Session 2010-11
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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 6 September 2010

Notes:
* Indicates a Question for Oral Answer.
+ Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled.
[N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered.
[R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared.

Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 6 September 2010
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 6 September 2010

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 6 September 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 6 September of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 6 September see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to the Attorney General

1	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Attorney General, what the cost to the public purse was of the Serious Fraud Office stand at Civil Service Live 2010.
	(12833)

2	Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Attorney General, how many temporary staff are employed by (a) the Law Officers' Departments and (b) their agency.
	(12138)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

3	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, under what legislation file sharing is regulated; what changes to such legislation are planned during the next two years; and if he will make a statement.
	(12227)

4	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what proportion of questions (a) for ordinary written answer, (b) for written answer on a named day and (c) tabled in the House of Lords for answer by his Department have been answered on the due date in each month since May 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(12228)

5	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to increase the involvement of young members of the public in the making of decisions that affect them taken by (a) Ministers in his Department, (b) officials in his Department and (c) public bodies which fall within his Department's area of responsibility.
	(12270)

6 N	Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has held with regional development agencies on the European Regional Development Fund.
	(12779)

7 N	Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he expects any of the European Regional Development Fund allocations to the UK for period 2007-13 to go unspent.
	(12780)

8	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(12665)

Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effects on health of the use of (a) nano-materials and (b) C60 fullerenes in cosmetic products; what account was taken of the findings of the (i) EU Scientific Committee on Consumer Products in 2008 and (ii) Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution in 2007 in making such an assessment; and if he will make a statement.

(12080)

10
N

Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress has been made by Post Office Ltd, Camelot and the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters on the application by Camelot for a licence to provide commercial services, including bill payments and mobile phone top-ups, with a view to enabling the proposed new bill payment service to be provided through Post Office Ltd; and if he will make a statement.

(12787)

11	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will undertake further consultation with the recruitment industry on the provisions of the Agency Worker Regulations 2010.
	(12369)

12	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate his Department made of the cost to the agency worker industry of the implementation of the Agency Worker Regulations 2010; and if his Department will take steps to reduce the amount of regulation on such agencies.
	(12392)

13	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of funding for further education colleges was provided from (a) central Government, (b) local government and (c) other sources in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12973)

14	Michael Dugher (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department plans to take to support industries that rely on the protection of intellectual property following the decision to close the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property; and if he will make a statement.
	(12854)

15	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) BusinessLink and (b) Government Office for Science stand at Civil Service Live 2010.
	(12836)

16	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many jobs in Yorkshire were (a) created and (b) supported by funding from Yorkshire Forward between 1997 and 2010.
	(12687)

17	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many companies in Yorkshire received funding from Yorkshire Forward between 1997 and 2010.
	(12688)

18	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department had with (i) BP and (ii) the government of Libya on oil drilling off the coast of Libya between July 2007 and March 2008.
	(12934)

19	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many chairs his Department and its predecessors purchased in each year since 1997; how much was spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12804)

20	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12823)

21	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12986)

22	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much office space per employee his Department and its predecessors occupied in each year since 1997.
	(13005)

23	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13024)

24	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13043)

25	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he plans to seek to ensure that by 2020 the UK will be in the top eight Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries for skills, employment and productivity performance; and if he will make a statement.
	(12142)

26	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to announce the new Chair of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
	(12143)

27	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, who will have responsibility for regional economic and skills strategies after regional development agencies have been abolished.
	(12144)

28	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to reform sector skills councils; and whether he will reduce the number of such councils.
	(12181)

29	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to achieve the same level of technician apprenticeships (level 3) as in Germany, Australia and France.
	(12182)

30	Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many telephone lines are in use in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales, (c) each region of England and (d) Northern Ireland; and how many such lines are broadband lines.
	(12287)

31	Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what payments have been made to trades unions through the (a) Partnership At Work and (b) Strategic Partnership Fund in each financial year since its inception; and if he will make a statement.
	(12651)

32	Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what payments have been awarded to trade unions through the Union Learning Fund in each financial year since the fund was established; and if he will make a statement.
	(12773)

Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many industrial action ballots were held by organisations in (a) the private sector, (b) the public sector and (c) each category of the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification in each year since 1990; how many union members were (i) in favour and (ii) against industrial action in each case; what proportion of the (A) eligible union membership and (B) total workforce these figures represents; and if he will make a statement.

(12920)

34	Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what payments were made to trade unions through the Union Modernisation Fund in 2009-10; and if he will make a statement.
	(12926)

35	Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what collective bargaining agreements are in operation in the public sector; and if he will make a statement.
	(12954)

36	Diana R. Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy to provide a level of subsidy to the Post Office which will ensure no reduction in the number of post office branches beyond 2011.
	(12218)

37	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the qualifying criteria are for small firms to obtain the £2,000 grant for taking on an apprentice; and if he will make a statement.
	(12587)

38	Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2010, Official Report, column 320W, on higher education: finance, which budgetary headings will be affected by the £118 million reduction in the University Modernisation Fund in 2010-11.
	(12070)

39	Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which 20 universities admitted the highest (a) absolute number and (b) proportion of students from socio-economic classes four to seven in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12130)

40 N	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding his Department has allocated for the development of supply-chain capability in the National Composites Centre in 2010-11.
	(12785)

41 N	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his plans are for the future of the plug-in car grant scheme for electric vehicles.
	(12786)

42 N	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has for the future of the Manufacturing Advisory Group.
	(12970)

43	Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to assist small businesses to participate in the tendering process for public sector services.
	(12598)

44 N	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2010, Official Report, columns 411-12W, on the Union Modernisation Fund, how much each member of the Union Modernisation Fund Supervisory Board claimed in expenses under each category in each year since 2005-06.
	(12032)

45 N	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2010, Official Report, columns 411-12W, on the Union Modernisation Fund, where each Union Modernisation Fund Supervisory Board meeting was held; who attended each meeting; what the cost to the public purse of each meeting was; and what the Board's remit is.
	(12033)

46	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of former UK students living overseas who owe money to the Student Loans Company; what estimate he has made of the (a) total amount owed by such people and (b) average amount owned per person; and if he will make a statement.
	(12425)

47	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions his officials have had with the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters on the proposal by Camelot to enter the bill payment and mobile telephone market; and if he will make a statement.
	(12532)

48	Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have received an increase in wages consequent on each uprating of the national minimum wage since its implementation.
	(12251)

49	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on job creation and economic recovery of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(12639)

50	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans his Department has to consult with (a) employment agencies and (b) employers in advance of the implementation of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010.
	(12640)

51	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will extend the 12 week qualification period contained in the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 relating to pay and associated benefits; and if he will make a statement.
	(12641)

52	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will delay the implementation of the provisions of the Agency Workers Directive 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(12642)

Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.

(12330)

54	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department paid in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12331)

55	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether any powers exercised by regional development agencies (RDAs) will be transferred to central Government upon abolition of RDAs.
	(12051)

56	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he plans to take to ensure that funding under the Regional Growth Fund is prioritised for regions and areas with greater economic needs.
	(12054)

57	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which powers exercised by regional development agencies he plans to transfer to local enterprise partnerships.
	(12061)

58	Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had since 7 May 2010 with representatives of those engaged in the manufacture and sale of tobacco products; what the (i) nature and (ii) subject of those meetings was; and if he will make a statement.
	(12137)

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) each of the English regions and (D) Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12465)

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the annual expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in each English region was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure for 2010-11 is in each case.

(12466)

61	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the monetary value was of (a) public opinion research and (b) public relations contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years in each (A) nation and (B) region of the UK.
	(12467)

62	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12711)

63	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what average hourly rate his Department has paid to each employment agency for agency staff in each year since its inception.
	(12712)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

64	Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many live births per thousand teenage girls there were in Rhondda constituency in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	(12589)

65	Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the conception rate in girls under 20 years was in each local authority area in Wales in 2008.
	(12590)

66	Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many conceptions in girls under 18 years there were in England and Wales in 2008.
	(12591)

67	Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many conceptions in girls under 16 years there were in England and Wales in 2008.
	(12592)

68	Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many pregnancies among girls under 20 years old there were in each constituency in England and Wales in 2008.
	(12593)

69	Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the conception rate in girls under 20 years old was in England and Wales in (a) 2008 and (b) 1998.
	(12594)

70	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(12664)

71	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) Central Office of Information, (b) National School of Government, (c) Civil Service in the English Regions, (d) DirectGov and (e) the Minority Ethnic Talent Association stand at Civil Service Live 2010.
	(12831)

72	Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much each Department paid in bonus awards in 2009.
	(12751)

73	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many chairs his Department has purchased in each year since 1997; how much it spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12792)

74	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12811)

75	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12974)

76	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much office space per employee his Department occupied in each year since 1997.
	(12993)

77	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13012)

78	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13031)

79	Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on public bodies to be abolished under the provisions of the proposed Public Bodies (Reform) Bill; and whether he has decided that any particular public bodies should not be abolished as a result of those discussions.
	(12502)

80	Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate has been made of the reduction in public expenditure which will arise from implementation of the provisions of the proposed Public Bodies (Reform) Bill.
	(12504)

81	Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate has been made of the proportion of public bodies which will be abolished as a result of implementation of the provisions of the proposed Public Bodies (Reform) Bill if passed.
	(12505)

82	Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which public bodies within the responsibility of each Department (a) perform a technical function, (b) require political impartiality and (c) act independently to establish facts.
	(12509)

83	Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many public bodies there were in England (a) in 1979, (b) in 1997 and (c) on the latest date for which information is available.
	(12510)

84	Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cases of industrial action have been recorded in each year since 1990; how many (a) workers took part and (b) working days were lost in each case; and if he will make a statement.
	(12958)

85	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent representations he has received on the effect on public confidence in official statistics of ceasing the practice of providing access to official statistical releases to Ministers and their advisers prior to publication.
	(12844)

86	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he plans to take to minimise the effects of reductions in departmental expenditure on the integrity of the UK statistical system; and if he will consult (a) the National Statistician and (b) the UK Statistics Authority on this matter.
	(12846)

87	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the operation of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007; and if he will make a statement.
	(12847)

88	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will (a) accept and (b) implement the recommendations of the UK Statistics Authority on pre-release access to official statistics.
	(12848)

89 N	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what contracts each Government department (a) holds with Management Incentive Through Investment Equity Group plc and (b) held with the company in each year since 1990; what the length of each such contract was; and what payments have been made under each such contract.
	(12559)

90	Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many investigations following the unauthorised disclosure of information from his Department there have been in the last 12 months.
	(12869)

91	James Morris (Halesowen and Rowley Regis): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether funds from the Big Society Bank will be available to social enterprises offering job placement and training schemes.
	(12629)

92	James Morris (Halesowen and Rowley Regis): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, at what stage funds from the Big Society Bank will be available to local communities in addition to the four recently announced, with particular reference to Halesowen and Rowley Region.
	(12630)

93	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average income of (a) households and (b) single-parent households was in (i) England, (ii) Yorkshire and (iii) Leeds in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	(12247)

94	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many small businesses in Leeds North West constituency had a turnover of (a) between £70,000 and £100,000 and (b) over £100,000 in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	(12248)

95	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) children and (b) adults (i) in total and (ii) in each primary care trust area have been diagnosed with leukaemia in the UK in each year since 1997; and how many children have died from leukaemia in each of those years.
	(12653)

96	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12352)

97	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12353)

98	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in each region of England in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.
	(12453)

99	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, 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 each year since 2005.
	(12454)

100	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in each region of England was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.
	(12455)

101	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the monetary value was of (a) public opinion research and (b) public relations contracts awarded by his Department in (i) London and (ii) elsewhere in each of the last five years.
	(12456)

102	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12715)

103	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what average hourly rate his Department has paid to each employment agency for agency staff in each of the last three years.
	(12716)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

104	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to increase the involvement of young members of the public in the making of decisions that affect them taken by (a) Ministers in his Department, (b) officials in his Department and (c) public bodies which fall within his Department's area of responsibility.
	(12264)

105
N

Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in respect of each project subject to the review of Government-funded projects reported on 17 June 2010, for what reason each project was (a) approved or (b) cancelled; what criteria were used to reach a decision on each project; what evaluation process was followed; and which (i) Government departments and (ii) external organisations were consulted in each case.

(12777)

106 N	Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has for the future mechanisms by which UK allocations from the European Regional Development Fund will be disbursed.
	(12778)

107	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(12658)

108	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Budget Red Book, page 40, Table 2.1, line 22, how many (a) households, (b) men and (c) women are in receipt of each of the (i) benefits, (ii) tax credits and (iii) public service pensions to be uprated in line with the consumer price index.
	(12648)

109	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Budget Red Book, page 40, Table 2.1, line 22, which (a) benefits, (b) tax credits and (c) public service pensions are to be uprated in line with the consumer price index.
	(12649)

110	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to answer Question 7901, on equality impact assessment of the June 2010 Budget, tabled on 7 July by the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford.
	(12852)

111	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to answer Question 7212, on the effect of the June 2010 Budget on men and women, tabled on 6 July 2010 by the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford.
	(12853)

112

Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the average (a) cost and (b) benefit to (i) men and (ii) women by 2014-15 attributable to the (A) increase in capital gains tax, (B) increase in the rate of value added tax, (C) one-year freeze on council tax, (D) changes to disability living allowance, (E) changes to tax credits, (F) freeze on child benefit, (G) changes to housing benefit, (H) changes to lone parent conditionality and (I) uprating of (1) public sector pensions, (2) additional state pension, (3) child tax credits, (4) working tax credits, (5) jobseeker's allowance, (6) disability living allowance, (7) employment and support allowance, (8) income support and (9) carers' allowance in line with the consumer prices index announced in the June 2010 Budget.

