Session 2010-11
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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 28 October 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 Thursday 28 October 2010
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 28 October 2010

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Thursday 28 October 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 28 October of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Thursday 28 October see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to the Attorney General

1 N	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2010, Official Report, column 643W, on disclosure of information: homicide, for what reason the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has not disclosed to the family of David Gray its contacts with the German authorities in the case of Daniel Ubani; and if he will direct the CPS to do so.
	(20143)

2	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Attorney General, what reports he has received on the number of UK residents who have been assisted to die in Switzerland since the publication of the Director of Public Prosecutions' interim policy on the prosecution of offences assisted suicide; and how many of such cases have been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for investigation.
	(20861)

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

3	Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people have received training from the Train to Gain programme in (a) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, (b) Tower Hamlets and (c) London in each year since the inception of that programme.
	(20880)

4	Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses have received assistance from the Train to Gain programme in (a) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, (b) Tower Hamlets and (c) London in each year since the inception of that programme.
	(20884)

5	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding his Department (a) allocated to the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme for 2010-11 and (b) plans to allocate to that scheme in 2011-12.
	(20866)

6	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses he expects to receive assistance from the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme as a result of its recent extension.
	(20867)

7	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to bring forward proposals to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses in the housebuilding sector.
	(20868)

8	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding he plans to allocate to each research council in each year of the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(20870)

9	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what mechanisms are in place to attract private investment in the proposed technology and innovation centres.
	(20871)

10	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, from what sources funding for the proposed technology and innovation centres will be drawn.
	(20872)

11	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding he plans to allocate to the proposed technology and innovation centres in each year of the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(20873)

12	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much of its budget for 2008 to 2011 the Technology Strategy Board allocated to (a) new and (b) ongoing long-term projects.
	(20874)

13	Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will discuss with Royal Mail the continued provision of services (a) in Edgworth, Rossendale and (b) other small rural villages.
	(20652)

14	Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the monetary value of imports of food supplements and other natural health products from the Channel Islands in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	(20831)

15	Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people resident in (a) North West Durham constituency, (b) the North East and (c) England entered (i) higher education and (ii) university in each of the last 13 years.
	(20859)

16	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on services provided by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in the last 24 months.
	(20475)

17 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has undertaken of effects of levels of student debt on students' ability to obtain (a) mortgages, (b) small business loans and (c) other loans.
	(20266)

18	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy to extend to all employees the right to request flexible working.
	(20538)

19	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of (a) the average annual number of working days lost each year because of depression and (b) consequent cost to the economy.
	(20539)

20	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the age at which student loans of (a) £7,000, (b) £10,000 and (c) £12,000 will be paid off by graduates in each income decile following implementation of the proposals in the Browne Review of higher education funding.
	(20746)

21	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of university departments teaching (a) science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects and (b) other subjects which are at risk of closure as a result of proposed reductions in funding to university teaching.
	(20747)

22	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he plans to carry out an equality impact assessment of the effects on women of the implementation of the recommendations of the Browne Review of higher education funding.
	(20748)

23	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that his Department's decisions on regional funding allocations are based on the most recent available population data.
	(20689)

24	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of the savings estimated to be made from the closure of regional development agencies by 2014-15 will be reallocated to his Department's programmes.
	(20552)

25	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, from what budgets the £200 million a year to be allocated to manufacturing and business development as referred to in paragraph 2.51 of the Spending Review 2010, will be drawn.
	(20553)

26	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the difference in cash terms between maintaining the science budget in real terms and in cash terms in the period of the Spending Review 2010.
	(20554)

27	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what date his Department consulted (a) organisations representing the financial sector and (b) the Financial Reporting Council on the Government's proposal to transfer the UK Listing Authority away from the Financial Services Authority.
	(20893)

28	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on proposals to transfer the UK Listing Authority away from the Financial Services Authority; and on what dates those discussions took place.
	(20894)

29	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what date his Department received representations from the Financial Reporting Council on the Government's proposals to transfer the UK Listing Authority away from the Financial Services Authority.
	(20895)

30	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he received from organisations representing the financial sector on the Government's proposals to transfer the UK Listing Authority away from the Financial Services Authority; and when those representations were received.
	(20896)

31 N	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much and what proportion of the latest round of the European Regional Development Fund allocations to the UK for the period from 2007 to 2013 remains unspent.
	(20163)

32	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the future management of funds allocated from the European Regional Development Fund following the ending of regional development agencies.
	(20413)

33	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the costs to his Department arising from liabilities of regional development agencies following their closure.
	(20420)

34	Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he Department has taken to introduce a body to monitor and enforce the Groceries Supply Code of Practice.
	(20412)

Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that vocational training courses are delivered with the required expertise and experience; and whether he has considered the merits of implementing minimum teaching standards for vocational qualifications to include relevant expertise and experience within the vocational area being taught.

(20495)

36	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding the Higher Education Funding Council plans to allocate from its quality-related grant to the Quality Research Support Fund in 2011-12.
	(20701)

37	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding he plans to allocate to each research council in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14 in real terms based on 2010-11 prices.
	(20703)

38	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department has identified the 500MHz of public sector spectrum below 5GHz which is to be released over the next 10 years as indicated in the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(20704)

39	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the Government has set a target for the proportion of gross domestic product to be spent on research and development.
	(20705)

40	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effects in cash terms of the freezing of the science budget on the number of scientists working in the UK.
	(20706)

41	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding his Department channelled through regional development agencies for projects which the Technology Strategy Board was also funding in 2007-10.
	(20707)

42	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what criteria his Department plans to use in allocating the science research budget between the research councils in 2011-12.
	(20708)

43	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations his Department has received from private sector companies on funding for the research councils.
	(20709)

44	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what forecast he has made of the rate of inflation affecting his Department's expenditure on science research in the period to 2014.
	(20712)

Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effects on independent retailers of the implementation of provisions of the Health Act 2009 in respect of the prohibition of tobacco displays since his Department's initial consultation and impact assessment; and if he will make a statement.

(20617)

46	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure the availability of high-speed broadband to people living in rural areas; and if he will make a statement.
	(20825)

47	Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what (a) grants and (b) other forms of assistance his Department provides to manufacturing firms wishing to improve their environmental performance (i) nationally and (ii) in Lancashire.
	(20855)

48 N	John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent steps his Department has taken to support manufacturing industry in the (a) short term and (b) long term.
	(18291)

49	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people have been assisted by teams established to tackle illegal money lending funded by his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	(20630)

50	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many convictions he estimates to have resulted from prosecutions for offences related to money lending initiated by teams established to tackle illegal money lending and funded by his Department in the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
	(20631)

51	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on teams established to tackle illegal money lending in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	(20632)

52	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has for future funding from his Department of (a) teams established to tackle illegal money lending, (b) debt advice organisations and (c) credit unions; and if he will make a statement.
	(20633)

53	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent evaluation of the Aimhigher scheme his Department has undertaken; and if he will make a statement.
	(20634)

54	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what change there has been in the rate of participation in higher education by those living in disadvantaged areas since 2004; and if he will make a statement.
	(20635)

55	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has for the future funding of the Aimhigher scheme; and if he will make a statement.
	(20636)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

56 N	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many apprentices were in post at the Charities Commission on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many such apprentices recruited in the last 12 months (a) were previously apprentices, (b) had been long-term unemployed and (c) are graduates.
	(20271)

57 N	Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review on the Charity Commission's ability to discharge its statutory duties to (a) regulate and (b) support the charitable sector.
	(19691)

58
N

Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to ensure proposed reductions in his Department's budget do not adversely affect the Charity Commission's ability to (a) regulate, (b) investigate allegations of fraud, (c) investigate allegations of diverting funds to international terrorist organisations and (d) enforce exsting law in the charitable sector.

(19692)

59	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on services provided by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in the last 24 months.
	(20474)

60	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of expenditure by Government departments on questionnaires which include requests for personal information.
	(20677)

61	Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many applications the Central Office of Information received for voluntary redundancy in the last two months.
	(20602)

62	Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what consultation he has undertaken with trade unions on procedures for making compulsory redundancies in the Central Office of Information.
	(20603)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

63	Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of people moving from out of work benefits into employment he expects to become recipients of the (a) basic, (b) 30 hour, (c) childcare and (d) 50 plus element of working tax credit.
	(20529)

Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Government plans to implement his proposals to (a) reduce the number of Criminal Records Bureau checks for junior doctors, (b) distribute National Insurance numbers to people with a letter instead of a plastic card and (c) increase the selling of surplus and second-hand Government equipment by expanding the use of Ministry of Defence's e-Disposals service for use across all Government departments.

(20817)

Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the implementation costs of (a) reducing the number of Criminal Records Bureau checks for junior doctors, (b) distributing national insurance numbers to people with a letter instead of a plastic card and (c) increasing the selling of surplus and second-hand government equipment by expanding the use of the Ministry of Defence's eDisposals service for use across all Government departments.

