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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 16 September 2010

Notes:
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+ Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled.
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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Thursday 16 September 2010
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 16 September 2010

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Thursday 16 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 Thursday 16 September of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Thursday 16 September see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1
Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the cost to the public purse was of travel using private planes by UK international trade representatives in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
(15796)
2
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what consultation he has undertaken with local authorities on the bidding process for the Regional Growth Fund.
(15790)
3
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what environmental impact assessments have been undertaken for the proposed Royal Mail sorting office reorganisation, with particular reference to its likely effects on (a) vehicle mileage travelled by employees during working hours, (b) mileage travelled by employees on their journeys to and from work and (c) the outsourcing of downstream contracts.
(15791)
4
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with (a) Corus-Tata and (b) Sahaviriya Steel Industries on the future of the Corus plant on Teesside.
(15834)
5
N 		Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on the future structure, functions and role of industrial development boards in England; and if he will make a statement.
(15689)
6
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to ensure (a) Greenwich University and (b) other former polytechnics retain university status.
(15836)
7
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the level of availability of credit finance to small and medium sized enterprises.
(15750)
8
Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of mature students who did not complete a higher education course in the latest period for which figures are available.
(15823)
9
Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have obtained a degree in the last five years who are (a) unemployed and (b) employed but earning a salary below the £15,000 student loan repayment threshold.
(15824)
10
Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many international students graduated from English higher education institutions and remained in the UK for (a) employment and (b) further study in the latest period for which figures are available.
(15826)
11
N 		Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he expects the Office of Fair Trading to publish the report of its formal compliance review of debt management guidance.
(15589)
12
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(14926)
13
N 		Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff his Department employs to consider (a) departmental and (b) national strategy; what output such staff are required to produce; and if he will make a statement.
(15600)
14
Laura Sandys (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assets of regional development agencies are (a) listed buildings, (b) in conservation areas, (c) in areas of outstanding natural beauty, (d) in sites of specific scientific interest and (e) in national parks.
(15807)
15
Laura Sandys (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will review the processes of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in order to reduce the burden of administration for academics and university departments, whilst ensuring the effectiveness of those processes.
(15809)
16
Laura Sandys (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what (a) land assets and (b) buildings each regional development agency has in freehold ownership.
(15810)
17
N 		John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many personal bankruptcies there were in Carlisle constituency in (a) 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010.
(15586)
18
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses operating in Redcar constituency received funding from one or more schemes operated by his Department and its predecessors in each of the last five years.
(15837)
19
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, to which (a) organisations and (b) projects in Redcar constituency his Department has made a grant in the last five years; and how much each such grant was.
(15838)
20
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the proportion of households in (a) Redcar constituency, (b) the North East and (c) the North West which will have access to next generation broadband in each of the next five years.
(15840)
21
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses operating in Redcar constituency contacted Business Link in each of the last five years.
(15865)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
22
Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish his estimate of the cost of the National Citizenship Service pilots; and what timescale his Department has set for their delivery.
(15830)
23
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(15485)
24
N 		Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff (a) his Department and (b) the Prime Minister's Office employs to consider (i) departmental and (ii) national strategy; what output such staff are required to produce; and if he will make a statement.
(15601)
25
Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much (a) each Government department and (b) the Government as a whole spent on press cuttings services in each of the last 12 months.
(15795)
26
N 		John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average income of individuals in (a) the UK, (b) Cumbria and (c) Carlisle was on the latest date for which figures are available.
(14665)
27
N 		John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average income of households in (a) the UK, (b) Cumbria and (c) Carlisle was on the latest date for which figures are available.
(14666)
28
N 		John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in Carlisle constituency have been unemployed for (a) under 12 months, (b) between one year and five years and (c) over five years.
(15587)
29
N 		John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been unemployed for (a) under 12 months, (b) between one year and five years and (c) over five years.
(15588)
30
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants employed by (a) Government departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) other Government bodies had their primary place of employment in (i) Redcar constituency, (ii) the North East and (iii) the North West in each of the last five years.
(15839)
31
N 		Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to reduce costs and improve services by smarter procurement of IT services for Government departments; and if he will make a statement.
(15687)
32
N 		Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to bring forward legislation to enshrine a right to data, as set out in the Coalition Agreement; and if he will make a statement.
(15690)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
33
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the International Monetary Fund on (a) long-term unemployment, (b) public sector job creation and retention and (c) private sector job creation and retention.
(15789)
34
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on the provision of financial support from the public purse to community-owned and community-based credit unions.