(12921)

113	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will assess the merits of seeking an exemption from tax rules to ensure that BP is not entitled to tax deductions in respect of any costs associated with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
	(12705)

114	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the contribution of the British amusements industry to (a) Exchequer receipts from tax and duty and (b) the economy in each of the last three years.
	(12382)

115	Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 20 July 2010, Official Report, columns 59-60WS, on Departmental arm's-length bodies, what the Barnett consequentials for Wales will be.
	(12632)

116	Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many companies were liquidated consequent on proceedings for evasion of value added tax in each of the last five years; how many such companies were issued with notices under (a) section 160, (b) section 161 and (c) both sections 160 and 161 before action was taken; and if he will make a statement.
	(12605)

117	Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria HM Revenue and Customs applies when taking the decision not to issue companies with section 160 and 161 notices before a company is investigated for alleged value added tax evasion; and if he will make a statement.
	(12606)

118	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) HM Revenue and Customs, (b) Government Banking Service, (c) Government Finance Profession and (d) Buying Solutions stand at Civil Service Live 2010.
	(12834)

119	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were asked in error to repay tax credits in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency, (b) the London Borough of Bexley and (c) Greater London in each of the last five years.
	(12542)

120	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency, (b) the London Borough of Bexley and (c) Greater London have been asked to repay tax credits in each year since their creation; and what the monetary value was of those requested repayments in each of those years.
	(12547)

121	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the incidence of tax evasion by individuals involved in serious and organised crime.
	(12750)

122	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Serious Organised Crime Agency on the prosecution of individuals involved in serious and organised crime for tax evasion.
	(12755)

123	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of revenue lost to the Exchequer due to tax evasion arising from serious and organised crime in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12756)

124	Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the sums to accrue to the Exchequer if zero rating for value added tax were removed from (a) domestic passenger transport, (b) newspapers and magazines and (c) water and sewerage in (i) 2010, (ii) 2012 and (iii) 2015.
	(12942)

125	Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the sum to accrue to the Exchequer if the exemption from value added tax of betting, gaming and the National Lottery were removed in (a) 2010, (b) 2012 and (c) 2015.
	(12944)

126	Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer if residential property (a) conversions and (b) renovations were exempt from value added tax in (i) 2010, (ii) 2012 and (iii) 2015.
	(12957)

127	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many chairs his Department has purchased in each year since 1997; how much it spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12794)

128	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12813)

129	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12976)

130	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much office space per employee his Department occupied in each year since 1997.
	(12995)

131	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13014)

132	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13033)

133	Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the likely financial effect on Barnett consequentials to (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland of proposed changes to health spending in England.
	(12185)

134	Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether enactment of the Academies Bill would have Barnett consequentials for (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland.
	(12186)

135	Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of cash machines which charge customers for transactions.
	(12865)

136 N	Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2010, Official Report, column 912W, on child benefit, for what reasons the information provided in the Answer does not give the requested figures for the new Worsley and Eccles South constituency.
	(12434)

137 N	Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2010, Official Report, column 912W, on child benefit, what account he took in providing the Answer of the guidance in paragraph 7.37 of the Cabinet Office Guide to Parliamentary Work, on referring to websites or other published material.
	(12435)

138	Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the net effect on the public purse of the changes to spending on social security benefits and tax credits referred to in table C14 of the June 2010 Budget Red Book was of revisions to economic forecasts made for that Budget by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
	(12580)

139	Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the net effect on the public purse of changes to spending on social security benefits and tax credits in table C14 of the June 2010 Budget Red Book attributable to (a) the direct effect of policy decisions taken before the Budget and (b) the overall measures in the Budget.
	(12581)

140	Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the changes to current receipts in each year of the forecast period in table C12 of the June 2010 Budget Red Book were due to (a) the direct effect of policy decisions adopted before the Budget and (b) the overall measures in the Budget.
	(12582)

141	Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect on the public purse of changes resulting from revisions to economic forecasts made by the Office for Budget Responsibility to current receipts in each year of the forecast period in table C12 of the June 2010 Budget Red Book.
	(12583)

142 N	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the equality impact assessment his Department made of the measures in the June 2010 Budget; and if he will make a statement.
	(12560)

143 N	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to Question 7850, tabled on 7 July 2010, on the Office of Budget Responsibility.
	(12558)

144	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the contribution of the British pub industry to (a) Exchequer receipts and (b) the economy in each of the last 10 years.
	(12889)

145	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what factors he took into account in setting the rate of gross profits tax levied on (a) bingo clubs and (b) bookmakers.
	(12545)

146	Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will consider the merits of offering tax breaks to companies who employ former offenders.
	(12133)

147 N	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations he has received on the future level of value added tax; and if he will make a statement.
	(12111)

148 N	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will undertake an impact assessment in respect of the effect on Scotland of the increase in value added tax.
	(12112)

149	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy that the Consumer Finance Education Body fund training in financial capability for school-aged children and young people; and if he will make a statement.
	(12078)

150	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide financial incentives to businesses in the financial services sector to enable their staff to volunteer in schools to support the provision of financial literacy teaching; and if he will make a statement.
	(12079)

151	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12354)

152	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12355)

153

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) each region of England and (D) Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12449)

154	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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 each year since 2005.
	(12450)

155	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the annual expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in each region of England was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.
	(12451)

156	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the monetary value was of (a) public opinion research and (b) public relations contracts awarded by his Department in (i) each (A) nation and (B) region of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12452)

157	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12729)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

158	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to reorganise local government; and if he will make a statement.
	(12229)

159	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of questions for (a) ordinary written answer, (b) for written answer on a named day and (c) tabled in the House of Lords to his Department have been answered on the due date in each month since May 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(12230)

160	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consultation he undertook on the closure of the Government Office Network with (a) local authorities and (b) trade unions between 15 and 22 July 2010.
	(12521)

161	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the effect on levels of employment of the closure of the (a) Government Office Network and (b) Government Office for the West Midlands.
	(12522)

162	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations he has received from (a) local authorities, (b) trade unions and (c) individuals on the closure of the Government Office Network.
	(12523)

163	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people were employed by the (a) Government Office Network and (b) Government Office for the West Midlands on the latest date for which figures are available.
	(12524)

164	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to increase the involvement of young members of the public in the making of decisions that affect them taken by (a) Ministers in his Department, (b) officials in his Department and (c) public bodies which fall within his Department's area of responsibility.
	(12272)

165	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many regulated tenancies there were in each local authority area on the latest date for which figures are available.
	(12253)

166 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many housing nominations have been received by each London local authority from each partner authority in each London sub-regional partnership since their inception.
	(12680)

167	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(12663)

168	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what account he takes of population growth in deciding on levels of funding for local authorities.
	(12376)

169 N	Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his plans are for bringing into effect regulations requiring local authorities to make provision for responding to petitions.
	(12216)

170	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the public purse was of the Improvement and Development Agency stand at Civil Service Live 2010.
	(12837)

171	Mr Mark Field (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to announce his decision on whether to proceed with the Public Sector Mapping Agreement with Ordnance Survey; and if he will make a statement.
	(12620)

172	Mr Mark Field (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what meetings (a) he and (b) officials in his Department (i) have had in the last 12 months and (ii) plan to have with private sector organisations on the proposed Public Sector Mapping Agreement with Ordnance Survey.
	(12621)

173	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many chairs his Department and its predecessors purchased in each year since 1997; how much was spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12803)

174	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12822)

175	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12985)

176	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much office space per employee his Department and its predecessors occupied in each year since 1997.
	(13004)

177	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13023)

178	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13042)

179	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2010, Official Report, columns 221-2W, on mortgages: Government assistance, if he will continue to maintain and fund his Department's mortgagehelp website beyond the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(12525)

180	Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 22 of Planning Policy Statement 22, whether he plans to maintain the provision that local planning authorities can set minimum separation distances between different types of renewable energy projects and existing developments.
	(12596)

181	Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with public bodies within his Department's area of responsibility on the proposals to be contained in the Public Bodies (Reform) Bill.
	(12506)

182	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his most recent estimate is of the amount of council tax which remains uncollected by local authorities; what steps he is taking to increase collection rates; and if he will make a statement.
	(12595)

183	Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Tottenham of 2 July 2010 on the Decentralisation and Localism Bill.
	(12129)

184	Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the extent to which local authorities exercise the power to grant additional discretionary business rate relief for charity shops.
	(12609)

185	Ian Mearns (Gateshead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of proposed changes to housing benefit on housing markets in areas with a high number of properties in the private rented sector.
	(12172)

186	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding each local authority received from his Department and its agencies for maintenance and repair of social housing in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12888)

187	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to reduce the regulatory burden placed on local authorities by his Department.
	(12548)

188	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department issues guidance on the appropriate timetable for right to buy sales to individual tenants.
	(12690)

189	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the merits of including a sparsity factor in the Fire Formula Grant Review.
	(12379)

190

Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.

(12332)

191	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12333)

192

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) each region of England and (D) Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12471)

193

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in each region of England was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.

(12472)

194	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the monetary value was of (a) public opinion research and (b) public relations contracts awarded by his Department in each (i) nation and (ii) region of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12473)

195	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12718)

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

196	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will bring forward proposals to make the BBC more accountable to Parliament; what discussions he has had with the BBC on this issue since his appointment; and if he will make a statement.
	(12225)

197	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what his most recent estimate is of the cost to the public purse of hosting the London 2012 Olympics.
	(12851)

198	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to increase the involvement of young members of the public in the making of decisions that effect them by (a) Ministers in his Department, (b) officials in his Department and (c) public bodies which fall within his Department's area of responsibility.
	(12266)

199	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, whether he has attended meetings as Secretary of State where representatives of BskyB or News International have been present.
	(12275)

200	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(12662)

201	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, which companies based in (a) Wales and (b) the Vale of Glamorgan have been involved in construction projects for the London 2012 Olympics.
	(12870)

202	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, which companies based in (a) Wales and (b) the Vale of Glamorgan have been contracted to participate in the operation of the London 2012 Olympics.
	(12871)

203	Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what conclusions reached by the International Olympic Committee as a result of its recent visit to London were reported to his Department.
	(12249)

204	Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, whether he plans to review the structure and strategy of S4C as part of his Department's spending review.
	(12667)

205	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many gaming machines of each category there were in (a) betting shops, (b) bingo halls, (c) family entertainment centres, (d) adult gaming centres and (e) public houses, clubs and other social venues in each of the last three years.
	(12384)

206	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many members of the (a) Gambling Commission and (b) National Lottery Commission receive a salary of more than £100,000 per year.
	(12386)

207	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, whether he plans to review the functions of the Gambling Commission; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the Gambling Commission in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12388)

208	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what representations he has received on the potential effects on seaside (a) businesses and (b) residents of reinstating the £2 stake for B3 amusement machines.
	(12418)

209	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what the budget was of the (a) Gambling Commission and (b) National Lottery Commission in each of the last three years; and how many staff each of those bodies employed in each of those years.
	(12436)

210	Jim Dowd (Lewisham West and Penge): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will hold discussions with the BBC Trust on charges for those paying the licence fee by quarterly direct debit.
	(12585)

211	Michael Dugher (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the creative and digital industries play a role in the consultation on his Department's structural reform plan.
	(12855)

212	Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 20 July 2010, Official Report, columns 59-60WS, on Departmental arm's-length bodies, what the effect on Wales will be of the proposed changes to the bodies listed; and if he will make a statement.
	(12631)

213	Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much funding the (a) Heritage Fund and (b) Arts Council England has allocated for the (i) construction of new theatres and (ii) refurbishment of existing theatres in each of the last 10 years.
	(12252)

214	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many chairs his Department has purchased in each year since 1997; how much it spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12800)

215	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12819)

216	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12982)

217	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much office space per employee his Department occupied in each year since 1997.
	(13001)

218	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13020)

219	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13039)

220	Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with public bodies within his Department's area of responsibility on the proposals to be contained in the Public Bodies (Reform) Bill.
	(12508)

221	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many contracts related to the London 2012 Olympics have been awarded to businesses and organisations in (a) North England, (b) Yorkshire and (c) Leeds; and what the monetary value of such contracts is.
	(12246)

222	Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will meet volunteers from East Coast FM to discuss community radio license availability.
	(12694)

223	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department have experience of broadband infrastructure projects.
	(12540)

224	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to provide assistance to tourism businesses in (a) the North East, (b) Tyneside and (c) Newcastle affected by the closure of regional development agencies.
	(12544)

225	Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what facilities for the London 2012 Olympics have been completed under the Construction Programme; and which of the major venues are under construction.
	(12158)

226	Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many people have been admitted to national museums and galleries without charge since the introduction of free admission by the previous Government.
	(12159)

227

Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.

(12334)

228	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK and in each of the last five years.
	(12335)

229	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the merits of increasing to £2 the maximum single stake for B3 gaming machines in amusement arcades.
	[R] (12062)

230	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the merits of increasing to 20 per cent. the proportion of B3 machines permissible in amusement arcades.
	[R] (12063)

231 N	Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what the responsibilities of the UK Film Council are; and how he intends such responsibilities to be discharged in the future.
	(12102)

232 N	Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what the responsibilities of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council are; and how he intends such responsibilities to be discharged in the future.
	(12103)

233	Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will (a) publish the findings of and (b) respond to the previous administration's consultation on an exemption to the Licensing Act 2003 for small venues with a capacity of 100 hosting live performances.
	(12173)

234	Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had on the operation of the Licensing Act 2003 with trades unions representing performers.
	(12174)

235	Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what plans he has to review the provisions of the Licensing Act 2003 affecting venues hosting live music performances; and if he will make a statement.
	(12175)

236	Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the merits of reviewing the Licensing Act 2003 with a view to creating a portable licence for travelling performers; and if he will make a statement.
	(12176)

237	Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of people in (a) Wales, (b) England, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland who receive television through a relay transmitter.
	(12741)

238	Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, whether he plans to upgrade relay transmitters across the UK so that all transmitters can receive all channels available on Freeview.
	(12745)

239

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) each region of England and (D) Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12468)

240

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what the expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in each region of England was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.