(20818)

66 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department plans to respond to the letters of 9 August and 29 September 2010 from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay on his constituent Mr J. Lowe.
	(20001)

67 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department plans to respond to the letters of 13 August and 29 September 2010 from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay on his constituent Mrs A. Black.
	(20002)

68 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department plans to respond to the letters of 17 August and 29 September 2010 from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay on his constituent Ms L. Keeble.
	(20005)

69	Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many women who are (a) basic rate taxpayers and (b) non-earners will no longer receive child benefit as a result of proposed changes to the eligibility criteria.
	(20857)

70	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much he estimates the Government will save as a result of (a) non-indexation of and (b) changes to entitlement to child benefit in each year of the 2010 Spending Review period.
	(20809)

71	Dr Thérèse Coffey (Suffolk Coastal): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will commission a fresh impact assessment of the operation of small breweries' relief.
	(20517)

72	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent reports he has received of compliance by Barclays Bank with the provisions of EU financial sanctions on Burma; and if he will make a statement.
	(20837)

73	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proposals he plans to introduce to address tax avoidance.
	(20726)

74	Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of households in (a) the North East and (b) the UK which will be affected by the withdrawal of child benefit from families with a higher rate tax payer.
	(20842)

75	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects to publish his response to the Office for Budget Responsibility's report on the effect of oil price fluctuations on the public finances.
	(20563)

76	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on a fair fuel stabiliser.
	(20564)

77	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect on the number of public sector jobs in Richmond Park constituency of the reductions in departmental spending announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(20565)

78	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the outcomes were of his discussions with his G20 counterparts at the recent meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Gyeongju on energy subsidy reform.
	(20724)

79	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2010, Official Report, column 896W, on the EC budget, whether he plans to discuss at EU level the re-orientation of the EU budget towards addressing issues of climate change and energy security.
	(20725)

80	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on services provided by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in the last 24 months.
	(20472)

81	Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many inspections HM Revenue and Customs and its predecessors have carried out in respect of small and medium-sized enterprises in each year since 2000.
	(20519)

82	Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue accrued to the Exchequer as a result of inspections of the tax affairs of small and medium-sized enterprises in each year since 2000.
	(20520)

83	Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to HM Revenue and Customs and its predecessor of inspections of small and medium-sized enterprises in each year since 2000.
	(20521)

84	Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria HM Revenue and Customs takes into account when determining whether to investigate the tax affairs of a small or medium-sized enterprise.
	(20851)

Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects the pilot scheme of fuel duty discount for rural areas to begin; what criteria his Department used to decide which communities would be involved in the pilot; for how long the pilot will run before consideration of extension of the scheme is extended to other areas; and which islands in Scotland he expects to qualify for the scheme when it is fully rolled out.

(20750)

86	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with UK banks on the size of their bonus pools for 2010-11.
	(20512)

87	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the annual change in revenue to the Exchequer from UK banks as a result of recent reductions in the rate of corporation tax.
	(20513)

88	Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much he expects to accrue to the Exchequer from corporation tax paid by (a) social enterprises and (b) community interest companies in 2010-11.
	(20458)

89	Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue was collected in corporation tax from (a) social enterprises and (b) community interest companies in 2009-10.
	(20459)

90	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to reduce the level of tax avoidance in respect of (a) inheritance tax, (b) capital gains tax, (c) income tax, (d) stamp duty and (e) value added tax; and if he will make a statement.
	(20889)

91	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what funding his Department has allocated to reducing the level of tax avoidance by higher rate taxpayers in each financial year since 1997.
	(20890)

92	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the likely effects on HM Revenue and Customs of the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(20891)

93	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit recipients (a) had their payments revised between July 2009 and June 2010 owing to a change of circumstance, (b) were consequently awarded a backdated payment for a period previously paid for and (c) were subsequently required to repay the duplicated payment.
	(20497)

94	Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households with two working individuals in (a) the South East and (b) Hastings and Rye constituency have a combined income of over (i) £50,000, (ii) £60,000 and (iii) £70,000.
	(20735)

95 N	John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many higher rate tax payers there are in Carlisle constituency.
	(18095)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

96	Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what capital funding his Department has allocated to constructing social housing in Tower Hamlets for (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
	(20885)

97 N	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the proposed social rent level based on 80 per cent. of the market level will be applied in circumstances in which a social housing tenancy is created by assignment.
	(19804)

98
N

Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of payments in respect of which tenants will pay the new 80 per cent. of market level rents; how much rent income will be raised (a) gross and (b) net of housing benefit; and how much more rent income he expects to be raised than that raised from existing social housing rents net of housing benefit.

(19806)

99 N	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) estimated percentage and (b) absolute difference between average social housing rents and the proposed rents of 80 per cent. of market level for each (i) year of the spending review period and (ii) local authority with housing responsibilities.
	(19807)

100 N	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether social housing tenants who move to a new property will pay rent at 80 per cent. of market level.
	(19808)

101 N	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of social tenants who will pay 80 per cent. of market rate rent and (b) the revenue raised through such rents (i) gross and (ii) net of housing benefit; and how these figures differ from current equivalents.
	(19814)

102	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties there are in each council tax band in the Medway Council area; and how many in each band are long-term empty dwellings.
	(20544)

103	Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the regional fire and emergency response programme.
	(20423)

104	Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of (a) the likely date of commissioning of the new regional fire and emergency response centres and (b) the cost to the public purse of the construction programme for these centres.
	(20424)

105	Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the additional (a) costs of and (b) savings from an immediate termination of the regional fire and emergency response centre programme.
	(20425)

106	Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will include in his draft national planning framework the subject of controls on outdoor advertising.
	(20610)

107	Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward proposals to increase the powers of local authorities to determine the controls to be imposed on outdoor advertising in their areas.
	(20611)

108	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether members of the public will be able to (a) inspect and (b) copy definitive footpath maps held by local authorities under the terms of the new public sector mapping agreement.
	(20510)

109 N	Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has for the future of his Department's housing regeneration schemes at Orchard Park and Bransholme North in Hull North constituency; and if he will make a statement.
	(19509)

110	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that his Department's decisions on regional funding allocations are based on the most recent available population data.
	(20690)

111	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance his Department issues to local authorities on tendering for contracts with small and medium-sized enterprises; and if he will make a statement.
	(20744)

112	Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to give local authorities the power to determine minimum distances between wind turbines and dwellings.
	(20732)

113	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) full-time and (b) retained firefighters there are in each fire station in (i) Bassetlaw and (ii) Nottinghamshire.
	(20892)

114	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of geographical variations in market rents in formulating the proposal to raise the rents of new council tenants to 80 per cent. of market rent; and if he will make a statement.
	(20808)

115	Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what programmes or projects undertaken by the Audit Commission strategic consultancy was provided by (a) Deloitte, (b) GFK NOP Limited, (c) Jodi Berg, (d) Lawson Wright Ltd, (e) OPM - London, (f) PA Consulting Services and (g) Ville and Company in 2009-10.
	(20421)

116	Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what marketing projects were undertaken for the Audit Commission by (a) Grant Riches, (b) HSAG Design and (c) Ocean Media Group in 2009-10.
	(20422)

117	Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the purpose was of the Audit Commission's payment of £1,434 to SPA Landscaping in 2009-10; and what works were undertaken.
	(20427)

118	Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) purpose, (b) date and (c) occasion was in respect of which the Audit Commission paid £1,897 to St Martin-in-the-Fields in 2009-10.
	(20428)

119	Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) purpose, (b) date and (c) occasion was in respect of which the Audit Commission paid £3,650 to the Science Museum in 2009-10.
	(20429)

120	Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) purpose, (b) date and (c) occasion was in respect of which the Audit Commission paid £1,545 to Digby Trout Restaurants Ltd in the category of learning and development services in 2009-10.
	(20430)

121	Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) purpose, (b) date and (c) occasion was in respect of which the Audit Commission paid £15,025 to Steps Drama Learning Development in 2009-10.
	(20431)

122	Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the likely effects on incentives to gain employment of reviewing social tenancies when tenants' circumstances change.
	(20465)

123	Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department allocated to Wolverhampton City Council under the Supporting People per capita grant allocation in 2009-10.
	(20522)

124	Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) highest and (b) lowest per capita Supporting People grant allocations were in England in 2009-10.
	(20523)

125	Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reason the Supporting People redistribution formula has not been implemented.
	(20583)

126	Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what Supporting People grant allocations he proposes in the period of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(20841)

127	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to increase the extent to which the provisions of Part M of the building regulations are complied with by those extending existing properties; and if he will make a statement.
	(20823)

128 N	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effects on the number of people declared homeless of the proposed changes to housing benefit entitlement in each of the next four years; and if he will make a statement.
	(20175)

129 N	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the effect on local authority costs of fulfilling their statutory obligation to provide accommodation for families who have been made homeless of a reduction in housing benefit entitlements.
	(20176)

130	Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) affordable and (b) social homes likely to be built in Hull in the next four years.
	(20673)

131 N	Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications Natural England has recommended for call-in since its establishment as a statutory consultee; and how many such applications have subsequently been called-in.
	(20141)

132	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to discharge his obligations under section 3 (4) of the Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Act 2009 on permitted development for microgeneration.
	(20435)

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

133
N

Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many apprentices were in post at (a) Arts Council England and (b) Sport England on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many such apprentices recruited in the last 12 months (i) were previously apprentices, (ii) had been long-term unemployed and (iii) are graduates.

