317987) | 481
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what indications for planning purposes his Department has given to strategic health authorities in England for NHS spending for the next (a) three and (b) five years in (i) cash and (ii) real terms; and what assumptions have been made for (A) inflation and (B) efficiency savings. | | (317988) | 482
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on health of the combination of polydrug and alcohol abuse by those under the age of 18 years old. | | (317552) | 483
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of former prisoners died as a result of a heroin overdose within (a) one week, (b) one month and (c) one year of their release from prison in the last three years. | | (317553) | 484
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by what mechanism the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse liaises with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. | | (317555) | 485
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reports he has received of the progress of the European Commission's risk assessment of mephedrone. | | (317557) | 486
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued to (a) primary care trusts and (b) regional procurement hubs in ensuring that commissioning arrangements for the provision of urology and stoma devices take account of the outcomes of the most recent Part IX review consultation. | | (317934) | 487
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms his Department plans to put in place to ensure consistency in the use of local tenders and product formularies for urology products and services in primary care, with particular reference to the outcomes of the most recent Part IX review consultation. | | (317935) | 488
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the use of local tenders and product formularies for urology products does not affect the availability of Part IX products to patients who gain access to them through the prescription process. | | (317936) | 489
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department has allocated for research into the causes of Alzheimer's disease in each of the last three years. | | (317778) | 490
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made by his Department in producing a national autism strategy; and when he expects to issue guidance to local authorities and strategic health authorities. | | (317883) | 491
| Christopher Fraser (South West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with a diagnosis of prostate cancer were recorded as having received treatment by (a) watchful waiting, (b) active surveillance, (c) radical prostatectomy, (d) laparoscopic prostatectomy, (e) robotic prostatectomy, (f) low-dose rate brachytherapy, (g) high-dose rate brachytherapy, (h) cryotherapy, (i) external beam radiotherapy, (j) hormone therapy, (k) high intensity ultrasound, (l) chemotherapy, (m) bisphosphonates and (n) another method in each primary care trust commissioning area of responsibility in each year since 1997-98. | | (317710) | 492
| Christopher Fraser (South West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) mean and (b) median waiting time was for patients with a diagnosis of prostate cancer as an (i) in-patient and (ii) out-patient (A) in England and (B) in each NHS trust was in each year since 1997-98. | | (317711) | 493
| Christopher Fraser (South West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) mean and (b) median length of an inpatient hospital stay was for patients with a diagnosis of prostate cancer (i) in England and (ii) in each NHS trust was in each year since 1997-98. | | (317712) | 494
| Christopher Fraser (South West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions for (a) goserelin, (b) leuprorelin acetate, (c) buserelin acetate, (d) triptorelin, (e) bicalutamide, (f) flutamide, (g) cyproterone acetate and (h) diethylstilbestrol there were in (i) England, (ii) each primary care trust area and (iii) each constituency in each year since 1997. | | (317713) | 495
| Christopher Fraser (South West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) mean and (b) median referral-to-treatment wating time has been for patients with a diagnosis of prostate cancer (i) in England and (ii) in each NHS trust in each month since January 2007. | | (317714) | 496
| Christopher Fraser (South West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on hormonal therapy prescriptions for prostate cancer in (a) England, (b) each primary care trust area and (c) each constituency since 2007. | | (317715) | 497
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provisions exist in the NHS blood and transplant contract in respect of the re-sale of blood and blood components by private hospitals; and on what date the contract entered into force. | | (317272) | 498
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to strategic health authorities on the availability of tests to pregnant women for Group B streptococcus infection. | | (317273) | 499
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many infant deaths were due to (a) early and (b) late onset Group B streptococcus infection in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317274) | 500
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault by bodily force on school premises in each year since 1997. | | (317669) | 501
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault by bodily force on in each year since 1997. | | (317670) | 502
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault by (a) a sharp object and (b) a blunt object on school premises in each year since 1997. | | (317671) | 503
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault with (a) a sharp object and (b) a blunt object in each year since 1997. | | (317672) | 504
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault of having been hit, struck, kicked, twisted or scratched by another person in each year since 1997. | | (317673) | 505
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault of having been hit, struck, kicked, twisted or scratched by another person on school premises in each year since 1997. | | (317674) | 506
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an attack by dog in each year since 1997. | | (317675) | 507
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault involving (a) a knife, (b) a sword and (c) a dagger in each year since 1997. | | (317676) | 508
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault involving (a) a knife, (b) a sword and (c) a dagger on school premises in each year since 1997. | | (317677) | 509
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an attack by a dog on school premises in each year since 1997. | | (317678) | 510
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of gunshot wounds caused by a handgun in each year since 1997. | | (317679) | 511
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of gunshot wounds caused by a handgun on school premises in each year since 1997. | | (317680) | 512
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of gunshot wounds caused by (a) a rifle, (b) a shotgun and (c) a larger firearm in each year since 1997. | | (317681) | 513
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of gunshot wounds caused by (a) a rifle, (b) a shotgun and (c) a larger firearm on school premises in each year since 1997. | | (317682) | 514
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age have been admitted to hospital for injuries sustained by assault by (a) hanging, (b) strangulation and (c) suffocation on school premises in each year since 1997. | | (317683) | 515
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each age have been admitted to hospital for injuries sustained by assault by (a) hanging, (b) strangulation and (c) suffocation in each year since 1997. | | (317684) | 516
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data accident and emergency departments are obliged to (a) collect and (b) return to his Department regarding causes of admission. | | (317827) | 517
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) the executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317892) | 518
| Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date the age at which men are entitled to free prescriptions will rise in line with the increase in the state retirement age for women; and if he will make a statement. | | (317925) | 519
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2010, Official report, columns 64-5W, on prescription drugs, what legal advice his Department sought in preparing the elements of the partial impact assessment relating to professional liability and automatic generic substitution; and if he will make a statement. | | (317846) | 520
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assistance his Department has provided to NHS Peterborough to reduce their budget deficit for 2010-11; and if he will make a statement. | | (317360) | 521
N | Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been made of the likely effects on the operational response to a public health incident of the transfer of the Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response from Porton Down to Terlings Park during the transfer period. | | (316907) | 522
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements are in place for the Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response to provide advice to the organisers of the London 2012 Olympics. | | (317195) | 523
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been made of the effects on levels of competition in the urology industry of the development of local primary care trust tenders for the provision of urology products and services; and if he will make a statement. | | (317340) | 524
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been made of the effects on patient choice of the increasing use of tenders and formularies in primary care for urology and stoma products and services; and if he will make a statement. | | (317341) | 525
| Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department is doing to ensure that the use of local primary care trust tenders and product formularies for urology products does not prevent patients being able to access their choice of Part IX products via the normal prescription process; and if he will make a statement. | | (317342) | 526
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, under what budget headings he expects the estimated £2.7 billion of savings consequent on moving more care from hospital to home to be made. | | (317116) | 527
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have been treated for symptoms of swine influenza at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton in the last 12 months. | | (317973) | 528
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many appointments at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton were cancelled by patients in the last 12 months. | | (317974) | 529
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many private patients were treated at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton in the last 12 months. | | (317975) | 530
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients' complaints were rectified by Patient Liaison and Advice Service Level at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton in 2009. | | (317976) | 531
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton is expected to meet its target to abolish mixed sex accommodation by the end of 2010. | | (317977) | 532
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many single occupancy rooms are available for patients at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton. | | (317978) | 533
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on advertisements on television and commercial radio on NHS services since 2005. | | (317101) | 534
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has been made of the cost to the public purse of delivering the Family Nurse Partnership nationwide. | | (317139) | 535
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has made an estimate of the number of people there are in England who have been adversely affected by the drug Primodos. | | (317688) | 536
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to assess the needs of those adversely affected by Primodos; and if he will make a statement. | | (317689) | 537
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many referrals were made by NHS Direct services in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009. | | (317690) | 538
| Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost of a call to NHS Direct was in 2009. | | (317691) | 539
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many elderly people resident in Cumbria are in receipt of elderly care; and what the projected figure is of the number of people requiring elderly care in each year up to 2020. | | (317685) | 540
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that elderly people living in poverty have access to an equal standard of elderly care; and if he will make a statement. | | (317686) | 541
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of care charges on users of elderly care services (a) in England, (b) in Cumbria and (c) amongst elderly people living in poverty. | | (317687) | 542
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many pregnancies of girls aged between 15 and 19 years there were in each of the last 30 years; and what assessment he has made of trends in the level of such pregnancies. | | (317966) | 543
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of those with a diagnosis of asthma were exempt from paying prescription charges in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (316964) | 544
N | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made by his Department in producing a national autism strategy. | | (317349) | 545