(12469)

241	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what the monetary value was of (a) public opinion research and (b) public relations contracts awarded by his Department in each (i) nation and (ii) region of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12470)

242	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12719)

243	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, which projects in Scotland the UK Film Council has supported in each of the last five years.
	(12933)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

244	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent in total in each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12377)

245	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(12661)

246	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the estimated in-service date with the Royal Navy is of the Joint Strike Fighter.
	(12549)

247	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether HMS Queen Elizabeth will carry Harrier aircraft until the Joint Strike Fighter enters service with the Royal Navy.
	(12550)

248	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) ATHENA, (b) Export Services Authority, (c) People, Pay and Pension Agency, Defence e-Government Services and Financial Management Shared Service Centre, (d) Ministry of Defence Education Outreach Programme and (e) Met Office stand at Civil Service Live 2010.
	(12832)

249 N	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, from what budget the capital cost of replacing the Vanguard nuclear weapons-capable submarines will be met.
	(12094)

250 N	Mrs Helen Grant (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress has been made by his Department on increasing the level of support services available to the parents of serving military personnel.
	(12574)

251 N	Mrs Helen Grant (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to increase the level of counselling and advice services provided to mothers of service personnel under the age of 21 years.
	(12575)

252 N	Mrs Helen Grant (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department allocated to each organisation for the purpose of providing support services to the families of service personnel in each service in each of the last 10 years.
	(12576)

253	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many chairs his Department has purchased in each year since 1997; how much it spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12806)

254	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12825)

255	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12988)

256	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much office space per employee his Department occupied in each year since 1997.
	(13007)

257	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13026)

258	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13045)

259	Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (a) was established and (b) is to be dissolved; and whether there are any plans to replace the Advisory Committee.
	(12873)

260	Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what dates (a) HMS Illustrious and (b) HMS Ocean arrived at ports in northern France to assist in the evacuation of British citizens following the disruption to flights caused by volcanic ash in April 2010.
	(12633)

261	Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British citizens were evacuated by (a) HMS Illustrious and (b) HMS Ocean from ports in northern France in (i) April and (ii) May 2010.
	(12644)

262	Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Chief of the General Staff's Briefing Team Report 2009.
	(12645)

263 N	Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has undertaken of the procurement processes for the (a) Type 45 destroyers and (b) Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers; what steps he plans to take in the light of that assessment to improve the procurement process for the Type 26 combat ship; and if he will make a statement.
	(12783)

264	Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of the provision of security to his Department's sites by (a) the Military Provost Guard Service and (b) the Ministry of Defence Guard Service was in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	(12300)

265	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the new Defence Industrial Strategy on small and medium-sized enterprises.
	(12057)

266	Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the reasons are for the trends in his Department's expenditure under its Defence Training Review contract between 2008 and July 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(12132)

267 N	Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to review the arrangements his Department put in place to mark Armed Forces Day in 2010; what representations he has received on the events which took place; what plans he has to recognise the contribution of veterans in future years; and if he will make a statement.
	(12551)

268 N	Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what meetings he has had with trades union representatives of employees in the UK defence sector as part of the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
	(12556)

269	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Nimrod MRA.4 procurement has cost to date; and what is the estimated cost of crew training and preparation for the aircraft prior to entering service.
	(12288)

270	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much has been spent on the Team Complex Weapons programme.
	(12289)

271	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much money each Team Complex Weapons contractor has received under the Team Complex Weapons programme to date.
	(12290)

272	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what changes to the Defence Industrial Strategy he is considering as part of the Strategic Security and Defence Review.
	(12293)

273	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of the recent refit of HMS Triumph; and when HMS Triumph will return to operational duties.
	(12294)

274	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers will be equipped with an aircraft catapult system.
	(12862)

275	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department has allocated to the electromagnetic catapult system project; and for which Royal Air Force aircraft it would be suitable.
	(12863)

276	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the Joint Strike Fighter F-35B short take-off and landing variant to enter service with the Royal Navy.
	(12864)

277	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent assessment is of progress in the salvage of HMS Sussex by Odyssey Marine Exploration.
	(12922)

278	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons his Department's contract to build a nuclear reactor core was cancelled.
	(12923)

279	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimates he has received from Deloitte on the cost of the Future Submarine Programme.
	(12924)

280	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much he expects his Department to spend on the D-5 missile life extension programme in each of the next 10 years.
	(12928)

281	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Bowman radios of what monetary value have been reported lost in each of the last two years.
	(12929)

282	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he takes to ensure that his Department meets international financial reporting standards.
	(12930)

283	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many residents from the Island of Saint Helena are serving in each of the armed services.
	(12534)

284	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to make an announcement on the conclusions of the review of (a) the rules governing the awarding of medals and (b) the institution of a national defence medal.
	(12599)

285

Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what costs to the public purse he expects be incurred in respect of work on a replacement for the Trident nuclear weapons system in this Parliament, including costs associated with (a) the submarine replacement programme concept phase, (b) the post-initial gate assessment phase, (c) expenditure on new facilities at the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment and (d) expenditure on (i) the development of a replacement warhead and (ii) the refurbishment of the existing warhead.

(12625)

286	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12326)

287	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12327)

288

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) each region of England and (D) Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12486)

289	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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 each year since 2005.
	(12487)

290	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in each region of England was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.
	(12488)

291	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12727)

292 N	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of defence expenditure in 2010-11 is allocated to costs related to (a) Army personnel, (b) Royal Navy personnel, (c) Royal Air Force personnel and (d) all his Department's staff.
	(12106)

Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister

293 N	Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many (a) British citizens, (b) Commonwealth citizens, (c) citizens of the Republic of Ireland and (d) citizens of other EU countries are on the electoral register for each parliamentary constituency.
	(11974)

294 N	Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, for what reasons the provisions of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill do not reflect the contents of the Coalition Agreement relating to the number of parliamentary constituencies.
	(12733)

295 N	Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what consultation he has undertaken with the Electoral Commission on (a) the provisions of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill and (b) the question that is to appear on the ballot papers for the referendum on the alternative vote system.
	(12735)

296 N	Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of holding the proposed referendum on the alternative vote system.
	(12736)

297	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the likely effect on the number of spoilt ballot papers of a move to (a) an alternative vote, (b) a single transferable vote and (c) other electoral systems.
	(12071)

298	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much the Government will spend promoting its planned referendum on the alternative vote system.
	(12194)

299	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with members of the Calman Implementation Group on the decision to hold the first fixed-term election in May 2015.
	(12195)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

300	Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to identify and nurture musical talent in schools following the end of the Standards Fund in 2011.
	(12528)

301	Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he intends to take to promote the teaching of music in schools following the end of the Standards Fund in 2011.
	(12529)

302	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in (a) the West Midlands, (b) Dudley borough and (c) Dudley North constituency received free school meals in the academic year 2009-10.
	(12519)

303	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent representations he has received from (a) local authorities, (b) trade unions and (c) individuals on the future of the Building Schools for the Future programme.
	(12520)

304	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will estimate the number of pupils in (a) England, (b) the West Midlands and (c) Dudley borough who would have been eligible for a free school meal under the proposal in the Pre-Budget Report 2009 to extend the eligibility criteria.
	(12531)

305 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the merits of requiring academies to cap the pay of (a) the principal and (b) other members of staff at the salary level of the Prime Minister.
	(12044)

306 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department issues on whether members of staff of a maintained school may vote on a resolution on application for academy status proposed by the governing body.
	(12048)

307	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to increase the involvement of young members of the public in the making of decisions that affect them taken by (a) Ministers in his Department, (b) officials in his Department and (c) public bodies which fall within his Department's area of responsibility.
	(12267)

308	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons academies are not required to (a) have regard to the local Children and Young People Plan, (b) promote the well-being of pupils and (c) promote community cohesion.
	(12271)

309	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many graduates from each region have taken part in the Teach First programme.
	(12273)

310	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he will take to ensure that graduates from universities in every region take part in the Teach First programme.
	(12274)

311	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason his Department does not require academies to provide the curriculum entitlement of a maintained school; and if he will make a statement.
	(12276)

312	Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2010, Official Report, column 260W, on departmental public expenditure, from which youth budgets the savings will be made.
	(12302)

313	Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of those pupils taking further mathematics at AS level were stdying at (a) comprehensive, (b) independent and (c) grammar schools in 2009.
	(12634)

314	Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of A levels in (a) chemistry, (b) physics, (c) mathematics and (d) modern foreign languages were awarded to candidates from (i) grammar schools, (ii) comprehensive schools, (iii) sixth form colleges and (iv) independent schools in academic year 2008-09.
	(12635)

315	Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children taking GCSEs in (a) grammar schools, (b) comprehensive schools, (c) secondary modern schools and (d) independent schools were awarded five or more GCSEs at (i) A* to A and (ii) A* to B grades in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	(12636)

316	Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of candidates achieved five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C including English and mathematics in each (a) selective, (b) partially selective and (c) comprehensive school in each local education authority in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	(12637)

317	Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children of compulsory school age in each local education authority area attended independent schools in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	(12638)

318 N	Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to respond to Question 3217, on the Building Schools for the Future programme in Birmingham, tabled by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield on 15 June 2010.
	(12093)

319	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department has been since its inception.
	(12660)

320	Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many expressions of interest in establishing free schools the New Schools Network has passed on to his Department.
	(12511)

321 N	Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Academy Orders he has agreed in relation to academies planning to open in September 2010.
	(12552)

322 N	Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools have been informed their application for academy status in September 2010 (a) has been granted and (b) has not been granted.
	(12553)

323 N	Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools he estimates will have signed academy agreements under the terms of the Academies Act 2010 by September 2010.
	(12554)

324 N	Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department has provided per pupil to schools with academy status in each local authority area in England in each of the last five years.
	(12673)

325	Jon Cruddas (Dagenham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether local safeguarding children boards have a duty to investigate all unexpected sudden child deaths related to (a) asthma and (b) allergy and to share their findings with relevant health and other professionals.
	(12088)

326 N	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department plans to take to improve water and toilet facilities at schools.
	(12066)

327	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 7 July 2010, Official Report, column 11WS, on behaviour and discipline in schools, whether he proposes that (a) teaching assistants, (b) clerical staff, (c) catering staff and (d) premises staff are to be given anonymity in respect of accusations made by pupils.
	(12600)

328	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 7 July 2010, Official Report, column 11WS, on behaviour and discipline in schools, in respect of which offences he proposes that teachers facing accusations from pupils are to be given anonymity.
	(12601)

329	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 7 July 2010, Official Report, column 11WS, on behaviour and discipline in schools, whether teachers are to be given anonymity in respect of accusations made by pupils at (a) the school at which they are employed and (b) other schools.
	(12602)

330	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 7 July 2010, Official Report, column 11WS, on behaviour and discipline in schools, whether teachers are to be given anonymity in respect of accusations made by pupils relating to incidents (a) on and (b) off school premises.
	(12603)

331	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 7 July 2010, Official Report, column 11WS, on behaviour and discipline in schools, what restrictions on the publication of the names of teachers against whom accusations have been made by pupils his Department plans to introduce.
	(12611)

332 N	Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he expects to answer Question (a) 11065 and (b) 11066, on the Building Schools for the Future programme, tabled by the hon. Member for Makerfield on 21 July 2010.
	(12671)

333	Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of primary school places required in (a) the London Borough of Merton and (b) Wimbledon constituency in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13, (iii) 2013-14, (iv) 2014-15 and (iv) 2019-20.
	(12943)

334	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many chairs his Department and its predecessors purchased in each year since 1997; how much was spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12810)

335	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12829)

336	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12992)

337	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much office space per employee his Department and its predecessors occupied in each year since 1997.
	(13011)

338	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13030)

339	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13049)

340	Esther McVey (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Catholic schools which wish to achieve academy status may retain the right to select a proportion of pupils on the basis of their Catholic faith.
	(12496)

341 N	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in which year the rebuilding of Selby Park primary school under the Primary Capital Programme will commence.
	(12407)

342	Ian Mearns (Gateshead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what date he informed Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council of the cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future programme planned for the west of the borough.
	(12167)

343	Ian Mearns (Gateshead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, who in Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council he informed of the cancellation of the planned Building Schools for the Future programme for the west of the borough.
	(12168)

344	Ian Mearns (Gateshead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what provision he plans to make for Special Educational Needs capital expenditure in Gateshead in each of the next three years.
	(12169)

345	Ian Mearns (Gateshead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will discuss with Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council alternatives for the cancelled Building Schools for the Future programme planned for the borough.
	(12170)

346	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average salary for a primary school teacher was in (a) England, (b) Leeds and (c) Leeds North West constituency in the latest 12 month period for which figures are available.
	(12887)

347	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications in respect of his Department's proposed free schools have been received from groups in (a) Yorkshire and (b) Leeds.
	(12890)

348 N	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the business case and costings presented to his Department by the New Schools Network.
	(12028)

349 N	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what meetings Ministers in his Department have had with (a) Rachel Wolf and (b) Dominic Cummings since 6 May 2010.
	(12029)

350 N	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department offers to parents wishing to set up a new school.
	(12030)

351 N	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which categories of (a) contracts for the provision of services to his Department and (b) grants to charities made by his Department require Ministerial approval.
	(12031)

352	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure schools involve parents of multiple birth children in deciding whether their children should be placed in the same or a separate class when starting school; and if he will make a statement.
	(12428)

353

Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to implement the recommendations of the Chief Schools Adjudicator that (a) the admission code be altered to ensure that multiple birth children are allocated places together at primary school by adding them to the list of excepted pupils in the class size regulations and (b) that admission authorities be compelled to consult on and publish arrangements for the admission of multiple birth children.

(12429)

354	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will encourage secondary schools to appoint counsellors for pupils recommended by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
	(12533)

355	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department provides to (a) primary and (b) secondary schools on best practice in employment of teaching assistants.
	(12385)

356	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to (a) reduce the number of children and young people acting as carers and (b) assist children and young people who (i) have been and (ii) are acting as carers.
	(12387)

357	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will assess the merits of including in the national curriculum (a) practical financial management and (b) awareness of marketing.
	(12612)

358	Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the spending profile for the Building Schools for the Future programme is in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) each subsequent year in which the programme is operational.
	(12184)

359	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make training in financial capability an obligatory part of teacher training.
	(12072)

360	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of teaching of financial literacy in primary schools.
	(12073)

361	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make teaching of financial literacy a compulsory part of the national curriculum in (a) secondary and (b) primary schools from September 2011; and if he will make a statement.
	(12074)

362	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will discuss with (a) the financial services sector and (b) other businesses their potential support for the provision of financial literacy teaching in (i) secondary and (ii) primary schools; and if he will make a statement.
	(12075)

363	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will assess, as part of any review of the mathematics curriculum, the potential for the inclusion of teaching of personal financial skills to contribute to raising attainment in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.
	(12076)

364	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the level of financial literacy among school leavers; and if he will make a statement.
	(12077)

365	Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils in (a) all schools and (b) schools rated outstanding in their most recent Ofsted inspection received free school meals in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12530)

366	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12350)

367	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12351)

368	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he expects the first new free schools to open.
	(12217)

369	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications in respect of his Department's proposed free schools have been received from groups in the North East.
	(12259)

370	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of free schools likely to be created under his Department's proposals in the next five years.
	(12260)

371	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations he has received from Stockton on Tees Borough Council on school building projects; and if he will make a statement.
	(12261)

372	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in each of the English regions in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.
	(12437)

373	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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 he is responsible in each year since 2005.
	(12438)

374	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in each region of England was in the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.
	(12439)

375	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the monetary value was of (a) public opinion research and (b) public relations contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years in each region.
	(12440)

376	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which IT contracts awarded by his Department and its predecessors in the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12709)

377	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what average hourly rate his Department has paid to each employment agency for agency staff since its inception.
	(12710)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

378	Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what regard he has to pay scales for police forces set by the Secretary of State for the Home Department in establishing pay policy for the Civil Nuclear Constabulary; and if he will make a statement.
	(13070)

379	Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the strategic direction of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary; and if he will make a statement.
	(13071)

380	Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his policy is on the safety of UK (a) nuclear sites and (b) nuclear materials.
	(13072)

381	Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what arrangements there are for the (a) oversight, (b) regulation and (c) strategic direction of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary.
	(13073)

382	Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what arrangements exist between (a) his Department, (b) the Home Department, (c) the Health and Safety Executive and (d) the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills on the operation of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary.
	(13074)

383	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department has been in each year since its inception.
	(12666)

384	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many former mineworkers in (a) Don Valley constituency, (b) Doncaster and (c) South Yorkshire have received coal health compensation scheme payments; and what the total sums paid were in each case.
	(12689)

385	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in Don Valley constituency have received an insulation measure through the Warm Front scheme since its inception.
	(12748)

386	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans he has for the future of the Warm Front scheme; and if he will make a statement.
	(12749)

387	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate his Department has made of the proportion of UK carbon dioxide contribution emissions attributable to (a) aviation, (b) road vehicles, (c) power stations, (d) industry and (e) domestic households.
	(12754)

388	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment his Department has made of the contribution of the Warm Front scheme to (a) improving household energy efficiency and (b) reducing fuel poverty.
	(12912)

389	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate his Department has made of the annual amount of carbon dioxide emissions attributable to the IT industry.
	(12953)

390	Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many people in Wimbledon constituency were classified as living fuel poverty in each year since 2000.
	(12941)

391	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many chairs his Department has purchased since its creation; how much it spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12807)

392	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has spent on wine in each year since its creation.
	(12826)

393	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has spent on taxi fares in each year since its creation.
	(12989)

394	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much office space per employee his Department has occupied in each year since its creation.
	(13008)

395	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department spent on vacant properties in each year since its creation.
	(13027)

396	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since its creation.
	(13046)

397

Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the efficiency and effectiveness of on-shore wind turbines in the last 10 years; how much electricity was generated by wind turbines in the last 12 months; and what the average cost per unit of electricity generated by each generating technology was in 2009.

