Session 2010-11
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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 13 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 13 September 2010
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 13 September 2010

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 13 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 13 September of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 13 September see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to the Attorney General

1 N	Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Attorney General, if he will undertake an investigation of factors affecting the number of prosecutions for offences related to female genital mutilation; if he will take steps to increase the rate of such prosecutions; and if he will make a statement.
	(14880)

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

2	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(15145)

3 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many pupils eligible for free school meals took up a place at each university in each year from 1995-96 to 2004-05.
	(14945)

4	Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the small firms loan guarantee scheme.
	(15304)

5	Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the burden of regulation for small and medium-sized businesses in High Peak constituency.
	(15305)

6	Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department plans to take to increase the level of access to credit for small businesses in rural areas.
	(15320)

7	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the land holdings of regional development agencies will be transferred to the new local enterprise partnerships.
	(15274)

8	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which bodies will take over from regional development agencies' responsibility for administering European regional development funds; and if he will make a statement.
	(15276)

9	Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the monetary value was of export credits and other guarantees extended to businesses in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and what proportion supported trade in (a) defence manufactured goods and services and (b) other goods and services.
	(15176)

10	Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of UK defence export earnings was attributable to (a) manufactured goods and equipment, (b) services contracts, (c) maintenance contracts and (d) other sources in each of the last five years.
	(15177)

11	Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the monetary value of UK defence export earnings in each of the last five years.
	(15178)

12	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans his Department has to roll out superfast broadband to the rural and hot-spot areas in Chatham and Aylesford constituency, with particular reference to Wouldham and Larkfield.
	(15093)

13	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what requirements higher education institutions have to meet to have the word university in their title.
	(15272)

14	Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which of the proposals for local enterprise partnerships received by his Department to date include further education colleges; and if he will make a statement.
	(15166)

15	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding the South East England Development Agency provided for the Mapping British Business South East advertorial supplement published in The Times newspaper on 25 August 2010.
	(15045)

16	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he made of the annual cost to the Exchequer of continuing the Job Guarantee scheme.
	(15218)

17	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he made of the cost to the Exchequer of insuring a loan of £80 million to Sheffield Forgemasters.
	(15219)

18	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his estimate is of the savings to the Exchequer arising from a reduction in the number of university places by 10,000 in 2010.
	(15354)

19	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to reply to the letter of 1 June 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Eleanor Massey, transferred from the Department of Work and Pensions.
	(15191)

20	Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to ensure that privately-owned utility companies provide timely service connections to new construction projects.
	(14840)

21	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students from England began attending universities in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales in each of the last five years.
	(15335)

22	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students from England began attending further education colleges in Wales in each of the last five years.
	(15336)

23	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students from Wales began attending further education colleges in England in each of the last five years.
	(15366)

24	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students from Wrexham began attending further education colleges in England in each of the last five years.
	(15367)

25	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students from Wales began attending universities in England in each of the last five years.
	(15368)

26 N	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in what monetary range he expects severance payments made to staff in regional development agencies to fall.
	(15038)

Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will provide funding to regeneration projects in Blackpool allocated funding from the North West Development Agency which have been adversely affected by the decision to freeze regional development agency spending allocated from funding from the European Regional Development Fund programme.

(15155)

28	Nicky Morgan (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the funding arrangements are for the National Composites Centre.
	(15292)

29	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received in support of the retention of the North West Regional Development Agency.
	(14958)

30	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the public will be able to challenge the worst regulations applicable to organisations other than businesses.
	(14966)

31	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has for the future of the Union Modernisation Fund.
	(14968)

32	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether it is his policy to pursue a stock market flotation for Royal Mail.
	(14970)

33	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many organisations registered with his Department and its non-departmental public bodies provide membership to building construction firms on condition that they adhere to a code of practice; and if he will make a statement.
	(15277)

34	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many complaints from the public his Department has received about building firms in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	(15278)

35	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many complaints (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies have received from the public about (i) Strategy Insurance Limited, (ii) the Federation of Master Builders and (iii) Homeland Construction in the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	(15279)

36	Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students at each private higher education institution are eligible for student support.
	(15356)

37	Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which private higher education institutions are awaiting the renewal of their degree-awarding powers under the provisions of the Higher Education Act 2004.
	(15357)

38	Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what process his Department follows to assess whether higher education institutions should be re-awarded degree-awarding powers under the provisions of the Higher Education Act 2004.
	(15358)

39	Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what requirement there is for the Privy Council to authorise the use of the title of university by a higher education institution.
	(15408)

40	Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what process his Department followed in authorising the use by BPP of the title University College; and which Minister in his Department authorised the recommendation of this award.
	(15409)

41	Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings (a) he, (b) the Minister of State for Higher Education, (c) other Ministers in his Department and (d) officials in his Department have had with (i) BPP and (ii) other private companies operating higher education institutions with degree-awarding powers since his appointment.
	(15410)

42	Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applications his Department and its predecessors received from BPP to use the title BPP University College.
	(15411)

43	Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) capital and (b) annual running costs of (i) regional development agencies and (ii) local economic partnerships.
	(15249)

44	Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the aims and objectives are of (a) regional development agencies and (b) local economic partnerships.
	(15250)

45	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of Government assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises in the form of (a) grants, (b) tax reliefs, (c) investment allowances and (d) other financial assistance.
	(14888)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

46	Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to encourage central procurement of (a) stationery, (b) information technology and (c) office supplies across Government departments.
	(15365)

47	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to reply to the letters from the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West of 15 July 2010 and 16 August 2010 on the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.
	(14883)

48	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics used the building targets in regional spatial strategies when drawing up revised population projections.
	(15066)

49	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many occasions each Minister in the Cabinet Office has met the Chief Scientific Advisor since 6 May 2010.
	(15351)

50	Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many pregnancies there were among women aged 15 to 17 years living in Peterborough constituency in 2009; and if he will make a statement.
	(15383)

51	Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost to businesses of complying with pre-qualification requirements for tendering for public sector procurement projects.
	(14839)

52	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which civil servants have attended (a) the Chemistry Club, (b) the Climate Change Forum and (c) other networking events in the last 12 months.
	(14961)

53	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress has been made in establishing the National Citizenship Service programme; whether the programme will include emergency life skills training for participants; and if he will make a statement.
	(15246)

54	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the estimated cost to the economy is of the premature death of a 55 year old from a heart attack.
	(15247)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

55	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people earning over £37,401 in (a) England, (b) Dudley Borough and (c) Dudley North constituency receive child benefit.
	(15129)

56	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(15149)

57 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects his Department to respond to the letter of 7 July 2010 from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay on a constituent, Mr T. Sheppard.
	(14719)

58 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what advice he has received on the contractual rights of public service pensioners to have their pensions up-rated annually in line with increases in the retail prices index.
	(15039)

Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects to issue his remit letter to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in respect of 2010-11; with reference to the letter of 20 July 2009, what steps HMRC has taken actively to manage and reduce the £27.7 billion stock of tax debt over the course of the year; what target HMRC proposed to reduce debt over the CSR 07 period; how progress against that target was monitored; what progress HMRC has made towards meeting that target; what steps HMRC took to prioritise resources to protect tax revenues through tackling abusive avoidance, evasion and non compliance; and what progress HMRC has made against its target to reduce the tax gap by 2010-11.

(15370)

60	Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what target date HM Revenue and Customs has set to clear the backlog of outstanding Pay As You Earn customer reviews.
	(15371)

61	Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many HM Revenue and Customs' Pay As You Earn customer reviews from tax years (a) 2005-06, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2003-04, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2001-02 are outstanding.
	(15372)

62	Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 25 June 2007, Official Report, column 388W, on Pay As You Earn, how many of HM Revenue and Customs' outstanding Pay As You Earn customer reviews (open cases) at the end of March 2007 related to the tax year (a) 2006-07, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2004-05, (d) 2003-04 and (e) 2002-03.
	(15373)

63	Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 6.21 of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) 2008-09 Accounts, how many of HMRCs' outstanding Pay As You Earn customer reviews (open cases) at the end of March 2008 related to the tax year (a) 2007-08, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2005-06, (d) 2004-05 and (e) 2003-04.
	(15374)

64	Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 6.28 of HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) 2008-09 Accounts, how many of HMRCs' outstanding Pay As You Earn customer reviews (open cases) at the end of March 2009 related to the tax year (a) 2008-09, (b) 2007-08, (c) 2006-07, (d) 2005-06 and (e) 2004-05.
	(15375)

65	Lorely Burt (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to HM Revenue and Customs' publication, Measuring Tax Gaps 2009, March 2010, what his most recent estimate is of the size of the tax gap in (a) absolute and (b) percentage terms; and what steps HM Revenue and Customs is taking to avoid underestimating the avoidance tax gap, as referred to in paragraph 4.77.
	(15376)

66	Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the number of people who have experienced a shortfall in their endowment policies sold by solicitors in Scotland since the implementation of the provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
	(14896)

67	Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has received recent representations from people who experienced a financial shortfall as a result of the operation of the systems of regulation of endowment policies prior to the implementation of the provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
	(14897)

68	Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with the Independent Valuer of Northern Rock on its remit.
	(14898)

69 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his most recent assessment is of the relationship between the number of staff employed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the amount of tax revenue obtained by HMRC.
	(14650)