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many emergency admissions relating to orthopaedic injuries there were in each primary care trust in England in (a) November, (b) December and (c) January in each of the last five years. | | (317197) | 546
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors have been employed in each primary care trust in the North West in each year since 1997. | | (317207) | 547
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317229) | 548
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will extend the deadline before which primary care trusts must name their preferred option for their future organisational structure for the purposes of his Transforming Community Services programme to a date later than the end of March 2010. | | (317021) | 549
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what factors he took into account in determining the timetable for the Transforming Community Services programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (317022) | 550
N | Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2010, Official Report, column 558W, on drugs: testing, if he will commission research on the comparative (a) safety and (b) effectiveness of (i) human biology-based testing and (ii) animal testing of new drugs and treatments. | | (317610) | 551
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been treated as an (a) in-patient and (b) out-patient for a mental health condition (i) in Leicester, (ii) in the East Midlands and (iii) nationally in each of the last five years. | | (317351) | 552
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been (a) killed and (b) seriously injured by a person who has received treatment for mental health reasons in the three years before the incident (i) in Leicester, (ii) in the East Midlands and (iii) nationally in each of the last 10 years. | | (317352) | 553
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been (a) killed and (b) seriously injured by a person who has received treatment for mental health reasons (i) in Leicester, (ii) in the East Midlands and (iii) nationally in each of the last 10 years. | | (317353) | 554
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of independent investigations commissioned relating to patients receiving treatment for mental health reasons (a) in the East Midlands and (b) nationally in each of the last five years. | | (317354) | 555
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many independent investigations commissioned relating to patients receiving treatment for mental health reasons have been commissioned (a) in the East Midlands and (b) nationally in each of the last five years. | | (317358) | 556
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS East Midlands spent on independent investigations relating to the care of patients in each of the last five years. | | (317366) | 557
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost to NHS East Midlands was of the independent investigation into the death of Karen Godden, reference 2007/9913. | | (317377) | 558
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve the provision of needs-based services to support stroke survivors and their carers in the long-term; and if he will make a statement. | | (317926) | 559
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to require the provision of appropriate stroke-specific training for care home staff. | | (317927) | 560
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to implement the proposals of the English Stroke Strategy on psychological support and regular reviews for everyone who has had a stroke. | | (317928) | 561
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to healthcare professionals on improvement of recognition rates for vascular dementia; and what progress has been made in implementing his Department's dementia strategies. | | (317929) | 562
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to raise (a) public and (b) professional awareness of (i) risk factors for stroke and (ii) effective primary prevention measures at individual, family, community and societal levels; and if he will make a statement. | | (317930) | 563
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on public health measures to reduce exposure to risk factors for stroke in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. | | (317931) | 564
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to develop community-based stroke prevention services with the voluntary sector, the NHS and local authorities; and if he will make a statement. | | (317932) | 565
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to implement the National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of transient ischaemic attack and minor stroke; and if he will make a statement. | | (317933) | 566
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will issue guidance to ambulance services on the agreement of stroke protocols with hospitals with acute and hyper-acute stroke units. | | (317938) | 567
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will issue guidance on the treatment of stroke as an emergency, with particular reference to appropriate access to brain scanning and thrombolysis and immediate admission to an acute stroke unit. | | (317939) | 568
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to provide for every patient with stroke to be treated in a high quality stroke unit for the duration of their hospital treatment. | | (317940) | 569
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to require all stroke units to meet the criteria set out in clinical stroke guidelines and by the British Association of Stroke Physicians. | | (317941) | 570
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will issue guidance on the (a) appropriate knowledge and skills relating to stroke and (b) appropriate training in stroke for all NHS staff working in emergency and acute care. | | (317942) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 571
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons entitlement to free passports for those over the age of 80 years was withdrawn; and if he will make a statement. | | (317172) | 572
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Irish people extradited to the UK from the US were subsequently convicted of an offence related to terrorism in the last 30 years. | | (317189) | 573
N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces have had responsibility for the enforcement of a control order upon an individual since 2005; how many control orders each such force has been responsible for enforcing in that period; and what estimate he has made of the cost to each such force of discharging such responsibilities. | | (316105) | 574
N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expenditure was incurred on private security firms engaged by police forces for the enforcement of control orders in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) 2009. | | (316106) | 575
N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's total expenditure incurred in respect of the Control Order Review Group was in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) 2009. | | (316107) | 576
N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of legal action associated with control orders in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) 2009. | | (316108) | 577
N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what awards for costs were made against the Government in respect of individuals appealing against control orders put upon them in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) 2009. | | (316109) | 578
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the Nationality Checking Service to be available in Northern Ireland. | | (318063) | 579
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders who have been subject to the (a) Early Removal and (b) Facilitated Return scheme have been (i) charged with and (ii) convicted of a further offence. | | (317314) | 580
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of custodial sentence has been of a foreign national prisoner participating in the (a) Early Removal and (b) Facilitated Return scheme. | | (317315) | 581
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners of each nationality have participated in the (a) Early Removal and (b) Facilitated Return scheme in each year since their inception. | | (317316) | 582
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the monetary value of the average financial package received by foreign national prisoners is as a result of participation in the (a) Early Removal and (b) Facilitated Return scheme. | | (317317) | 583
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners participating in the (a) Early Removal and (b) Facilitated Return scheme were serving a custodial sentence of (i) four years or less, (ii) three years or less and (iii) two years or less at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (317318) | 584
| Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reports under each category of violent crime have been made in each (a) local authority area in Tyne and Wear and (b) police authority in the North East since April 2005; what changes have been made to the definitions of each category in that period; and what discretion police forces have in respect of the categorisation of such crimes. | | (317993) | 585
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps the Government has taken to tackle human trafficking. | | (316983) | 586
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of human trafficking were identified in the UK in 2008. | | (316984) | 587
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to identify victims of human trafficking. | | (316985) | 588
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Sri Lankan citizens are being held in detention in (a) prison and (b) immigration removal centres. | | (317334) | 589
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Sri Lankan citizens have been deported since 1 May 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (317335) | 590
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken to secure the transfer to UK jurisdiction of an alleged criminal from each member state of the European Union was (a) in each of the last three years before and (b) after the entry into force of the provisions of the European Arrest Warrant; and if he will make a statement. | | (317727) | 591
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many European Arrest Warrants have been (a) sought and (b) obtained by police forces and other organisations in England in respect of (i) each category of crime and (ii) each other member state; and if he will make a statement. | | (317728) | 592
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on changes in the pattern of cocaine use in the last 10 years. | | (317554) | 593
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration he has given to the inclusion of a question on mephedrone use in the British Crime Survey. | | (317556) | 594
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations he has received from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in respect of mephedrone use. | | (317558) | 595
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visitor's visas were sponsored by residents of the London Borough of Bexley in the last three years. | | (317362) | 596
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for leave to remain in the UK were made outside the immigration rules in the last 12 months. | | (317363) | 597
| Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 4 student applications are pending in each consulate in the Indian sub-continent as a result of the suspension of processing; how many dependants are included in such applications; whether such applications will be considered against the criteria in force at the time of their application or under the new criteria; and whether applicants enrolled in education institutions which have subsequently had their licence to sponsor suspended or revoked will be refused a visa. | | (317851) | 598
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) fixed penalty notices, (b) conditional cautions and (c) public disorder notices were issued in England and Wales in each year since 2005. | | (317275) | 599
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the methodology used in the compilation of national crime statistics has been changed or redefined since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (317276) | 600
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people employed (a) on his Department's premises and (b) by an agency of his Department were found to have been working illegally in the UK in each year since 1997. | | (317546) | 601
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) murders and (b) sexual offences recorded in (i) each police force area and (ii) England and Wales, in each year since 1998 remain unsolved. | | (317568) | 602
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent policing football matches in (a) each police force area and (b) England and Wales in each year since 2003. | | (317570) | 603
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many special advisers have been employed by his Department in each year since 1997; and what the average salary was for those special advisers in each such year. | | (317576) | 604
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of (a) arson, (b) violence against the person, (c) sexual offences, (d) robbery and (e) burglary have been recorded as having taken place on the grounds of (i) educational establishments and (ii) hospitals or medical centres in each year since 1998. | | (317578) | 605
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the expenditure was of the UK Football Policing Unit in England and Wales in each year since 2003. | | (317579) | 606
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations have not been completed in the last five years. | | (317582) | 607
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 5 February 2008, Official Report, columns 997-1004W, on police: finance, what the equivalent data are for 2008-09. | | (317606) | 608