(15842)
35
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the average lifetime tax revenue that will accrue to the Exchequer from a (a) man and (b) woman who completed tertiary education in the last 12 months and is living in (i) the UK, (ii) the North East and (iii) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency.
(15847)
36
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of levels of bank lending to small and medium-sized enterprises.
(15748)
37
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Coventry South constituency HM Revenue and Customs has asked to make additional PAYE tax payments as a result of the recent recalculation of PAYE liabilities; and what the average repayment requested is.
(15749)
38
Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there are Barnett consequentials for Wales of the Regional Growth Fund announced on 29 June 2010.
(15850)
39
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the total sum accumulated in child trust funds to date; and if he will estimate the proportion of that sum which has been contributed (a) from the public purse and (b) by individuals.
(15912)
40
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the average gross investment return on child trust funds in each year since their inception.
(15956)
41
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what severance payment was made to each (a) Minister and (b) special adviser in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(14661)
42
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Sunderland, (b) Tyne and Wear and (c) the North East Strategic Health Authority area have received the health in pregnancy grant since its introduction.
(15822)
43
N 		Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff his Department employs to consider (a) departmental and (b) national strategy; what output such staff are required to produce; and if he will make a statement.
(15599)
44
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many outstanding PAYE cases there are in respect of each tax year since 2000-01; and how much remains (a) underpaid and (b) overpaid in respect of such cases in each such year.
(15811)
45
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Revenue and Customs is (a) proceeding against and (b) intending to proceed against taxpayers for underpayments of PAYE for each tax year from 2000-01 to 2007-08.
(15812)
46
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many PAYE taxpayers owed less than £300 and had their debts written off by HM Revenue and Customs in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10; and what the total sum so owed was in each such year.
(15813)
47
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many PAYE taxpayers have (a) underpaid and (b) overpaid tax in each tax year since 2000-01.
(15814)
48
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax inspectors HM Revenue and Customs employed in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
(15916)
49
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) average annual salary of a tax inspector and (b) average annual amount of unpaid tax recovered by a tax inspector.
(15917)
50
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff HM Revenue and Customs has deployed to work on the recovery of PAYE tax underpaid between the tax years starting (a) 2000 to 2007 and (b) 2008-09.
(15918)
51
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the national insurance and PAYE system began to operate.
(15919)
52
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether deadlines will be set for HM Revenue and Customs to recover tax underpaid in previous years under PAYE.
(15920)
53
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of the suggestions submitted to the Spending Challenge website were passed on by the cross-Government team for (a) further consideration and (b) development into policy proposals.
(15925)
54
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many ideas submitted to the Spending Challenge website have been considered by Ministers.
(15926)
55
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 July 2010, Official Report, column 94W, on child benefit, what estimate he has made of the average real terms change per child in 2010 prices of uprating child benefit payments in line with the retail prices index in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14.
(15816)
56
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many children born to residents of Livingston constituency since 1 September 2002 have received a child trust fund payment since 2005.
(15931)
57
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has paid to child trust funds held in respect of children resident in Livingston constituency since January 2005.
(15932)
58
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, under what circumstances a formal funding agreement is required for the award by Departments of funds from the public purse to external organisations.
(15960)
59
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what analysis he has made of potential efficiency savings within the proposed EU budget for 2011.
(15886)
60
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the future level of the EU budget.
(15887)
61
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the level of (a) fraudulent claims and (b) other abuse of low value consignment relief in respect of imports from Crown dependencies; and what steps HM Revenue and Customs has taken to (i) detect and (ii) reduce such abuse in the last two years.
(15881)
62
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any Minister in his Department has received copies of (a) written and (b) e-mail correspondence on the matter of Sheffield Forgemasters addressed to Ministers in the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills from Andrew Cook of William Cook Holdings.
(15874)
63
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any Minister in his Department received correspondence on the matter of Sheffield Forgemasters from Andrew Cook, of William Cook Holdings, in May or June 2010.
(15875)
64
Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Warley of 6 July 2010 on Mr Lamont.
(15904)
65
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the monetary value of public sector contracts awarded in Redcar constituency was in each of the last five years.
(15841)
66
N 		Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people residing in (a) Streatham constituency, (b) the London Borough of Lambeth and (c) London have (i) overpaid and (ii) underpaid tax as a result of miscalculations of tax liabilities in the PAYE system as identified in the most recent PAYE reconciliation process.
(15685)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
67
N 		Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on council tax precepts for parish councils in 2011-12.
(15533)
68
N 		Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what contracts between his Department and Connaught plc have been cancelled since May 2010.
(15591)
69
N 		Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to provide support to tenants of housing associations affected by the entry into administration of Connaught plc.