70	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the annual net revenue to accrue from the introduction of a transaction tax on the banking industry.
	(15220)

71	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the annual tax revenue foregone by the Exchequer as a result of the charitable status of private schools.
	(15221)

72	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the Exchequer of maintaining company capital allowances at May 2010 levels.
	(15222)

73	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of introducing a minimum wage of £7.60 for all public sector employees.
	(15223)

74	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the amount of net revenue to the Exchequer which would be raised by a graduate tax of 2 per cent. of graduates' income for 20 years.
	(15349)

75	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter of 29 July 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Noman.
	(15190)

76	Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assumptions about family structure the Government made in preparing the June 2010 Budget.
	(15235)

77	Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the contribution of the Minister for Equalities of 6 September 2010, Official Report, column 153, what new ways of assessing the potential impact of Budget measures on women his Department plans to explore.
	(15236)

78 N	Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of processing subject access requests in connection with overpaid tax credits to date; and how many such requests there have been in each year since tax credits were introduced.
	(14833)

79 N	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has received any complaints about the effect of contributions to the Spending Challenge website on (a) people with disabilities and (b) other minority groups; whether the police have informed his Department of any such complaints made to them; and if he will make a statement.
	(14940)

80 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to zero rate privately-purchased hearing aids for value added tax.
	(14601)

81	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on the compulsory purchase of annuities by pension-holders at the age of 75; and if he will make a statement.
	(14917)

82	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to amend the UK's Act of Accession to the European Communities to remove Crown Dependencies' eligibility for low value consignment relief.
	(14911)

83 N	John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress he has made on his review of the taxation of air travel; and if he will make a statement.
	(14648)

84	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to bring forward proposals to introduce transferable tax allowances for married couples.
	(14886)

85	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what revisions he made in the June 2010 Budget in respect of expected expenditure on jobseeker's allowance in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
	(14899)

86 N	Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has for the future of research and development tax credits; and if he will make a statement.
	(14591)

Questions to the honourable Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners

87	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the honourable Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, what estimate the Church Commissioners have made of the cost to churches of compliance with conditions attached to planning permissions in respect of bats in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(15081)

88	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the honourable Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, what estimate the Church Commissioners have made of the number of cases of damage to historic churches in Norfolk caused by bats.
	(15091)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

89	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(15144)

90	Ms Louise Bagshawe (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average national non-domestic rate bill was in each (a) region and (b) local authority area in each of the last three years.
	(14984)

91	Ms Louise Bagshawe (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much each local authority collected in national non-domestic rate revenue in each of the last three years.
	(14985)

92	Ms Louise Bagshawe (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many national non-domestic rate hereditaments there were in each (a) region and (b) local authority area in each of the last three years.
	(14986)

93	Ms Louise Bagshawe (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many business improvement districts there were (a) in each of the last three years and (b) on the latest date for which information is available.
	(14987)

Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what responsibilities his Department has for the (a) development and (b) implementation of (i) policy and (ii) programmes relating to (A) waste and (B) recycling; which of these responsibilities are shared with the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; and what mechanisms are in place to ensure the effective co-ordination of such policies and programmes between the two departments.

(15156)

95	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how soon he expects local enterprise partnerships to be established once they have been approved by his Department.
	(15275)

96	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the merits of proposals for the regionalisation of the control centres; and if he will make a statement.
	(15158)

97	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with the Kent and Medway Fire and Rescue Authority on plans to regionalise fire service control rooms.
	(15159)

98	Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to paragraph 2.18 of Budget 2010, HC 61, what progress has been made on ensuring that local government public sector workers earning less than £21,000 per year will receive a pay increase of at least £250 in 2011-12 and 2012-13.
	(15203)

99	Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will discuss with Local Government Employers the merits of a guaranteed annual pay rise of at least £250 for local government staff with salaries of £21,000 or less in 2011-12 and 2012-13.
	(15204)

100	Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will discuss with Local Government Employers the merits of agreement to binding arbitration with local government unions in respect of the 2010-11 local government pay claim.
	(15205)

101 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of people in (a) Coventry and (b) the West Midlands who were homeless in each year since 2000.
	(15243)

102 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to reduce levels of homelessness (a) nationally and (b) in the West Midlands.
	(15244)

103 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes were repossessed in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Coventry in each year since 2000.
	(15245)

104	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to give residents the power to instigate binding local referendums on any local issue.
	(14835)

105 N	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release of 5 August 2010, if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract and project brief for the work carried out for Ordnance Survey by Mandate Public Affairs; and how much was spent on the contract.
	(15026)

106 N	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release of 5 August 2010, if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract and project brief for work undertaken for West Northants Development Corporation by Chelgate Public Affairs; and how much was spent on the contract.
	(15027)

107 N	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release of 5 August 2010, if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract and project brief for work undertaken for the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation by Connect Public Affairs; and how much was spent on the contract.
	(15028)

108 N	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on external public relations in 2009-10.
	(15031)

109	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on newspapers for Ministers and special advisers in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
	(15043)

110	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Planning Portal has spent on its Second Life website presence; and when the Second Life site was started.
	(15044)

111

Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release of 5 August 2010, if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract and project brief for work undertaken by APCO Worldwide for the Housing Ombudsman; what the cost was of the contract; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) Communications and Engagement Strategy, (b) Communications and Engagement Programme and (c) Stakeholder Perception Survey.

(15046)

112	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many communications, marketing and press staff are employed by the Audit Commission; and at what cost in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(15051)

113	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on cleaning in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08, (c) 2008-09 and (d) 2009-10.
	(15052)

114	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was spent on fruit supplied to Ministerial offices in his Department in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
	(15053)

115	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release of 5 August 2010, if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract and project brief for work undertaken for Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation by Connect Public Affairs; and how much was spent on the contract.
	(15054)

116	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons the West Northants Development Corporation had a contract with Chelgate Public Affairs.
	(15058)

117	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what declarations of (a) interests, (b) gifts and (c) hospitality were made by special advisers in his Department in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09 and (iii) 2009-10.
	(15059)

118	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent by the Audit Commission under its contract with Connect Public Affairs.
	(15060)

119	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons the Audit Commission made a payment of £10,143.44 to the Labour Party in 2009-10.
	(15061)

120	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what stategic consultancy work was undertaken by the Smith Institute for his Department in 2009-10; what the cost was; and which Minister authorised the contract.
	(15062)

121	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of homes in England incorrectly banded in the 2005 council tax revaluation.
	(15063)

122	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether directors of the Audit Commission have had meetings with representatives of the Smith Institute in the last 18 months.
	(15064)

123	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was spent on pot plants by his Department in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
	(15065)

124	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was spent on pot plants by the Audit Commission in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
	(15067)

125	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Audit Commission's staff handbook.
	(15078)

126	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Planning Inspectors' Handbook.
	(15080)

127
N

Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to Building Bulletin 101 on ventilation of school buildings, if he will review Part F of the Building Regulations for educational buildings for the purposes of ensuring that it makes clear that a controllable system must have a level of automation or notification so that the desired air flow rate is achieved.

(14761)

128	Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward proposals to enable local authorities to assist those in priority groups as defined by the Homelessness Act 2002 into housing in the private rented sector in respect of which the lease is less than 10 years in duration.
	(15326)

129	Karl McCartney (Lincoln): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many support units for (a) women and (b) men at risk of domestic violence were provided or part-funded by Supporting People in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10.
	(15048)

130	Karl McCartney (Lincoln): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have been granted Supporting People funding to support (a) women and (b) men at risk of domestic violence in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10.
	(15049)

131 N	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to avoid redundancies from the Government Office Network in regions where there are vacancies in other parts of the civil service.
	(15240)

132	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the impact on frontline services in Wigan of the spending reductions he announced in his Written Ministerial Statement of 10 June 2010, Official Report, columns 15-17WS, on the local government savings package.
	(14963)

133	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations he has from individuals and organisations in Wigan on the effect of the spending reductions he announced in the Written Ministerial Statement of 10 June 2010, Official Report, columns 15-17WS, on the local government savings package, on forthcoming services in Wigan.
	(14964)

134	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to retain arm's length management organisations with their existing functions.
	(14967)

135	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on the reform of council housing finance.
	(14969)

136	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will use his powers under section 5 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 to revoke the Article 4 direction issued by Maldon District Council on the Maypole Road Plots, north west of Furzelands Farms, Great Totham, Essex; and if he will make a statement.
	(15194)

137 N	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many times he has used his powers to revoke Article 4 directions issued by local planning authorities under the General Permitted Development Order in each year since 1995.
	(15239)

138 N	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) artist, (b) estimated value and (c) description is of each piece of artwork commissioned for display in his Department since 12 May 2010.
	(14593)

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

139	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(15146)

140 N	Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent representations he has received on the grounds for the National Lottery Commission's interim decision to refuse Camelot's application for a licence to provide commercial services; and if he will make a statement.
	(14590)

141	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much (a) Arts Council funding and (b) other funding from the public purse was spent on the Writers in Prison Network Ltd in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(14978)

142	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what the objectives are of the funding provided from the public purse to Writers in Prison Network Ltd; and how performance against those objectives is measured.
	(14979)