(12128)

398	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 5 July 2010, Official Report, column 38W, on the Redfern Inquiry, when he expects to publish the Inquiry's report on human tissue analysis in UK nuclear facilities; and what the reason is for the time taken to publish the report.
	(12860)

399	David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his policy is on enabling small businesses to work as contractors on projects funded under the Warm Front scheme.
	(12153)

400	David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to reduce electricity prices for (a) domestic and (b) industrial consumers by 35 per cent.; and if he will make a statement.
	(12518)

401	David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will extend the renewables obligation scheme to other low-carbon sources of energy, including nuclear power.
	(12717)

402	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will bring forward proposals in the Energy and Green Economy Bill to ensure the provision of information on the costs transferred by energy suppliers to consumers.
	(12361)

403	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans he has for future levels of public funding for renewable energy; if he will take steps to establish more co-ordinated and long-term funding for renewable technology; and if he will make a statement.
	(12362)

404

Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to ensure that (a) energy monitors displaying real time data on consumption are provided with each smart meter installation, (b) smart meter customers are provided with information on using smart meters to reduce their (i) energy bills and (ii) carbon dioxide emissions and (c) consumers' energy data will (A) remain under the control of consumers and (B) be protected from misuse.

(12422)

405	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what funding his Department has provided to (a) Transition Towns and (b) other voluntary groups designed to increase sustainability through local activities in the last 12 months.
	(12894)

406

Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.

(12348)

407	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12349)

408	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department plans that renewable obligation certificates rates agreed when energy producers begin a new project should continue at a fixed rate for the life of the project.
	(12049)

409

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) each region of England and (D) Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12489)

410

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) each region of England and (D) Northern Ireland was in the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.

(12490)

411	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which IT contracts awarded by his Department since its inception have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12707)

412	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what average hourly rate his Department has paid to each employment agency for agency staff in each year since its inception.
	(12708)

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

413	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance her Department issues on the housing and sale of animals in pet shops; what recent representations she has received on the issue; and if she will make a statement.
	(12231)

414	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to review the regulations regarding pet shops, with reference to (a) the age at which children can buy animals and (b) the conditions in which animals are kept; and if she will make a statement.
	(12232)

415	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, under what legislation the sale of exotic pets is regulated; what plans she has to amend such regulation; and if she will make a statement.
	(12233)

416	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what exotic animals may lawfully be sold in pet shops; whether she plans to make changes to that regime; and if she will make a statement.
	(12234)

417	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has received on the sale of (a) exotic animals and (b) endangered species; and if she will make a statement.
	(12235)

418	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to amend the regulatory system governing the sale of exotic animals and dangerous animals in pet shops; and if she will make a statement.
	(12236)

419 N	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's letter, ref mc178586, dated 19 April 2010, what progress has been made on discussions with the Scottish Executive on matters relating to the transfer of the solum of the roadway to Site 6 at Almondbank.
	(12207)

420 N	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's letter, ref mc167191/rt, dated 3 February 2010, what progress has been made on discussions with the Scottish Ministers on the issue of maintenance burdens on estate roads within the site 5 / 6 complex at Almondbank.
	(12208)

421	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to increase the involvement of young members of the public in the making of decisions that affect them by (a) Ministers in her Department, (b) officials in her Department and (c) public bodies which fall within her Department's area of responsibility.
	(12268)

422	Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to ensure that the Leeds and Liverpool Canal remains open; and if she will allocate funding to increase the level of maintenance of that canal.
	(12899)

423	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by her Department was in each of the last five years.
	(12659)

424

Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 June 2010, Official Report, column 121W, on animal welfare: circuses, whether Ministers have concluded their consideration of the recent public consultation exercise on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses; and when the results of that consideration are expected to be announced.

(12052)

425

Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with Ministerial colleagues on the European Parliament's proposals to require food from animals which have not been stunned prior to slaughter to be labelled with that information, with particular reference to the likely effects on faith groups of the implementation of those proposals.

(12136)

426	Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on the European Parliament's proposals to expand the remit of EU food labelling regulation to include the provision of labelling information on methods of animal slaughter.
	(12154)

427	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many chairs her Department and its predecessor purchased in each year since 1997; how much was spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12801)

428	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department and its predecessor spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12820)

429	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department and its predecessor spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12983)

430	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much office space per employee her Department and its predecessor occupied in each year since 1997.
	(13002)

431	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department and its predecessor spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13021)

432	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department and its predecessor spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13040)

433	Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with public bodies within her Department's area of responsibility on the proposals to be contained in the Public Bodies (Reform) Bill.
	(12507)

434 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will assess the merits requiring fishermen to take steps to reduce the number of dolphins and porpoises killed as bycatch by means of (a) changes to net design and (b) the fitting of an acoustic deterrent to fishing craft; and if she will make a statement.
	(12572)

435 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she made of the number of (a) dolphins and (b) porpoises killed as bycatch in the last 12 months; what steps she is taking to reduce the level of cetacean bycatch; and if she will make a statement.
	(12573)

436	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the provisions of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 relating to (a) private drains and sewers, (b) sustainable urban drainage, (c) reservoir safety, (d) flood and coastal risk management and (e) surface water management will come into effect.
	(12082)

437	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 22 July 2010, Official Report, columns 32-3WS, on her Department's arms-length bodies, how the functions of the Sustainable Development Commission will be undertaken after its closure; and if she will make a statement.
	(12925)

438	Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to seek the introduction of an intra-EU trade ban on eggs produced by hens housed in conventional cages if more time is given to other Member States to phase-out conventional cages from January 2012.
	(12155)

439	Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with egg producers on the introduction of a No. 41 production code for enriched cage eggs.
	(12156)

440	Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support the egg industry; and if she will make a statement.
	(12157)

441	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discusions her Department has had with representatives of the egg industry on implementation of an action plan with the objective of ending the practice of beak trimming; and if she will make a statement.
	(12427)

442	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken to establish (a) an ombudsman for the food supply chain and (b) a Red Meat Road Map.
	(12375)

443	Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to revise the rules covering the movement of livestock to reduce the administrative burden on farmers.
	(12526)

444	Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has for the future operation and efficiency of the Rural Payments Agency.
	(12527)

445	Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will issue guidance to local authorities on responsibilities for the clearance and maintenance of waterways.
	(12683)

446	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of her Department's progress in promoting sustainable agriculture.
	(12895)

447

Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) her Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which her Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.

(12336)

448	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was paid by her Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12337)

449	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of measures for the electronic identification of sheep.
	(12203)

450	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she held with the (a) Scottish Executive, (b) Welsh Assembly Government and (c) Northern Ireland Assembly Government in advance of the announcement to reduce the level of funding to the Sustainable Development Commission.
	(12204)

451	Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent reports she has received on the adequacy of supply of tags for the electronic identification of sheep; and if she will make a statement.
	(12131)

452

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) her Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which she is responsible in each region of England in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12474)

453	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was spent on external consultants and advisers by (a) her Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which her Department is responsible in each year since 2005.
	(12475)

454

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the expenditure on vehicles of (a) her Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which her Department is responsible in each region of England was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.

(12476)

455	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which IT contracts awarded by her Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12720)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

456	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his (a) Israeli, (b) Egyptian, (c) Lebanese and (d) US counterpart on bilateral counter-terrorist co-operation, with particular reference to action in respect of Hezbollah.
	(12577)

457	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the (a) number and (b) range of Hezbollah's missiles.
	(12692)

458	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the number of Hezbollah members (a) in Lebanon and (b) who have been trained in Iran.
	(12693)

459	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on Hezbollah's military capability in southern Lebanon.
	(12961)

460	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) his Israeli counterpart, (b) his Egyptian counterpart, (c) his Lebanese counterpart and (d) his US counterpart on Hezbollah's military capability in southern Lebanon.
	(12963)

461	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the range of Iran's ballistic missiles.
	(12965)

462	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his (a) Israeli, (b) US, (c) Egyptian and (d) Jordanian counterpart on the range of Iran's ballistic missiles.
	(12966)

463	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the range of Iran's ballistic missiles.
	(12967)

464	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his (a) Israeli, (b) US, (c) Egyptian, (d) EU and (e) Jordanian counterpart on Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium.
	(12968)

465	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(12657)

466	Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the government of Pakistan on the safety of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in that country; and if he will make a statement.
	(12945)

467	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many chairs his Department has purchased in each year since 1997; how much it spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12793)

468	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12812)

469	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12975)

470	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much office space per employee his Department occupied in each year since 1997.
	(12994)

471	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13013)

472	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13032)

473	Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on political disturbances in the Maldives; and if he will make a statement.
	(12371)

474	David Miliband (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2010, Official Report, column 189W, on Afghanistan: international assistance, what the evidential basis is for his statement that ISAF has no allocated funds for microgrants.
	(12285)

475	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much aid his Department has allocated to Afghanistan in each year since 2002.
	(12758)

476

Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of his Department's specialist human rights staff were posted overseas on the most recent date for which information is available; at which locations each is based; how long each has been in post; at which previous locations each has served his Department; and if he will make a statement.

(12759)

477	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which of his Department's staff formerly based at the British Embassy in Bogota were subsequently serving at the British Embassy in Kabul in the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
	(12885)

478 N	Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what involvement his Department has had in the Stategic Defence and Security Review; and if he will make a statement.
	(12784)

479	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on the UK contribution to a resolution of the political situation between Azerbaijan and Armenia to enable internally-displaced persons to return to Nagorno Karabakh and surrounding regions.
	(12691)

480	Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many temporary staff are employed by (a) his Department and (b) British embassies and consulates.
	(12139)

481	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list those overseas properties which his Department shares (a) with other United Kingdom departments and (b) with foreign governments.
	(12187)

482	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of recent reports of violence in the North of the Central African Republic; and if he will make a statement.
	(12291)

483	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support the Government is providing to the MINURCAT mission.
	(12292)

484	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on defence collaboration between China and Burma, with particular reference to the purchase by Burma of the K-8 aircraft from China.
	(12295)

485	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of recent reports that Burma is attempting to acquire nuclear weapons.
	(12296)

486	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department have had with their Libyan counterparts in the last 12 months; and what matters were discussed at those meetings.
	(12304)

487	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 of 2004 on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
	(12685)

488	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding his Department allocated to the International Atomic Energy Agency in each of the last five years.
	(12686)

489

Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.

(12344)

490	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12345)

491	Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on restoring the customs code for Gaza.
	(12949)

492	Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of access restrictions on Gaza with the Interim Association Agreement between the EU and the Palestinian Authority.
	(12950)

493

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) region of England and (D) Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12480)

494	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 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 each year since 2005.
	(12481)

495

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible was in each region in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.

(12482)

496	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12730)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

497	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent by his Department on research on repairing nerve damage in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	(12408)

498	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ask the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to review its guidelines relating to the treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis; and if he will make a statement.
	(12237)

499	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to instruct the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to develop a national strategy for motor neurone disease.
	(12238)

500	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has taken note of the comments on the Health Professions Council on the Government's Your Freedom website; and if he will make a statement.
	(12239)

501	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to review the regulatory framework of the Health Professions Council; and if he will make a statement.
	(12240)

502	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to issue guidance to the Health Professions Council on the speed with which professional allegations are handled.
	(12241)

503	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the future of the Health Professions Council; and if he will make a statement.
	(12250)

504	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contribution he expects information prescriptions to make to the healthcare information revolution.
	(12766)

505	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the cancer patient experience survey will form part of the quality accounts of NHS trusts.
	(12774)

506

Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of GP commissioning teams which will be required in (a) York and (b) North Yorkshire to discharge the commissioning responsibilities currently assigned to the North Yorkshire and York primary care trust; what estimate he has made of the number of staff who will be employed by those teams; and what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of their operation.

(12838)

507	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase the involvement of young members of the public in the making of decisions that effect them by (a) Ministers in his Department, (b) officials in his Department and (c) public bodies which fall within his Department's area of responsibility.
	(12265)

508	Andy Burnham (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to present the Health Bill to Parliament.
	(12118)

509	Andy Burnham (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) research and (b) other evidence on the capacity of GPs to commission services was used in preparation of his Department's recent White Paper.
	(12119)

510	Andy Burnham (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the estimated cost to the public purse is of planned NHS reorganisation in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
	(12120)

511	Andy Burnham (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding he has allocated to meet the costs of redundancies resulting from the proposed restructuring of healthcare provision.
	(12121)

512	Andy Burnham (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consultation his Department has had with service users and carers on the proposals in the White Paper, Liberating the NHS.
	(12122)

513	Andy Burnham (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what additional payment local authorities will receive to carry out the new functions described on page 49 of his Department's White Paper, Equity and Excellence, Liberating the NHS.
	(12286)

514	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(13058)

515 N	Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2010, Official Report, column 112W, on health centres: Christchurch, what progress he has made in the discussions to achieve an early disposal of his Department's interest in the former health centre at Saxon Square, Christchurch.
	(12732)

516	Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 20 July 2010, Official Report, column 12WS, on Machinery of Government changes, which nutrition programmes will transfer from the Food Standards Agency to his Department.
	(12614)

517	Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 20 July 2010, Official Report, column 12WS, on Machinery of Government changes, if he will report annually on his Department's progress in respect of those nutrition policy programmes transferred from the Food Standards Agency to his Department.
	(12616)

518	Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 20 July 2010, Official Report, column 12WS, on Machinery of Government changes, if he will make it his policy to continue the salt reduction programme when responsibility for that programme transfers from the Food Standards Agency to his Department.
	(12617)

519	Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 20 July 2010, Official Report, column 12WS, on Machinery of Government changes, on which date responsibility for nutrition policy will transfer from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to his Department; and whether current FSA programmes will continue until transfer.
	(12618)

520	Jon Cruddas (Dagenham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve guidance on weaning to parents of young babies in order to prevent food allergies from developing; and if he will make a statement.
	(12087)

521

Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree of 19 July 2010, Official Report, column 96W, on tobacco: sales, what recent discussions he has had on the implementation of the provisions in the Health Act 2009 in respect of the prohibition of sales of tobacco products from vending machines from 1 October 2011.