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what quantity and street value of class (a) A, (b) B and (c) C drugs was seized (i) in each police force area, (ii) at all major UK entry points and (iii) in England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (317607) | 609
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) new and (b) amended powers relating to the possession of a concealed weapon have been created by legislation sponsored by his Department since 1997. | | (317608) | 610
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding his Department allocated for the (a) recruitment and (b) training of police officers in each year since 1997. | | (317611) | 611
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many work permits carrying entitlement to settlement in the UK were issued to non-EU citizens in each year since 2005. | | (317635) | 612
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests were made by police officers in each year since 1999; and what the average number of arrests per police officer was in each such year. | | (317641) | 613
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will estimate the number of vehicles stolen during robberies and domestic burglaries in (a) London, (b) each police force area and (c) nationally in each year since 1998. | | (317661) | 614
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many time-served foreign prisoners held in the UK border Agency's detention estate (a) went missing without permission and (b) re-offended whilst being held in each year since 1998. | | (317662) | 615
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average period of time taken to deport time-served foreign prisoners held in the UK Border Agency's detention estate was in each year since 1998. | | (317663) | 616
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many assaults upon police community support officers have been recorded in each of the last five years. | | (317664) | 617
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many powers relating to cybercrime have been (a) created and (b) amended by legislation sponsored by his Department since 1997. | | (317665) | 618
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many powers relating to immigration have been (a) created and (b) amended by legislation sponsored by his Department since 1997. | | (317666) | 619
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of citizens arrests made by the public in each of the last five years. | | (317668) | 620
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many certificates were issued for (a) firearms and (b) explosives in each year since 1998. | | (317759) | 621
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal immigrants have been found (a) in total and (b) at each of the main ports of entry to the United Kingdom in each year since 1997. | | (317764) | 622
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have received (a) fatal, (b) serious and (c) slight injuries in the course of a crime involving a (i) gun and (ii) knife in each year since 1997. | | (317765) | 623
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expenditure his private office incurred on (a) entertainment, (b) travel and (c) overnight subsistence in each of the last five years. | | (317766) | 624
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many persistent and prolific offenders have been identified in (a) total and (b) each police force area in each of the last five years. | | (317767) | 625
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which faith-based organisations his Department has made grants in each of the last five years; and what the (a) monetary value and (b) purpose of the grant was in each case. | | (317768) | 626
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many registered sex offenders were found not be living at their registered address in the last five years. | | (317771) | 627
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) drug dealers, (b) people dealing in counterfeit currency and (c) people dealing in counterfeit goods in England and Wales in each of the last five years. | | (317772) | 628
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) individuals and (b) asylum seekers resident in the UK are on the UN list of those belonging to or associated with al-Qaeda. | | (317773) | 629
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how many years the group Hizb ut-Tahrir has been active in the UK. | | (317825) | 630
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his most recent estimate is of the (a) average and (b) average target response time for police attendance at the scene of an incident following a 999 call in (i) each police force area and (ii) England and Wales. | | (317826) | 631
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of prolific and priority offenders there were in each of the last 10 years. | | (317828) | 632
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times on average a failed asylum seeker was transferred betwen detention centres prior to removal or deportation in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317829) | 633
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many attempts were made to gain unauthorised access to each (a) database and (b) ICT system run by his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317830) | 634
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people of each nationality were granted UK citizenship (a) between 1980 and 1987 and (b) between 1988 and 1997; and how many have been granted UK citizenship since 1997. | | (317831) | 635
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what items valued at above £100 were reported as stolen from his Department's buildings or premises in the last 12 months. | | (317832) | 636
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many football banning orders were (a) issued and (b) breached in each year since 2003. | | (317835) | 637
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his most recent estimate is of the proportion of police (a) time and (b) budget spent on tackling (i) gang related crimes, (ii) robbery, (iii) criminal damage and (iv) sexual offences. | | (317836) | 638
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests on average were made at football matches in (a) each police force area and (b) England and Wales in each year since 2003. | | (317837) | 639
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which constituencies the rate of (a) violent crime, (b) sexual offences and (c) robbery increased between 2002-03 and 2008-09. | | (317885) | 640
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many breathalyser tests were conducted by the police on drivers in each police force area in each year since 1998; and how many people (a) passed, (b) failed and (c) refused to take that test in each such area in each such year. | | (317949) | 641
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies incurred on translators in each year since 1998. | | (317982) | 642
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many press and communications officers and staff were employed by his Department at what cost in each year since 1997; and how many briefings his Department has held for the media in each such year. | | (318037) | 643
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department has issued to police forces on removing records from the Police National Computer relating to people who have had their DNA profile removed from the National DNA Database as an exceptional case; and if he will make a statement. | | (317148) | 644
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many personal records have been removed from the Police National Computer in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317149) | 645
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the UK Border Agency spent on overtime payments to civil servants at grade (a) 5 and (b) 6 in each of the last two years. | | (317150) | 646
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Border Agency staff there were at Civil Service grade (a) 5, (b) 6 and (c) 7 on 1 January 2010. | | (317151) | 647
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people under (a) 16, (b) 18 and (c) 21 years old had their profile stored on the National DNA Database on 1 January 2010. | | (317152) | 648
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from each ethnic minority had a profile stored on the National DNA Database on 1 January 2010. | | (317153) | 649
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of current Tier 4 sponsors in each category who will be accepted onto the new Highly Trusted Sponsor List. | | (317154) | 650
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dependants of those with a (a) student visa and (b) student visa relating to a course lasting less than six months entered the UK in 2008. | | (317155) | 651
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the likely effects on student visitors of implementing the changes proposed in the recent review of Tier 4 of the points-based immigration system. | | (317167) | 652
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of British citizens who hold a valid (a) UK passport and (b) UK biometric passport. | | (317215) | 653
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 25 January 2010, Official Report, column 41WS, on identity cards, how many people aged between 16 and 24 years old registered their interest in a voluntary identity card by 1 January 2010. | | (317243) | 654
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2010, Official Report, column 587W, on UK Border Agency: contracts, which contractors were awarded the 13 UK Border Agency contracts valued at over £2 million in 2009. | | (317244) | 655
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department paid in compensation to the families of asylum seekers (a) in total and (b) in respect of unlawful detention in each of the last five years. | | (317367) | 656
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) the executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317897) | 657
| John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reports he has received on (a) an ongoing hunger strike by women at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre and (b) the reasons given by those women for taking that action; and if he will make a statement. | | (317379) | 658
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment is made of the mental well-being of detainees in immigration detention centres. | | (317698) | 659
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders were issued in respect of people (a) under the age of 16 years, (b) aged between 17 and 18 years, (c) aged between 19 and 25 years and (d) over the age of 25 years in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009. | | (317699) | 660
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the management of the Forensic Science Service in London on the future of the London site after the expiry of its lease in 2013. | | (317842) | 661
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with Greater Manchester Police Force on its decision to hold back all volume crime work from processing by the Forensic Science Service until the next financial year; and if he will make a statement. | | (317843) | 662
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether relocation packages will be available for skilled Forensic Science Service staff who are to be made redundant at sites listed for closure; and if he will make a statement. | | (317844) | 663
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his latest estimate is of the number of redundancies at each Forensic Science Service for which closure is planned. | | (317845) | 664
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 18 March 2009, Official Report, column 1154W, on anti-Semitism, whether the five data requirements of hate crime have been added to the annual police community safety figures; and what data has been collected on anti-Semitic incidents. | | (317103) | 665
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 18 March 2009, Official Report, column 1154W, on anti-Semitism, what meetings the cross-government champion on reducing incitement on the internet has attended in that role; and what the outcomes were of these meetings. | | (317104) | 666
| Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2010, Official Report, column 1127W, on anti-Semitism, whether figures on occurrences of anti-Semitism have been added to the annual data requirements for police community safety figures. | | (317145) | 667
N | Chris Huhne (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to answer Question 310383, on fingerprints in passports, tabled on 7 January 2010. | | (317196) | 668
N | Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will review the mechanisms by which his Department considers immigration applications from adults who arrived in the UK as children for the purposes of ensuring consistency in his Department's decisions on whether to grant leave to remain in such cases; and if he will make a statement. | | (317380) | 669
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2008, Official Report, columns 756-7W, on vetting: compensation, how much the Criminal Records Bureau has paid in financial awards to provide redress for customers for maladministration since 1997. | | (317218) | 670
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers there were in (i) 1997, (ii) 2001, (iii) 2005 and (iv) 2009 and (b) police community support officers there were in (i) 2005 and (ii) 2009 in South Yorkshire. | | (317108) | 671
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will introduce free passports for people aged 75 years or more. | | (317111) | 672
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people resident in the West Midlands have been (a) charged with and (b) convicted of trafficking for sexual exploitation in each year since 2004. | | (315958) | 673