143	Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will meet members of the Welsh Language Society to discuss future funding arrangements for S4C.
	(15390)

144	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the average cost per pensioner household of upgrading radio equipment in vehicles and properties in preparation for the proposed switchover from analogue to digital radio in (a) England and Wales and (b) Mid Norfolk constituency.
	(15085)

145	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what percentage of radio listeners in (a) England and Wales and (b) Mid Norfolk use digital radio; what percentage of people in (i) England and Wales and (ii) Mid Norfolk are not able to receive digital radio signals; and when full digital radio coverage will be available in Mid Norfolk.
	(15086)

146	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with broadcasters to ensure that public service radio broadcasting continues to provide universal coverage in (a) England and Wales and (b) Mid Norfolk after the digital switchover.
	(15087)

147	Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the proportion of the revenue of high street bookmakers which can be attributed to fixed odds betting terminals.
	(15140)

148	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what the monetary value is of the UK Film Council's public affairs contract with Portland; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract and the related project brief.
	(15057)

149	Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to encourage the production of films by British producers funded from sources based in Britain; and if he will make a statement.
	(15321)

150	Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much his Department estimates will be saved by ending the free swimming scheme for children under 16 years old; what the marginal cost to the public purse was of operating the scheme; and if he will make a statement.
	(15380)

151	Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with the BBC Trust on the BBC's use of licence fee revenue; and if he will make a statement.
	(14912)

152 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the provisions of the Code of the Press Complaints Commission on harassment and privacy; and if he will seek a strengthening of the provisions of the Code in those respects.
	(14949)

153 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will bring forward proposals to improve the independence of the Press Complaints Commission.
	(14950)

154 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will assess the adequacy of arrangements for regulation of the press.
	(14951)

155 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what guidance his Department has given to the Press Complaints Commission on the defintion of the public interest.
	(14953)

156	Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to UK businesses of dial-through fraud.
	(15384)

157	Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to encourage telecommunication providers to prevent dial-through fraud.
	(15385)

158	Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, by how much he estimates the previous Government's policy of providing universal access to basic broadband by 2012 was underfunded.
	(14890)

159	Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution of mobile services to delivering universal 1 Mbps broadband.
	(15201)

160	Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on (a) reductions in the expenditure of arts organisations funded by his Department and (b) the future levels of arts funding.
	(14891)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

161 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to let the contract for the first batch of light protected patrol vehicles.
	(14293)

162 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government plans to proceed with the planned contract for the second batch of light protected patrol vehicles; and if he will make a statement.
	(14294)

163 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the first batch of light protected patrol vehicles to be delivered to theatre.
	(14295)

164	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(15147)

165 N	Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which external organisations the Strategic Security and Defence Review has consulted to date.
	(14751)

166 N	Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on the Future Lynx/Wildcat project; and to what expenditure on the project it is contractually committed.
	(14752)

167	Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether all the land occupied by his Department's facilities in Cyprus is classed as sovereign British territory.
	(14905)

168 N	Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to increase levels of UK defence exports.
	(14521)

169	Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of maintaining horses in the Army in 2009-10.
	(15113)

170 N	Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of maintaining empty service accommodation in each of the last five years; and what the Cost to the public purse was of dilapidation and remedial costs on such properties in that period.
	(14292)

171 N	Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of service accommodation units were empty on 30 June 2010.
	(14338)

172 N	Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of service family accommodation units had been continuously empty for (a) six, (b) six to 12, (c) 12 to 24, (d) 24 to 36, (e) 36 to 48, (f) 48 to 60 and (g) more than 60 months on 30 June 2010.
	(14339)

173 N	Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the document entitled Meeting the aspirations of the British people: 2007 pre-budget report and comprehensive spending review, Cm 7227, whether the full proceeds of the sale of the Chelsea barracks site were allocated for expenditure on armed forces accommodation.
	(14340)

174
N

Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what account his Department takes of (a) children for whom armed forces personnel do not have full custody, (b) children of armed forces personnel over the age of 18 years who wish to live with their families and (c) elderly relatives for whom armed forces personnel wish to care when allocating service families' accommodation.

(14341)

175 N	Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department takes to consult service personnel and their families on their preferred priorities for accommodation upgrades.
	(14343)

176	Karl McCartney (Lincoln): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many servicemen from other Commonwealth countries (a) are serving in the UK armed forces and (b) have served in the UK armed forces in (i) the last 10 years and (ii) the last five years; and what estimate he has made of likely future trends in these numbers.
	(15047)

177	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to encourage defence contractors to increase the value for money of procurement contracts with HM Government by taking account of export opportunities.
	(14996)

178	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to encourage defence contractors to develop generic platforms for use in a range of applications.
	(14997)

179	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to reduce the number of changes in customer specification in defence procurement contracts.
	(14998)

180

Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish studies (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken by his Department on the (i) financial cost and (ii) potential savings associated with the development of alternatives to the replacement of the Trident nuclear weapons system in advance of the publication of the value for money review of Trident; and if he will make a statement.

(15294)

181	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish studies (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken by his Department on the (i) financial costs and (ii) potential savings associated with an extension of the life of the Vanguard submarines beyond five years, in advance of the publication of the value for money review of Trident; and if he will make a statement.
	(15295)

182	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has conducted a review of the UK's policy of maintaining Trident nuclear submarines on continuous at-sea deterrent patrol; and if he will make a statement.
	(15296)

183	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish studies undertaken by his Department on the potential savings associated with taking Trident submarines off continuous at-sea deterrent patrols, in advance of the publication of the value for money review of Trident; and if he will make a statement.
	(15297)

184

Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to present to Parliament the annual Trident cost report to update the 2006 White Paper estimate of the capital costs of building a replacement for the Trident nuclear weapons system and the cost of operating a successor system; whether this will be a separate report from the Trident value for money review; and if he will make a statement.

(15330)

185 N	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent reports he has received on the progress of the Iraqi authorities in apprehending those responsible for the deaths of six Royal Military Police Officers from Colchester at Majar al-Kabir in June 2003.
	(14824)

186 N	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on (a) offering employment in the military for those members of the armed forces who are injured while on active service and (b) guaranteeing continued employment for such people for the period for which they would have served; and if he will make a statement.
	(14826)

187 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) Radar Additional Study and (b) Data Transport Study.
	(14595)

188 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the terms of the memorandum of understanding signed on 11 June 2008 between his Department, the wind energy industry and the then Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
	(14596)

189 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what technical means there are to prevent radar clutter and aircraft obscuration caused by wind turbines.
	(14597)

190 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of whether the performance of air defence radars is degraded by wind farms.
	(14598)

191 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times Royal Air Force aircraft have been deployed from each base to intercept Russian aircraft in each of the last five years.
	(14599)

192 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which ships of the Royal Navy are deployed on operations at sea; and where each is deployed.
	(14952)

193	Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Departement is taking to assist ex-service personnel to obtain housing.
	(15108)

194 N	Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent assessment is of progress in the delivery of the A400M military transport aircraft; and if he will make a statement.
	(14592)

Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister

195	Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether he plans to take steps to increase the level of voter registration before 1 December 2010.
	(15323)

196	Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that in future elections voters who are queuing to vote at a polling station at the time it closes are able to cast their vote.
	(14836)

197	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will bring forward proposals to restrict voting in the House of Commons on matters exclusively relating to England to hon. Members who represent constituencies in England.
	(14892)

198 N	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what representations he took into account in formulating the proposed rule 4 in clause 9 of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
	(14829)

199 N	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make an estimate of the likely effect on the UK quota of the exemption of the Isle of Wight from his proposed requirement for electoral equality.
	(14830)

200 N	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what options for the number of seats in the House of Commons he considered before deciding to propose 600 seats as the size of the House.
	(14831)

201 N	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether he has made an assessment of the opinions of residents of (a) Argyll and Bute and (b) other constituencies on exemptions from his proposed requirement for electoral equality.
	(14832)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

202	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(15148)

203 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) the postcode and (b) proportion of pupils who (i) achieved five or more A*-C grades at GCSE, including English and mathematics and (ii) were eligible for free school meals in 2009-10 is of each school which had a Building Schools for the Future project stopped in his announcement of 5 July 2010.
	(14944)

204 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the 62 applications for free school projects were that his Department had received by 27 July 2010.
	(14946)

205 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish each written agreement between his Department and the New Schools Network.
	(14947)

206 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 6 September 2010, Official Report, column 4WS, on pupil place planning, on what date his Department received each of the 16 applications for free school status.
	(14948)

207	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many placement orders were authorised by (a) Cambridgeshire County Council and (b) Staffordshire County Council in each of the last three years; and whether the Government plans to review the powers of local authorities to apply for placement orders.
	(15124)

208 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to answer Question 7731, tabled on 7 July 2010 for answer on 13 July 2010, on the Building Schools for the Future programme and the construction industry.
	(14762)

209 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to answer Question (a) 8162, (b) 8165, (c) 8164 and (d) 8161, tabled on 7 July 2010 for answer on 14 July 2010, on the Building Schools for the Future programme.
	(14763)

210 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to answer Question (a) 9130 and (b) 9133, tabled on 13 July 2010 for answer on 19 July 2010, on special school provision in Coventry.
	(14764)

211 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to answer Question (a) 10485, (b) 10483, (c) 10484 and (d) 10482, tabled on 19 July 2010 for answer on 22 July 2010, on faith schools.
	(14765)