(15592)
70
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the provision to members of the public of copies of definitive footpath maps proposed by local authorities is within the scope of the Public Sector Mapping Agreement; and if he will make a statement.
(15792)
71
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of new arrangements for access to Ordnance Survey mapping information on the number of right of way claims made by members of the public.
(15793)
72
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(15404)
73
Ian Mearns (Gateshead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost to the fire service of hoax telephone calls in (a) Gateshead, (b) the North East and (c) England in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
(15788)
74
N 		John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has for the creation of single member wards for local authorities.
(14345)
75
Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish (a) the minutes of each meeting and (b) the responses to questionnaires conducted in respect of the proposals set out in the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) No (i) 2 and (ii) 3 (England) Regulations 2010.
(15957)
76
David Wright (Telford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many notifications were made under Part P of Building Regulations in England and Wales in each year since 2005; and how many notifications there were under the scheme relating to the fitting of a new consumer unit in domestic properties in each such year, excluding those fitted in newly-built properties.
(15898)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport
77
N 		Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what discusssions his Department has had with the organisers of the bid for the Gay Games in 2018 on availability of Olympic facilities for use should London host the games.
(15669)
78
N 		Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what support his Department has offered the organisers of the bid for London to host the Gay Games in 2018; and what further support it intends to provide.
(15670)
79
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(15484)
80
Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, whether he has discussed with Ministerial colleagues on the use of Lottery funds for the payment of value added tax repairs to listed places of worship in Wales after the Listed Places of Worship grant scheme has come to an end.
(15835)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
81
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the ratio is of officers to non-officers in each of the armed forces.
(15787)
82
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(14929)
83
N 		Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff his Department employs to consider (a) departmental and (b) national strategy; what output such staff are required to produce; and if he will make a statement.
(15598)
84
N 		Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs which are sustained or created by the aircraft carrier contracts (a) on the Clyde and (b) at Rosyth; and what assessment he has made of the likely effects in each area of a decision to reduce the number of carriers to (i) one and (ii) zero.
(15671)
85
N 		Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date (a) his Department asked BAE Systems to consider reducing the number of ships in the Queen Elizabeth carrier class programme from two to one or zero and (b) he advised the Secretary of State for Scotland that his Department had done so.
(15672)
86
N 		Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Scotland on the number of jobs sustained by the aircraft carrier programmes in Scotland.
(15673)
87
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assets are deployed on anti-piracy operations; and in what international missions they are participating.
(15828)
88
Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to review (a) tendering processes for military clothing and (b) the Interim New Clothing Solution to ensure (i) appropriateness of tender specifications and fitness for purpose and (ii) value for money.
(15915)
89
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 6 of the National Audit Office report on A defence estate of the right size to meet operational needs, Session 2010-11, HC 70, what the location is of each of the 200 sites with the greatest potential for receipts identified by his Department.
(15911)
90
Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for (a) the maintenance of and (b) expenditure on (i) facilities and (ii) housing at Clarow Barracks, Ripon in each of the next three years.
(15831)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
91
N 		Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of employing (a) teachers and (b) teaching assistants in (i) England and (ii) each local authority area in 2010-11.
(15622)
92
N 		Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his most recent estimate is of the average cost to a (a) school and (b) local authority of employing a (i) teacher and (ii) classroom assistant; and what forecast he has made of the cost in each year from 2011-12 to 2014-15.
(15623)
93
N 		Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) teachers and (b) teaching assistants there were in maintained schools in (i) England and (ii) each local authority area in each year since 1997.
(15624)
94
N 		Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of schools which did not exceed the national challenge floor target of 30 per cent. of pupils gaining five GCSEs at A* to C grade including English and mathematics in 2010.
(15625)
95
N 		Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what arrangements exist for academy schools to borrow against future income for the purposes of (a) expansion, (b) investment in facilities, (c) urgent repairs and (d) any other purpose; and whether these have changed since 12 May 2010.
(15686)
96
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications to establish a free school he has received.
(15866)
97
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria were used to determine which schools rebuilding programmes in Bolton would not go ahead under the Building Schools for the Future scheme.
(15910)
98
N 		Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to allocate capital funding to sixth form colleges funded by the Young People's Learning Agency at the same level as that allocated to further education colleges through the Train to Gain programme for the purposes of renovating buildings and facilities.
(15590)
99
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress has been made in establishing a Child Poverty Commission under the provisions of the Child Poverty Act 2010.
(15848)
100
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(15403)
101
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the content of the creative curriculum in primary schools; and if he will make a statement.