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many cases in which a person suspected of having raped a child was issued with a caution the decision to issue a caution was taken on grounds of the inability of the alleged victim to give evidence in the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317725) | 674
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons a caution was issued in respect of (a) rape and (b) other offences of abuse of a child in the last five years. | | (317726) | 675
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the appropriateness of the level of fees for spouse settlement visas; and how much revenue accrued from such fees in each of the last five years. | | (317560) | 676
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of applications for spouse settlement visas was rejected in each of the last five years; how much revenue accrued in fees in respect of reapplications; and what the percentage increase in fee charges was in each of the last five years. | | (317561) | 677
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy for fees charged for visas to increase in line with inflation. | | (317562) | 678
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many violent crimes against the person have been recorded by police forces in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years. | | (317960) | 679
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the incidence of domestic violence in England and Wales in each of the last 30 years; if he will make it his policy to record domestic violence incidents as a separate crime category; and if he will make a statement. | | (317962) | 680
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many homicides (a) of and (b) by children there have been in each of the last 30 years; and what assessment he has made of trends in the levels of such homicides. | | (317967) | 681
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people of each country of origin were (a) granted and (b) refused asylum in each quarter of (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009; and if he will make a statement. | | (317198) | 682
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317204) | 683
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate he has made of the number of unlicensed handguns in circulation in (a) England and (b) the North West; and if he will make a statement. | | (317549) | 684
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many drivers have received a fixed penalty notice for using the bus lane on the M4 in each of the last five years. | | (317194) | 685
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas his Department issued in (a) Tirana, (b) Kiev and (c) Chisinau (i) in each of the last three years and (ii) in 2010 on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (317798) | 686
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appeals of visa decisions taken in (a) Tirana, (b) Kiev and (c) Chisinau were (i) upheld and (ii) dismissed in (A) each of the last three years and (B) on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (317912) | 687
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appeals there were of visa decisions relating to applications received in (a) Tirana, (b) Kiev and (c) Chisinau in (i) each of the last three years and (ii) in 2010 on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (317914) | 688
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications were refused in (a) Tirana, (b) Kiev and (c) Chisinau in (i) each of the last three years and (ii) on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (317915) | 689
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Minister with responsibility for entry clearance last visited (a) Tirana, (b) Kiev and (c) Chisinau. | | (317917) | 690
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on average how long it took for an explanatory statement relating to a visa decision to be sent to London from (a) Tirana, (b) Kiev and (c) Chisinau in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317918) | 691
N | Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa officers were employed in (a) Tirana, (b) Kiev and (c) Chisinau in (i) each of the last three years and (ii) 2010 on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (318016) | 692
| Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on advertising by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in 2009. | | (317653) | 693
| Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on external consultants and advisers by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in 2009. | | (317654) | 694
| Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to his Department of its international travel has been since May 2007. | | (317655) | 695
N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the economic impact of increasing the minimum level at which non-EU students may come to the UK for study from National Qualifications Framework Level 3 to Level 4. | | (316912) | Questions to the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission 696
| Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what estimate the House of Commons Commission has made of the average daily usage of the proposed nursery by children of (a) hon. Members, (b) staff of the House of Commons Service, (c) staff of hon. Members and (d) others in its first 12 months of operation. | | (317123) | 697
| Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what estimate the House of Commons Commission has made of the (a) running cost and (b) income of the proposed nursery in the first 12 months of its operation. | | (317124) | 698
| Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what estimate he has made of the cost of converting Bellamy's Bar, Bellamy's Club Room and the Astor Suite and surrounding rooms into a crèche, including the cost of all other construction work required associated with the crèche. | | (317550) | 699
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, under what budgetary headings the House of Commons Commission has incurred expenditure in relation to (a) the review of the Additional Cost Allowance and (b) Sir Paul Kennedy's review. | | (316965) | 700
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the cost to the House has been of responding to requests made under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. | | (317263) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 701
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department are disabled; and what the average salary in his Department is of (a) full-time disabled staff, (b) full-time non-disabled staff, (c) part-time disabled staff and (d) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317893) | 702
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from his Department's buildings in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009. | | (317246) | 703
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which non-governmental organisations are receiving funding from his Department to conduct aid work in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Pakistan; and how much each is receiving in 2009-10. | | (317247) | 704
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library copies of the proposals received by his Department for funding each project which is to receive funding from the Civil Society Challenge Fund 2010. | | (317592) | 705
| Mr Brooks Newmark (Braintree): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will take steps to (a) ensure local HIV positive survivors of the Rwandan genocide continue to receive targeted support and (b) support local organisations in Rwanda in providing services to HIV positive genocide survivors after March 2010. | | (317224) | 706
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department has allocated to support work with refugees from (a) Iraq, (b) Afghanistan, (c) Sudan, (d) Somalia and (e) Rwanda in 2009-10. | | (318006) | 707
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether an assessment has been made of the damage to projects in Gaza which have been (a) built and (b) financed by Government money since the Oslo Peace Accords. | | (317323) | 708
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, to what (a) infrastructure, (b) institutions and (c) civic sites that have been built in Gaza since the Oslo Peace Accords the Government has contributed funding. | | (317324) | 709
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the oral Answer from the Prime Minister of 13 January 2010, Official report, column 688, on Western Sahara, when the level of aid to the Western Sahara will be increased. | | (317847) | 710
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department has spent in each developing country on promoting good governance in 2009-10 to date; and how much it spent in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09. | | (317199) | 711
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding his Department has allocated to supporting parliaments in developing countries in 2009-10 to date; and how much funding it allocated in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09. | | (317200) | 712
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317225) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 713
N | Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding the Youth Justice Board is providing to the Prison Service's Women and Young People Group in 2009-10. | | (317525) | 714
N | Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many custodial sentences have been imposed on young offenders in each youth offending team area in each of the last six months. | | (317526) | 715
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many intensive fostering places are available under the Youth Rehabiliation Order in each youth offending team area; what the average cost per place is; and whether he plans to increase the number of places available under that Order. | | (317548) | 716
| Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many young offenders received remand decisions of (a) conditional bail, (b) unconditional bail, (c) local authority accommodation and (d) custody in each youth offending team area in the last six month period for which figures are available. | | (317575) | 717
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps his Department has taken to support victims of human trafficking. | | (316986) | 718
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of illicit drug seizures within prisons was attributed to (a) sniffer dogs, (b) closed circuit television, (c) strip searches, (d) intimate searches, (e) searches of prison cells and (f) police intelligence in each of the last five years. | | (317397) | 719
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether a positive mandatory drug test automatically results in the search of a prison cell. | | (317398) | 720
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance has been issued on the procedure to be followed by prison service staff when a sniffer dog makes a positive indication of the presence of illicit drugs on (a) a visitor, (b) a contractor, (c) a prisoner and (d) a prison officer. | | (317399) | 721
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) passive and (b) active dogs there are in each prison in England and Wales; and on what basis they are distributed. | | (317400) | 722
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will instruct legal aid providers to withdraw support from an individual in circumstances in which that individual presents a continuing threat to others, with particular reference to offences of paedophilia and rape. | | (317527) | 723
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of offenders who (a) on release from custodial sentences and (b) on commencement of a community sentence, are moved to a different geographical area from their home address for (i) reasons of rehabilitation, (ii) reasons of victim safety and (iii) other reasons. | | (318045) | 724
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) UK, (b) Irish and (c) other EEA nationals are serving a sentence of (i) mandatory life imprisonment, (ii) discretionary life imprisonment and (iii) imprisonment for public protection. | | (318048) | 725
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what date his Department ceased to collect data on the number of women who had given birth while serving a sentence of imprisonment. | | (318049) | 726
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2010, Official Report, column 792W, on prisons: release, how many of the 12 serving ex-prisoners who have not been back into the criminal justice system since their release in error have committed further offences; what the original offence was for which each was convicted; and what proportion of the original sentence each had served at the date of release. | | (318052) | 727
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in what locations his Department intends to provide the 3,500 further prison places announced for 2010; how many will be (a) part of new-build prisons, (b) additions to existing prisons and (c) refurbished disused cells in existing prisons; and how many will have been brought on stream at the end of each month in 2010. | | (318053) | 728
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made in (a) trialling and (b) evaluating disruption technologies for mobile telephones in prisons. | | (318054) | 729
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in which prisons mobile telephone signal blockers are in operation. | | (318055) | 730
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Harborough of 8 June 2009, Official Report, columns 774-5W, on prison accommodation, how many cells were not in use in each (a) prison for adult males, (b) prison for adult females, (c) young offender institution for males and (d) young offender institution for females on 1 January 2010 or the latest date for which figures are available. | | (318056) | 731
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's (a) high, (b) medium and (c) low projections of the prison population are for each month to December 2011. | | (318057) | 732