(12084)

522	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost was of his Department's tobacco policy team in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	(12277)

523	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prisoners are in receipt of prescriptions for methadone; and what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of (a) prescribing prisoners methadone and (b) abstinence programmes in reducing the level of drug addiction in prison.
	(12409)

524	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2010, Official Report, columns 890-1W, on tobacco, what the job (a) title and (b) description is of the seven people employed in the tobacco policy team; and what recent estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of employing those people.
	(12421)

525	Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria have been used under the national audit of dementia services to determine the appropriateness of use of anti-psychotic drugs to treat dementia.
	(12399)

526	Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions of anti-psychotic medication there were for people with dementia (a) in each primary care trust area and (b) in each region in each of the last five years.
	(12400)

527	Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on work undertaken by carers for people with dementia in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12402)

528	Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with dementia in each region in each of the last five years.
	(12403)

529	Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who has been invited to join the stakeholder reference group to advise his Department on the national audit of dementia services.
	(12404)

530	Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the level of use of anti-psychotic drugs for people with dementia.
	(12405)

531	Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the national audit of dementia services to be (a) completed and (b) published; and in what format it will be published.
	(12586)

532	Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average vacancy rates were in accident and emergency departments of each London acute healthcare trust for (a) middle grade doctors and (b) nurses in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	(12607)

533	Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the implementation of the Southeast London Healthcare Trust A Picture of Health programme to be completed; and if he will make a statement.
	(12608)

534	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the public purse was of the Appointments Commission stand at Civil Service Live 2010.
	(12578)

535	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the National Programme for IT in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10.
	(12579)

536	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the public purse was of the NHS Choices stand at Civil Service Live 2010.
	(12835)

537	Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the proposals in the Health White Paper, how it is planned that GP consortia will be supported to commission appropriate services for (a) children with autism and mental health problems and (b) other people with complex needs.
	(12516)

538	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information he has received on the number of providers regularly undertaking root cause analysis on all confirmed cases of hospital-acquired pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis in the last 12 months.
	(12317)

539	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information he has received on the number of providers regularly undertaking local audits on the percentage of people risk-assessed for venous thromboembolism who receive the appropriate prophylaxis in the last 12 months.
	(12318)

540	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce compulsory education on the prevention of venous thromboembolism into the education syllabus for medical undergraduates, nurses and allied health professionals.
	(12319)

541	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking jointly with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to develop a national drug chart which includes risk assessment for venous thromboembolism and the provision of appropriate prophylaxis.
	(12320)

542	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what role the Care Quality Commission will have in monitoring compliance with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence quality standards on venous thromboembolism as part of their national indicators and assessment requirements for 2010-11.
	(12321)

543	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of hospitals achieved the nationally defined CQUIN goal on the reduction of venous thromboembolism of risk assessing 90 per cent. of hospital inpatients using the national risk assessment tool.
	(12322)

544	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of hospitals returned the CQUIN mandatory data collection forms on the nationally defined goal on reducing the incidence of venous thromboembolism by the deadline of 1 June 2010.
	(12323)

545	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many chairs his Department has purchased in each year since 1997; how much it spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12809)

546	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12828)

547	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12991)

548	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much office space per employee his Department occupied in each year since 1997.
	(13010)

549	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13029)

550	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13048)

551 N	Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans the Government has to ensure that (a) community-based stroke physiotherapy services improve and (b) progress in post-hospital support for stroke survivors matches that being made in hospital care.
	(12098)

552 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what timetable he has set for bringing into force each of the powers to protect young people from sunbeds provided for in the Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010.
	(12557)

553 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what restrictions his Department places on the (a) services, (b) treatments and (c) medications which may be provided to patients through (i) GPs and (ii) other NHS facilities.
	(12675)

554	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in respect of how many venues his Department has issued an exemption from the ban on smoking in public places since the implementation of that ban.
	(12584)

555	Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how he plans to develop an indicator for venous thromboembolism reduction to reflect the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Quality Standard which can be used by the NHS Commissioning Board and GP consortia.
	(12512)

556	Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) evidence and (b) procedures will be used to define the indicators which will appear in the finalised NHS Outcomes Framework.
	(12513)

557	Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to include reduced venous thromboembolism as an indicator for safe treatment within the first NHS Outcomes Framework.
	(12555)

558

Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to Baroness Thornton of 19 July 2010, Official Report, House of Lords, columns 170-1WA, on health: malnutrition, what changes he plans to make to the nationally-defined goal in the Commission for Quality and Innovation scheme for acute provideers for 2011-12 in respect of reducing the incidence of venous thromboembolism by increasing the percentage of patients who must be risk-assessed using the national risk assessment tool before payment is triggered.

(12623)

559

Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to Baroness Thornton of 19 July 2010, Official Report, House of Lords, columns 170-1WA, on health: malnutrition, what plans he has to retain for 2011-12 the current proportion of one fifth of the financial value of each acute provider in respect of the Commission for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) scheme which is linked to nationally-defined CQUIN goals.

(12624)

560	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the criteria set for continuous health care; and if he will make a statement.
	(12897)

561 N	Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support plans to investigate the role of the Independent Living Fund.
	(12105)

562	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with dementia in (a) Hertfordshire and (b) Stevenage constituency in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	(12839)

563	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dementia patients have been prescribed antipsychotics in (a) Hertfordshire and (b) Stevenage constituency in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	(12840)

564	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to reduce the use of antipsychotics for the treatment of dementia; and if he will make a statement.
	(12841)

565	Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the number and proportion of residents of St Albans constituency who (a) are registered with a GP and (b) have access to an NHS dentist.
	(12115)

566 N	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received from Burson-Marsteller on the recent decisions by his Department to change the remit of the Food Standards Agency.
	(12213)

567 N	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings he has had with Burson-Marsteller to discuss the labelling of food and with reference to food standards.
	(12214)

568 N	Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has for the future of NHS Innovations; who will be responsible for innovation within the NHS at (a) local and (b) national level after the implementation of changes proposed in his Department's White Paper; and if he will make a statement.
	(12781)

569 N	Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with local health trusts on levels of jobs and services in NHS facilities; and if he will make a statement.
	(12782)

570 N	Nicky Morgan (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when chymopain injections ceased to be licensed for use in the UK.
	(12775)

571 N	Nicky Morgan (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) formal complaints have been made and (b) legal proceedings issued in respect of complications arising from or following the administration of a chymopain injection in the last five years.
	(12776)

572	James Morris (Halesowen and Rowley Regis): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will conduct an assessment of the effect of his proposed reforms to the NHS on local authorities, with particular reference to the potential merging of adult social care and health provision.
	(12628)

573	David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with stakeholders on the effectiveness of child and adolescent mental health services for children with autism and co-occurring mental health problems.
	(12199)

574	David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure that his Department's White Paper will lead to improvements in the provision of healthcare for those with the most complex needs, with particular reference to children with autism and mental health problems.
	(12200)

575	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in his discussion with his Isle of Man counterpart in respect of a new reciprocal health agreement with the UK; whether he expects any such agreement to be in place before the end of September 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(12610)

576	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of patients admitted to hospital from residential care as a result of their diabetes in each of the last five years.
	[R] (12360)

577	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2010, Official Report, column 786W, on hospitals: admissions, what the 10 most common reasons are for which patients of each healthcare (a) provider and (b) commissioner were transferred from residential care to hospital care in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12423)

578	Laura Sandys (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent epilepsy specialist nurses worked in the NHS (a) in each of the last 10 years and (b) at the latest date for which figures are available; what estimate he has made of the number of such nurses there will be in 2012; and if he will make a statement.
	(12055)

579	Laura Sandys (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of (a) acute and (b) primary care trusts employ at least one epilepsy specialist nurse.
	(12056)

580	Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with motor neurone disease in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland; and what steps his Department has taken to provide support services for such people.
	(12830)

581	Owen Smith (Pontypridd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds for benchmarking purposes on (a) emergency hospital readmittance rates for epilepsy, (b) median times for a first epilepsy specialist appointment, (c) rates of epilepsy misdiagnosis and (d) the incidence of deaths caused by epilepsy in (i) England and (ii) other EU member states.
	(12537)

582	Owen Smith (Pontypridd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds for benchmarking purposes on comparative and sudden unexpected death rates in epilepsy in (a) England and (b) other EU member states.
	(12538)

583	Owen Smith (Pontypridd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the emergency hospital readmittance rate for people with epilepsy.
	(12539)

584	Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria the Food Standards Agency takes into account when selecting subjects for public awareness campaigns.
	(12669)

585 N	Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) heart and (b) other operations were carried out in the NHS in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 1996-97.
	(12672)

586 N	Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors were employed in the NHS in (a) May 2010 and (b) 1997.
	(12674)

587 N	Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital building schemes were completed between 1997 and May 2010.
	(12788)

588 N	Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices offered extended opening hours for at least one evening or weekend session a week in May 2010.
	(12971)

589	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12338)

590	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each region of England in each of the last five years.
	(12339)

591	Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings he has had with representatives of (a) the Royal Colleges and (b) other relevant professional bodies on training of staff working in mental health settings in autism.
	(12053)

592	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in each of the English regions in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.
	(12457)

593	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, 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 each year since 2005.
	(12458)

594	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in each English region was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.
	(12459)

595	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the monetary value was of (a) public opinion research and (b) public relations contracts awarded by his Department in in each of the last five years in (i) London and (ii) each region of England.
	(12460)

596	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12721)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

597	Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with her EU counterparts on measures to combat human trafficking for sexual exploitation; and if she will make a statement.
	(12177)

598	Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent human trafficking for sexual exploitation during the London 2012 Olympics; and if she will make a statement.
	(12179)

599	Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has allocated for research into the prevention of human trafficking and the rehabilitation of victims of human trafficking in each year from 2010 to 2015; and if she will make a statement.
	(12180)

600	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of illegal immigrants who were trafficked for the purpose of prostitution who are resident in the UK.
	(12646)

601	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many gun licences were granted to people under the age of 16 years in each of the last four years.
	(12682)

602	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are registered on the national DNA database.
	(12850)

603	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase the involvement of young members of the public in the making of decisions that affect them by (a) Ministers in her Department, (b) officials in her Department and (c) public bodies which fall within her Department's area of responsibility.
	(12263)

604	Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on her proposals to adopt the protections of the Scottish model for the national DNA database; and if she will make a statement.
	(12668)

605	Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Statement of 13 July 2010, Official Report, columns 797-8, on counter-terrorism and security powers, when she expects to announce the membership of the team conducting her Department's review of counter-terrorism and security powers.
	(12127)

606	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by her Department was in each of the last five years.
	(13059)

607 N	Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to issue type approval for drug testing devices to be used by the police for the screening of motorists.
	(12734)

608 N	Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to end the retention of (a) DNA samples and (b) fingerprints of those arrested for but not convicted of an offence; and if she will make a statement.
	(12091)

609	David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many consultants were employed on her Department's eBorders programme in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c) 2008-09; what costs were incurred in employing such consultants in each year; and what the equivalent expenditure has been in 2010-11 to date.
	(12772)

610	David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions changes have been made to the specifications for the contract relating to the e-borders programme.
	(12843)

611	David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect the change in location of the National Border Targeting Centre on the timescale for the establishment of the centre.
	(12845)

612	David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has paid Deloitte Consulting for its work on the eBorders programme since September 2005.
	(12896)

613	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the number of DNA matches made with the National DNA Database since 4 December 2008 in respect of individuals who were not (a) charged or (b) found guilty of the offence for which their DNA was originally taken.
	(12420)

614	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the representations it received during the consultation meetings between her Department and residents of Lindholme on the proposed expansion of Lindholme Immigration Removal Centre.
	(12696)

615	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places there are in each immigration removal centre in England and Wales; and what the planned number of places is for each of the next five years.
	(12742)

616	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) foreign national offenders, (b) failed asylum seekers, (c) foreign nationals who have overstayed in the UK and (d) illegal entrants to the UK were deported in each of the last five years.
	(12744)

617

Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces in England and Wales have a dedicated (a) hi-tech crime, (b) e-crime, (c) financial investigation or fraud, (d) counter-terrorism, (e) organised crime, (f) rape and sexual offences, (g) child abuse and paedophilia, (h) drugs and (i) murder unit; and how many police officers are employed in each such unit in each such force.

(12746)

618	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers there were in Doncaster on the latest date for which figures are available.
	(12849)

619	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) anti-social behaviour orders and (b) parenting orders have been issued in each local authority area since their introduction.
	(12883)

620	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been issued in (a) Doncaster, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) England since 2007.
	(12964)

621 N	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken from application date to issue date for a visa to enter the UK from (a) overseas and (b) Pakistan was in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12561)

622	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department assessed the merits of changing the scope of the e-Borders contract in response to representations from Raytheon on the implications of EU data privacy regulations for the roll-out of the e-Borders programme.
	(12503)

623	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she made of the performance of Raytheon prior to the termination of its contract to deliver the e-Borders programme.
	(12514)

624

Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions changes were made to the e-Borders contract specification between the letting of that contract and May 2010; and what assessment she made of the effect on the timetable for delivering the contract of (a) changing the location of the National Border Targeting Centre and (b) the change in security clearance requirements for personnel working on the e-Borders programme.

(12515)

625	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment was made of the UK Border Agency's e-Borders senior management team's experience of managing large and complex IT programmes.
	(12874)

626	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) consultants and (b) civil servants were working on the e-Borders programme in each year since 2005.
	(12875)

627

Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has paid to Deloitte Consulting for work on the eBorders programme since September 2005; whether further payments remain to be made; how much her Department has paid to Raytheon for work on the eBorders programme since November 2007; and what (a) incentives and (b) performance indicators were used to measure Deloitte's performance.