212	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he made of the cost to the Exchequer of continuing the full Building Schools for the Future programme.
	(15217)

213	Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to arrange and support an independent 18 month review of progress on implementing the recommendations of the Bercow Review of services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs; and if he will make a statement.
	(15165)

214	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any officials from his Department will be seconded to the New Schools Network (NSN) during the period of his Department's contract with NSN.
	(14954)

215	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which Minister in his Department is responsible for his Department's contract with the New Schools Network; when the contract was agreed; and if he will make a statement.
	(14955)

216	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there is a mechanism to ensure that the New Schools Network does not have any financial conflicts of interest relating to its work on behalf of his Department.
	(14959)

217	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will change the system of assessing eligibility for education maintenance allowance to take into account the number of young people in a household who are in education.
	(14971)

218	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his Answer to Question 16 in oral evidence to the Select Committee on Education on 30 July 2010, HC 395-i, which (a) local authorities and (b) hon. Members have sent him a letter to thank him for ending Building Schools for the Future.
	(14972)

219	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any companies other than the New Schools Network tendered for his Department's contract for advice to potential free school providers.
	(14973)

220	Mr David Nuttall (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his most recent assessment is of the effectiveness of the education maintenance allowance in widening access to further education.
	(14838)

221 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding he plans to allocate to the Common Assessment Framework in each of the next three years.
	(14600)

222	Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils of each ethnicity eligible for free school meals achieved a grade C or above in (a) history GCSE and (b) history A-level in the most recent 12 months for which figures are available.
	(15167)

223	Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in how many mainstream secondary schools no pupil obtained grade C or above at history GCSE in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available.
	(15168)

224	Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many mainstream secondary schools did not enter a single pupil for a history GCSE in the last 12 months.
	(15169)

225	Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils of each ethnicity were entered for (a) a history GCSE and (b) a history A-level in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many were eligible for free school meals.
	(15170)

226	Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary school teachers with a history specialism there were in each of the last five years.
	(15171)

227	Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils (a) eligible and (b) not eligible for free school meals were entered for (i) a history GCSE and (ii) a history A-level in each of the last five years.
	(15172)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

228	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(15150)

229

Guto Bebb (Aberconwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he plans to review guidance on the provision of financial community benefits compensation from large-scale off-shore wind farms over 50MWh; and whether he plans to bring forward proposals to enable local planning authorities to secure and enforce the provision of such financial community benefits compensation.

(15329)

230	Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to change the rules of feed-in tariffs so those who installed microgenerators before 15 July 2009 will benefit to the same extent as those who installed microgenerators after this date.
	(14837)

231	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what (a) planning regulations, (b) planning guidance and (c) other regulations there are on the location of power stations required to connect offshore energy to the national grid.
	(15083)

232	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what measures are in place to encourage the location of power stations required for the collection of offshore energy to be sited on (a) brownfield and (b) industrial sites.
	(15084)

233	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his Department's plans are to support the installation of high voltage direct current cabling and infrastructure for the distribution of offshore and onshore renewable electricity generation.
	(15088)

234	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to increase the National Grid's infrastructure capacity to facilitate offshore energy projects; and if he will make a statement.
	(15089)

235	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his estimate is of the cost of the expansion of the national grid required to accommodate expected levels of renewable electricity generation in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	(15090)

236	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make approval of the application for consent for a coal-fired power station at Hunterston conditional on the carbon emissions rate at the station being no higher than those generated in a modern gas plant.
	(14841)

237	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what national policy considerations will be taken into account in deciding on the application for consent for a coal-fired power station at Hunterston.
	(14842)

238	Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what investigations his Department has commissioned into noise from wind farms; and from whom.
	(15362)

239

Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which officials from which sections of (a) his Department and (b) other departments were involved in determining and drafting the remit of the contract awarded to the Hayes McKenzie Partnership to investigate the implementation of ETSU-R-97 guidance; and whether any such official is on secondment from industry.

(15363)

240	Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what reports he has received on (a) challenges to the ETSU-R-97 method for the assessment and rating of noise from wind farms made by expert acousticians at planning inquiries and (b) the views of planning inspectors on the appropriateness of the ETSU method.
	(15364)

241	Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what process his Department used to select Hayes McKenzie to oversee the investigation into the application of planning authorities of the ETSU R 97 method for the assessment and rating of noise from wind farms.
	(15392)

242	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effects on potential windfarm developers of the decision by the National Grid to retain the current charging regime for electricity generators; and what recent discussions he has held with Ofgem on the matter.
	(15098)

243 N	Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on what date his Department plans to issue its response to the Severn Tidal Power Feasibility Study.
	(15242)

244	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he plans to analyse the distributional effect of options for reductions in his Department's expenditure.
	(14960)

245	Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had on legislative proposals for local carbon budget legislation to limit emissions in each local authority area.
	(14908)

246	Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans he has to introduce environmental performance standards to regulate carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations; and if he will make a statement.
	(15193)

247 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what requirements there are on (a) district and (b) county councils to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and if he will make a statement.
	(14594)

248	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent meetings he has had with representatives of Transition Town projects to discuss environmentally sustainable communities.
	(14887)

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

249	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in her Department in July 2010.
	(15151)

250	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of cattle affected with bovine tuberculosis which have been slaughtered in each of the last five years; and what estimate she has made of the monetary value of compensation awarded to farmers in respect of livestock so slaughtered.
	(15174)

251	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the monetary value of payments made under the (a) Entry Level, (b) Higher Level and (c) Upper Entry Level Stewardship schemes was in 2009-10.
	(15175)

252	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the average cost per application of obtaining the expert advice required to support an application for a bat licence.
	(15100)

253	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what responsibilities her Department has for protection of bats; and if she will make a statement.
	(15101)

254	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on protection of bats in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	(15102)

255	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take to increase the number of local designated collection facilities for the disposal of low-energy light bulbs.
	(14843)

256 N	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to eliminate Japanese knotweed, with particularly reference to Manchester, Gorton constituency.
	(14653)

257	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on the European Commission's proposal to establish a mandatory separated collection system for bio-waste as referred to in the Green Paper on management of biowaste in the EU (2009/2153(INI)).
	(15011)

258	Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take in discussions at EU level to seek to ensure accurate country-of-origin labelling on meat, meat products and dairy products.
	(15379)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

259	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(14938)

260	Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to take steps to assist civil society organisations to promote religious pluralism, religious freedom and counter-extremism in Indonesia.
	(15322)

261	Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on allegations that Sri Lankan security forces committed war crimes during the conflict with the Tamil Tigers.
	(15128)

262 N	Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what documents the Government has made available to the United States in relation to Abdelbaset al-Megrahi since 20 July 2010; if he will place in the Library a copy of each such document; and if he will make a statement.
	(14882)

263

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he received the report, Verifying warhead dismantlement: Past, present, future, commissioned from the Verification Technology Information Centre as part of the UK-Norway Initiative on verified warhead dismantlement; how much this research cost; and what steps he plans to take as a result of the report.

(15003)

264	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions each Minister in his Department has met his Department's Chief Executive Officer since 6 May 2010.
	(15393)

265 N	David Miliband (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the UN Secretary General on negotiations towards an international arms trade treaty; and if he will make a statement.
	(14225)

266 N	Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much has been spent on purchasing and installing European Union flags at UK diplomatic posts in the last five years.
	(14709)

267	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department takes to provide assistance to UK citizens who have been trafficked overseas and are prosecuted overseas for offences committed under duress.
	(14893)

268	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what changes the UK is seeking in the composition of the UN Security Council.
	(15007)

269	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the UK's objectives are for the reform of the United Nations.
	(15008)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

270	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in (a) England, (b) West Midlands, (c) Dudley Borough and (d) Dudley North constituency used the NHS Direct service in each year since 2000.
	(15118)

271	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consultation his Department held with (a) medical professionals, (b) trade unions and (c) the public on the decision to replace the NHS Direct service with the 111 service.
	(15119)

272	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of (a) current NHS Direct staff are trained nurses and (b) NHS staff will be trained nurses.
	(15120)

273	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training and qualifications NHS Direct staff are required to have.
	(15121)

274	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training and qualifications NHS 111 staff will be required to have.
	(15122)

275 N	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the future of the Thames Valley Primary Care Agency following the introduction of GP commissioning.
	(14642)

276 N	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure that IT systems provided to support GP commissioning are (a) cost effective and (b) reliable.
	(14643)

277 N	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the future of the choose and book system following the introduction of GP commissioning.
	(14644)

278 N	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether GPs will have the power to decide the membership of GP consortia.
	(14645)

279 N	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what powers the NHS Commissioning Board will have regarding membership of GP consortia.
	(14646)

280 N	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what organisations will have responsibility for community hospitals following the introduction of GP commisioning.
	(14715)

281	Gavin Barwell (Croydon Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve mental health services for children with autism; and whether he intends to produce a strategy document for children with autism similar to his Department's Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives strategy for adults with autism.
	(15378)

282	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS was of provision of infant formula milk for new-born babies in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will initiate an investigation into the amount of waste arising through provision of infant formula milk in pre-mixed 100 ml bottles in hospitals.
	(15153)