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of women in prison who (a) have children, (b) have children and no husband or long-term partner and (c) have no registered address. | | (318058) | 733
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were (a) disciplined or (b) dismissed from (i) privately- and (ii) publicly-managed prisons in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (318059) | 734
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of continuous employment in the same prison was of (a) prison officers and (b) prison governors in (i) privately and (ii) publicly managed prisons in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (318060) | 735
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average duration of standard initial training for prison officers is in (a) privately- and (b) publicly-managed prisons. | | (318061) | 736
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of eligible overseas electors who are registered to vote. | | (317266) | 737
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his most recent estimate is of the average annual cost to his Department of holding in prison (a) an adult and (b) a person aged under 21 years. | | (317277) | 738
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria are used to determine the average cost of a prison place in England and Wales; and whether this includes the cost of the National Offender Management Service national and regional structures. | | (317278) | 739
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) capacity and (b) population was of each young offender institution in each of the last five years. | | (317545) | 740
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2010, Official Report, columns 490-3W, on drugs: fines, what the number of people fined for (a) possession and (b) possession with intent to supply was as a proportion of all those convicted of both offences in each year for which the data are provided. | | (317569) | 741
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of racist offences in (a) London, (b) each police force area and (c) England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (317609) | 742
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding his Department and its predecessor allocated for the (a) recruitment and (b) training of probation officers in each year since 1997. | | (317631) | 743
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many abscondees from each prison were foreign nationals in each year since 1997. | | (317636) | 744
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for causing (a) death and (b) injury by dangerous driving in England and Wales, in each year since 1998; and how many of these offences involved (i) alcohol and (ii) drug or substance abuse. | | (317656) | 745
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of offences related to (a) drug trafficking, (b) people trafficking, (c) firearm trafficking and (d) wildlife crimes committed while attempting to enter the UK in each year since 1998. | | (317657) | 746
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for using firearms or imitation firearms with intent to resist arrest in England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (317658) | 747
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for (a) kidnapping, (b) child abduction and (c) false imprisonment in England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (317659) | 748
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for possessing explosives with intent to cause violence in England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (317660) | 749
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for offences related to absconding from legal custody in each year since 1998. | | (317761) | 750
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons were free from (a) illegal drug use and (b) mobile telephone smuggling in each year since 1997. | | (317762) | 751
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in receipt of a custodial sentence for (a) sexual offences, (b) murder and (c) offences related to terrorism are absent without authorisation from prisons. | | (317763) | 752
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in each of the 10 (a) most and (b) least deprived local authority areas have (i) undertaken drug treatment programmes and (ii) been convicted of (A) alcohol-related offences and (B) violent crimes in each of the last five years. | | (317769) | 753
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children were (a) arrested, (b) prosecuted and (c) imprisoned for (i) all drugs offences and (ii) Class A drugs offences in each of the last five years. | | (317770) | 754
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of offences related to hijacking commercial lorries and tankers in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years. | | (317774) | 755
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for offences of obstructing (a) police and (b) fire services in England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (317775) | 756
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of possessing explosives without a valid certificate or licence in England and Wales in each year since 1998. | | (317776) | 757
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2010, Official Report, column 501W, on offenders, how many (a) adult and (b) juvenile offenders there were in each category. | | (317833) | 758
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2010, Official Report, column 493W, on drugs: rehabilitation, what proportion of offenders issued with a drug rehabilitation requirement or drug treatment and testing order completed a drug treatment programme in each of the last five years. | | (317834) | 759
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2010, Official Report, column 548W, on knife sentencing, what the (a) lowest, (b) highest and (c) average fine was for the selling of knives to a minor in each year since 1998. | | (317838) | 760
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2010, Official Report, column 498W, on firearms convictions, how many (a) males and (b) females aged (i) 10 and under, (ii) between 10 and 16, (iii) between 17 and 18 and (iv) over 18 years were convicted of possessing or distributing prohibited weapons or ammunition in each year since 1998. | | (317919) | 761
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of (a) juveniles and (b) young adult offenders was reconvicted within two years of release in each year since 1997. | | (317968) | 762
| Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many serving prisoners convicted of each type of offence are recorded as having no nationality, broken down by length of sentence. | | (317170) | 763
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on subsistence payments to offenders on end of custody licence in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10. | | (317125) | 764
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of all released prisoners were subsequently convicted for offences committed in the first 18 days after release in the last 12 months for which figures are available. | | (317126) | 765
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much (a) the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) spent on external consultancy fees and (b) his Department spent on external consultancy fees related to NOMS in each of the last three years. | | (317128) | 766
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convicted foreign national prisoners were released from prisons in England and Wales in the last 12 months. | | (317129) | 767
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an estimate of the number of foreign nationals likely to serve custodial sentences in England and Wales in each year to 2014. | | (317130) | 768
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persons convicted of rape received (a) a determinate prison sentence, (b) a life sentence, (c) an indeterminate sentence for public protection and (d) any other disposal in each of the last five years; and what the average (i) determinate sentence length and (ii) tariff for (A) life and (B) indeterminate sentences was. | | (317131) | 769
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prison cells reckoned as (a) certified normal and (b) operational capacity accommodation in each of the next five years. | | (317132) | 770
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of transferring prisoners to Crown Dependencies in each of the last five years. | | (317133) | 771
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) high, (b) medium and (c) low projections he has made for the prison population in each of the next five years. | | (317134) | 772
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations he has received on projections for prison (a) population and (b) capacity over the next two years. | | (317135) | 773
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answers of 2 November 2009, Official Report, columns 741W and 742W, on prisoners' release: domestic violence and prisoners' release: reoffenders, whether any offender on end of custody licence has been (a) charged with and (b) convicted of an offence (i) relating to domestic violence and (ii) of manslaughter since 2 November 2009. | | (317141) | 774
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 13 May 2009, Official Report, column 833W, on offences against children, what proportion of offenders aged 21 years or over convicted of offences related to sexual activity with a child under 13 received (a) immediate custody, (b) a suspended sentence, (c) a community sentence, (d) a fine, (e) a conditional or absolute discharge and (f) other treatment in 2008. | | (317142) | 775
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 20 May 2009, Official Report, column 1438W, on children: abuse, how many people aged 21 years and over with a previous conviction were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for offences relating to child abuse in 2008. | | (317143) | 776
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Chesterfield of 7 January 2010, Official Report, column 546W, on prison accommodation, how many places were not included in the certified normal accommodation of the prison estate in each of the last three years. | | (317144) | 777
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on (a) focus groups and (b) other deliberative forms of public opinion research in each month of the last two years. | | (317157) | 778
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of (a) prison capacity and (b) the prison population in each of the next 12 months; and on what assumptions such estimates are based. | | (317693) | 779
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) allocated budget for and (b) expenditure on fees for members of the Correctional Services Accreditation Panel was in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (317694) | 780
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders of each age group were (a) convicted and (b) cautioned for (i) rape of a child under 13 and (ii) rape of a child under 16 in each of the last three years. | | (317738) | 781
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders aged (a) 17 and under and (b) 18 and over were given a caution for rape in each of the last five years. | | (317739) | 782
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) the executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317894) | 783
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sentences for each type of offence were handed down to young offenders aged between (a) 10 and 17 and (b) 18 and 20 years in 2008. | | (317650) | 784
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent representations he has received on the proposed closure of the Land Registry's Peterborough office; and if he will make a statement. | | (317751) | 785
N | Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 5 January 2010 from the hon. Member representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether he has given a direction to the Electoral Commission on which of the UK's electoral regions should receive the additional European Parliament seat provided for under the Treaty of Lisbon. | | (316917) | 786
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what factors are taken into account in calculating the cost of individual probation supervision. | | (317092) | 787
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people are employed at the (a) national and (b) regional level in the National Offender Management Service. | | (317093) | 788
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people employed in the National Offender Management Service head office and regional offices (a) have a probation background, (b) have a prison background and (c) are career civil servants. | | (317094) | 789
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost of probation supervision of an individual with a sex offender programme attachment was in the latest year for which information is available. | | (317095) | 790
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average annual cost of housing a person in a probation hostel or approved premises was in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317096) | 791
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost of supervising a person on unpaid work for (a) 160 hours and (b) 240 hours was in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317097) | 792
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what factors are taken into account in calculating the estimated cost of probation supervision of an individual (a) with a condition and (b) without a condition. | | (317098) | 793
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) highest, (b) lowest and (c) average cost was to the public purse of a child contact case heard in the last five years. | | (318042) | 794