(20272)

134 N	Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the BBC Trust on the effect on the BBC of the proposed change to its funding under the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(20142)

135	Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will consider the merits of allowing these museums and galleries which have a free entry policy to charge non-UK visitors an entry charge.
	(20651)

136	Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, for what sessions at the London 2012 Olympics the pay your age ticketing scheme will be available; and in respect of how many such sessions that scheme will be available.
	(20593)

137	Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent representations he has received on the maximum stake for a category B2 fixed odds betting terminal; and whether he plans to review that maximum level.
	(20597)

138	Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of category B2 fixed odds betting terminals were located in (a) bookmakers and (b) casinos on the latest date for which figures are available.
	(20598)

139

Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 14 October 2010, Official Report, column 27WS, on public bodies reform, how many staff or full-time equivalents will monitor the licensing of betting shops in the proposed body to be created by merging the National Lottery Commission and the Gambling Commission.

(20886)

140	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that his Department's decisions on regional funding allocations are based on the most recent available population data.
	(20691)

141 N	Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what criteria are applied to determine the level and nature of payments made by the Secretary of State under Section 31 of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993.
	(20165)

142 N	Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much funding has been made available to the National Lottery Distribution Fund in each year since 2005-06.
	(20166)

143 N	Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of arts organisations and projects likely to close as a result of reductions to the Arts Council budget announced as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(20168)

144	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the operation of the M4 bus lane during the London 2012 Olympics.
	(20819)

145	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to contribute to the Big Society initiative.
	(20820)

146	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many libraries he has visited on official business since his appointment.
	(20821)

147 N	Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will revise television licensing guidelines to allow women's refuges and shelters to hold one television licence per establishment.
	(20276)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

148 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to use manning control points to terminate the contracts of service personnel.
	(20258)

149 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) he expects to order in the Spending Review period; and by what date he expects such vehicles to be in service.
	(20259)

150 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the costs of reinstatement of facilities in Germany when UK armed forces personnel stationed there have left.
	(20260)

151 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what will be the cost of modification of the two new aircraft carriers to allow the use of the carrier-variant of the Joint Strike Fighter.
	(20261)

152 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what capabilities will fulfil the role that would otherwise have been undertaken by Nimrod MRA4 aircraft.
	(20262)

153	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which regional brigade headquarters he plans to close following the recommendations of the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
	(20414)

154	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which Bay-class amphibious support ship his Department plans to decommission.
	(20415)

155	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Joint Strike Fighter F-35 fighters he plans to order; and what timescale he has set for their entry into service.
	(20416)

156	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which contracts his Department has renegotiated since May 2010; and which contracts it plans to renegotiate following the outcome of the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
	(20417)

157	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many new unmanned aerial vehicles he expects to order; and what timescale he has set for their entry into service.
	(20418)

158	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) surplus land and buildings and (b) telecommunications spectrum and corporate assets his Department plans to sell following the recommendations of the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
	(20419)

159	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future of the RAF bases at (a) Kinloss and (b) Lossiemouth; when he plans to make a decision on their future; and if he will make a statement.
	(20661)

160	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has for the facilities already established for service training at MOD St Athan.
	(20662)

161	Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made a recent estimate of the number of serving members of the armed forces who (a) are normally resident in and (b) were born in Bethnal Green and Bow constituency.
	(20881)

162 N	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many apprentices were in post at the Met Office on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many such apprentices recruited in the last 12 months (a) were previously apprentices, (b) had been long-term unemployed and (c) are graduates.
	(20268)

163	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2010, Official Report, column 881W, on Afghanistan: security forces, if he will discuss with his Afghan counterpart the recruitment and desertion statistics for the Afghan police and army referred to in his Answer.
	(20589)

164	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent estimate is of the number of civilian deaths in Afghanistan consequent on actions by (a) Coalition forces and (b) insurgents since October 2001.
	(20591)

165	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent estimate is of the number of civilian deaths in Iraq consequent on actions by (a) Coalition forces and (b) insurgents since March 2003.
	(20592)

166	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, at what location on his Department's website the text of its value-for-money review of the nuclear weapons systems can be accessed; which (a) Ministers, (b) officials and (c) external experts participated in the review; how much it cost to conduct; and if he will publish each submission made to it.
	(20727)

167	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 3.1 of the Strategic Defence and Security Review, Cm 7948, what the most extreme threats are against which British nuclear weapons are deployed for deterrence purposes.
	(20730)

168

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into allegations relating to the conduct of Coldstream Guards in Afghanistan in October and November 2007; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted this investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20787)

169

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into an incident on 6 November 2007 in Kabul in which a son of an Afghan general was reportedly killed by a warning shot from an unidentified UK company; when this investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20788)

170

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 25 October 2007 in Kabul, in which a vehicle reportedly failed to stop for an unidentified patrol and a warning shot was reportedly fired by a British soldier; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20789)

171

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 21 October 2007 in Kabul, in which an unidentified British vehicle with a gunner on top reportedly wounded three civilian interpreters; when this investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20790)

172

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 4 October 2007 in Kabul, in which British soldiers reportedly wounded a non-combatant with a warning shot; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20791)

173

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 10 November 2009 in Helmand province in which a patrol of 1 Company Coldstream Guards reportedly killed a driver who failed to stop; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20792)

174

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 30 September 2009 in Helmand province, in which a platoon from B Company, 4th Battalion The Rifles, called in an air strike; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20793)

175

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 28 May 2009 in Helmand province, in which a patrol from A Company, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, reportedly shot at a car; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20794)

176

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 19 May 2009 in Helmand province, in which Gurkhas mentoring a police unit reportedly called in a Harrier air strike after an ambush; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20795)

177

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 22 October 2008 in Helmand province, in which a soldier in a British squad mentoring the Afghan army reportedly killed a motorcyclist; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20796)

178

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 14 October 2008 in Helmand province, in which Y Company 45 Commando Royal Marines reportedly hit a motorcyclist at a roadblock; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20797)

179

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 12 March 2008 in Helmand province, in which ambushed troops reportedly called in gunships after a soldier was wounded; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20798)

180

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 19 November 2008 in Helmand province in which soldiers from J Company, 42 Commando Royal Marines, reportedly fired warning shots at a vehicle approaching a convoy; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20799)

181

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 26 March 2009 in Helmand province in which W Company, 45 Commando Royal Marines, reportedly shot and wounded a motorcyclist observing the patrol; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20800)

182

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 3 January 2009 in Helmand province in which British mentors with the Afghan army allegedly fired a warning rifle shot at a suspicious person; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20801)

183

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 19 January 2009 in Helmand province in which Y Company, 45 Commando Royal Marines, called in a Reaper drone to launch a missile on alleged Taliban; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20802)

184

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 27 January 2009 in Helmand province in which W Company, 45 Commando Royal Marines, reportedly shot at two people watching the patrol; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20803)

185

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department has conducted into the incident on 4 December 2008 in Helmand province in which W Company, 45 Commando Royal Marines, reportedly shot and wounded a man; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20804)

186

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 24 December 2009 in Helmand province in which L Company, 42 Commando Royal Marines, reportedly shot at an approaching vehicle; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20805)

187

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 30 December 2009 in Helmand province in which W Company, 45 Command Royal Marines, reportedly fired a warning shot at a white van; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20806)

188

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation his Department conducted into the incident on 29 November 2008 in Helmand province in which a police patrol mentored by UK troops reportedly shot at a vehicle driven by another Afghan policeman; when the investigation was conducted; which part of his Department conducted the investigation; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the investigation.

(20860)

189	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to increase the proportion of domestically produced food supplied to the armed forces.
	(20567)

190 N	Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department plans to allocate to (a) the Stabilisation Aid Fund, (b) the Conflict Prevention Pool, (c) the Discretionary Peacekeeping Fund, (d) the Special Reserve and (e) the Security and Intelligence Fund for (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13, (iv) 2013-14 and (v) 2014-15.
	(20207)

191	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent estimate is of the projected (a) discounted and (b) undiscounted nuclear decommissioning costs for Trident replacement.
	(20625)

192	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the running costs of Trident replacement in each of the first five years of its operation.
	(20626)

193	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the lifetime costs of the Future Submarine Programme.
	(20627)

194	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will review the position set out in the December 2006 exchange of letters between the then Prime Minister and the President of the United States on nuclear missile sharing to take account of the current economic climate.
	(20628)

195	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent estimate is of the cost to his Department of the UK's contribution to the Trident D5 missile life extension programme; what contingency arrangements he has put in place to provide for budget overspends on the programme; and what level of overspend those arrangements allow for.
	(20629)

196	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the likely additional maintenance costs arising from the extension by nine years of the in-service life of the four Vanguard-class submarines.
	(20398)

197	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of whether the incorporation of the Core H reactor into the Vanguard-class submarines during their period of long overhaul and refuelling will be sufficient to cover the additional nine years of expected service life of the platform.
	(20399)