(15964)
102
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to make the commencement order to implement the careers education provisions in section 250 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009; and what discussions his Department has had with Ofsted on ensuring that those provisions are taken into account during future inspections of schools in England.
(15921)
103
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the nature was of the grant awarded under the terms of the contract between his Department and (a) the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and (b) the Youth Sport Trust; and whether the letting of these contracts was subject to the provisions of the Public Procurement Regulations 2006.
(15958)
104
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which single tenders have been authorised by his Department since his appointment.
(15961)
105
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what processes his Department has established for the award of grant agreements; and whether such awards are subject to competitive tendering.
(15962)
106
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2010, Official Report, column 351W, on the New Schools Network, what consideration his Department gave to the relevant regulations and agreements when agreeing to enter into the grant agreement with the New Schools Network.
(15963)
107
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to require schools to involve parents of multiple birth children in deciding whether they should be placed in the same class or separate classes (a) when starting school and (b) in subsequent years; and if he will make a statement.
(15968)
108
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will bring forward proposals to implement the recommendations of the Chief Schools Adjudicator that (a) the schools admissions code be revised to ensure that multiple birth children are allocated places together at primary school by adding them to the list of excepted pupils in the class size regulations and (b) admission authorities are compelled to consult on and publish arrangements for the admission of multiple birth children; and if he will make a statement.
(15969)
109
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils were entered for history A-level in each local authority in the most recent year for which figures are available.
(15944)
110
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils entered for history A-level obtained a grade C or above in each local authority in the most recent year for which figures are available.
(15945)
111
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils were entered for history GCSE in (i) comprehensive schools, (ii) selective maintained schools and (iii) independent schools in each year since 1997.
(15946)
112
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils entered for history GCSE in (a) comprehensive schools, (b) selective maintained schools and (c) independent schools obtained a grade C or above in each year since 1997.
(15947)
113
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils obtained a grade C or above in history GCSE in each local authority in the most recent year for which figures are available.
(15948)
114
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils in mainstream maintained secondary schools were entered for history GCSE in each local authority in the most recent year for which figures are available.
(15949)
115
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils were entered for history A-level in (a) comprehensive schools, (b) maintained selective schools and (c) independent schools in each year since 1997.
(15950)
116
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils obtained a grade C or above in history A-level in (a) comprehensive schools, (b) maintained selective schools and (c) independent schools in each year since 1997.
(15951)
117
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to enable (a) vulnerable, (b) disabled and (c) other people to participate in local decisions on identification of (i) areas in which savings may be made and (ii) services for which funding should be maintained at current levels in respect of proposed reductions in area-based grant funding.
(15873)
118
N 		Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many individuals in (a) Streatham constituency and (b) the London Borough of Lambeth have been in receipt of education maintenance allowance in each year since its introduction.
(15626)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
119
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions his Department has had with Magnox North Ltd and Magnox South Ltd on the formation of a single site licence company; and by what date he expects legal integration of the two to have been achieved.
(15952)
120
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what consideration he has given to the merits of entitling the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to deal directly with site licence companies rather than through a parent body organisation; and if he will make a statement.
(15953)
121
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority since its formation.
(15954)
122
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the cost to the public purse was of dividing Magnox Electric into Magnox North Ltd and Magnox South Ltd.
(15955)
123
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(14927)
124
N 		Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on funding for offshore wind site development as part of the Spending Review.
(15499)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
125
N 		Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate she has made of the monetary value of the contribution to the agricultural economy of (a) the EU Single Payment scheme and (b) countryside stewardship and other environmental schemes relating to farming practices funded by her Department.
(15534)
126
Mr Steve Brine (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to protect chalk streams in (a) Winchester and (b) England.
(15784)
127
N 		Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which external organisations she consulted prior to taking the decision to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB); and what consultation she plans to undertake on the arrangements to be put in place after the abolition of the AWB.
(15745)
128
N 		Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will place in the Library a copy of the advice her Department has received from Natural England on extension of the Dungeness Special Protection Area.
(15537)
129
N 		David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the contribution of energy-efficient light bulbs to reducing climate change.
(15517)
130
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in her Department who left office after the last general election.
(15406)
131
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what work her Department is undertaking in pursuit of reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.
(15888)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
132
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, under what powers of prerogative Kim Darroch was appointed UK Permanent Representative to the EU.
(15882)
133
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will require any future UK Permanent Representative to the EU to appear before the appropriate committee of the House prior to taking up the appointment.