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent representations he has received from agencies involved in child contact cases of the effects on children of compulsory mediation in such cases; and if he will make a statement. | | (318043) | 795
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made the total savings to the public purse likely to accrue from the implementation of compulsory mediation as an alternative to court action in child contact cases. | | (318044) | 796
| Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many cases involving a child contact decision a court has granted contact against the wishes of the child subject to that decision in each of the last five years. | | (318050) | 797
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on (a) prisoner education and (b) drug treatment programmes for prisoners in each of the last five years. | | (317245) | 798
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317203) | Questions to the Leader of the House 799
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Leader of the House, whether any (a) staff away days and (b) staff team building exercises have been held for staff in the Leader of the House's Office in each of the last two years. | | (317267) | 800
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Leader of the House, how much was spent on (a) staff training and (b) communication training for the Leader of the House's Office in the last 12 months. | | (317271) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 801
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people in Northern Ireland were convicted in connection with an offence of a sexual nature that involved a child under 15 in each of the last three years. | | (318064) | 802
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he expects to receive the final report of the Saville Inquiry. | | (318065) | 803
N | Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many freedom of information requests were submitted to the Northern Ireland Office in each of the last two years. | | (318066) | 804
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) the executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317895) | 805
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317230) | Questions to the Minister for the Olympics 806
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, how many and what proportion of staff in the Government Olympic Executive are disabled; and what the average salary in the Government Olympic Executive is of (a) full-time disabled staff, (b) full-time non-disabled staff, (c) part-time disabled staff and (d) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317903) | Questions to the Prime Minister 807
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Prime Minister, which Minister is responsible for the Stabilisation Unit; and what the unit's budget is for 2009-10. | | (317514) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 808
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department are disabled; and what the average salary in his Department is of (a) full-time disabled staff, (b) full-time non-disabled staff, (c) part-time disabled staff and (d) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317896) | 809
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317232) | Questions to the Solicitor General 810
| Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Solicitor General, what discussions the Attorney General has had with the US Department of Justice on BAE Systems in the last 12 months. | | (317507) | 811
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Solicitor General, by what date BAE Systems will be required to pay the fine imposed on it in relation to its activities in Tanzania; and if she will make a statement. | | (317256) | 812
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Solicitor General, how many and what proportion of staff of the Law Officers' Departments are disabled; and what the average salary in the Law Officers' Departments is of (a) full-time disabled staff, (b) full-time non-disabled staff, (c) part-time disabled staff and (d) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317901) | 813
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Solicitor General, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in the Law Officers' Departments in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if she will make a statement. | | (317239) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport 814
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what proportion of flights taking off from UK airports (a) exclusively carried cargo and (b) carried cargo with passengers in each of the last three years. | | (317041) | 815
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what average proportion of the weight of planes carrying cargo and passengers departing UK airports was made up of (a) cargo and (b) passengers in each of the last three years. | | (317042) | 816
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what the average number of seats was on planes (a) making domestic flights within the UK and (b) taking off from UK airports in each of the last three years. | | (317043) | 817
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many flights of less than 360 miles between Great Britain and Northern Ireland there were in each of the last three years. | | (317044) | 818
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many miles vehicles, excluding heavy goods vehicles, traveled on (a) motorways and (b) dual carriageways in (i) England, (ii) Scotland and (iii) Wales in each of the last five years. | | (317046) | 819
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2010, Official Report, columns 423-4W, on British Transport Police: fixed penalties, how many penalty notices for disorder were issued in each year from 2006 to 2009; and what percentage of (a) £50 fines and (b) £80 fines have been paid. | | (317258) | 820
N | Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what the average waiting time was between applying for and taking a driving test in (a) Orkney and (b) Shetland (i) in each of the last five years and (ii) in the most recent period for which information is available. | | (317188) | 821
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on the electrification of the Barking to Gospel Oak line; and if he will make a statement. | | (317848) | 822
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what guidance his Department has provided to train operating companies on the transport of surf boards on trains. | | (317515) | 823
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many people have been convicted of offences related to (a) creating danger by causing anything to be in the road, or interfering with a vehicle or traffic equipment, (b) causing danger to road users, (c) endangering railway passengers and (d) trespassing on a railway in each year since 1998. | | (317760) | 824
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) his Department and (ii) the executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317898) | 825
N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what consideration his Department has given to the merits of redeveloping London Bridge station so as to allow South London Line services to continue to operate from that station. | | (317019) | 826
| Alan Keen (Feltham & Heston): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Feltham and Heston constituency, the effects on that constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997. | | (317105) | 827
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many concessionary bus passes were issued to residents of Houghton and Washington East constituency in each of the last two years. | | (317159) | 828
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what his most recent assessment is of the potential for high speed rail services to the North East. | | (317161) | 829
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what steps are taken in circumstances where an air passenger in transit at a UK airport refuses to be subject to a full body scan on privacy grounds; and what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the UK Border Agency on the matter. | | (317171) | 830
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many tonnes of carbon dioxide were emitted as a result of UK domestic flights in 2008. | | (317122) | 831
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what discussions he has had with air carriers on the consequences for them of the cessation of the bilateral health agreement between the UK and the Isle of Man with effect from 1 April 2010; what obligations there are on air carriers on routes between the UK and the Isle of Man to meet the costs of hospital care and admission consequent upon a passenger falling ill while being carried on such a route; and if he will make a statement. | | (317584) | 832
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many (a) fatal and (b) other road accidents took place in the Yorkshire and Humber region in each year since 2001. | | (317511) | 833
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how much his Department has spent on advertisements on television and commercial radio on campaigns run by the Department since 2005. | | (317100) | 834
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what role the Government Offices for the Regions have in the determination of allocations of regional and local transport funding. | | (317860) | 835
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that local authorities prevent vehicles subject to a safety recall by Toyota from being used by licensed taxi companies; and if he will make a statement. | | (317173) | 836
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many driving instructors qualified in each of the last three years. | | (318035) | 837
| Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what the average age of driving instructors is. | | (318036) | 838
| Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, when he plans to respond to Question 316500, on the Government Car and Despatch Agency, tabled on 3 February 2010. | | (317534) | 839
N | Hon Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, which Minister has responsibility for control of ragwort on the motorway system. | | (317320) | 840
N | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 2 February 2010, Official Report, column 178W, on roads: salt, how many tonnes of road salt (a) each local authority and (b) the Highways Agency held at the latest date for which information is available. | | (317115) | 841
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317236) | 842
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many dedicated cameras there are for surveillance of the bus and taxi lane on the M4. | | (317193) | 843
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether he has had discussions with (a) Smith Technologies and (b) Qinetiq on the availability and effectiveness of full body scanners. | | (317512) | 844
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether he has made provision for training for airport security staff in relation to behavioural profiling. | | (317513) | 845
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, whether he plans to publish guidance relating to the protection of the privacy of airline passengers who undergo full body scans. | | (317519) | 846
| Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, when he expects full body scanning equipment to be operational at UK domestic airports other than designated airports. | | (317520) | 847
| Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, how many (a) serious road injuries and (b) fatalities resulted from accidents related to drink driving in each of the last four years. | | (317250) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 848
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the cost to the public purse was of the most recent referendum on devolution in Wales. | | (316967) | 849
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department are disabled; and what the average salary in his Department is of (a) full-time disabled staff, (b) full-time non-disabled staff, (c) part-time disabled staff and (d) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317899) | 850
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. | | (317234) | Questions to the Minister for Women and Equality 851
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) the Government Equalities Office and (b) the executive agencies for which she is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in the Office is of (i) full-time disabled staff, (ii) full-time non-disabled staff, (iii) part-time disabled staff and (iv) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317904) | 852
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Minister for Women and Equality, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in her Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if she will make a statement. | | (317240) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 853
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the proportion of recipients of the winter fuel payment who were (a) in fuel poverty when they received those payments and (b) no longer in fuel poverty as a result of having received those payments in each year since the implementation of the winter fuel payment scheme; and if she will make a statement. | | (317062) | 854
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the proportion of recipients of cold weather payments who were (a) in fuel poverty when they received those payments and (b) no longer in fuel poverty as a result of having received those payments in each year since the implementation of the cold weather payment scheme; and if she will make a statement. | | (317063) | 855
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people seeking employment in the (a) engineering industry, (b) life sciences sector, (c) renewable energy industry and (d) construction industry in Scotland. | | (317737) | 856