283 N	Ann Coffey (Stockport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 7 September 2010, which organisations he expects to take a lead on recent refigurations of (a) maternity, (b) cancer and (c) other health services not subject to a national framework in conurbations which will be covered by more than one GP consortium; and if he will make a statement.
	(14654)

284	Dr Thérèse Coffey (Suffolk Coastal): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procedures will be used to transfer assets of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities to GP consortia.
	(15387)

285 N	Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's estimate is of the average length of time which will be taken to decide on a patient application for funding for a treatment through the interim Cancer Drugs Fund arrangements.
	(14716)

286	Mr Geoffrey Cox (Torridge and West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish details of his Department's expenditure in accordance with the Prime Minister's letter of 31 May 2010; and if he will set the threshold for publication lower than the level of £25,000 so stipulated.
	(15355)

287	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance is provided to NHS bodies on subscribing to lobbying organisations.
	(15314)

288	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what expenditure Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust incurred on the production of the last nine editions of its quarterly newsletter, Engage.
	(15135)

289	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust spent on the production of its Annual Report for 2009-10.
	(15136)

290	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2010, Official Report, column 172, whether he plans to introduce legislation to eliminate trans fat in food.
	(15226)

291	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of NHS patient access to ultra orphan treatments for rare forms of bone cancer.
	(15311)

292	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanism the Advisory Group for National Specialised Services will use to consider ultra orphan drug treatments for use within the NHS; and what the duration of the review process is likely to be.
	(15377)

293 N	Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has spent on treating type 1 diabetes and its complications in each of the last 10 years; and what sources and assumptions were used to derive these figures.
	(14941)

294 N	Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people in England with type 1 diabetes; and what sources and assumptions were used to derive these figures.
	(14942)

295 N	Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people in England with multiple sclerosis; how much the NHS has spent on treating this condition in each of the last 10 years; and what sources and assumptions were used to derive these figures.
	(14943)

296	Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the Peterborough City Council area were in receipt of supervised methadone treatment in each quarter since 2005; and if he will make a statement.
	(15381)

297	Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the Peterborough City Council area used the needle exchange facilities offered by Peterborough Primary Care Trust in each quarter since 2005; and if he will make a statement.
	(15382)

298 N	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of clients at the new health centre in Fallowfield, Manchester who are resident in the M19 postal district.
	(14652)

299	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what types of cancer treatment will be eligible for funding from the Cancer Drugs Fund in April 2011.
	(15199)

300	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether non-pharmacological anti-cancer treatments will be included for funding from (a) the interim Cancer Drugs Fund and (b) the Cancer Drugs Fund.
	(15200)

301	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the evidence provided in Appendix A of the Interventional Procedures Guidance Overview Document prepared by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is used by the Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee to determine the safety of a product.
	(15337)

302	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department monitors the effectiveness of the General Medical Council in supervising the conduct and practice of medical practitioners.
	(15369)

303	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) procedures and (b) timetable he intends to adopt for his Department's decision on Stage 4 of the redevelopment of the Lister Hospital, Stevenage, relating to accident and emergency services; and if he will make a statement.
	(14990)

304	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the number of patients in Hertfordshire likely to be prescribed with innovative cancer drugs in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12 following the establishment of the interim Cancer Drug Fund.
	(14991)

305	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on ensuring that cancer treatment takes place as close to a patient's home as practicable.
	(14992)

306	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the establishment by major NHS cancer centres of satellite radiotherapy centres in order to deliver treatment closer to a patient's home; and if he will make a statement.
	(14993)

307	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will issue guidelines on the maximum distance patients should expect to travel to receive regular cancer treatments such as radiotherapy; and if he will make a statement.
	(14994)

308	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate average journey times for patients resident in Stevenage and North East Hertfordshire receiving cancer treatment at Mount Vernon Hospital.
	(14995)

309	Nicky Morgan (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the use of osteopathy to treat infant colic.
	(15291)

310	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people aged between 11 and 20 years old who died from alcohol-related conditions in each year since 1999; and if he will make a statement.
	(15298)

311	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in each age group who died from alcohol poisoning in each year since 1999; and if he will make a statement.
	(15299)

312	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in each age group who died by drowning where alcohol consumption was a causal factor in each year since 1999; and if he will make a statement.
	(15300)

313	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in each age group who died in cases where alcohol was a causal factor in each year since 1999; and if he will make a statement.
	(15302)

314	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in each age group who died from asphyxiation where alcohol was a causal factor in each year since 1999; and if he will make a statement.
	(15303)

315	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will assess the merits of a pilot scheme to end primary care trusts and implement GP-led commissioning before 2013; and if he will make a statement.
	(15229)

316	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he has provided to primary care trusts on the reorganisation of those trusts by 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(15230)

317	Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements his Department has made to log local authority responses to the NHS White Paper.
	(15216)

318	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to NHS trusts on the acceptance of medical qualifications obtained in (a) other EU and (b) non-EU countries as equivalents of UK-obtained qualifications in the appointment of medical staff; and if he will make a statement.
	(14895)

319	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the future of existing polyclinics; and if he will make a statement.
	(15280)

320	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will grant North West London Hospitals NHS Trust further funding for health and safety repairs; and if he will make a statement.
	(15281)

321	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints about the running of clinical trials at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital have been received from staff employed to manage these trials; and how much it has cost to investigate such complaints.
	(15282)

322	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has had discussions with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency on the conduct of clinical trials at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital.
	(15283)

323	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has (a) investigated clinical trials in the Rheumatology Department at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and (b) been requested to investigate those trials.
	(15284)

324 N	Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for (a) an appointment with a cancer specialist and (b) hospital treatment from the time of referral by a GP in (i) May 2010 and (ii) 1997.
	(14881)

325	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the level of revenue losses for local authorities arising from the closure of retail outlets as a result of a tobacco display ban.
	(14988)

326	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the effect of a tobacco display ban on the number of retail outlets in (a) England, (b) Sussex, (c) Brighton and Hove and (d) Hove constituency.
	(14989)

327	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government plans to establish centres of excellence for the treatment of spinal problems or injuries; and if he will make a statement.
	(14902)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

328	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in her Department in July 2010.
	(14937)

329	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on her plans for directly-elected police commissioners from (a) senior police, (b) trade unions and (c) police associations and affiliated organisations.
	(15117)

330	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of elections for directly-elected police commissioners.
	(15152)

331	Ms Louise Bagshawe (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many premises licensed for the on-sale of alcohol there were in each local authority area in each of the last three years.
	(14980)

332	Ms Louise Bagshawe (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for temporary event notices there were in each local authority area in each of the last three years.
	(14981)

333	Ms Louise Bagshawe (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appeals against decisions on licensing by local authorities there were in each local authority area in each of the last three years.
	(14982)

334	Ms Louise Bagshawe (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many designated licensing stress areas there are in each (a) local authority area and (b) region.
	(14983)

335	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to end the detention of children of asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement.
	(15389)

336 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects her Department to respond to the letter of 13 July 2010 from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay on a constituent, Mrs Morrision.
	(14718)

337 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 7 July 2010 from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay on Councillor Frank Tomlin.
	(14756)

338 N	Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas for postgraduate study in England and Wales in the 2009-10 academic year were granted for citizens of Pakistan.
	(14651)

339	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders were (a) issued and (b) breached in Cannock Chase constituency in each of the last three years.
	(15125)

340	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been (a) granted and (b) breached in Kent and Medway in each of the last five years.
	(15115)

341	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police community support officers, (b) uniformed officers and (c) civilian staff have been recruited by Kent Police in each year since 2000.
	(15116)

342	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been sent (a) from the UK to each other EU member state and (b) to the UK from each other EU member state under the European Arrest Warrant since its inception.
	(15105)

343	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people sent (a) from the UK to each other EU member state and (b) to the UK from each other EU member state under the European Arrest Warrant who were subsequently convicted have received a custodial sentence longer than (i) one year, (ii) five years, (iii) 10 years and (iv) 20 years.
	(15106)

344	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people sent (a) from the UK to each other EU member state and (b) to the UK from each other EU member state under the European Arrest Warrant were subsequently (i) acquitted and (b) convicted.
	(15107)

345	Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers there are from each country of origin whose cases (a) were pending at the inception of the legacy cases scheme and (b) are still awaiting processing under that scheme.
	(15134)

346	Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the monetary value was of (a) cash and (b) other assets confiscated from criminals in 2009; and how much of that amount was redistributed for community projects (i) nationally and (ii) in Bedford.
	(15237)

347	Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the operating costs of each police authority in England and Wales was in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(15359)

348

Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which EU proposals and initiatives other than those that seek to build upon the Schengen acquis have been presented to the Council pursuant to Title V of Part Three of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; what the date of presentation to the Council was of each; in respect of which such proposals and initiatives the UK has notified the President of the Council of its wish to participate in adoption and application; and on what date the UK made each such notification.

(15306)

349

Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which EU proposals or initiatives that seek to build upon the Schengen acquis and would, if adopted, apply to the UK, are under consideration at EU level; what the three month period in which the UK could notify the Council that it does not wish to take part in that proposal or initiative is in the case of each; what notifications the UK has made; and on what date in each case.