(15885)
134
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what severance payment was made to each (a) Minister and (b) special adviser in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(14662)
135
N 		Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff his Department employs to consider (a) departmental and (b) national strategy; what output such staff are required to produce; and if he will make a statement.
(15597)
136
Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on the surrender of Ratko Mladic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as a pre-condition for the signing of a Stabilisation and Association Agreement between Serbia and the EU.
(15914)
137
N 		Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the state of bilateral relations between the UK and India; and if he will make a statement.
(15742)
138
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the strategic partnership agreement with Vietnam; and if he will make a statement.
(15829)
139
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take into account the findings of the report by the Irish Centre for Human Rights entitled Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The situation of the Rohingyas in developing his Department's policy on Burma; and if he will make a statement.
(15966)
140
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on the (a) assisted returns of and (b) the right of permanent return by Chagos islanders to the islands of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
(15905)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
141
Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to (a) end or (b) reduce hospital car parking charges for (i) cancer patients and (ii) disabled people travelling regularly to hospital for treatment.
(15870)
142
N 		Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether funding may be provided from the interim Cancer Drugs Fund for drugs which are in the process of appraisal by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
(15743)
143
Jim Dowd (Lewisham West and Penge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps (a) his Department has taken and (b) he plans to take to implement the recommendations of the March 2010 report, Raising Our Sights: Services for adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, commissioned by his Department.
(15933)
144
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to improve survival rates of children with osteosarcoma; and if he will make a statement.
(15794)
145
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(14925)
146
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2010, Official Report, column 827W, on direct payments, what funding his Department will provide to local authorities for the provision of social care in 2010-11.
(15815)
147
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he last met clinicians to discuss the care and management of dementia.
(15817)
148
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he last met dementia carers from (a) Stevenage and (b) elsewhere; and if he will make a statement.
(15818)
149
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) financial and (b) other support his Department provides to carers and families of dementia patients (i) nationally and (ii) in East and North Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust; and if he will make a statement.
(15819)
150
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding he expects his Department to allocate for dementia services (a) nationally, (b) in Hertfordshire and (c) in East and North Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
(15820)
151
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on dementia services in (a) Hertfordshire and (b) East and North Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust in each of the last five years.
(15821)
152
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to refer asthma to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence as a topic for the development of a quality standard.
(15862)
153
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to work together with the devolved administrations on extending the forthcoming National Audit of Asthma Deaths across the UK.
(15871)
154
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the final version of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease National Strategy to be published; whether he has set a timetable for implementation of that Strategy; and whether he has made a decision on his Department's priorities in respect of recommendations on (a) asthma and (b) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
(15872)
155
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many contracts to obtain data from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency General Practice Research Database (a) his Department and (b) another agency of Government has entered into without tendering.
(15827)
156
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been made of the potential for a conflict of interest to arise between the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency function of regulating pharmaceutical products and that Agency's role as supplier of General Practice Research Database medical data to the same pharmaceutical companies.
(15909)
157
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency General Practice Research Database department repaid the initial funding loan it received from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) when the General Practice Research Database was moved from the Office for National Statistics to the MHRA.
(15922)
158
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what studies his Department has undertaken to ensure that the cost to his Department and other Government bodies of acquiring medical data from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency General Practice Research Database represents value for money in comparison with the cost of obtaining similar data from commercial organisations.
(15923)
159
Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS orthodontists there are per head of population in each primary care trust area in England.
(15924)
160
Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) dentists and (b) orthodontists on NHS contracts there were in each primary care trust area in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
(15942)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
161
N 		Mr Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the level of savings which will accrue to the UK Border Agency from the removal of funding for three port police officers at Stranraer port in 2011-12.
(15776)
162
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department considered alternative measures in advance of the Government's decision to opt into the draft European directive on the European Investigation Order.
(15883)
163
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the advice she received in advance of the Government's decision to opt into the draft European directive on the European Investigation Order; and if she will make a statement.
(15884)
164
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what severance payment was made to each (a) Minister and (b) special adviser in her Department who left office after the last general election.
(14659)
165
N 		Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces continue to use the policing pledge.
(15692)
166
N 		Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the evidential basis is for the Government's decision not to opt-in to the provisions of the European Directive on trafficking in human beings.
(15693)
167
N 		Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's consultation on policing in the 21st century, what assessment she has made of other models of strengthening accountability in police authorities.
(15694)
168
N 		Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) chief constables, (b) police authority chairs and (c) local authority leaders have indicated support for her proposals to cease the use of anti-social behaviour orders.
(15695)
169
N 		Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she plans to provide funding for additional police officers through savings achieved by abolishing identity cards; and if she will make a statement.