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what contracts her Department has with external companies to conduct work capability assessments; and when each such contract is due to expire. | | (317750) | 857
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many terminally ill cancer patients (a) in total and (b) normally resident in Scotland have been required by her Department to (i) undergo a medical examination and (ii) attend a work-focused interview since 27 October 2008. | | (317752) | 858
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) people undergoing or recovering from radiotherapy and (b) in-patients (i) in total and (ii) normally resident in Scotland have been refused employment support allowance sicne 27 October 2008. | | (317753) | 859
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints (a) in total and (b) from residents of Scotland regarding fitness to work assessments her Department has received since 27 October 2008. | | (317754) | 860
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals against the outcomes of assessments for employment support allowance in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland there have been since 27 October 2008; in how many such cases the appeal has been upheld; and how many of the upheld appeals related to the outcomes of assessments undertaken in respect of a serious illness. | | (317755) | 861
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on contesting employment support allowance appeals in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland since 27 October 2008. | | (317756) | 862
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has paid to healthcare companies for conducting capability assessments in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland since 27 October 2008. | | (317757) | 863
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance aged under 25 years old there were in (i) each year since 1997 and (ii) each of the last four quarters for which figures are available. | | (316976) | 864
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have moved into self-employment under the six-month offer introduced on 6 April 2009; how many people have received the self-employment credit; how much has been spent in total on the self-employment credit; and what estimate she has made of the average cost of movement into self-employment under the offer. | | (316977) | 865
N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of (a) incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance and (b) employment and support allowance had a primary diagnosis of obesity in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) each of the last four quarters for which figures are available. | | (316978) | 866
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of benefit and pension claimants calling her Department's telephone inquiry lines from mobile telephones who are not to be charged for the cost of the call; and if she will make a statement. | | (317378) | 867
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in (a) the Royal Borough of Kingston and (b) Kingston and Surbiton constituency have been in receipt of pension credit in each of the last three years. | | (318040) | 868
| Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for winter fuel payments were made by households in (a) England, (b) the East of England, (c) Bedfordshire and (d) Mid Bedfordshire constituency in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317538) | 869
| Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of people who have attended A4e meetings have found work within six months of the inception of the A4e contract in (a) England, (b) the East of England, (c) Bedfordshire and (d) Mid Bedfordshire constituency. | | (317539) | 870
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of householders in Stroud constituency who will receive (a) £250 and (b) £400 winter fuel payment in 2009-10. | | (317086) | 871
| Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Stroud constituency are in receipt of winter fuel allowance; and how much her Department paid to such pensioners in winter fuel allowances in 2009. | | (317087) | 872
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many residents of (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Bexley were in receipt of (i) housing benefit, (ii) council tax benefit, (iii) disability living allowance, (iv) incapacity benefit, (v) income support and (vi) employment and support allowance at the latest date for which information is available. | | (317264) | 873
| Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many residents of (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Bexley have received cold weather payments since 1 November 2009. | | (317265) | 874
N | Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Government procurement contracts were let to (a) Remploy factories and (b) other Government-assisted factories in each of the last three years. | | (317587) | 875
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the rate of employment has been among people undertaking programmes provided under contract to her Department by Maximus Employment and Training UK in Eastleigh since the inception of each such contract. | | (317015) | 876
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many customers who have made successful claims for (a) jobseekers' allowance and (b) income support had previously made an unsuccessful claim for employment and support allowance in each quarter since the introduction of that allowance. | | (317037) | 877
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what forecast the Government made of the number of expected referrals to Flexible New Deal phase one providers in each region in each of the first six months of its operation. | | (317038) | 878
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate has her Department made of the additional onflows to (a) jobseekers' allowance and (b) income support attributable to the introduction of employment and support allowance in each quarter since October 2008. | | (317039) | 879
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the projected caseloads for (a) jobseekers' allowance and (b) income support not reckoning the introduction of employment and support allowance in each quarter since October 2008. | | (317040) | 880
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many customers have been referred to Flexible New Deal phase one providers in each region in each month to the end of January 2010. | | (317047) | 881
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to answer Question (a) 302791, on the Social Security Advisory Committee, tabled on 25 November 2009, (b) 307546 on parliamentary questions, tabled on 10 December 2009, (c) 314731, on employment and support allowance, tabled on 27 January 2010, (d) 305047, on Jobcentre Plus, tabled on 28 January 2010, (e) 314936, on Jobcentre Plus, tabled on 28 January 2010, (f) 314935 on benefit delivery centres, tabled on 28 January 2010, (g) 314937 on Jobcentre Plus, tabled on 28 January 2010, (h) 315694, on skills training, tabled on 1 February 2010, (i) 315695, on benefit claimants moving into work, tabled on 1 February 2010, (j) 315718, on Pathways to Work, tabled on 1 February 2010, (k) 315717, on Pathways to Work, tabled on 1 February 2010, (l) 315720, on allowance claims appeals, tabled on 1 February 2010, (m) 315716, on Pathways to Work, tabled on 1 February 2010, (n) 316364, on fraud, tabled on 3 February 2010, (o) 316100, on user acceptance testing, tabled on 2 February 2010, (p) 316097, on claims outcome information, tabled on 2 February 2010, (q) 316365, on benefit fraud, tabled on 3 February 2010, (r) 316098, on known fraud debt stock, tabled on 2 February 2010, (s) 316401, on fraud and staff, tabled on 3 February 2010, (t) 316398, on benefit fraud, tabled on 3 February 2010, (u) 316402, on social security benefit and fraud, tabled on 3 February 2010, (v) 316400, on fraud and staff, tabled on 3 February 2010, (w) 316399, on benefits and prisoners, tabled on 3 February 2010, (x) 316765, on alcohol misuse, tabled on 5 February 2010, (y) 316779, on the Institute for Fiscal Studies, tabled on 5 February 2010, (z) 316778, on obesity, tabled on 5 February 2010, (aa) 316776, on cancer, tabled on 5 February 2010, (bb) 316775, on problem drug users, tabled on 5 February 2010 and (cc) 316777, on drug and alcohol dependency, tabled on 5 February 2010. | | (317700) | 882
| Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of staff in (a) her Department and (b) the executive agencies for which she is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in (i) her Department and (ii) the executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. | | (317900) | 883
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the quarterly off-flows from employment and support allowance have been since its inception, broken down by reason for termination. | | (317943) | 884
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2010, Official Report, columns 257-8W, on employment: disabled, what estimate she has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of disabled people employed (i) full-time and (ii) part-time in the (A) public and (B) private sector in each year since 1997. | | (317944) | 885
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate her Department has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of current claimants of incapacity benefit who are not required to meet any conditions in order to continue to receive the benefit. | | (317945) | 886
N | Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of off-flows from incapacity benefit have been due to claimants moving into work in each year since 1997. | | (317946) | 887
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the proportion of pensioners who were eligible for guarantee credit in (a) Chesterfield constituency, (b) Derbyshire and (c) England in each year since 2003. | | (317649) | 888
| Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former miners have (a) applied for and (b) been granted industrial injuries benefit for miners' knee in the North East region to date. | | (317160) | 889
| Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the estimated cost to her Department is per transaction of Post Office Card Account transactions under (a) the new Post Office Card Account due to be introduced in 2010 and (b) each other benefit transaction method. | | (317181) | 890
| Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid out in winter fuel payments to eligible households in Rotherham in winter 2009-10. | | (317109) | 891
| John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will estimate the number of miners and former miners who experience chronic back and neck pain as a result of their working conditions. | | (317242) | 892
| John Mason (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals are in receipt of (a) attendance allowance, (b) incapacity benefit and (c) jobseeker's allowance in Glasgow East constituency; and what the average weekly payment was in respect of each such benefit in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317248) | 893
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has conducted any staff satisfaction surveys in the last 12 months. | | (317156) | 894
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on (a) communications, (b) marketing, (c) advertising and (d) external public relations in 2009. | | (317162) | 895
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the staff turnover rate in her Department was in 2009. | | (317163) | 896
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the staff turnover rate in Jobcentre Plus was in 2009. | | (317164) | 897
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on pot plants in 2009. | | (317165) | 898
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on external recruitment consultants in 2009. | | (317166) | 899
N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in which (a) Jobcentre Plus districts, (b) local authorities and (c) constituencies Future Jobs Fund jobs are not available to young people as part of the young person's guarantee. | | (317615) | 900
N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in which (a) Jobcentre Plus districts, (b) local authorities and (c) constituencies not all of the elements of the young person's guarantee are available; and which such elements are (i) available and (ii) not available in each such area. | | (317616) | 901
N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place in the Library a copy of her Department's most recent monthly summary report on the performance of all welfare-to-work providers against agreed targets. | | (317617) | 902
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the Departmental Expenditure Limit for her Department in 2009-10 changed from £9.728 million in her Department's three-year business plan to £9.2 billion in the pre-Budget Report. | | (317618) | 903
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of its expenditure on out-of-work benefits in each year since 1980, expressed in real terms. | | (317619) | 904
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of its expenditure on unemployment benefits in each year since 1980, expressed in real terms. | | (317620) | 905
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people claiming (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance attended a medical assessment in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317621) | 906
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people who made a successful claim for (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance attended a medical assessment in each year since 1997. | | (317622) | 907
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people claiming employment and support allowance are counted for the purposes of meeting her Department's objective of reducing the national incapacity benefits caseload by one million by 2015. | | (317623) | 908