198	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Trident value for money review.
	(20480)

199	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what account his Department took of (a) defence inflation, (b) unforeseen design risks and (c) changes in specification between 2010 and 2016 in identifying cost savings in the Trident value for money review.
	(20481)

200	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, under what budgetary headings he expects the one billion pounds of savings in infrastructure costs for the strategic nuclear deterrent identified in the Strategic Defence and Security Review to arise.
	(20482)

201	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential effects of the outcome of the Strategic Defence and Security Review on infrastructural improvements to (a) the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, (b) HM Naval Base Devonport and (c) HM Naval Base Clyde.
	(20483)

202 N	Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what penalty payments his Department is liable to pay in respect of the cancellation of contracts announced in the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
	(20148)

203 N	Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the likely effect on the number of the cancellation of contracts announced in the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
	(20149)

204 N	Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the likely effect on the number of jobs of the cancellation of the Nimrod MRA4 programme.
	(20150)

205 N	Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the cancellation of the Nimrod MRA4 programme.
	(20151)

206 N	Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what penalty payments his Department is liable to pay BAE Systems in respect of the cancellation of the Nimrod MRA4 programme.
	(20152)

207	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to recognise veterans of military campaigns since 1939 who have not previously received campaign medals.
	(20745)

208	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the number of warheads deployed on each Vanguard class submarine will be reduced to no more than 40; when the stockpile of operationally available warheads will be reduced to no more than 120; and when warheads which have been removed from the operation stockpile will be dismantled.
	(20822)

209	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons hand and foot radiation monitors were installed in the reactor compartment tunnels of operational nuclear-powered submarines; and what assessment of the health of nuclear submariners (a) was made prior to and (b) has been made since the installation of such monitors.
	(20843)

210	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the merits of introducing the in-port, on-land mandatory secondary radiation monitoring of nuclear submariners returning to port at Faslane.
	(20844)

211	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has been made of the adequacy of the protective clothing of nuclear submariners to resist the penetration of their clothing by liquid radioactive contaminants arising from incidents on board nuclear-powered submarines.
	(20845)

212	Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost to the defence budget of (a) proceeding with the Nimrod MRA4 order and (b) maintaining the support base at RAF Kinloss over the next five years and the period over which figures are based.
	(20370)

213	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many major military equipment programmes have been cancelled between Initial Gate and Main Gate stages in the last 20 years.
	(20718)

214

Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to enter into contractual arrangements for long-lead items on the Future Submarine Programme; what estimate he has made of the total cost of such items; what assessment he has made of the capability of such arrangements with arrangements for review by Parliament of all options of Main Gate, including cancellation; and what consideration he has given to ensuring that cancellation fees for long-lead item contracts do not restrict the consideration of alternatives.

(20719)

215	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date he expects to make the Initial Gate decision on the Future Submarine Project.
	(20720)

216	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date he expects to present to Parliament the full results of the Trident value for money report.
	(20721)

217	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will ensure that Parliament is given the opportunity to review the Trident value for money report and the Strategic Defence and Security Review before any contracts for the Future Submarine programme are placed.
	(20850)

218	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to announce his decision on the Search and Rescue contract under the Private Finance Initiative.
	(20751)

219	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether HMS Astute returned to HMNB Faslane after its grounding on 22 October 2010 using diesel power or nuclear power.
	(20758)

220	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what type of avionic suites were purchased for the Nimrod MR4A; how many such suites were purchased; and at what cost to the public purse.
	(20759)

221	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilians were aboard HMS Astute when it ran aground on 22 October 2010; and what the role of each was.
	(20760)

222	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, where the Nimrod MR4A aircraft designated PA04 is stationed.
	(20761)

223	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will hold discussions with representatives of the Merchant Navy on the potential for deployment of Royal Marines on merchant ships to counter piracy; and if he will make a statement.
	(20824)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

224	Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people resident in (a) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, (b) Tower Hamlets and (c) London have received the education maintenance allowance in each year since its inception.
	(20883)

225	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools he expects to open in September 2011.
	(20739)

226	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on the provision of outdoor play space at free schools.
	(20740)

227	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's policy is on authorising free schools to employ as (a) teachers and (b) head teachers people who do not hold an official teaching qualification or a national professional qualification for headship.
	(20741)

228	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to ensure that plans for the establishment of free schools take local road traffic conditions into account.
	(20846)

229 N	Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the budget for education maintenance allowance for 2010-11 will be available in each financial year to 2014-15; and if he will make a statement.
	(19856)

230 N	Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to provide support for underperforming schools.
	(20044)

231 N	Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools performed below the National Challenge threshold for English and mathematics GCSE results in 2010.
	(20045)

232 N	Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academies which opened before 11 October have made arrangements under the procedure set out in the Academies Act 2010 to support an under-performing school in their area.
	(20046)

233 N	Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) minimum qualification, (b) minimum age and (c) maximum age requirement will be to teach at a free school.
	(20146)

234 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will prepare an implementation plan for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in England.
	(20263)

235 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made specific budgetary provision for co-ordinating the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
	(20277)

236	Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for the Myplace programme; and if he will make a statement.
	(20352)

237	Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the likely effects on young people from poor backgrounds of the ending of educational maintenance allowance; and if he will make a statement.
	(20401)

238	Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for student support following the ending of education maintenance allowance; and if he will make a statement.
	(20847)

239	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to increase the proportion of domestically produced food supplied to schools.
	(20566)

240	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school buildings constructed under the Building Schools for the Future programme received an (a) A, (b) B, (c) C, (d) D, (e) E, (f) F and (g) G grade Display Energy Certificate; how many have yet to be so graded; and what proportion of buildings in the school estate are at each energy efficiency grade.
	(20568)

241	Ben Gummer (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding he expects to provide for Sure Start during the Spending Review period.
	(20832)

242	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent on services provided by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in the last 24 months.
	(20473)

243	John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were (a) taken into care (excluding respite care), (b) left care and (c) were adopted in each year from 1980 to 2005; how many left care through adoption in each such year; and how many were in care on 31 March in each such year.
	(20371)

244	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to extend the acceptance criteria for schools wishing to convert to Academy status; and what new criteria he is considering.
	(20560)

245	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of raising the participation age to 18 years in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015.
	(20585)

246 N	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what eligibility criteria he plans to use for the Education Maintenance Allowance, or its replacement, in 2011-12; and whether the criteria will vary depending on the number of children in a family unit.
	(20049)

247	Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students in (a) Tottenham constituency and (b) Haringey received education maintenance allowance in each year since 2004-05; and how much was paid in that allowance to pupils in each such area in each such year.
	(20595)

248	Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils at each (a) primary and (b) secondary school in Tottenham constituency is eligible for free school meals.
	(20596)

249	Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to answer Question 17076, on A-level results, tabled on 8 October 2010.
	(20887)

250	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that his Department's decisions on regional funding allocations are based on the most recent available population data.
	(20692)

251 N	Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will introduce a pupil premium for young people (a) attending college, (b) in sixth forms and (c) in apprenticeships.
	(20144)

252 N	Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what changes he plans to make to the operation of education maintenance allowance in 2010-11; and if he will make a statement.
	(20145)

253 N	Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools have been supported by Creative Partnership funding in each of the last three years.
	(20164)

254 N	Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools have been supported by youth Sports Trust funding in each of the last three years.
	(20167)

255 N	Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for St Albans of 21 June 2010, on the Abbey View Nursery.
	(20047)

256	Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many third sector organisations or registered charities have received funding from the Youth Sector Development Fund; and what the cost to the public purse was of that programme on the latest date for which figures are available.
	(20467)

257	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on advertising the availability of education maintenance allowance between May 2005 and May 2010.
	(20678)

258	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on education maintenance allowance payments in (a) Tamworth and (b) Staffordshire in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10.
	(20679)

259	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students in (a) Tamworth, (b) Staffordshire and (c) England received an education maintenance allowance bonus after attaining A-level results lower than three C grades in 2009-10.
	(20680)

260	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for the future of library services following the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(20618)

261	Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils were entered for a physical education GCSE in (a) comprehensive schools, (b) selective maintained schools and (c) independent schools in each year since 1997.
	(20499)

262	Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils were entered for a religious education GCSE in (a) comprehensive schools, (b) selective maintained schools and (c) independent schools in each year since 1997.
	(20500)

263	Bob Stewart (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes in his Department's funding of the Music Standards Fund on the core grant for (a) the Bromley Youth Music Trust and (b) other independent music councils.
	(20389)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

264	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what funding he plans to allocate to the Green Deal programme in each year of the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(20869)

265	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, who participated in the meeting of the Nuclear Development Forum on 28 October 2010; what the agenda was of that meeting; and what the cost to his Department was of hosting that meeting.
	(20590)

266

Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will require all members of the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership to (a) submit to a publicly accessible register details of all (i) past and (ii) current interests that they have had with the nuclear industry and (b) update the registered details on each occasion they change.