(15696)
170
Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her contribution of 7 June 2010, Official Report, column 179, on constitution and home affairs, what the evidential basis was for her statement that the incidence of violent crime had increased.
(15786)
171
Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her speech at the Coin Street Community Centre in London on 28 July 2010, what representations her Department has received from hon. and right hon. Members in favour of the use of anti-social behaviour orders since 1997.
(15833)
172
Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Ministerial colleagues on the implications of competition law for a policy to set a minimum price for a unit of alcohol.
(15849)
173
N 		Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal immigrants to the UK who have been convicted of offences related to unlawful entry to the UK in the last three years have not been deported from the UK; and if she will make a statement.
(15741)
174
N 		Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost to the public purse was of one day's detention of an illegal immigrant in the latest period for which figures are available; how many such immigrants had been detained for (a) up to three months, (b) up to six months, (c) up to 12 months and (d) 12 months and over on the latest date for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.
(15778)
175
N 		Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal immigrants from each country of origin have been served with deportation orders in each year since 1997; how many have appealed (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully against an order in each such year; and how many unsuccessful appellants (i) succeeded and (ii) did not succeed at tribunal hearings in each such year.
(15779)
176
N 		Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from each country overstayed a visitor visa in each year since 1997; how many people on each other type of visa overstayed that visa in each such year; what proportion of each was deported in each such year; how many in each category are awaiting deportation; and if she will make a statement.
(15780)
177
N 		Mark Reckless (Rochester and Strood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many DNA profiles of individuals not convicted of any crime have been added to the national DNA database since 6 May 2010.
(15536)
178
N 		Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the average time taken for an organisation to obtain the results of Criminal Record Bureau checks; what steps she plans to take to reduce the time taken to undertake such checks; and if she will make a statement.
(15621)
Questions to the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the House of Commons Commission
179
Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the difference is between the wholesale and retail price of a pint of Guinness sold in each House of Commons catering outlet.
(15900)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
180
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(15407)
181
Richard Ottaway (Croydon South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that the composition of the advisory committee for Millennium Development Goal 5 on maternal health at the MDG+10 Summit is balanced in respect of (a) gender and (b) geographical representation.
(15877)
182
Richard Ottaway (Croydon South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the MDG+10 Summit outcome document upholds internationally-accepted human rights standards.
(15878)
183
Richard Ottaway (Croydon South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the MDG+10 Summit outcome document calls for reproductive health services to be made publicly available and affordable to all non-discriminatory, non-coercive, sensitive to age and lifestyle and adequately funded.
(15879)
184
Richard Ottaway (Croydon South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the UK delegation to the MDG+10 Summit includes (a) members of civil society groups and (b) hon. Members with expertise in sexual and reproductive health and rights.
(15880)
185
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid the UK has given to Burma in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
(15965)
186
Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding his Department has provided to (a) the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and (b) the government of Bangladesh in respect of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in each of the last five years.
(15967)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
187
Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) internal, (b) external and (c) police investigations into the conduct of staff were conducted at Medway secure training centre in each year since 1998; and what the outcome was of each investigation in respect of which any legal proceedings have been completed.
(15867)
188
Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how occasions restraint techniques have been used on (a) boys and (b) girls for the purposes of maintaining good order and discipline in secure training centres in each month since April 1998.
(15868)
189
Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any injuries were sustained as a result of the use of restraint techniques on boys held in Medway secure training centre since 1998.
(15869)
190
N 		Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the outcome was of each referral to a local authority under section 47 of the Children Act 1989 following a restraint incident in each of the last five years.
(15744)
191
N 		Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on his plans to review libel law; and if he will make a statement.
(15701)
192
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions (a) magistrates' courts and (b) the Crown Court refused applications by the Crown Prosecution Service to remand defendants in custody in each of the last three years.
(15863)
193
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what severance payment was made to each (a) Minister and (b) special adviser in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(14660)
194
Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders serving a custodial sentence for a violent crime were (a) released on licence and (b) re-arrested for a further violent offence while under licence in each of the last five years.
(15940)
195
Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of a custodial sentence imposed in respect of grievous bodily harm was in each of the last five years.
(15941)
196
N 		Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had regarding a public inquiry into the trials of the Shrewsbury pickets in the 1970s; and what representations he has received on the publication of all documents relating to those trials.
(15679)
197
Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to announce the outcome of his consultation on the future of court services in North and West Yorkshire, with particular reference to Skipton Magistrates' Court and Skipton County Court.
(15832)
198
N 		John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the number of foreign nationals in UK prisons; and what changes there have been in the number of such prisoners in the last two years.