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of her Department's progress towards its target of reducing the national incapacity benefits caseload by one million by 2015. | | (317624) | 909
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the Labour Market System has been unavailable in the last 24 months; and for how long that system was unavailable on each occasion. | | (317626) | 910
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of jobseeker's allowance have been identified through the Labour Market System as being unemployed for 22 out of 24 months in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (317628) | 911
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what forecasts of employment levels have been (a) made and (b) used by her Department since 2007. | | (317633) | 912
N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of its expenditure on out-of-work benefits in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11 expressed, in real terms. | | (317642) | 913
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of its expenditure on unemployment benefits in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11, expressed in real terms. | | (317643) | 914
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2010 to the hon. Member for South Dorset, Official Report, column 258W, on the Future Jobs Fund, how many of the jobs announced to date, excluding those created under national bids will be created in each local authority area. | | (317645) | 915
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2010 to the hon. Member for South Dorset, Official Report, column 258W, on the Future Jobs Fund, of the jobs announced to date for which it is possible to ascertain the location, how many are expected to be created in each local authority area. | | (317646) | 916
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2010 to the hon. Member for South Dorset, Official Report, column 258W, on the Future Jobs Fund, how many of the jobs announced to date are expected to be created in each constituency. | | (317647) | 917
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new claims there were for (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance in each year since 1997. | | (317648) | 918
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to answer Question (a) 304402, (b) 304401, (c) 304400, (d) 304393 and (e) 304403, on Jobcentre Plus, tabled on 1 December 2009; when she plans to answer Question (i) 304392, (ii) 304397, (iii) 304391, (iv) 304390, (v) 304388, and (vi) 304377 on the Future Jobs Fund tabled on 1 December 2009; and when she plans to answer Question (A) 304399, (B) 304398 and (C) 304381, on the Flexible New Deal, tabled on 1 December 2009. | | (317695) | 919
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on sending customer documents by courier between jobcentres and benefit delivery centres in the last financial year for which figures are available; which courier companies were used; how much was paid to each; and if she will make a statement. | | (316961) | 920
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people had their claims for jobseeker's allowance processed in (a) five or fewer days, (b) between six and 10 days; (c) between 11 and 16 days, (d) between 17 and 21 days and (e) more than 21 days in (i) December 2009 and (ii) January 2010. | | (316962) | 921
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2010, Official Report, column 578W, on social security benefits: debts, in respect of which Jobcentre Plus district is each of the 10 largest debts owed to the Department. | | (317169) | 922
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which companies were contracted by her Department for the provision of temporary staff in each of the last three years; how many temporary staff were employed by her Department in each such year; and what the monetary value was of contracts with each such company in each such year. | | (317995) | 923
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many residents of each local authority area in the North West aged between 16 and 24 years old have taken up (a) graduate internship, (b) a non-graduate internship, (c) work and (d) training since the Young Person's Guarantee came into effect; and how many are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance under that Guarantee. | | (317210) | 924
| Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in her Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if she will make a statement. | | (317233) | 925
| Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of pensioners receive earnings-related state pensions under (a) the state earnings-related pension scheme only, (b) the state second pension scheme only and (c) both schemes. | | (317177) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 926
N | Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the merits of introducing British Summer Time and Double British Summer Time. | | [Transferred] (317516) | Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office 927
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the unemployed claimant count in (a) the Royal Borough of Kingston and (b) Kingston and Surbiton constituency was in (i) 1997, (ii) 2005 and (iii) 2009. | | [Transferred] (317717) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 928
N | Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether a Minister or official in his Department has responsibility for promoting Article 19 of the European Union Procurement Directive in respect of the awarding of public sector contracts to work places in which more than 50 per cent. of employees are disabled. | | [Transferred] (317586) | 929
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 3 November 2009, Official Report, column 840W, on council tax: valuation, how many times the Valuation Office Agency has reduced the council tax band of a dwelling due to the presence of a nearby Traveller encampment in the last three months. | | [Transferred] (317574) | 930
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 19 January 2010, Official Report, column 290W, on local government: cost effectiveness, what proportion of the estimated £550 million of savings he expects to result from efficiencies made in respect of waste collection and disposal. | | [Transferred] (317811) | 931
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of dwellings have one or more (a) dwellinghouse and (b) significant code assigned to them on the Valuation Office Agency's property database for council tax valuations and revaluations. | | [Transferred] (317852) | 932
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many notification changes with code CL26 have been made to the Valuation Office Agency's council tax list in 2009-10 to date. | | [Transferred] (317853) | 933
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average Rateable Value on the 2010 Rating List is of hereditaments in each such-location area. | | [Transferred] (317864) | 934
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date the Valuation Office Agency's Geographical Information System is expected to go live in each of the Agency's area offices. | | [Transferred] (317867) | 935
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 19 January 2010, Official Report, column 290W, on local government: cost effectiveness, whether the proposed £800 million savings by 2012-13 will include efficiency savings made in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. | | [Transferred] (317878) | 936
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many hereditaments were deleted from the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List due to demolition in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (317881) | 937
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many new (a) homes and (b) affordable homes in each (i) local authority and (ii) region were placed in council tax band (A) A, (B) B, (C) C, (D) D, (E) E, (F) F, (G) G and (H) H in each of the last three years. | | [Transferred] (317632) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 938
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to amend the provisions of policy guidance concerning coal mining and colliery spoil disposal. | | [Transferred] (317376) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 939
N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on the Government's position at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in May 2010. | | [Question Unstarred] (317451) | 940
N | Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent representations he has received on standards of service accommodation for service personnel and their families. | | [Question Unstarred] (317449) | 941
N | Sir Robert Smith (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on arrangements to ensure that service personnel on active duty can vote at the next general election. | | [Question Unstarred] (317446) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 942
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will authorise the director of the Office for Civil Nuclear Security within the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate to release a redacted version of the nuclear industries malicious capabilities planning assumptions. | | [Transferred] (317559) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 943
| Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the average amount of carbon dioxide emitted by companies which do not meet the minimum reporting guidelines on greenhouse gas emissions in each of the last three years. | | [Transferred] (317629) | 944
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 14 July 2009, Official Report, column 232W, on rats: Greater London, whether his Department holds a copy of the completed survey report for the period up to 2006. | | [Transferred] (317603) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 945
| Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many independent investigations commissioned relating to patients receiving treatment for mental health reasons there have been (a) in Mid Bedfordshire constituency and (b) England in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (317529) | 946
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prisons have a (a) resident and (b) visiting psychiatrists and how often visiting psychiatrists visited the prison to which they are allocated in the last 12 months. | | [Transferred] (318047) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 947
| Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his most recent estimate is of the number of older, non-asylum cases considered by the UK Border Agency which have resulted in (a) removal and (b) the award of a grant in each of the last five years; and how many such cases remain outstanding. | | [Transferred] (317319) | 948
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the average (a) number and (b) proportion of crimes committed by an offender in the geographical area within 20 miles of the home address of that offender in the last 12 months. | | [Transferred] (318046) | 949
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people convicted of homicide had a previous conviction for homicide at the time of their sentencing in each of the last five years. | | [Transferred] (317667) | 950
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of those convicted of an offence of selling alcohol to a minor received (a) a fine, (b) a community sentence, (c) a custodial sentence and (d) an alternative punishment in England and Wales in each year since 1998; and what the (i) lowest, (ii) highest and (iii) average fine was in each such year. | | [Transferred] (317884) | 951
| Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign-born nationals have been permitted to retain (a) their UK citizenship and (b) indefinite leave to remain subsequent to their documentation being found to be fraudulent in each year since 2005. | | [Transferred] (317731) | 952
| Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on the establishment of an Office of the European Public Prosecutor; and what discussions he has had with his European counterparts on such an office in the last three months. | | [Transferred] (317972) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice 953
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions statute law provisions relating to domestic arrest warrants have been amended in the last 30 years; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (317729) | 954
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners serving sentences of less than 12 months have a court recommendation for deportation. | | [Transferred] (317127) | Questions to the Minister of State, Department for Transport 955
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 14 July 2009, Official Report, column 205W, on bus services: concessions, when he expects to place in the Library a copy of the written representations. | | [Transferred] (317604) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 956
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the (a) highest and (b) lowest likely cost to the public purse of a referendum in Wales on the extension of powers under the Government of Wales Act 2006. | | [Transferred] (317312) | 957
N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, by what mechanism public funding in respect of any referendum held in Wales on the extension of powers under the Government of Wales Act 2006 would be (a) provided and (b) allocated. | | [Transferred] (317313) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 958
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in (a) the Royal Borough of Kingston and (b) Kingston and Surbiton constituency have been in receipt of council tax benefit in each of the last three years. | | [Transferred] (318041) | 959
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to paragraph 5.55 of Budget 2009, whether the 2.5 per cent. uprating of the basic state pension applies to recipients who deferred claiming their basic state pension at retirement age. | | [Transferred] (318070) |
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