(20728)

267	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to paragraph 4.E.2 of the Strategic Defence and Security Review, Cm 7948, what unnecessary obstacles to investment in nuclear power he has identified.
	(20729)

268	Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate he has made of the number of households living in fuel poverty in (a) North West Durham constituency, (b) the North East and (c) the UK.
	(20858)

269	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2010, Official Report, column 1006, on fuel poverty, whether he plans to extend the energy rebate scheme to all low-income vulnerable households.
	(20504)

270	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2010, Official Report, column 479W, on fossil fuels: subsidies, what definition of fossil fuel subsidies his Department uses.
	(20505)

271	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his policy is on the emissions cap in Phase III of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
	(20569)

272	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his most recent estimate is of the gross revenue which will arise from the sale of allowances through the Carbon Reduction Commitment before the recycling of such monies to scheme participants in each of the next five years.
	(20570)

273	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proposals he plans to table at the forthcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun.
	(20571)

274	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans he has for the future of the carbon reduction commitment scheme.
	(20572)

275	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will use his powers under the Energy Act 2010 to bring forward mandatory social price support.
	(20573)

276	Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which UK and international conferences staff of his Department have attended since October 2008; how many staff attended each conference; in what capacity such staff attended; and what the cost to the public purse under each category of expenditure was on each such occasion.
	(20478)

277

Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Statement of 27 July 2010, Official Report, columns 867-881, on the Annual Energy Statement, what assumptions his Department has made in respect of the quantities of carbon emissions arising from the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium mining, milling, enrichment and fuel fabrication, in the model used in its calculator of potential energy pathways by 2050.

(20749)

278	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department plans to equalise the rate of return on solar thermal energy with the rate of return on other renewable energy sources within the Renewable Heat Incentive.
	(20494)

279	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with Ofgem on its steps to improve reporting and monitoring in respect of the wholesale retail link to domestic prices.
	(20682)

280

Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will bring forward proposals for minimum standards for energy tariffs which include a requirement for energy suppliers to (a) give notice of a month prior to a customer's deal coming to an end and (b) provide information on the tariff to which such customers will be transferred in circumstances in which they do not switch tariffs before the expiry of their deal.

(20683)

281	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he plans to assess the merits of establishing further tidal energy projects.
	(20684)

282	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) UK and (b) EU energy imports which come from (a) the Russian Federation, (b) Central Asia and (c) the South Caucasus.
	(20685)

283	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent progress has been made on his Department's proposals for the gas storage capacity under the Irish Sea.
	(20686)

284	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of homes provided with energy efficiency measures under the Warm Front scheme since its inception which were (a) privately rented, (b) owned by a local authority or housing association, (c) owned by a charity and (d) owner-occupied.
	(20432)

285

Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households with children aged (a) 0 to four and (b) five to 16 years received assistance through Warm Front in each year since the scheme's inception; whether he has estimated the number of such households which were in receipt of housing benefit in each such year; and what estimate he has made of the number of households in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2011 who will be assisted by Warm Front.

(20433)

286	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether owners of privately-rented accommodation are required to repay funds provided under the Warm Front scheme in circumstances in which the occupiers who were entitled to the assistance move out of that accommodation; and if he will make a statement.
	(20477)

287
N

Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the recommendations relevant to his Department's policy responsibilities contained in the Government Office for Science's Foresight report on Mental Capacity and Well-being; if he will ensure that his Department take steps to promote well-being; if he will ensure that his Department's policy development process takes account of psychological research into subjective well-being; and if he will make a statement.

(20265)

288	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department monitors the number of energy tariffs that change in a time shorter that the standard period in which a customer may complete a supplier switch.
	(20434)

289	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the price of carbon under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in each of the next five years.
	(20436)

290	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has held with his EU counterparts on his plans to introduce a carbon floor price.
	(20437)

291	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he has assessed the merits of introducing mechanisms to underwrite the price of carbon as part of his plans to introduce a carbon floor price.
	(20438)

292	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many tariffs from energy supply companies were available to consumers in each fo the last six months.
	(20439)

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

293	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) farm employees being paid wages below Agricultural Wages Board rates and (b) farm employers paying wages below such rates.
	(20742)

294	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many agricultural employers were found to have paid workers below rates set by the Agricultural Wages Board in each of the last five years.
	(20743)

295	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has for the future oversight of earnings and hours worked by agricultural and horticultural workers in England and Wales.
	(20816)

296 N	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many apprentices were in post at the Environment Agency on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many such apprentices recruited in the last 12 months (a) were previously apprentices, (b) had been long-term unemployed and (c) are graduates.
	(20269)

297	Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what timescale she has set for the continuation of her Department's public consultation on the Dangerous Dogs Act.
	(20654)

298 N	Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what occasions she attended the Public Expenditure Committee to discuss the 2010 Spending Review.
	(20147)

299	Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to the egg production industry of meeting the requirements of Council Directive 1999/74/EC on minimum standards of welfare for laying hens.
	(20557)

300	Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the merits of taking steps to ensure that eggs not meeting the requirements consequent on the implementation of the proposed EU prohibition on conventional cages are not imported.
	(20558)

301	Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to co-ordinate responses to a national emergency; and which of these steps derive from recommendations of the Pitt Report.
	(20426)

302

Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Birghton Pavilion of 19 October 2010, Official Report, column 634W, on sustainable development, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on steps to ensure that sustainable development is fully embedded into the Treasury's Green Book.

(20506)

303	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to mark the International Year of Forests in 2011.
	(20722)

304	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that her Department's decisions on regional funding allocations are based on the most recent available population data.
	(20693)

305	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to require (a) successor bodies to the Forestry Commission and (b) owners of former Forestry Commission sites to fulfil the Commission's undertaking to restore planted ancient woodland sites with native broadleaf species.
	(20863)

306

Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether non-statutory obligations on (a) management regimes, (b) access and (c) biodiversity in respect of land owned or managed by central Government departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies will be transferred to new owners or managers of such sites in circumstances in which responsibility for such land is transferred.

(20864)

307	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether an environmental impact assessment has been undertaken of the Government's proposals to sell or lease part of the Forestry Commission estate.
	(20865)

308 N	Nicky Morgan (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with Ministerial colleagues on control of urban foxes by local authorities in residential areas.
	(19902)

309	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made a recent assessment of the merits of making mandatory pre-stunning prior to slaughter for farm animals entering the food chain.
	(20687)

310	Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the effect on UK food security of the operation of the Common Agricultural Policy.
	(20736)

311 N	Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total mackerel catch was in respect of (a) UK and (b) Northern Ireland fisheries in each of the last five years.
	(20183)

312 N	Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the contribution of the mackerel catch to the fishing industry.
	(20184)

313 N	Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had at EU level on the mackerel quota claimed by Greenland.
	(20185)

314
N

Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of recommendations relevant to her Department's policy responsibilities contained in the Government Office for Science's Foresight report on Mental Capacity and Well-being; if she will ensure that her Department takes steps to promote well-being; if she will ensure that her Department's policy development process takes account of psychological research into subjective well-being; and if she will make a statement.

(20281)

315 N	Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff in each Natural England office are designated as (a) managers and (b) field workers.
	(20140)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

316	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of (a) uranium production in and (b) uranium exports from Burma.
	(20838)

317	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to discourage British companies from trading and investing in Burma.
	(20839)

318	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the construction of a railway link across the Salween River to eastern Shan State in Burma.
	(20840)

319	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on forcible relocations of indigenous farmers in the Huugawng valley, Northern Burma.
	(20906)

320 N	Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take to stop people crossing the border from Gibraltar to Spain being charged a toll by the La Linea authorities.
	(19625)

321	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Prime Minister's Oral Statement of 19 October 2010, Official Report, columns 805-6, on the Strategic Defence and Security Review, in what forums he expects discussions of the UK's responsibilities for multilateral nuclear disarmament to take place.
	(20731)

322	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in the government of Sri Lanka on the human rights situation in the country.
	(20526)

323	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of China on fossil fuel subsidy reform.
	(20411)

324	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of the Russian Federation on fossil fuel subsidy reform.
	(20723)

325	Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Israel on the importation of building materials into Gaza.
	(20674)

326	Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the UN Relief and Works Agency on the (a) education of school children in and (b) importation of building materials into Gaza; and if he will make a statement.
	(20675)

327

Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the effects of electoral violence in Uganda on the (a) humanitarian situation in Uganda and the Great Lakes Region, (b) African Union peacekeeping in Somalia, (c) war against the Lords Resistance Army in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic and (d) prospects for a peaceful referendum in Southern Sudan; and if he will make a statement.

(20561)

328	Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the (a) strength of the African Union peace-keeping force in Somalia and (b) the number of countries contributing to that force; and if he will make a statement.
	(20562)

329

Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2010, Official Report, columns 25-6W, on Uganda: politics and government, how many British nationals and dependents are living in Uganda; what contingency plans are in place to evacuate them in the event of outbreak of violence before or after the election; and if he will make a statement.

(20898)

330

Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2010, Official Report, columns 25-6W, on Uganda: politics and government, what reports he has received on (a) the 22 October 2010 incident at the Electoral Commission following the visit by Dr Kizza Besigye and (b) the statement by Dr Besigye on the steps his party will take if the 2011 election is rigged; and if he will make a statement.