(14344)
199
N 		John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to build a prison in (a) Carlisle constituency and (b) neighbouring constituencies.
(14346)
200
N 		John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken by the Office of Public Guardianship is to register each Lasting Power of Attorney it receives.
(14347)
201
N 		John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Lasting Powers of Attorney have been registered since their inception.
(14348)
202
N 		John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of lasting powers of attorney were rejected on grounds of error in the latest period for which figures are available.
(14664)
Questions to the Leader of the House
203
Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Leader of the House, what recent representations he has received on policy on hon. Members' pensions; and if he will make a statement.
(15901)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
204
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(15488)
Questions to the Prime Minister
205
N 		Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Prime Minister, how public appointments will be made following the decision to close the Appointments Commission.
(15688)
206
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Prime Minister, what severance payment was made to (a) the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and (b) each of his special advisers on leaving office after the last general election.
(14663)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland
207
N 		Mr Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2010, Official Report, column 618W, on ports: police, whether he has discussed the removal of UK Border Agency funding for three police posts at Stranraer port of arrival in his regular meetings with Ministerial colleagues; how many such meetings have taken place since his appointment; on what dates the meetings took place; and which Ministerial colleagues were present.
(15777)
208
N 		Mr Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2010, Official Report, column 618W, on ports: police, how many (a) oral and (b) written representations (i) he and (ii) the Under Secretary of State for Scotland has made to the Home Office on the withdrawal of funding for three police posts at Stranraer port.
(15781)
209
N 		Mr Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2010, Official Report, column 618W, on ports: police, whether (a) he and (b) the Under Secretary of State for Scotland plans to visit Stranraer port in the next three months.
(15782)
210
N 		Mr Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2010, Official Report, column 618W, on ports: police, how many meetings he has had on the decision to withdraw UK Border Agency funding for police posts at Stranraer with (a) the Under Secretary of State for Scotland, (b) the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (c) other Home Office ministers, (d) the UK Border Agency, (e) Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and (f) ministers in the Scottish Executive.
(15783)
211
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(15486)
212
N 		Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2010, Official Report, column 618W, on official visits, which local authority areas (a) he and (b) the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland visited during August 2010.
(15682)
213
N 		Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2010, Official Report, columns 617-8W, on housing benefit, which (a) housing association, (b) local authorities and (c) non-governmental organisations he met during July and August 2010 to discuss the effects of the proposed changes in housing benefit; and on what date each meeting was held.
(15684)
214
N 		Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, on what date he was informed that the Ministry of Defence had asked BAE Systems to consider the implications of reducing the number of aircraft carriers from two to one or zero.
(15674)
215
N 		Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, on what date he met the Secretary of State for Defence to discuss the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers following the confirmation by BAE that it had been asked by the Ministry of Defence to consider the possibility of cancelling one or both ships.
(15675)
Questions to the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
216
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how many people at each pay band there are in the policy unit of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.
(15943)
217
Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, on average how many employees staff the hon. Members' enquiry line each day; and how many such employees staffed that enquiry line on 10 September 2010.
(15903)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
218
N 		Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many applications his Department had received for payments under the HS2 Exceptional Hardship scheme on the latest date for which figures are available.
(15532)
219
N 		Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of whether the use of body scanners at London Heathrow, London Gatwick and Manchester airports is in compliance with Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998; and if he will make a statement.
(15697)
220
N 		Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent representations he has received from religious groups on the use of body scanners at UK airports.
(15698)
221
N 		Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what penalty will be imposed on airport operators that breach the Interim Code of Practice for the Acceptable Use of Advanced Imaging Technology in an Aviation Security Environment.
(15699)
222
N 		Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of alternative methods of security screening available for airport passengers who do not wish to be scanned by a body scanner on religious or medical grounds.
(15700)
223
N 		Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on (a) the proposed sale of Dover Harbour Board and (b) the sale of other Trust Ports.
(15535)
224
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to improve the provision of public transport travel advice and information for disabled individuals.
(15797)
225
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to improve access for disabled individuals to train services serving (a) Coventry and (b) other cities in England.
(15798)
226
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to improve access for disabled individuals to bus services serving (a) Coventry and (b) other cities.
(15799)
227
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on the provision of travel information in multiple formats; and what steps he plans to take to implement this policy in the next 12 months.
(15800)
228
Jackie Doyle-Price (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to reduce congestion at junction 30 of the M25; and if he will make a statement.
(15864)
229
George Eustice (Camborne and Redruth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Highways Agency spent on maintaining the sections of the A30 and A38 trunk roads in Cornwall in 2009.