(15307)

350	Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which EU acts building upon the Schengen acquis that apply to the UK have been adopted following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon; and which of those have not yet entered into force.
	(15308)

351

Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which EU acts which do not constitute part of the Schengen acquis or build upon that acquis which apply to the UK were adopted on the basis of Title IV of the Treaty establishing the European Community prior to the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon; which of those have not yet entered into force; and on what date the UK decided to (a) take part in the adoption and application of the proposal or (b) accept each such act.

(15309)

352	Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which EU acts and other legally binding EU provisions that constitute part of the Schengen acquis or which build upon that acquis apply to the UK and were adopted prior to the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon; and which of them have not yet entered into force.
	(15310)

353

Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which EU acts, which do not build upon the Schengen acquis, which apply to the UK were adopted on the basis of Title V of Part Three of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon; which of them have not yet entered into force; and on what date the UK decided to (a) take part in the adoption and application of the proposal and (b) accept each such act.

(15391)

354 N	Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals for a national guarantee for (a) swift police force responses to complaints of anti-social behaviour and (b) stronger enforcement of anti-social behaviour orders.
	(14753)

355 N	Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the operation of the UK-US Extradition Treaty.
	(14754)

356 N	Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what account the review of the British Crime Survey will take of recent trends in official crime statistics.
	(14755)

357	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to reply to the letter of 30 July 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Waseem Shazad.
	(15179)

358	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 29 July 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr N. Kalbi.
	(15180)

359	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 20 July 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr M. I. Khan.
	(15181)

360	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 29 July 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Saddia Hamid.
	(15182)

361	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 30 July 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr R. Boadi.
	(15183)

362	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 30 July 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr S. Parvaz.
	(15184)

363	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 2 August 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms L. T. Sithole.
	(15185)

364	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 2 August 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr R. K. Mzwimbi.
	(15186)

365	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 2 August 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr C. Madzonayiko.
	(15187)

366	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 2 August 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms S. Mpofo.
	(15188)

367	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 2 August 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Miss B. A. Boasiako.
	(15189)

368	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 15 July 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs H. Farhat.
	(15192)

369	Karl McCartney (Lincoln): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration she has given to the merits of establishing a minimum price per alcohol unit for the retail sale of alcohol.
	(14909)

370	Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children referred to the National Referral Mechanism have been identified as trafficked and subsequently prosecuted for alleged criminal activity in which they have been involved as a result of being trafficked.
	(15123)

371 N	Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many European Union citizens of each nationality were deported from the United Kingdom in each of the last five years.
	(14711)

372 N	Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EU citizens of each nationality have been refused entry to the UK in each of the last five years.
	(14712)

373 N	Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for evidence-gathering UK police forces have received from police forces of each other EU member state relating to offences of each category in each of the last five years; and how many such requests were refused in each case.
	(14713)

374 N	Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent by police forces in the UK on evidence-gathering for police forces of other EU member states in the last three years.
	(14714)

375	Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women from Pakistan have applied for asylum in the UK in each year since 2000; and how many such applications were (a) granted and (b) refused.
	(15286)

376	Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an assessment of the human rights situation for women in Pakistan is made when determining asylum applications from such women.
	(15287)

377	John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many citizens of Pakistan have been refused UK visas by entry clearance officers in Abu Dhabi in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	(15110)

378 N	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many immigration cases her Department recorded intercession by an hon. Member in 2009-10.
	(14914)

379 N	Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to strengthen enforcement of legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation; and if she will make a statement.
	(14879)

380	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the effects on those awaiting asylum application determination of the requirement to use the Azure card system as a means of payment for goods and services.
	(14900)

381	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department provides assistance to asylum seekers with a professional or skilled background to retain their skills whilst awaiting determination of their claims; and if she will make a statement.
	(14901)

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

382	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the House of Commons Commission, on how many occasions a smell of gas has been reported in the colonnade of New Palace Yard in the last 12 months; and what steps have been taken as a consequence of such reports.
	(15293)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

383	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(14936)

384 N	Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, on how many days on average employees of his Department were absent from work as a result of ill-health in 2009-10.
	(14760)

385	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of (a) the level of global grain prices and (b) its implications for his Department's policies; and if he will make a statement.
	(15173)

386	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to assist developing country authorities in the collection of poverty data classified by indigenous and other ethnic groups.
	(15004)

387	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, in which (a) countries and (b) regions his Department's maternal and newborn health programme aims to reach marginalised populations.
	(15005)

388	Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on (a) administration, (b) logistics and transport, (c) food items, (d) non-food items and (e) other items in respect of the provision of immediate assistance in humanitarian situations in Africa in each of the last three years.
	(15137)

389

Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on immediate assistance in respect of humanitarian situations in Africa in each of the last three years; and how much such funding was disbursed (a) as part of a programme directly delivered by his Department, (b) by multilateral organisations, (c) by non-governmental organisations and (d) through budgetary support given to host governments in each such year.

(15138)

390

Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on (a) tarpaulins and tents, (b) mosquito nets, (c) blankets, (d) kitchen sets, (e) hygiene/first aid kits, (f) water purification products, (g) buckets and other water carriers and (h) stoves for immediate use in humanitarian situations in Africa in each of the last three years.

(15139)

391	Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the annual monetary value is of the contract held by his Department with Crown Agents in respect of the delivery of emergency and humanitarian relief services; and what proportion of that amount was spent on projects in Africa in each of the last three years.
	(15225)

392	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, on how many occasions each Minister in his Department has met his Department's Chief Scientific Officer since 6 May 2010.
	(15353)

393	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans his Department has to implement the World Health Assembly resolution on pneumonia; and if he will make a statement.
	(14999)

394	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid his Department has allocated to tackling pneumonia in each of the last five years.
	(15000)

395 N	David Miliband (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding his Department plans to provide to the United Nations Development Fund for Women in the period to 2015.
	(14226)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

396	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(14935)

397	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many referrals have there been to children and adolescent mental health services of (a) boys and (b) girls held at Medway secure training centre in each month since April 1998.
	(15068)

398	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children received into Medway secure training centre in each year since 1998 have been assessed as having an identified (a) learning and (b) physical disablity.
	(15069)

399	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children received into Medway secure training centre since April 1998 have been assessed as having an identified mental health problem.
	(15070)

400	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults by (a) boys and (b) girls against staff have been recorded at Medway secure training centre in each month since April 1998; and how many such assaults required external medical help.
	(15071)

401	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults by staff against children have been recorded at Medway secure training centre in each year since April 1998; and how many such assaults required external medical help.
	(15072)

402	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults by (a) boys and (b) girls against other children have been recorded at Medway secure training centre in each month since April 1998; and how many such assaults required external medical help.
	(15073)

403	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) boys and (b) girls were received into Medway secure training centre for a second time within a year of their first reception in each year since 1999.
	(15074)

404	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) boys and (b) girls have been received into Medway secure training centre (i) twice, (ii) three times and (iii) four times or more since 1998.
	(15075)

405	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what average length of time was spent by (a) boys and (b) girls on remand at Medway secure training centre in 2009.
	(15076)

406	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of sentence was for (a) boys and (b) girls received into Medway secure training centre in 2009.
	(15077)

407	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many referrals there have been to the local children safeguarding board in respect of children held at Medway secure training centre in each month since April 1998.
	(15079)

408 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations he has received on the reduction in the number of contracts issued by his Department for family legal aid work; and if he will make a statement.
	(14759)

409	Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will assess the merits of increasing the retirement age of (a) magistrates and (b) full-time members of the judiciary.
	(15325)

410	Dr Thérèse Coffey (Suffolk Coastal): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received a custodial sentence on conviction for non-payment of a TV licence in the last two years.
	(15386)

411 N	Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many 104 removal of body notice forms have been issued in the London borough of Waltham Forest since 2000; and how many of those were issued within four days of request.
	(14501)

412	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance his Department issues to assist deaf people to undertake jury service.
	(15160)

413	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people called to undertake jury service in each HM Courts Service area in the last five years were unable to serve because of deafness.
	(15161)

414	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what facilities are provided for deaf people participating in jury service in each HM Courts Service area.
	(15162)

415	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners absconded from each prison in each of the last five years.
	(14976)

416	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of recommendations for use of the Intensive Alternative to Custody scheme were accepted by the courts in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(14977)

417	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have facilities to access the internet (a) from their cell and (b) from prison premises other than their cells.
	(15009)

418	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have (a) undertaken and (b) completed the 19-day drug detoxification programme in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(15012)

419	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many closed visits there have been in each prison in each of the last three years.
	(15014)

420

Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many closed circuit television cameras there are installed on prison premises; what estimate he has made of the number of offences recorded on such cameras in the latest period for which figures are available; and on how many occasions an offence recorded on such a camera has resulted in a prosecution in the latest period for which figures are available.