(20899)

331
N

Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department plans to allocate to (a) the Stabilisation Aid Fund, (b) the Conflict Prevention Pool, (c) the Discretionary Peacekeeping Fund, (d) the BBC World Service, excluding the BBC World Service Trust, (e) the BBC World Service Trust, (f) the Special Reserve, (g) the British Council and (h) the Security and Intelligence Fund for (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13, (iv) 2013-14 and (v) 2014-15.

(20208)

332	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made towards the establishment of an independent and transparent investigation into allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka.
	(20615)

333	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has received reports on the authenticity of photographs of Tamil detainees released by the Global Tamil Forum.
	(20616)

334	Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on progress in the Kosovo-Serbia talks.
	(20479)

335 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) his European counterparts, (b) the European Commission and (c) others on the cost and number of European Union public bodies; and if he will make a statement.
	(20138)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

336	Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on numbers of healthcare staff at Rochdale Hospital of the proposed transfer of facilities (a) to and (b) from the hospital.
	(20655)

337	Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on (a) referral times and (b) treatment of acute cases of the transfer of hospital facilities (i) from and (ii) to Rochdale Hospital; and if he will make a statement.
	(20656)

338	Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to consult on the planned Healthy Futures programme at Rochdale Hospital; and if he will make a statement.
	(20657)

339	Mr Steve Brine (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the future (a) training, (b) recruitment and (c) retention of midwives in the NHS.
	(20555)

340	Mr Steve Brine (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to NHS trusts on the provision of choice to women in respect of place of birth.
	(20556)

341	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to clinicians on the management of symptoms of agitation and aggression in dementia patients.
	(20541)

342	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what medical treatments are licensed for the treatment of behavioural symptoms in dementia; and if he will make a statement.
	(20542)

343	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the inappropriate prescription of anti-psychotic drugs for dementia patients.
	(20543)

344 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the development of community pharmacy in (a) deprived and (b) other areas.
	(19622)

345 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in developing the National Medicines Concordance Scheme.
	(19623)

346 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on the development of a structured support service for people being treated for long-term conditions.
	(19624)

347 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether community pharmacies will be represented on the (a) National Commissioning Board and (b) Public Health Board.
	(19693)

348	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the vaccines and anti-virals purchased in preparation for the swine flu pandemic were not used.
	(20875)

349	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish (a) future arrangements for national specialist commissioning and (b) the operations and remit of the new Advisory Group for National Specialised Services.
	(20527)

350	Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on the roll-out of the age extension to the NHS Breast Screening Programme.
	(20351)

351	Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of breast screening units have one or more full-field direct digital mammography machine.
	(20402)

352	Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has conducted on the effectiveness of (a) digital mammography and (b) standard mammography in respect of the screening of women in the lower age range of the NHS breast screening programme.
	(20403)

353	Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has for the roll-out of digital mammography; and what timescale he has set for completing the roll-out.
	(20404)

354	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to increase the proportion of domestically produced food supplied to hospitals under contracts negotiated by NHS Supply Chain.
	(20574)

355 N	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) people receiving regular methadone prescriptions and (b) prescriptions for methadone issued by each primary care trust.
	(20267)

356	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on services provided by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in the last 24 months.
	(20471)

357	Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment has been made of the (a) standard and (b) consistency of (i) ongoing and (ii) specialist care for rheumatoid arthritis patients.
	(20584)

358

Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has made a recent estimate of the amount spent by (a) each primary care trust and (b) the NHS per head of population on rheumatoid arthritis services; and what progress his Department has made on its work to determine whether there is correlation between the quality of rheumatoid arthritis services and spending per head of population.

(20600)

359	Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of rheumatoid arthritis specialist nurses working in the NHS; what plans he has for the future number of such nurses in each of the next four years; and if he will make a statement.
	(20601)

360	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to implement the Government's proposal to provide greater access to talking therapies within the NHS.
	(20533)

361	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to encourage the training of more stroke specialist registrars.
	(20811)

362	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on improving access to specialist early stroke-supported discharge teams.
	(20812)

363	Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the contribution of voluntary organisations to support for carers; and if he will make a statement.
	(20604)

364	Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of his Department's spending reductions on the statutory services provided by voluntary organisations; and if he will make a statement.
	(20605)

365	Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department allocated to (a) Brighton and Hove City Council and (b) NHS Brighton and Hove for the support of carers in each of the last three years; and what mechanisms are in place to ensure that such funding is appropriately disbursed.
	(20606)

366	Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS bodies his Department requires to produce (a) annual reports and (b) other publications; if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of such publications in each of the last three years; and if he will take steps to reduce the number of such publications.
	(20607)

367	Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the future of the accident and emergency department at the (a) Whittington Hospital and (b) North Middlesex Hospital in North London.
	(20594)

368	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that his Department's decisions on regional funding allocations are based on the most recent available population data.
	(20694)

369	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what conditions staff and medical files are transferred to NHS Shared Business Services.
	(20612)

370	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what access employees of NHS Shared Business Services in India have to NHS (a) staff and (b) patient records.
	(20613)

371	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff NHS Shared Business Services employed (a) nationally and (b) in India in (i) 2005, (ii) 2009 and (iii) the latest period for which figures are available; and how many such staff his Department plans to employ in each such country in each of the next four years.
	(20614)

372	Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many call centres based outside the UK the NHS uses.
	(20514)

373	Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) F1, (b) F2, (c) ST1 and (d) ST3 category doctors are currently working in hospitals in (i) Devon and (ii) Cornwall.
	(20491)

374	James Morris (Halesowen and Rowley Regis): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of his Department's contracts with Atos Healthcare in the last five years.
	(20829)

375	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of graduates from medical schools in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009 failed to gain a higher medical training post in a UK hospital in the year immediately following graduation.
	(20714)

376	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of graduates of medical schools in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009 emigrated in the year following completion of their degree.
	(20715)

377	Claire Perry (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on (a) food supplements and (b) implementation of the EU Food Supplements Directive.
	(20815)

378	Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children under five years whose mother was aged 19 years or under at birth were diagnosed with health problems in (a) Hastings and Rye and (b) nationally in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(20737)

379	Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children under five years old were diagnosed with health problems in (a) Hastings and Rye and (b) nationally in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(20738)

380	Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the median wait among those admitted for cataract extraction between 1 July and 30 September 2006 in England, subject to the proviso that admimeth =11, 12 or 13, that opertn_1 = C71, C72, C73, C74, C75 or C77 and that admidate minus elecdate <732 days.
	(20367)

381

Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the median wait among those who at midnight on 30 September 2006 were waiting to be admitted for cataract extraction in England were admidate > 30 September 2006, where elecdate is less than or equal to September 2006, and where the (uncompleted) wait = 30 September 2006 minus elecdate, subject to the proviso that admidate minus elecdate <732 days.

(20368)

382	Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for future numbers of health visitors serving Crawley and West Sussex.
	(20498)

383	Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who will be responsible for the operation of revalidation following the ending of primary care trusts.
	(20620)

384	Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on accountability of the NHS of his proposals for decision-making in local NHS services in Crawley and West Sussex.
	(20853)

385	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the likely costs to (a) primary care trusts and (b) strategic health authorities arising from (i) staff redundancies and (ii) staff transfers attributable to (A) his proposed changes to his Department's non-departmental public bodies and (B) the proposed reforms in the NHS White Paper.
	(20400)

386	Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason funding for local authority social care is no longer to be ring-fenced; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the end of such ring-fencing on disabled individuals and their families.
	(20835)

387	Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of reductions in local authority social care funding on the level of service provided by such authorities to disabled individuals and their families.
	(20836)

388	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will consult the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence on the scientific basis for his Department's Health Technical Memorandum (01/05) on Decontamination prior to its implementation.
	(20382)

389	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) were diagnosed (a) nationally, (b) in Sussex, (c) in Brighton and Hove City and (d) in Hove constituency in (i) 2005, (ii) 2006, (iii) 2007, (iv) 2008 and (v) 2009; and in how many such cases CJD was recorded as being contracted as a result of dental treatment.
	(20383)

390	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of implementation of his Department's Health Technical Memorandum (01/05) on Decontamination on the risk of infection of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease from dental treatment; and if he will make a statement.
	(20384)

391	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the likely costs for primary care trusts of compliance by NHS community practices with his Department's Health Technical Memorandum (01/05) on Decontamination; and if he will make a statement.
	(20385)

392	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the likely cost to NHS community practices of compliance with his Department's Health Technical Memorandum (01/05) on Decontamination; and if he will make a statement.
	(20386)

393	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the likely effects on dental charges to patients of implementation of his Department's Health Technical Memorandum (01/05) on Decontamination.
	(20387)

394	Simon Wright (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) sickness absence rate and (b) estimated cost to the NHS of sickness absence was in each NHS trust in each of the last five years.
	(20502)

395	Simon Wright (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of hospital-acquired infection were recorded in each NHS trust in each of the last five years.
	(20503)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

396	Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the merits of the use of private security firms by police forces.
	(20369)

397 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the letters of 10 August and 30 September 2010 from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay on her constituent Mr P. Ginn.
	(20004)