(12877)

628

Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many consultants were employed by her Department on the eBorders programme in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08, (c) 2008-09 and (d) 2009-10; how many have been employed in 2010-11 to date; what the cost to the public purse has been in each such case; what the role of each consultancy was in respect of the programme; what assessment she has made of the (i) value for money of the use of consultants and (ii) contribution by consultants to the management of the programme; and whether she plans to retain the use of consultants in the next eBorders procurement exercise.

(12935)

629	Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations she has received on the (a) presence in the UK of and (b) use of the internet and satellite television broadcasts by extremist groups targeting the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in (i) the UK and (ii) Pakistan; and what steps she is taking to ensure such groups comply with UK law.
	(12946)

630	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many chairs her Department has purchased in each year since 1997; how much it spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12796)

631	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12815)

632	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12978)

633	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much office space per employee her Department occupied in each year since 1997.
	(12997)

634	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13016)

635	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13035)

636 N	Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has (a) prepared a regulatory impact assessment and (b) estimated the cost to the public purse of implementing its proposals to introduce elected police commissioners.
	(12789)

637 N	Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to maintain passport security.
	(12790)

638 N	Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for the future use of biometrics in passports.
	(12791)

639	Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the levels of (a) overall crime, (b) domestic burglary, (c) vehicle related crime and (d) violent crime between 1997 and 2010.
	(12220)

640	Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers there were in each year since 1997; and how many police community support officers there were in each year since 2002.
	(12221)

641	Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many neighbourhood police teams there were in (a) May 1997 and (b) May 2010.
	(12222)

642	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many special constables there were in (a) North Yorkshire and (b) England and Wales on the latest date for which figures are available.
	(12898)

643	James Morris (Halesowen and Rowley Regis): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 21 of the Coalition Agreement, what steps she has taken to reintroduce exit checks at UK borders.
	(12622)

644	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average salary was for police officers in (a) England, (b) Leeds, (c) Manchester and (d) the Metropolitan Police District in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12245)

645	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place to provide funding for operations involving more than one police force to locate and arrest individuals regarded as posing a risk to the public.
	(12546)

646	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents to which police traffic officers responded there were on the motorway network in England in the last 12 months.
	(12145)

647	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) her Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which her Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12328)

648	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was paid by her Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12329)

649	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase provision for the recording of wildlife crime.
	(12866)

650	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the UK Border Agency spent on (a) scheduled air flights and (b) chartering flights for the deportation of failed asylum seekers in each of the last 12 months.
	(12188)

651	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what bonuses have been paid to members of the UK Border Agency management over the last two years.
	(12189)

652	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have been detained in each UK Border Agency immigration removal centre since 6 May 2010.
	(12190)

653	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the UK Border Agency has spent on contractors to facilitate removal of individuals deported in each of the last 24 months.
	(12191)

654	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which locations the UK Border Agency operates visa application centres and visa sections overseas; and what the operational cost of these centres was over the last five years.
	(12192)

655	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the UK Border Agency spent on points of entry campaigns explaining UK immigration and asylum policy in each of the last five years; and what plans the Government has for future such campaigns.
	(12193)

656	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal immigrants were found (a) at each of the main ports of entry to the UK and (b) in total in each year since 1997.
	(12197)

657	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff of the UK Border Agency are based at each office location (a) in Scotland, (b) in each of the English regions, (c) in Wales, (d) in Northern Ireland and (e) overseas; and what the functions are of each office.
	(12198)

658	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed asylum seekers have been deported under the fast-track process in each of the last 24 months.
	(12254)

659	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations of failed asylum seekers were pending under the fast-track process at the time of Mr Justice Silber's ruling that the process was unlawful.
	(12255)

660	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appeals made by failed asylum seekers deported under the fast-track system were upheld following removal in each of the last two years.
	(12256)

661	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed asylum seekers deported under the fast-track process were removed with (a) 72 hours of notice, (b) 48 hours of notice and (c) 24 hours of notice in each of the last two years.
	(12257)

662	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed asylum seekers deported under the fast-track process in each of the last two years were children.
	(12258)

663

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) her Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which she is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) each of the English regions and (D) Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12462)

664

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual expenditure on vehicles of (a) her Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which her Department is responsible in each English region was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.

(12463)

665	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the monetary value was of (a) public opinion research and (b) public relations contracts awarded by her Department in each of the last five years in (i) each (A) nation and (B) region of the UK and (ii) London.
	(12464)

666	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which IT contracts awarded by her Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12728)

667	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department measures the incidence of destitution as defined under the National Assistance Act 1948 among the asylum seeker community.
	(12868)

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

668	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the House of Commons Commission, by what date the House of Commons Commission expects all scaffolding to be removed from Commons Court in the Palace of Westminster; and if he will make a statement.
	(12613)

669	Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many (a) permanent and (b) temporary staff the House of Commons Commission employed in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12125)

670	Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the House of Commons Commission, what estimate the House of Commons Commission has made of the cost of editing and producing Commons Quarterly in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12126)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

671	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what records his Department holds on the uses to which the core funds of (a) the United Nations Population Fund and (b) the International Planned Parenthood Federation have been put over the latest two years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	[R] (12223)

672

Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much was spent by (a) the United Nations Population Fund and (b) the International Planned Parenthood Federation in (i) China, (ii) Uzbekistan, (iii) South Africa and (iv) Namibia on reproductive health issues in each of the last two years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

[R] (12224)

673	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(13060)

674	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if his Department will take steps to assist African countries in implementing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
	(12900)

675	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will take steps to reduce the level of tobacco-related disease in developing countries; and if he will make a statement.
	(12901)

676	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will take steps to assist farmers in Africa to grow crops other than tobacco.
	(12902)

677	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, in what programmes his Department plans to participate to reduce the incidence of green tobacco sickness and poisoning from pesticides and fertilisers among child labourers in the African tobacco sector.
	(12903)

678	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many chairs his Department has purchased in each year since 1997; how much it spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12802)

679	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12821)

680	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12984)

681	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much office space per employee his Department occupied in each year since 1997.
	(13003)

682	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13022)

683	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13041)

684	Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff at each (a) grade and (b) pay band are employed at his Department's offices at (i) Abercrombie House, East Kilbride and (ii) Palace Street, London SW1.
	(12162)

685	Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the (a) rent and (b) operating cost of his Department's offices at (i) Abercrombie House, East Kilbride and (ii) Palace Street, London SW1 were in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	(12163)

686	Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of his Department's property at (a) Abercrombie House, East Kilbride and (b) Palace Street, London SW1 is vacant.
	(12164)

687	Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will ensure that the work of his Department's evaluation section will stay in East Kilbride.
	(12165)

688	Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps have been taken to make his Department's evaluation section based in East Kilbride independent of his Department.
	(12166)

689	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much development aid his Department has allocated to Afghanistan in each year since 2002.
	(12762)

690	Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) government of South Africa, (b) African Union and (c) Southern African Development Community members on progress on the provisions of the Zimbabwean Global Political Agreement relating to land audit.
	(12740)

691	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department have had with their Libyan counterparts on his Department's work in that country in the last 12 months.
	(12303)

692	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance his Department is providing to developing countries to assist them to provide free healthcare to their people.
	(12380)

693	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding his Department is providing to developing countries for training of (a) midwives and (b) other health care workers in 2010-11.
	(12381)

694	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to encourage provision of (a) healthcare facilities and (b) medicines for emergency care in developing countries.
	(12383)

695 N	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what objectives he has for policy on assistance for disabled people in developing countries at the forthcoming UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals.
	(12209)

696 N	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether he plans to publish a new strategy on trade and development.
	(12210)

697 N	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether he plans to retain the joint Department for International Development and Business, Innovation and Skills Trade Unit.
	(12211)

698 N	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what percentage of reported official development assistance was spent by Government departments other than his Department in each year since 1997.
	(12433)

699	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each non-departmental public body for which he is responsible in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.
	(12493)

700	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much was spent on external consultants and advisers by (a) his Department and (b) each non-departmental public body for which he is responsible in each year since 2005.
	(12494)

701	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12722)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

702	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of involvement in dog fighting in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007, (iii) 2008, (iv) 2009 and (v) 2010.
	(12647)

703	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking (a) directly and (b) through partnership working to ensure that former offenders have access to secure housing on release.
	(12081)

704	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many landlords have been (a) sentenced to custody and (b) fined for offences related to lettings in the private rented sector under the provisions of each relevant Act in each quarter of the last three years.
	(12090)

705	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(13061)

706 N	Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects to complete his assessment of the implications of the principal recommendations of the report by Lord Justice Jackson on civil litigation costs; and if he will make a statement.
	(12299)

707	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many operational managers were employed at each prison establishment on 31 March in each of the last 13 years.
	(12697)

708	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many non-operational managers were employed at each prison establishment on 31 March in each of the last 13 years.
	(12698)

709	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which private finance initiative prison contracts have been re-financed since 1997; and what savings his Department achieved from each contract.
	(12700)

710	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new prison places have been created in each of the last 24 months for which figures are available; and what the estimated capital construction cost was per prison place per year of lifespan of the prison concerned, excluding operation, maintenance and other costs.
	(12701)

711	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) directors, (b) senior managers and (c) executive support and administration staff there were in each prison in each of the last five years.
	(12702)

712	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) directors, (b) senior managers and (c) executive support and administration staff were employed by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) in (i) headquarters, (ii) area offices and (iii) other NOMS non-prison offices in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	(12703)

713	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many National Offender Management Service headquarters functions have been moved outside London in each of the last six years; and if he will make a statement.
	(12704)

714	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many operational managers were employed by the National Offender Management Service in each of the last six years.
	(12878)

715	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions his Department and its predecessor has not provided answers to Parliamentary questions on the grounds of commercial confidentiality in each of the last five years.
	(12879)

716	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were employed at each prison establishment on 31 March in each of the last 13 years.
	(12880)

717	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the prison population was at each prison establishment on 31 March in each of the last 13 years.
	(12881)

718	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many administration grade staff were employed at each prison establishment on 31 March in each of the last 13 years.
	(12882)

719	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost to the public purse was of a (a) district judge and (b) bench of magistrates in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12367)

720	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving sentences on the latest date for which figures are available were born (a) in the UK and (b) outside the UK.
	(12368)

721	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of community sentences in each of the last three years.
	(12373)

722	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many individuals have been (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of failing to declare student status under section 112 or 111 of the Social Securities Administration Act 1992.
	(12378)

723	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of those sentenced in magistrates' courts in the latest year for which figures are available were given a period of (a) immediate and (b) suspended custody.
	(12389)

724	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many and what proportion of occasions the maximum sentence for an offence was given in (a) crown courts and (b) magistrates' courts in the latest year for which figures are available.
	(12390)

725	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much compensation has been paid to prisoners in each of the last eight years; and on what grounds each payment was made.
	(12391)

726	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length was of a sentence handed down for each offence by each court in England and Wales in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12395)

727	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward proposals to give police the power to collect fines imposed by courts.
	(12396)

728	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the likely effect on the level of unpaid fines of his Department's plan to increase the use of fines.
	(12397)

729	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the monetary value was of outstanding fines imposed by (a) Keighley magistrates' court and (b) Bradford Magistrates' Court in each of the last three years; and what the monetary value was of fines written off in that period.
	(12401)

730	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in respect of which prisons he has received recent reports on the religious radicalisation of prisoners.
	(12410)

731	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance his Department provides prisons on the (a) level and (b) means of calculation of remuneration paid to prisoners for work undertaken whilst in prison.
	(12411)

732	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what activities are classified as work for the purposes of the remuneration paid to prisoners.
	(12412)

733	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of (a) obtaining health and safety certificates and (b) first aid training for prisoners to enable them to work in prison.
	(12413)

734	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been provided laptop computers in each of the last five years.
	(12414)

735	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of defendants with no previous (a) convictions and (b) cautions was given a custodial sentence for a first offence in (a) magistrates' and (b) crown courts in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12415)

736	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions there have been under section 112 of the Social Securities Administration Act 1992 since 2001; and in how many of those cases (a) a guilty plea was entered and (b) a guilty verdict was returned after a plea of not guilty was entered.
	(12416)

737	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance his Department provides to prisons on the (a) use and (b) regulations governing the use of closed circuit television cameras in visiting areas.
	(12417)

738	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been given community sentences in each of the last three years.
	(12419)

739	Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what organisational arrangements he has made to ensure the effectiveness of trilateral working between his Department, the Home Office and the Attorney General's Office on matters relating to the operation of (a) the criminal justice system and (b) the criminal law.
	(12161)

740	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the monetary value was of outstanding fines imposed by Bexley Magistrates' Court in each of the last three years; and what the monetary value was of fines written off in that period.
	(12543)

741	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many care orders have been issued in England in each of the last five years.
	(12743)

742	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many chairs his Department and its predecessors purchased in each year since 1997; how much was spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12795)

743	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12814)

744	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12977)

745	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much office space per employee his Department and its predecessors occupied in each year since 1997.
	(12996)

746	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13015)

747	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13034)

748

Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the speech by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders on 22 July 2010, whether the Secretary of State (a) saw and (b) approved the speech prior to delivery, with particular reference to the announcement of the rescission of Prison Service Instruction 50/2008 on acceptable activities in prisons.