(15015)

421	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department issues guidance to the Prison Service on the display of information provided by third parties in prisons; and if he will make a statement.
	(15017)

422	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on the Intensive Alternative to Custody scheme to date.
	(15018)

423	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what offences an Intensive Alternative to Custody has been given in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(15019)

424	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost to the public purse was of ordinary community orders in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(15020)

425	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the use of dogs by the Prison Service in prisons.
	(15092)

426	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much compensation has been paid out under the Opiate Dependent Litigation Scheme in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(15103)

427	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have taken legal action against the Government and Government agencies under the provisions of the Human Rights Act 1998.
	(15104)

428	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the re-offending rate was for (a) men, (b) women and (c) those from ethnic minority backgrounds who have served a (i) custodial and (ii) community sentence in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(15132)

429	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many programmes designed to reduce re-offending among (a) men, (b) women and (c) those from ethnic minority backgrounds his Department funded in the last 12 months.
	(15133)

430	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who have served an indeterminate sentence for public protection have re-offended after release; and what estimate he has made of the number of offences committed by such re-offenders in each of the last five years.
	(15195)

431	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) marriages and (b) civil partnership ceremonies have taken place in prisons in the last three years.
	(15196)

432	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons have one or more prisoner representative groups; what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners who are members of such groups; and what funding his Department has provided for such groups in the last three years.
	(15202)

433	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will offer incentives to Probation Service staff to undertake secondments in the voluntary sector.
	(15227)

434	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times an accommodation fabric check has led to confiscation of items from a prisoner's cell in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(15231)

435	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the ratio of prisoners to prison officers is across the Prison Service.
	(15232)

436	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on prisoners by prisoners were reported in each of the last three years; and how many additional days were added to the sentences of those responsible for such assaults in each such year.
	(15233)

437	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance his Department issues to the Prison Service on monitoring the telephone calls of sex offenders serving custodial sentences; and if he will make a statement.
	(15234)

438	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the (a) Prison Service and (b) Probation Service have spent on places on the course Delivering Effective Penal Policy: Taking a Radical New Approach to Short-Term Sentences, organised by CPPS seminars.
	(15273)

439	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will estimate the average cost to district councils in (a) England and Wales and (b) Mid Norfolk constituency of the proposed removal of charges for Land Registry checks.
	(15082)

440	Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the likely effects of a reduction in the number of suppliers of legal aid services on employment at (a) qualified and (b) support level in the legal sector.
	(15141)

441	Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the recent tendering exercise by the Legal Services Commission on the ability of the most vulnerable people to gain access to legal advice and representation.
	(15142)

442	Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the monetary value of contributions made to the Legal Aid Fund by means of (a) monthly contributions and (b) charges on assets recovered by those who have been granted support from the Fund.
	(15143)

443	Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the legal aid budget was in respect of (a) criminal case legal aid and (b) family and social welfare legal aid in each of the last three years.
	(15157)

444	Kris Hopkins (Keighley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, under what budgetary headings the estimate of £263,411 for the 2009-10 operating costs excluding staff and non-cash costs of Keighley Magistrates' Court, as referred to in Consultation Paper CP13/10, Proposal on the provision of court services in North and West Yorkshire, was made.
	(15331)

445	Kris Hopkins (Keighley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, under what budgetary headings the estimate of around £225,000 for HMCS investment in backlog maintenance at Keighley Magistrates' Court, as referred to in Consultation Paper CP13/10, Proposal on the provision of court services in North and West Yorkshire, was made.
	(15332)

446	Kris Hopkins (Keighley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, under what budgetary headings the estimate of £130,884 for the 2009-10 operating cost excluding staff and non-cash costs of Keighley County Court, as referred to in Consultation Paper CP13/10, Proposal on the provision of court services in North and West Yorkshire, was made.
	(15333)

447	Kris Hopkins (Keighley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, under what budgetary headings the estimate of around £475,000 for KMCS investment in backlog maintenance at Keighley County Court, as referred to in Consultation Paper CP13/10, Proposal on the provision of court services in North and West Yorkshire, was made.
	(15334)

448	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Legal Services Commission (LSC) is permitted to award more matter starts than requested by an applicant for tenders in the LSC contract commencing on 14 October 2010.
	(15248)

449	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women received immediate custodial sentences from courts in North Wales in the last five years.
	(15312)

450	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent representations he has received on the re-organisation of administrative staff in magistrates' courts and county courts in North Wales.
	(15313)

451	Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has for the future of the Youth Justice Board; and if he will make a statement.
	(15361)

452	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) fines, (b) penalty notice payments and (c) compensation payments went unpaid in each of the last five years.
	(15001)

453	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners learnt to read whilst serving their sentences in each of the last five years.
	(15002)

454	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what account his Department took of the extent of existing spare capacity in the juvenile prison estate when taking the decision to commission additional prison places.
	(14910)

455 N	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons the governing governor did not conduct the security category review which took place in April 2010 for Julian Harrington; and when Mr Harrington will be transferred to HMP Hollesley Bay.
	(15025)

456 N	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his estimate is of the number of people who have served custodial sentences for (a) sexual offences and (b) sexual offences with children living in Witham constituency; what steps have been taken to prevent such people re-offending; and if he will make a statement.
	(15029)

457 N	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects to reply to the letter dated 9 August 2010 from the hon. Member for Witham on Jeremy Bamber; and if he will make a statement.
	(15030)

458 N	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects to reply to the letter dated 12 August 2010 from the hon. Member for Witham on Michael Binnington and Luke Atkinson; if he will meet their relations to discuss their case; if he will assess the merits of using his powers to commute their sentences; and if he will make a statement.
	(15238)

459	Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to build a new prison in East Lancashire.
	(15109)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

460	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(14934)

Questions to the Prime Minister

461	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Prime Minister, what declarations of (a) interests, (b) gifts and (c) hospitality were made by special advisers based in No. 10 Downing Street in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10.
	(15056)

462	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Prime Minister, on how many occasions he has met the Chief Scientific Advisor since 6 May 2010.
	(15352)

463	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Prime Minister, which Minister has lead responsibility for the review of health and safety law; and what role he is playing in the review.
	(14962)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

464	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(14930)

465	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 27 July 2010, Official Report, column 974W, what the (a) dates, (b) times and (c) locations were of each meeting he has had with the Deputy Prime Minister to discuss the Act of Settlement 1701.
	(14834)

466	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the (a) dates, (b) times and (c) locations were of the meetings he has had with the Advocate General on the exemption of Orkney and Shetland constituency from plans to reduce the size of parliamentary constituencies in Scotland.
	(14884)

Questions to the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

467 N	Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how many refusals of claims had been communicated to hon. Members by means of (a) the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority website and (b) by email for the period to 7 September 2010.
	(15032)

468 N	Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what proportion of claim refusal decisions communicated to hon. Members by 7 September 2010 were accompanied by accurate written accounts of the reasons for which claims had been refused.
	(15033)

469
N

Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how many Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority staff are authorised to make claim refusal decisions on claims; and what procedures are followed in circumstances in which such staff make an error in communicating such a refusal decision to an hon. Member.

(15034)

470 N	Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how many documents submitted to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority by hon. Members in support of their claims had been lost in the period to 30 August 2010.
	(15035)

471
N

Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what procedures are followed by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority to record the receipt of supporting documents submitted in relation to claims made by hon. Members; and whether the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority plans to review those procedures.

(15036)

472
N

Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how many and what proportion of telephone calls to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority from hon. Members were not answered within 15 minutes in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(15241)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

473	Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to reply to South Eastern Trains' inquiry regarding franchise conditions and the partial closure of the platform 4 exit at Lewisham station.
	(14916)

474	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(14931)

475	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch on the installation of TCAS II equipment in planes flying in the London area.
	(15388)

476	Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the full business case for High Speed Rail 2.
	(15285)

477	Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the full environmental impact assessment for High Speed Rail 2.
	(15360)

478	Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many cars used the assisted crossing service when using the Dartford Crossing in each of the last 10 years.
	(15324)

479	Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timescale he has set for his Department's consultation on the night flying restrictions for Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted for the period 2012 to 2017.
	(15206)

480	Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the night flying restrictions for Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted for the period 2012 to 2017 will include measures to reduce the effects of night noise on local communities in line with the recommendations of the World Health Organisation.
	(15207)

481	Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will consider the merits of adding Luton to the controlled night noise regime for London airports by making it a designated airport.
	(15208)

482	Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the National Policy Statement for Airports for consultation.
	(15209)

483	Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects his Department to publish revised forecasts for passenger numbers for Stansted and other airports in the South East over the period to 2030; and whether these will include detailed projections for each airport.
	(15210)

484	Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to the December 2009 report of the Committee on Climate Change on meeting the UK Aviation Target.
	(15211)

485	Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects to publish the results of the consultation on the Noise Action Plan for Stansted Airport; and what the reason is for the time taken to publish the plan.
	(15212)

486	Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will discuss with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government the inclusion in the scope of the proposed Airport Economic Regulation Bill of provisions to address matters of blight, compensation and compulsory purchase orders in respect of airport expansion schemes.
	(15213)

487	Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will visit the communities around Stansted Airport to discuss issues of planning blight and community reconstruction.
	(15214)

488	Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to encourage BAA to dispose of the properties in the vicinity of Stansted Airport which were purchased with a view to airport expansion.
	(15215)

489	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what definition of overcrowding his Department uses for passenger train carriages on services running between King's Cross and (a) Stevenage and (b) Royston.
	(14915)

490	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions each Minister in his Department has met his Department's Chief Scientific Officer since 6 May 2010.
	(15350)

491	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent capacity surveys have been undertaken in respect of the railway line between King's Cross and Stevenage; what recent representations he has received on overcrowding on trains; and if he will make a statement.
	(14956)

492	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the level of overcrowding on trains on the line between Stevenage and King's Cross.
	(14957)

493	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his plans are for the future of the Government's stake in National Air Traffic Services.
	(14965)

494

Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to (a) his Department, (b) bus and coach transport providers and (c) passengers of implementation of the proposed regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the rights of passengers in bus and coach transport and amending regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 (05218/2010-C7-0077.2010-2008.00237(COD)); and if he will make a statement.