(15876)
230
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(15405)
231
N 		Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date the Dee Harbour Revision Order was first submitted to his Department for approval.
(15691)
232
Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to prevent abuses by private companies and individuals of the system for issuing parking tickets.
(15902)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales
233
Mr Wayne David (Caerphilly): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if she will discuss with the Chancellor of the Exchequer the continuation in Wales of the Listed Places of Worship Grant scheme.
(15906)
234
Mr Wayne David (Caerphilly): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions she has had with Ministerial colleagues on the operation of the Future Jobs Fund in Wales.
(15907)
235
Mr Wayne David (Caerphilly): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether officials of her Department plan to attend the 2010 Ryder Cup.
(15908)
236
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in her Department who left office after the last general election.
(15487)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
237
N 		Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what security information is required of hon. and right hon. Members and their caseworkers when making telephone inquiries to his Department and its agencies on behalf of their constituents.
(15680)
238
N 		Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what severance payments have been paid to (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department who left office after the last general election.
(14928)
239
N 		Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether, under his proposals for medical examinations for claimants of disability benefits, where claimants are unable to communicate their answers to questions, their carer or guardian will be allowed to do so on their behalf.
(15676)
240
N 		Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what provisions will be in place under his proposals for medical examinations for claimants of disability benefits for exemptions relating to claimants who have been profoundly disabled from birth and who have no expectation of improvement in their condition.
(15677)
241
N 		Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether, under his proposals for medical examinations for claimants of disability benefits, claimants will be allowed to be accompanied by their carers, doctors or another care professional familiar to them at the examination.
(15678)
242
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women and (b) men are in receipt of the (i) middle and (ii) higher rate care component of disability living allowance.
(15843)
243
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children are in receipt of each component of disability living allowance at each rate.
(15844)
244
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women and (b) men in each age group not in receipt of carer's allowance have an underlying entitlement to the allowance.
(15845)
245
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women and (b) men from each age group are in receipt of carer's allowance.
(15846)
246
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of carers in receipt of carer's allowance who are caring for someone who is receiving the middle rate care component of disability living allowance.
(15913)
247
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many residents of the West Lothian Council area aged (a) 18 to 24 years and (b) over 24 years who had been out of work and claiming jobseeker's allowance for more than six months have found employment through the Future Jobs Fund since the Fund was established.
(15927)
248
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations with registered business premises in the West Lothian Council area have been approved to provide employment under the Future Jobs Fund.
(15928)
249
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of residents in Livingston constituency in receipt of local housing allowance in 2010-11 whose entitlement will be reduced from April 2011.
(15929)
250
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the change in monetary value of entitlement of local housing allowance among residents of the Livingston constituency in receipt of local housing allowance in 2010-11 and 2011-12.
(15930)
251
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2010, Official Report, columns 84-5W, on the Independent Living Fund, whether he plans to re-open the Independent Living Fund to new applicants.
(15785)
252
N 		John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what contracts his Department has signed with ATOS to carry out the retesting and transition of incapacity benefit claimants to employment and support allowance; what the monetary value of each contract is; and what changes have been made to such arrangements since the present administration took office.
(15746)
253
N 		John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what resources his Department has allocated to support the retesting and transition of incapacity benefit claimants to employment and support allowance over the next three years.
(15747)
254
N 		Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he intends to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Hartlepool of 26 July 2010 on the case of Ms Vivienne Gilman.
(15681)
Questions to the Attorney General
255
Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Attorney General, how many representations his Department has received requesting that a sentence given in a Crown Court be considered for referral to the Court of Appeal for review because it may be unduly lenient in each of the last 12 months; and on how many occasions his Department has referred a sentence to the Court of Appeal for such a review.
[Transferred] (15899)
256
Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions the Court of Appeal has increased on review the length of a sentence passed down by the Crown Court on grounds of undue leniency in each of the last five years.
[Transferred] (15939)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
257
Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students resident in the London Borough of Bexley are registered as international students for tuition fee purposes due to their immigration status.
[Transferred] (15825)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
258
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what exemptions from single tendering processes are allowed to Departments awarding contracts to external organisations.
[Transferred] (15959)
259
N 		Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will rank by proportion and number public sector workers in each constituency in North Wales in descending order of magnitude.
[Transferred] (15683)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
260
N 		Nick de Bois (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of local authorities on their role in achieving the carbon reduction targets set out in the Climate Change Act 2008.
[Question Unstarred] (15512)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
261
Laura Sandys (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the outcome was of her meeting with HM Inspectorate of Constabulary on 6 September 2010.
[Transferred] (15808)
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