(12497)

749	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the population was in (a) North West Surrey, (b) North Surrey and (c) South West Surrey local justice area in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12760)

750	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many representations he has received from (a) residents of Surrey and (b) magistrates in Surrey on the closure of Woking Magistrates' Court; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each such representation.
	(12761)

751	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average population of a local justice area in England is.
	(12764)

752	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the population to be served by (a) North Surrey and (b) South West Surrey local justice area after the proposed merger with North West Surrey local justice area.
	(12765)

753	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what expenditure his Department has incurred on Woking Magistrates' Court in each of the last five years.
	(12769)

754	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the utilisation rate was at (a) Guildford (b) Redhill, (c) Staines and (d) Woking Magistrates' Court in 2009-10.
	(12770)

755	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the closure of Woking Magistrates' Court on those people living in areas surrounding Woking and dependent upon public transport to attend courts.
	(12771)

756	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average annual number of magistrates in Surrey was in the period (a) 1980 to 1989, (b) 1990 to 1999 and (c) 2000 to 2009.
	(12884)

757	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what expenditure his Department has incurred on upgrading facilities at Woking Magistrates' Court in each of the last 20 years.
	(12886)

758	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the population in (a) Woking and (b) the North West Surrey local justice area able to travel to Staines Magistrates' Court by public transport in 60 minutes.
	(12891)

759	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Clerks to the Justices who were qualified solicitors or barristers there were in Surrey between (a) 1979 and 1989, (b) 1990 and 1999 and (c) 2000 and 2009.
	(12914)

760	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average utilisation rate was of a magistrates' court in England in 2009-10.
	(12915)

761	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the utilisation rate was at Woking Magistrates' Court in each of the last 10 years.
	(12916)

762	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which magistrates' courts in England had a utilisation rate of above 80 per cent. in 2009-10; and what the average time taken to complete a case was at those courts in that period.
	(12917)

763	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken to complete a case was in England in 2009-10.
	(12918)

764	Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many magistrates' courts there were in Surrey in each of the last 20 years.
	(12919)

765	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October 2009, Official Report, column 181W, on youth custody: restraint techniques, what piloting of new systems of restraint he has undertaken since October 2009.
	(13068)

766	Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the level of funding for legal aid for cases relating to mental health legislation compared to that for other legal sectors.
	(12597)

767	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults by prisoners on (a) a prisoner and (b) a prison officer were recorded in each prison establishment in each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement.
	(12904)

768	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what external (a) agencies and (b) consultancies are undertaking work commissioned by his Department; and what the (i) purpose and (ii) cost to the public purse is of each piece of work commissioned.
	(12905)

769	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on consultants in each year since 1997.
	(12906)

770	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department and its predecessor spent on public consultations in each of the last five years.
	(12907)

771	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contracts his Department and its agencies have with each private sector company; on what date each such contract commenced; what the duration is of each such contract; what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of each such contract; and if he will make a statement.
	(12908)

772	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse has been of the provision of each private finance initiative prison since its opening.
	(12909)

773	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the operating cost has been of each private finance initiative prison since its opening.
	(12910)

774	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the construction cost was of each private finance initiative prison opened since 1996.
	(12911)

775	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for carrying an offensive weapon or bladed article in Leeds North West constituency in each of the last five years.
	(12244)

776	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners who were drug addicts in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12763)

777	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Legal Services Commission has taken to ensure compliance with Regulation 15(8) of the Public Contract Regulations 2006 regarding access to electronic documentation in respect of tender processes in 2010.
	(12588)

778	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff at each grade have been engaged in processing tender applications at the Legal Services Commission in 2010, with particular reference to the notification of results in July 2010.
	(12856)

779

Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) advice and (b) guidance the Legal Services Commission has issued on compliance with public procurement law relating on terms and conditions of tenders in respect of (i) non-discrimination, (ii) equal treatment, (iii) transparency, (iv) mutual recognition and (v) proportionality to those responsible for formulating such terms and conditions.

(12876)

780	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) training his Department has provided and (b) guidance his Department has issued to the Legal Services Commission in respect of procurement law and the Public Contracts Regulations 2006.
	(13069)

781	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the High Cost Case Unit spent on (a) solicitors' costs, (b) counsels' fee and (c) disbursements on care proceedings in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	(12655)

782	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the High Cost Case Unit spent on care proceedings in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	(12656)

783	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government plans to extend the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to Network Rail.
	(12196)

784	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12324)

785	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12325)

786	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the average proportion of a juror's attendance time that is spent in court in Crown court cases.
	(12050)

787

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) each of the English regions and (D) Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12483)

788	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, 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 each year since 2005.
	(12484)

789	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in each English region was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.
	(12485)

790	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each year since its inception have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12713)

791	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what average hourly rate his Department has paid to each employment agency for agency staff in each year since its inception.
	(12714)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

792	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(13062)

793	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many chairs his Department has purchased in each year since 1997; how much it spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12799)

794	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12818)

795	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12981)

796	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much office space per employee his Department occupied in each year since 1997.
	(13000)

797	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13019)

798	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13038)

799	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12346)

800	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12347)

801	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.
	(12495)

802	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12726)

Questions to the Prime Minister

803	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Prime Minister, for what reasons he described Gaza as a prison camp; what advice he sought on his description before making it; and if he will make a statement.
	(12962)

804	Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 20 July 2010, Official Report, column 12WS, on Machinery of Government changes, which of the changes will require legislation in order to have full effect.
	(12615)

805	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Prime Minister, how many (a) civil servants, (b) press officers and (c) special advisers in his Office accompanied him on his visit to the United States between 19 July 2010 and 23 July 2010.
	(12695)

806	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Prime Minister, what meetings (a) his predecessor and (b) his predecessor's officials held with (i) BP and (ii) the government of Libya on oil drilling off the coast of Libya between July 2007 and March 2008.
	(12936)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

807	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(13063)

808	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many chairs his Department and its predecessor purchased in each year since 1997; how much was spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12798)

809	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department and its predecessor spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12817)

810	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department and its predecessor spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12980)

811	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much office space per employee his Department and its predecessor occupied in each year since 1997.
	(12999)

812	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department and its predecessor spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13018)

813	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department and its predecessor spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13037)

814	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what criteria the Government used to determine the eligible electorate for the referendum on Scottish devolution in 1997.
	(12535)

815	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he has had discussions with the Scottish Executive on the entitlement to vote of EU citizens other than residents of England and Wales in referendums held in Scotland.
	(12536)

816 N	Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the effects on people in Scotland of proposed reductions in welfare expenditure.
	(12562)

817	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with the Leader of Glasgow City Council on (a) economic growth in Glasgow and (b) the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow since his appointment.
	(12123)

818	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps he plans to take to increase levels of economic growth in Glasgow.
	(12124)

819	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12356)

820	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12357)

821	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by his Department in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.
	(12491)

822	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much was spent on external consultants and advisers by his Department in each year since 2005.
	(12492)

823	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12724)

Questions to the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

824

Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how many staff of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority have taken sick leave in each month of its operation; how many hours of work have been lost in consequence; and whether any temporary staff have been recruited to cover such absences.

(12178)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

825	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with local authorities on the efficient distribution of supplies of road salt.
	(12681)

826	Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Appendix K of the Route Frequency Study Final Report for High Speed Two, what public consultation he plans to carry out on the location of the marshalling depot referred to in paragraph K-9.3.3 of the Appendix; and if he will make a statement.
	(12937)

827	Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what account he has taken of (a) the (i) cost and benefit and (ii) environmental impact of high speed rail operation at different design speeds and (b) the design speeds of high speed rail systems in (A) France, (B) Germany and (C) other countries in determining the most suitable design speed for High Speed Two.
	(12938)

828	Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment (a) his Department and (b) High Speed Two have made of the potential of utilising and upgrading existing rail infrastructure as an alternative to the construction of a new high speed rail network.
	(12939)

829	Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) minimum peak ticket prices and (b) minimum daily passenger numbers in each year were assumed for a journey between Birmingham and London as part of the business case for High Speed Two; and if he will publish the full business case.
	(13075)

830	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(13064)

831 N	Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide guidance to train operating companies on the number of automated announcements which should be made per hour on trains.
	(12109)

832 N	Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will visit Dorset for the purpose of assessing the level of transport provision in that area.
	(12110)

833	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many flights (a) landed at and (b) departed from each UK airport in each of the last five years.
	(12643)

834	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 15 June 2010, Official Report, column 48WS, on the South East Airports Task Force, what recent assessment has been made of the capacity for expansion of regional airports.
	(12650)

835	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the likely change in the level of air traffic at regional airports by (a) 2020, (b) 2030, (c) 2040 and (d) 2050.
	(12747)

836	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with Network Rail on the timescale for re-letting contracts for rail maintenance work which had previously been let to Jarvis.
	(12752)

837	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's policy is on the development of regional airports outside the South East; and if he will make a statement.
	(12753)

838	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with Network Rail on transferring those formerly employed by Jarvis rail maintenance work to new contractors.
	(12757)

839	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of passengers who used each UK airport in each of the last five years.
	(12913)

840 N	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) national and (b) regional new road schemes (i) in the East of England and (ii) nationally at an estimated cost of more than £10 million are being considered by his Department; and what assessment he has made of the cost-benefit ratio of each such scheme.
	(11964)

841 N	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) national and (b) regional road improvement schemes (i) in the East of England and (ii) nationally at a projected cost of more than £10 million his Department is considering.
	(11965)

842	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many chairs his Department and its predecessors purchased in each year since 1997; how much was spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12805)

843	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12824)

844	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12987)

845	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much office space per employee his Department and its predecessors occupied in each year since 1997.
	(13006)

846	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13025)

847	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13044)

848	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to mitigate the projected increase in traffic on the A3 (a) between Liphook and Petersfield and (b) at the Ham Barn roundabout near Liss following the opening of the Hindhead Tunnel.
	(12858)

849	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he hs received on the replacement of the Ham Barn roundabout by a flyover to carry the A3.
	(12859)

850 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will direct (a) local authorities and (b) the Highways Agency to ensure that highway lighting is switched on during the hours of darkness; and if he will make a statement.
	(12569)

851 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason the Highways Agency switches off lights on motorways after midnight; what assessment of the likely effects on road safety of that practice was made before it was adopted; and what responsibility the Highways Agency has in respect of light pollution.
	(12570)

852 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will issue guidance to the Highways Agency on ensuring that road safety objectives are prioritised over steps to reduce light pollution.
	(12571)

853 N	Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's policy is on the creation of new integrated transport authorities; and if he will make a statement.
	(12215)

854 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has undertaken equality impact assessments of the proposed reductions in its expenditure which it has submitted to the Treasury as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(12067)

855 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the powers of his Department's agencies to set pay rates for their staff; and if he will make a statement.
	(12068)

856 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what expenditure elements comprise the administrative budget for the commissioning and purchasing sections within his Department.
	(12069)

857 N	Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when credit and debit cards will be accepted as a means of payment on the Severn Bridges.
	(12212)

858	David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the merits of giving additional powers to local authorities to prohibit utility companies which fail to repair roads to an acceptable standard from undertaking further street works.
	(12151)

859	David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on requiring utility companies undertaking street works to maintain pipes and cables to minimise disruption during such work.
	(12160)

860	David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Mersey Gateway project will be considered as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review; and if he will make a statement.
	(12517)

861	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what cost benefit analysis model is being used to determine which route a future high speed rail network will take.
	(12219)

862	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what methodology his Department uses to measure congestion on trains; and what his most recent estimate is of the level of congestion on trains serving Leeds.
	(12768)

863 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people have taken up the local entitlement for free bus travel since that entitlement was introduced.
	(12113)

864	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will consult representatives of (a) transport organisations and (b) optical professions on the implementation of the vision standards for driving contained in the European Directive on Driving Licences; and if he will make a statement.
	(12426)

865	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many drivers have notified the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency that their vision no longer meets the legal eyesight requirements to drive in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	(12430)

866	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that drivers are informed of their responsibility to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency if their vision no longer meets the legal eyesight requirements for driving; and if he will make a statement.
	(12431)

867	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the number plate test in assessing a person's visual fitness to drive; and if he will make a statement.
	(12432)

868 N	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance he has issued to local authorities on the removal of static road safety camera shells since 12 May 2010.
	(12107)

869 N	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on the use of road safety cameras.
	(12108)

870	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 8 June 2010, Official Report, columns 7-8WS, on the motorcycle test, what representations he has received in his review of motorcycle tests.
	(12114)

871	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Highways Agency has spent on driver information programmes in the last 12 months.
	(12134)

872	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many mandatory expanded inspections the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has carried out on ships labelled high risk in the last 12 months.
	(12135)

873	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff the Highways Agency Traffic Officer Service has.
	(12140)

874	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Highways Agency has spent on purchasing vehicles in the last 12 months.
	(12141)

875	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many claims were received by the Highways Agency under Part I of the Land Compensation Act 1973 in the last 12 months; and what proportion of such claims were successful.
	(12146)

876	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department plans to provide in (a) rail and (b) water freight operating grants in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2011-12.
	(12147)

877	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance he has issued to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on the use of volunteer coastguards since 12 May 2010.
	(12148)

878	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the introduction of a redesigned Registration Certificate V5C for vehicles in the United Kingdom.
	(12149)

879	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Chief Executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on the work of the agency; and if he will make a statement.
	(12150)

880	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will discuss with (a) the Highways Agency and (b) the Secretary of State for Justice the use of the Community Payback Scheme to collect litter from the verges of motorways and trunk roads in England.
	(12956)

881	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12340)

882	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12341)

883	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the safety of remoulded tyres in the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
	(12892)

884	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the incidence of (a) new and (b) second-hand tyre failure as a factor in road traffic accidents.
	(12893)

885

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) each of the English regions and (D) Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12441)

886	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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 he is responsible in each year since 2005.
	(12442)

887	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the annual expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in each English region was in the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.
	(12443)

888	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the monetary value was of (a) public opinion research and (b) public relations contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years in each (i) nation and (ii) region of the UK.
	(12444)

889	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12723)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

890	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by her Department was in each of the last five years.
	(13065)

891	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many chairs her Department and its predecessor purchased in each year since 1997; how much was spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12797)

892	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much her Department and its predecessor spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12816)

893	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much her Department and its predecessor spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12979)

894	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much office space per employee her Department and its predecessor occupied in each year since 1997.
	(12998)

895	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much her Department and its predecessor spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13017)

896	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much her Department and its predecessor spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13036)

897 N	Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, on what date the Government informed the Welsh Assembly Government of its decision not to proceed with proposals to electrify the rail line between South Wales and London.
	(12034)

898 N	Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the Government's decision on proposals for the electrification of the rail line between South Wales and London.
	(12035)

899 N	Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which Ministers in each Department have been designated to liaise on Welsh issues with her Department.
	(12104)

900	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) her Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which her Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12358)

901	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much was paid by her Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12359)

902	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by her Department in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.
	(12477)

903	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much was spent on external consultants and advisers by her Department in each year since 2005.
	(12478)

904	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the annual expenditure on vehicles of her Department was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.
	(12479)

905	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which IT contracts awarded by her Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
	(12725)

Questions to the Minister for Women and Equalities

906	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by the Government Equalities Office was in each of the last five years.
	(13067)

907	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many complaints of (a) sex, (b) race and (c) disability discrimination at work have been made by staff of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission in each of the last four years.
	(12372)

908	Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the effect on (a) men and (b) women in Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock constituency of the measures in the June 2010 Budget.
	(12366)

909	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent representations she has received on whether increases in travel insurance premiums from the age of retirement constitute age discrimination; and if she will make a statement.
	(12500)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

910	Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average estimated administrative cost is of re-assessing incapacity benefit claimants for eligibility for employment and support allowance.
	(12393)

911	Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate has been made of the projected reduction in expenditure which will result from re-assessing 1.5 million incapacity benefit claimants for eligibility for employment and support allowance; and how that estimate has been calculated.
	(12394)

912	Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average cost to his Department was of carrying out each work capability assessment for existing incapacity benefit claimants in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12406)