398	Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what timetable she has set for her Department's review of firearms legislation.
	(20653)

399	Hazel Blears (Salford and Eccles): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the likely effects on future levels of police authority precepts of the police funding settlement in the 2010 spending review.
	(20713)

400	Hazel Blears (Salford and Eccles): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effects on the security of UK borders of the spending settlement for the UK Border Agency announced in the 2010 Spending Review.
	(20826)

401 N	Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for the future of juxtaposed border controls in France; and if she will make a statement.
	(19855)

402	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has considered the merits of merging South Wales and Gwent police authorities; and if she will make a statement.
	(20848)

403	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from what countries of origin applicants for indefinite leave to remain normally resident in the Medway Council area (a) applied for, (b) were granted and (c) were refused indefinite leave to remain in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(20545)

404	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals who at the time of their application for indefinite leave to remain in the UK were resident in the Medway Council area, were granted such leave in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(20546)

405 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times a grant of asylum has been (a) revoked and (b) not renewed under paragraph 339 A of the Immigration Rules in each of the last five years.
	(20273)

406	Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for the future (a) content and (b) use of stop and account forms; and if she will make a statement.
	(20814)

407	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that her Department's decisions on regional funding allocations are based on the most recent available population data.
	(20695)

408 N	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have been retired under regulation A19A in (a) each of the last 20 years and (b) 2010 to date.
	(20274)

409	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2010, Official Report, columns 404-5W, on rape: finance, what the reasons are for the difference in the timetables for making payments to sexual assault referral centres in Wales and England.
	(20366)

410	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of advertisements for sexual services on levels of demand for prostitution.
	(20833)

411	Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) consultants and (b) contractors were employed by or on behalf of the UK Border Agency to work on the e-Borders programme in each of the last five years.
	(20451)

412	Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what amendments will be required to her Department's e-Borders programme to take account of the European Commission decision of 17 December 2009 on minimum data requirements.
	(20452)

413	Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the likely effect on the cost of the e-Borders programme of the implementation of the European Commission Decision of 17 December 2009 on minimum data requirements.
	(20453)

414	Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the likely effects on the operation of her Department's e-Borders programme of the implementation of the European Commission Decision of 17 December 2009 on minimum data requirements.
	(20454)

415

Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the number and percentage of passengers travelling into or out of the UK who are likely to exercise their right to opt out of producing advanced passenger information to the e-Borders programme as a result of the decision of the European Commission Decision of 17 December 2009 on minimum data requirements.

(20455)

416	Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of adapting (a) air carrier industry systems and (b) her Department's e-Borders system to ensure that they are compliant with the provisions of the European Commission Decision of 17 December 2009 on minimum data requirements.
	(20456)

417	Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of new procurement exercises for the e-Borders programme.
	(20457)

418	Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) complaints and (b) appeals were upheld by the Independent Police Complaints Commission in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11.
	(20460)

419	Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) complaints and (b) appeals the Independent Police Complaints Commission processed in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11.
	(20461)

420	Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the likely effect on the number of (a) police officers and (b) community police support officers in Yorkshire and the Humber of the police funding settlement in the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review
	(20807)

421	Simon Wright (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals to put her Department's Interception Modernisation Programme on a statutory footing; and if she will make a statement.
	(20464)

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

422
N

Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the House of Commons Commission made of recommendation 52 of the Speaker's Conference on parliamentary representation, to allow Members to take a proportion of their salary in the form of childcare vouchers prior to the transfer of responsibility for that matter to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

(20051)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

423
N

Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information he holds on the monetary value of EU aid delivered to Haiti since the earthquake in that country; on what programmes his Department's contribution to that aid has been spent; what timetable has been set for the delivery of that aid; what proportion of that aid has been delivered on time on the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(20006)

424 N	Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department holds figures on the monetary value (a) in total and (b) per head of population of the recipient country disbursed to each country from the (i) EU aid budget and (ii) European Development Fund in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(20007)

425	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in the government of Sri Lanka on the return to their homes of internally displaced people in that country.
	(20524)

426	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's policy is on the provision of aid to Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement.
	(20525)

427	Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Gaza; and if he will make a statement.
	(20676)

428	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department has spent on services provided by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in the last 24 months.
	(20470)

429 N	Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department plans to allocate to (a) the Stabilisation Aid Fund and (b) the Conflict Prevention Pool in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13, (iv) 2013-14 and (v) 2014-15.
	(20280)

430	Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he plans to reply to the letter of 1 September 2010 from the hon. Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey on employment of UK contractors for reconstruction work in Pakistan.
	(20388)

431	Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans his Department has for the funding of the City of London Police Overseas Anti-Corruption programme after 2011.
	(20476)

432	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what projects his Department has in Sierra Leone.
	(20588)

433	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what programmes his Department has to seek to prevent Yemen from becoming a failed state.
	(20688)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

434 N	Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what mechanisms are in place to ensure transparency in respect of judicial appointments; what lists are maintained of judicial candidates; what steps are taken to inform applicants of their position on those lists; and on what criteria applications for judicial posts are determined.
	(20008)

435	Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions his Department has had with the authorities in (a) Jersey and (b) Guernsey on progress in implementing the EU (i) Food Supplements Directive and (ii) Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation.
	(20830)

436	Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what conditions may be imposed when granting a release on licence to prisoners with convictions for terrorism.
	(20547)

437	Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners with convictions for terrorism offences are under consideration for release by the Parole Board.
	(20548)

438	Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners with convictions for terrorism offences have an earliest date for release in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.
	(20549)

439	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to increase the proportion of domestically produced food supplied to prisons under contracts negotiated by the National Offender Management Service.
	(20575)

440 N	Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effects on the operation of Mental Health Act Tribunals of implementation of proposed changes to his Department's budget for legal aid for 2011-12; and if he will make a statement.
	(20209)

441	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that his Department's decisions on regional funding allocations are based on the most recent available population data.
	(20696)

442	Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which bodies funded solely from the public purse are not public authorities for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
	(20852)

443 N	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each prison establishment were subject to loss of privileges under the PSO 4000 Incentives and Earned Privilege Scheme following adjudication in the last 12 months.
	(20278)

444 N	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each prison establishment were adjudged guilty at adjudication of breach of prison discipline in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
	(20279)

445 N	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each prison establishment were on the basic level of the Incentives and Earned Privilege Scheme (a) on the last date for which details are available and (b) 12 months previously.
	(20291)

446	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of the National Offender Management Service head office and regional offices in each financial year since 2004-05.
	(20406)

447	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of the Director of Offender Management regional organisations in the financial year 2009-10.
	(20407)

448	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each prison establishment were on each level of the Incentives and Earned Privilege Scheme (a) on the most recent date for which details are available and (b) 12 months prior to that date; and if he will make a statement.
	(20408)

449	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the effect on prison numbers of reductions to the Probation Service budget in the financial year (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
	(20409)

450	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's budget is for (a) civil and (b) criminal legal aid for 2010-11.
	(20410)

451	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the savings to HM Courts Service arising from the proposed programme of court closures.
	(20619)

452	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the merits of ensuring that coroners record whether someone who commits suicide had a terminal condition.
	(20862)

453 N	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many criminal cases at (a) Worksop and (b) Retford magistrates' court involved defendants living in post code areas (a) DN22, (b) DN10, (c) DN1 and (d) S81 in 2009.
	(20210)

454	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases at Retford and Worksop magistrates' court were adjourned owing to non-attendance of (a) witnesses and (b) defendants in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009.
	(20462)

455	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many family cases at Worksop family court involved parties living in rural Bassetlaw in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009.
	(20463)

456	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the likely effect on the rate of non-appearance by (a) witnesses and (b) defendants of the implementation of his Department's proposed programme of court closures in (i) Staffordshire and (ii) England.
	(20586)

457 N	John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in England and Wales were convicted of murder between (a) 1980 and 1984, (b) 1985 and 1994 and (c) 1995 and 2005.
	(18290)

Questions to the Prime Minister

458	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Prime Minister, whether he has discussed the human rights situation in Burma with the US President.
	(20405)

459

Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 6 September 2010, Official Report, column 2W, what timetable has been set for the Cabinet Secretary to review papers on whether his predecessor and his predecessor's officials met BP and the government of Libya on oil drilling off the coast of Libya between July 2007 and March 2008; and whether he plans to publish the Cabinet Secretary's conclusions.

(20828)

460	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Prime Minister, what definition of the UK's national interest the Goverment used in the (a) National Security Strategy, (b) Strategic Defence and Security Review and (c) Comprehensive Spending Review; and what the component elements were of the national interest as so defined.
	(20492)

461	Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): To ask the Prime Minister, what criteria he plans to use to assess the effectiveness of the (a) National Security Strategy, (b) Strategic Defence and Security Review and (c) Comprehensive Spending Review in promoting the UK's national interest.
	(20493)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

462 N	Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps the Secretary of State is taking to enhance and increase cross-border economic co-operation between England and Scotland for tourism growth.
	(20186)

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

463

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, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2010, Official Report, column 875W, on the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: manpower, what the annual cost to the public purse is of staff participation in Benenden Healthcare.