(15010)

495 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the airline industry on compensation to those affected by the volcanic ash explosion; and if he will make a statement.
	(15037)

496 N	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his most recent estimate is of the cost to the public purse of a (a) fatality, (b) serious injury and (c) slight injury caused by a road accident.
	(14825)

497 N	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has commissioned recent research into the likely effects on the number of people (a) killed, (b) seriously injured and (c) slightly injured in road accidents of changes in the level of expenditure on road safety measures.
	(14827)

498 N	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) children and (b) adults were (i) killed, (ii) seriously injured and (iii) slightly injured in road accidents in each of the last five years.
	(14828)

499 N	John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish his consultation paper on the minimum standards for drivers with diabetes, epilepsy and vision required under EC Directive 2009/113/EEC.
	(14647)

500 N	John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving licence photographic renewals the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has processed in each of the last three years; and how much revenue the Agency received from such renewals in each such year.
	(14649)

501	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on future funding for (a) bus services in London and (b) London Underground services.
	(14889)

502	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to introduce a legal maximum age limit for tyres used on public roads.
	(14904)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

503	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much her Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in her Department in July 2010.
	(14932)

504	Mr Wayne David (Caerphilly): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions she has had with the police authorities in Wales on the introduction of directly-elected police commissioners.
	(15318)

505	Mr Wayne David (Caerphilly): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions she has had with the Welsh Local Government Association on the introduction of directly-elected police commissioners in Wales.
	(15319)

506 N	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions she has had with the (a) First Minister of the Welsh Assembly Government and (b) Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales on the wording of the question in a referendum on law-making powers of the National Assembly for Wales.
	(14757)

507 N	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if she will hold a consultation on the wording of any referendum question proposed under the provisions of the Government of Wales Act 2006.
	(14758)

Questions to the Minister for Women and Equalities

508

Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the contribution to the Minister for Equalities of 6 September 2010, Official Report, column 152, in the adjournment debate on public expenditure reduction (women), what the evidential basis is that (a) the Library's analysis of the Budget's impact on women was (i) biased and (ii) not robust and (b) the Library research makes an extreme assumption that no income is shared; and what assumptions about (A) family structures and (B) how resources are shared within a household the Government made before the Budget.

(15154)

509

Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the contribution of the Minister for Equalities of 6 September 2010, Official Report, column 153, in the adjournment debate on public expenditure reductions (women), what the evidential basis is for the statement that the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) was inaccurate in what it said; and what assumptions made by the IFS are unreliable or invalid.

(15228)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

510	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on hospitality for events hosted by each Minister in his Department in July 2010.
	(14933)

511	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged (a) 60 to 65, (b) 65 to 70 and (c) 70 to 80 years old were paid the winter fuel allowance in (i) England, (ii) Dudley Borough and (iii) Dudley North constituency in each year since 2005.
	(15130)

512 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what advice he has received on the legality of using the consumer prices index as the measure of the general level of prices under section 150 (2) of the Social Security Act 1992.
	(15040)

513 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what effect the inclusion of housing costs in the consumer prices index will have on the methodology used by his Department to up-rate pensions payments.
	(15041)

514 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what advice his Department has received from the Office of National Statistics on use of the (a) consumer prices index and (b) retail price index to measure changes to the cost of living of pensioners.
	(15042)

515	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria his Department used to assess the suitability of the consumer price index as a measure of the changes in the cost of living of pensioners.
	(15127)

516	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to assist people in areas where the local Jobcentre Plus centre has been closed to use alternative centres.
	(15126)

517	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Chatham and Aylesford constituency and (b) Medway have received employment and support allowance in each of the last five years.
	(15094)

518	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Chatham and Aylesford constituency and (b) Medway have received incapacity benefit in each of the last five years.
	(15095)

519	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Chatham and Aylesford constituency and (b) Medway have received disability living allowance in each of the last five years.
	(15096)

520	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Chatham and Aylesford constituency and (b) Medway were in receipt of (i) disability living allowance, (ii) employment and support allowance and (iii) incapacity benefit on the latest date for which figures are available.
	(15097)

521

Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made a recent estimate of the number of people in (a) Chatham and Aylesford constituency and (b) Medway who are in receipt of the winter fuel allowance who are aged (i) between 60 and 65 years, (ii) between 66 and 70 years, (iii) between 71 and 75 years, (iv) between 76 and 80 years and (v) 81 years and older.

(15114)

522	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged 18 to 24 years in (a) Medway and (b) Chatham and Aylesford constituency had been in receipt of benefits for (i) less than six months, (ii) six to 12 months, (iii) 12 to 18 months and (iv) 18 months and over on the latest date for which figures are available.
	(15163)

523 N	Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what target timescale his Department has set for processing decisions on benefit entitlements for those claiming (a) disability living allowance and (b) attendance allowance.
	(13699)

524 N	Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what target timescale his Department has set for processing decisions on claims for (a) disability living allowance, (b) attendance allowance and (c) other benefit entitlements for patients diagnosed with (i) terminal and (ii) non-terminal cancer.
	(13700)

525 N	Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to increase the speed at which claims for disability living allowance and attendance allowance for those diagnosed with non-terminal cancer are processed.
	(14939)

526	Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Gloucester (a) receive the basic state pension, (b) receive pension credit and (c) are eligible for pension credit but do not claim it.
	(15131)

527	Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what payments have been made to Capita under his Department's Filestores contract in each year of the contract.
	(15315)

528	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the Exchequer of continuing the Future Jobs Fund.
	(15224)

529	Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to meet the Local Government Association to discuss proposed changes to housing benefit; and if he will make a statement.
	(15327)

530	Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will bring forward proposals for a transition period for implementation of the proposed changes to housing benefit in respect of local authority areas with the highest (a) average rents and (b) proportion of housing stock in the private rented sector.
	(15328)

531	Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) monetary value and (b) proportion of child support payments went unpaid in each of the last five years.
	(15016)

532	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will conduct an impact assessment on the proposed changes to housing benefit and local housing allowance on the basis of socio-economic class.
	(14975)

533	Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on assisting adults with Down's syndrome to find work.
	(14907)

534	John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of claimants of housing benefit in (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow and (c) Glasgow North West (i) are claimants of jobseeker's allowance and (ii) have claimed jobseeker's allowance for 12 months or more.
	(15111)

535

John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households receive housing benefit of more than (a) £250 per week for a one bedroom property, (b) £290 per week for a two bedroom property, (c) £340 per week for a three bedroom property and (d) £400 per week for a four bedroom property in (i) Scotland, (ii) Glasgow and (iii) Glasgow North West constituency.

(15112)

536	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations his Department contracts to provide mental health assessments to determine benefit claimants' fitness to work; what steps his Department takes to determine the level of expertise of practitioners within such organisations to make such assessments; and if he will make a statement.
	(14894)

537 N	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many cases the Child Support Agency recorded intercession by an hon. Member in 2009-10.
	(14913)

538	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to bring forward proposals to involve NHS healthcare professionals in place of external contractors in the benefit eligibility asessment process.
	(15099)

539	Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2010, Official Report, column 104W, on work capability assessment, if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract between his Department and Atos Healthcare which contains details of the quality targets relating to audit of work capability assessments.
	(15164)

540	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with Jobcentre Plus staff on the Future Jobs Fund.
	(14885)

541	Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former UK residents in each foreign country were in receipt of winter fuel payments in each month of the last five years.
	(15050)

542	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to reorganise the work of the Child Support Agency to transfer legacy cases to new child support systems.
	(14903)

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

543	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the (a) name, (b) address and (c) size is of each (i) used and (ii) vacant space for each entry on the e-PIMS property database in April 2010.
	[Transferred] (15055)

544	Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment officials in his Department have made of the quality of student accommodation in (a) Hertfordshire and (b) England and Wales.
	[Transferred] (15316)

545	Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings he has had with the National Union of Students to discuss the quality of student accommodation since his appointment.
	[Transferred] (15317)

546	James Wharton (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department takes to monitor the level of compliance with the provisions of the Artist Resale Rights Regulations 2006 by auction houses in respect of their liabilities to make payments as agents of the seller.
	[Transferred] (14906)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

547	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department takes when a Government department breaches competitive tendering guidelines.
	[Transferred] (14974)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

548	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many studies the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence analyses as part of the process for developing Interventional Procedures Guidance; and whether there is a limit on the number of studies which can be analysed as part of that process.
	[Transferred] (15013)

549	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanism will be used to obtain funding from the Cancer Drugs Fund in April 2011.
	[Transferred] (15197)

550	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the process of implementation of the Cancer Drugs Fund by April 2011.
	[Transferred] (15198)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

551	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in each age group who died in road traffic accident deaths where alcohol was a causal factor in each year since 1999; and if he will make a statement.
	[Transferred] (15301)


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