913	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to increase the involvement of young members of the public in the making of decisions that affect them by (a) Ministers in his Department, (b) officials in his Department and (c) public bodies which fall within his Department's area of responsibility.
	(12269)

914	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the additional expenditure on housing benefit consequent upon annual increases in social housing rents in each year since 1990.
	(12305)

915	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many units of temporary accommodation in each local authority area in London had housing benefit payments above (a) the local housing authority caps as set out in the Budget Red Book and (b) above the 30th percentile in the most recent quarter for which figures are available.
	(12306)

916	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) pensioners and (b) working age households received local housing allowance in March 2010 within each of the broad market rental areas.
	(12307)

917	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many private tenants were in receipt of local housing allowance for (a) shared room, (b) one bedroom, (c) two bedroom, (d) three bedroom, (e) four bedroom and (f) five bedroom properties in March 2010 within each of the broad market rental areas covering each local authority.
	(12308)

918	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of private tenancies in each broad market rental areas for which local housing allowance is claimed.
	(12309)

919	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of housing benefit claims in each local authority area were subject to one or more deductions for non-dependants in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the average deduction was in each case.
	(12310)

920	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many housing benefit claims in each local authority area were subject to one or more non-dependant deductions in (a) the private sector and (b) social housing in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the average deduction was in each case.
	(12311)

921	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate has been made of the likely average deduction in housing benefit for jobseeker's allowance claimants who have been in receipt of jobseeker's allowance for 12 months in each region, consequent upon the proposals in the June 2010 Budget.
	(12312)

922	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many private sector tenants of working age were receiving local housing allowance above the 30th percentile of rents in each broad market rental area in March 2010.
	(12313)

923	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many private sector tenants of pension age were receiving local housing allowance above the 30th percentile of rents in each broad market rental area in March 2010.
	(12314)

924	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many local housing allowance recipients are paying rents at or below the 30th percentile in each broad market rental area.
	(12316)

925 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of those in receipt of local housing allowance in each local authority are in employment.
	(12676)

926 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) pensioner households and (b) working age households are in receipt of local housing allowance in each local authority area.
	(12677)

927 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the race equality impact of proposed changes to local housing allowance.
	(12678)

928 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of those in receipt of local housing allowance are in (a) shared rooms, (b) one bedroom, (c) two bedroom, (d) three bedroom, (e) four bedroom and (f) five bedroom properties.
	(12679)

929	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in receipt of local housing allowance in Swindon receive a sum in benefit (a) lower than, (b) higher than and (c) equal to the level of their rent payments.
	(12083)

930	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to make changes to the criteria according to which housing benefit is paid either to claimants or to landlords.
	(12089)

931	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) average and (b) highest daily rate paid to consultants by his Department was in each of the last five years.
	(13066)

932	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of the childcare grant in each of the last three years; and what the highest payment made to an individual in one year was in that period.
	(12370)

933	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many allegations of breaches of health and safety legislation were received by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in each of the last five years; and how many such breaches were confirmed by the HSE in each of those years.
	(12398)

934

Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total cost to the public purse was of (a) his Department's stand, (b) its (i) Corporate IT, (ii) Departmental Security, (iii) Occupational and Health Psychology Services, (iv) Change Programme and (v) Shared Services divisions stands, (c) the Office for Disability Issues stand, (d) the Independent Living Fund stand and (e) the Tell Us Once Programme stand at Civil Service Live 2010.

(12955)

935	Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in respect of how many and what proportion of referrals from Jobcentre Plus by the Child Maintenance Options Service the Service was able to make successful contact with the parents referred in each week of the most recent quarter for which figures are available.
	(12058)

936	Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many referrals the Child Maintenance Options Service made to its face-to-face service in the most recent quarter for which figures are available.
	(12059)

937	Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many referrals the Child Maintenance Options Service received each week from Jobcentre Plus in the last quarter for which figures are available; and what proportion of new benefit claimants entitled to seek child maintenance this figure represents.
	(12060)

938	Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Wimbledon constituency claimed incapacity benefit in (a) 2005, (b) 2007 and (c) 2010.
	(12940)

939	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many chairs his Department and its predecessor purchased in each year since 1997; how much was spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.
	(12808)

940	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department and its predecessor spent on wine in each year since 1997.
	(12827)

941	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the costs to the public purse was of the New Deal in each year between 1997-98 and 2002-03; what assessment he made of the effectiveness of that scheme in that period; and how many incapacity benefit claimants there were in total.
	(12927)

942	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department and its predecessor spent on taxi fares in each year since 1997.
	(12990)

943	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much office space per employee his Department and its predecessor occupied in each year since 1997.
	(13009)

944	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department and its predecessor spent on vacant properties in each year since 1997.
	(13028)

945	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department and its predecessor spent on (a) reimbursement of staff expenses and (b) the 10 largest staff expense reimbursement claims in each year since 1997.
	(13047)

946	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was paid in support for mortgage interest benefit in each (a) region, (b) local authority and (c) Jobcentre Plus district in the last 12 months; and how much was paid to those who were also in receipt of (i) income support, (ii) jobseeker's allowance and (iii) pension credit in each such case.
	(12626)

947	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each region were in receipt of support for mortgage interest benefit in each region in the last 12 months; and how many of those were also in receipt of (a) income support, (b) jobseeker's allowance and (c) pension credit in each such case.
	(12627)

948 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of participants in Pathways to Work moved into employment from (a) in-house and (b) private sector Pathways to Work providers in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12064)

949 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the estimated cost is of Jobcentre Plus's Telephony and Processing Implementation Project.
	(12065)

950 N	Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the level of savings which would accrue to the Pension Protection Fund a a result of linking pension indexation to the consumer price index in each of the next five years.
	(12670)

951	Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were living in workless households in St Albans constituency in (a) 2004, (b) 2008 and (c) 2010.
	(12116)

952	Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were living in poverty (a) before and (b) after housing costs in St Albans constituency in each year since 2000.
	(12117)

953	Ian Mearns (Gateshead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of proposed changes to housing benefit levels on housing markets in areas with a high number of properties in the private rented sector.
	(12171)

954	David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the performance of (a) the Child Support Agency and (b) the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission against its objectives.
	(12152)

955	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Leeds North West constituency are in receipt of (a) disability living allowance and (b) incapacity benefit.
	(12262)

956	Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of children living in relative poverty in each year since 1997.
	(12767)

957	Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department provides to people applying for crisis loans on the (a) basis for the application of the habitual residence test and (b) criteria used to determine the outcome of that test.
	(12365)

958 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people in (a) Leeds West constituency and (b) Leeds who would be affected by implementation of his proposed changes to housing benefit; and whether he has made an estimate of the average change in housing benefit payments to such people under his Department's proposals.
	(12092)

959 N	Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the withdrawal of the Independent Living Fund on the most disabled persons in the UK.
	(12205)

960 N	Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with Northern Ireland Executive Ministers on the effects on Northern Ireland of the closure of the Independent Living Fund to new applicants.
	(12206)

961	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the International Pension Centre spent on translation and interpretation in each of the last five financial years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	(12424)

962	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reasons for changes in the cost to the public purse of administering disability living allowance in the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	(12363)

963	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) rate of uptake and (b) monetary value of unclaimed disability living allowance in respect of (i) children and (ii) adults with autism in each of the last 10 years.
	(12364)

964	Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been assisted to find work through the New Deal since it was introduced.
	(12243)

965	Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were lifted out of relative poverty between 1997 and May 2010.
	(12297)

966	Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners were lifted out of poverty between 1997 and May 2010.
	(12298)

967	John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken on whether the Post Office card account meets the needs of its users.
	(12872)

968	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals resident in (a) the UK, (b) London, (c) the London Borough of Lambeth and (d) Streatham constituency were in receipt of jobseeker's allowance in each month from January to June 2010; and what proportion were also in receipt of housing benefit in each such month.
	(12861)

969	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which former (a) buildings and (b) land owned by (i) his Department and (ii) (A) non-departmental public bodies and (B) agencies for which his Department is responsible have been sold since May 2005; what the sale price of each was at the time of sale; and to which body the funds from the sale accrued in each case.
	(12342)

970	Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was paid by his Department in rent for properties in (a) total and (b) each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK in each of the last five years.
	(12343)

971	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the extent to which commercial premises refuse access to guide dogs; and if he will make a statement.
	(12499)

972	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions the Chief Medical Adviser to the Department has waived recruitment criteria over minimum post registration experience required by health care professionals undertaking incapacity benefit and employment and support allowance medical assessments over the last five years.
	(12278)

973

Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2010, Official Report, column 558, on social security benefits: medical examination, what level of qualifications health care professionals undertaking incapacity benefit and employment and support allowance medical assessments must hold in disability assessment medicine.

(12279)

974	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value is of his Department's contract with Atos Healthcare; and when the contract will next be reviewed.
	(12280)

975	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether (a) any disciplinary action has been pursued and (b) any complaints have been received and investigated by his Department in respect of Atos Healthcare in the last two years.
	(12281)

976	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on any bonuses or incentives paid by Atos Healthcare to staff undertaking incapacity benefit and employment and support allowance medical assessments.
	(12282)

977	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to review the terms of the Medical Services Contract with Atos Healthcare in relation to the trial of reassessments for incapacity benefit and employment and support allowance medical entitlements.
	(12283)

978	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much on average a health care professional undertaking incapacity benefit and employment and support allowance medical assessment was paid per client in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(12284)

979

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost was of pension contributions incurred by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in (A) Scotland, (B) Wales, (C) each of the English regions and (D) Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2010-11.

(12445)

980	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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 he is responsible in each year since 2005.
	(12446)

981	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual expenditure on vehicles of (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which he is responsible in each English region was in the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is in each case for 2010-11.
	(12447)

982	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the monetary value was of (a) public opinion research and (b) public relations contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years in each (i) nation and (ii) region of the UK.
	(12448)

983	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which IT contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years have been abandoned; and what the monetary value was of each such contract.
	(12731)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

984	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will bring forward proposals to require internet providers to identify individuals who leave derogatory or insulting comments about others on internet sites; under what legislation the internet in the United Kingdom is regulated; what changes are proposed; and if he will make a statement.
	[Transferred] (12226)

985	Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of the workforce (a) of each sex and (b) in each region are members of a trade union in (i) the public and (ii) the private sector; and if he will make a statement.
	[Transferred] (12959)

986	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he plans to retain Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs preferential creditor status in cases involving insolvent football clubs.
	[Transferred] (12501)

987 N	Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what guidance his Department issues on the classification of businesses in the hospitality industry offering free wi-fi access to the internet as (a) communications providers and (b) internet service providers under the terms of the Digital Economy Act 2010.
	[Transferred] (12099)

988 N	Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to prevent illegal file-sharing by those accessing the internet through free wi-fi hot spots; and if he will make a statement.
	[Transferred] (12100)

989 N	Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of the provisions of the Digital Economy Act 2010 on public intermediaries, with particular reference to libraries and universities; and if he will make a statement.
	[Transferred] (12101)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

990	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what mechanisms will be used to collate and analyse data on the population of local authority areas after the 2011 Census.
	[Transferred] (12374)

991	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many children were living in workless households in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency in (a) 2005, (b) 2007 and (c) 2010.
	[Transferred] (12541)

992	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many lone parents with children aged between (a) five to 10 and (b) 11 to 16 years have entered employment in (i) Don Valley constituency, (ii) Doncaster and (iii) England in each of the last five years.
	[Transferred] (12699)

993	Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his most recent estimate is of the level of manufacturing employment.
	[Transferred] (12931)

994	David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to ensure that adult volunteers are not deterred from working with children by criminal record checking procedures; and if he will make a statement.
	[Transferred] (12498)

995	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate his Department has made of the survival rate for (a) adults and (b) children diagnosed with leukaemia (i) one year, (ii) two years and (iii) five years after remission.
	[Transferred] (12652)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

996	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Department has made of employment growth in each (a) region and (b) sector in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13, (iv) 2013-14 and (v) 2014-15.
	[Transferred] (12183)

997	Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many child trust funds have been opened since their introduction.
	[Transferred] (12242)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

998	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many parenting orders have been issued for (a) truancy and (b) other offences in (i) Doncaster, (ii) South Yorkshire and (iii) England since their introduction.
	[Transferred] (12706)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

999	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with which countries the UK has a nuclear co-operation agreement; what assistance the UK has provided to each such country under the terms of the agreement in each of the last five years; and at what cost to the public purse in each such case.
	[Transferred] (12684)

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

1000 N	Greg Hands (Chelsea and Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take to reduce the use of attack dogs in criminal activity.
	[Question Unstarred][Transferred] (13091)

1001	Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department monitors the number of petrol outlets in rural areas.
	[Transferred] (12932)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

1002	Jon Cruddas (Dagenham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the level of funding for research into the causes and treatments of food allergies following the restructuring of the Food Standards Agency.
	[Transferred] (12085)

1003	Jon Cruddas (Dagenham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms he plans to put in place to ensure that people with food allergies can access ingredients information when buying food and eating out after the transfer of responsibility for food labelling and provision of information in restaurants and takeaways to his Department.
	[Transferred] (12086)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

1004	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance she issues to police forces on (a) policy and (b) practice on the retention of information on persons cleared of criminal charges and the subsequent disclosure of such information in enhanced Criminal Records Bureau checks.
	[Transferred] (12857)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

1005	Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent reports he has received on (a) the access arrangements and (b) the daily number of laden goods vehicles transiting the Karni crossing to Gaza.
	[Transferred] (12842)

1006	Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he last made representations to the Israeli authorities on reopening the Karni crossing into Gaza; and what response he received.
	[Transferred] (12947)

1007	Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the highest number of import and export truckloads passing through the Karni commercial crossing between Israel and Gaza between November 2005 and June 2007.
	[Transferred] (12948)

1008	Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what reports he has received of the reasons given by the Israeli government for not reopening the Karani crossing; and whether he has made an assessment of the reasons for its continued closure.
	[Transferred] (12951)

1009	Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent reports he has received on the truckload capacity of the Karem Shalom crossing point for imports and exports to Gaza, excluding fuel.
	[Transferred] (12952)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

1010	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent by the High Cost Case Unit on the 10 most costly care proceedings in the last 12 months for which the figures are available.
	[Transferred] (12654)

1011	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether wildlife crime is addressed in any Home Office advice on sentencing.
	[Transferred] (12867)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

1012

John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2010, Official Report, columns 221-2W, on mortgages: Government assistance, when he expects to have developed an estimate of the effect of the changes proposed to the level of assistance under the Support for Mortgage Interest Scheme in the June 2010 Budget on the number of home repossessions in each of the next three years; and if he will publish the estimates.

[Transferred] (12619)


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