(20660)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

464	Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effects of privatising the motorway and trunk road networks on the (a) level of receipts from (i) vehicle tax discs and (ii) fuel tax, (b) maintenance and (c) policing of such networks; and if he will make a statement.
	(20681)

465	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has for the future pricing of (a) disabled persons' rail cards and (b) rail tickets purchased using disabled persons' rail cards.
	(20897)

466	Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans for central control of the supply of road grit to local authorities.
	(20658)

467	Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has for funding rail line improvements between Darwen and Manchester.
	(20659)

468

Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2010, Official Report, columns 410-11W, on railway stations: Birmingham, whether there have been any changes to (a) the budget for the Access to All Scheme at Northfield Station since May 2010 or (b) the estimated costs of the scheme since it was first approved by Network Rail.

(20813)

469	Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of households located in the area between junctions 4 and 6 of the M20 which are adversely affected by noise from that motorway; and how many such households are estimated to fall into each decibel band.
	(20540)

470	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the likely effects on the environment of his proposals to increase the cap on regulated rail fares to three per cent. above the retail price index for three years from 2012.
	(20576)

471	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the likely effect on rail passenger numbers of the proposed increase in the cap on regulated rail fares to three per cent. above the retail price index for three years from 2012.
	(20577)

472	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the outcomes of the Spending Review on his plans for the delivery of new rolling stock.
	(20355)

473	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the likely effect on the level of passenger rail use of an RPI+3 formula for fares.
	(20356)

474	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with local authority representatives on the future of funding of major local authority schemes.
	(20357)

475	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made a recent estimate of the likely effect on his Department's progress on carbon dioxide emission targets of proposed increases in rail fares.
	(20358)

476	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an estimate of the likely effect on the number of car journeys of proposed increases in rail fares.
	(20359)

477	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an estimate of the likely effect on the number of passenger coach journeys of the proposed increases in rail fares.
	(20360)

478	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the likely effect on the number of passengers using rail services of the proposed increases in rail fares.
	(20361)

479	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timetable has been set for purchasing new rolling stock for the North West.
	(20362)

480	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timetable has been set for purchasing new rolling stock for the Thameslink upgrade.
	(20363)

481	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether funding for the electrification of the Great Western Line will be allocated during the Spending Review period.
	(20364)

482	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timetable has been set for the completion of the electrification of the Great Western Line.
	(20365)

483	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect on bus services in non-metropolitan urban communities of his proposed reductions in subsidy to bus operators.
	(20507)

484	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely effect on disabled passengers of his proposed reduction in Bus Service Operators Grant.
	(20508)

485	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of reductions in Bus Service Operators Grant on socially excluded groups; and whether his Department has carried out an equalities impact assessment in this respect.
	(20509)

486	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what savings to the public purse he expects to result from the ending of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee.
	(20511)

487	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what capital rail expenditure schemes his Department has planned for the Great Western Line during the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(20578)

488	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what rail electrification schemes in the North West his Department plans to fund during the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(20579)

489	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timetable his Department has set for the completion of rail electrification work between Liverpool and Manchester.
	(20580)

490	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect on bus fares of the reduction in Bus Service Operators Grant.
	(20581)

491	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of the proposed reduction in Bus Service Operator Grant on the number of bus services operated in (a) rural communities, (b) non-metropolitan urban communities and (c) metropolitan areas with an integrated transport authority.
	(20582)

492	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what cost-benefit ratios his Department uses to assess the merits of funding Cycling England programmes.
	(20716)

493	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what preliminary results he has received from the rail value for money study undertaken by Sir Roy McNulty.
	(20717)

494	Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what arrangements he plans to make for consultation on the route of High Speed Two.
	(20849)

495	Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to invite bids for funding for the Local Sustainable Transport Fund; and if he will make a statement.
	(20515)

496	Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much he plans to allocate to improvements to the East Coast Main line; over what period; and if he will make a statement.
	(20516)

497	Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding he plans to provide to support inland water-borne transport infrastructure in urban areas in the period of the Comprehensive Spending Review; and if he will make a statement.
	(20856)

498	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward proposals to require commercial passenger airlines to provide free lavatory facilities for passengers on all international flights using UK airports.
	(20888)

499	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that his Department's decisions on regional funding allocations are based on the most recent available population data.
	(20697)

500	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons he has decided to implement the majority of the proposals for re-organisation of his Department before June 2011; and when he took that decision.
	(20353)

501	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria were used to determine which civil servants or groups of civil servants should be granted voluntary exit from his Department in 2010; who took the decisions based on those criteria; and whether he approved those decisions.
	(20354)

502	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether an equality impact assessment was undertaken before his decision to implement the majority of the proposals for the reorganisation of his Department before June 2011.
	(20622)

503	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which organisations he consulted before implementing the majority of the proposals for the reorganisation of his Department before June 2011.
	(20623)

504	Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much debt is owed to Severn River Crossing plc for the construction of the second Severn Crossing, expressed in (a) 2010 and (b) 1989 prices.
	(20876)

505	Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects all debts to Severn River Crossing plc to have been repaid.
	(20877)

506	Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff of (a) his Department and (b) the Highways Agency are deployed full- or part-time on matters relating to the transfer of the Severn Crossings into Government ownership.
	(20878)

507	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an estimate of the likely effects of High Speed 2 on the economy of (a) Staffordshire and (b) Tamworth constituency.
	(20587)

508 N	Gavin Shuker (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what date he expects 24 trains an hour to be running on the Thameslink route between Kings Cross and Blackfriars.
	(19996)

509 N	Gavin Shuker (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, to which phases of the Thameslink programme his Department has not committed funding.
	(19997)

510 N	Gavin Shuker (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what date he expects the Thameslink infrastructure and rolling stock programme to have been completed.
	(19998)

511 N	Gavin Shuker (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what date he expects delivery of the last unit of 12-carriage Thameslink rolling stock to have been completed.
	(19999)

512 N	Gavin Shuker (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what capital expenditure he plans to allocate to new Thameslink rolling stock from its proposed budgets under the 2010 Spending Review.
	(20000)

513 N	John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to upgrade the remaining part of the A69 between Carlisle and Newcastle upon Tyne to a dual carriageway.
	(19629)

514 N	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he next plans to review MOT test fees; and if he will make a statement.
	(20275)

515 N	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the proposed block funding to local authorities for highways maintenance will be ring-fenced.
	(19809)

516 N	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the proposed block funding to local authorities for small transport improvement schemes will be ring-fenced.
	(19810)

517 N	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects each of the Highways Agency major schemes for which funding was confirmed in the Comprehensive Spending Review to be completed.
	(19811)

518 N	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely effects on maintenance standards on the strategic road network of reductions in funding for the Highways Agency.
	(19812)

519 N	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which highways authorities major schemes remain under review; and when he expects to announce his decision on the future of each of those schemes.
	(19813)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

520	Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the effects of outcomes of the Comprehensive Spending Review on funding for Government services in Wales.
	(20599)

Questions to the Minister for Women and Equalities

521 N	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on equal treatment for fathers and mothers in the enforcement of family court orders.
	(19941)

522 N	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many apprentices were in post at the Equalities and Human Rights Commission on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many such apprentices recruited in the last 12 months (a) were previously apprentices, (b) had been long-term unemployed and (c) are graduates.
	(20270)

523	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much the Government Equalities Office has spent on services provided by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in the last 24 months.
	(20468)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

524	Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made a recent estimate of the proportion of spending on (a) the basic state pension, (b) the savings credit and (c) guarantee credit which is received by each decile of the population.
	(20530)

525	Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of housing benefit recipients who have also been receiving jobseeker's allowance for over (a) six and (b) 12 months.
	(20531)

526	Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the average annual administrative cost to local authorities of the proposal to devolve to them responsibility for (a) council tax benefit and (b) implementing the proposed £500 a week benefit cap.
	(20532)

527	Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has undertaken an equality impact assessment of the proposed changes to council tax benefit; and if he will make a statement.
	(20879)

528	Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people resident in (a) Bethnal Green and Bow and (b) Tower Hamlets were in receipt of council tax benefit on the latest date for which figures are available.
	(20882)

529 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to respond to the letters of 23 August and 30 September 2010 from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay on his constituent Mr M. Allison.
	(20003)

530	Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether all mothers entitled to receive contributions to (a) a basic and (b) a second state pension under the provisions of the Pensions Act 2007 until their youngest child reaches the age of 12 will continue to do so following the proposed changes to child benefit.
	(20733)

531 N	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the proposed rents for social housing of 80 per cent. of market level will attract housing benefit in full.
	(19805)

532 N	Mr Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number of residents of each local authority area in Scotland who are likely to be affected by the proposed time limit on the payment of employment and support allowance.
	(20009)

533 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, from what local authorities he has received representations on local housing allowance and housing benefits since June 2010; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each item of correspondence with each such local authority.
	(20048)

534	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of his Department's properties that are managed under a private finance initiative scheme are empty.
	(20810)

535	Mrs Jenny Chapman (Darlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many married women eligible to claim a state pension on the basis of their husband's contributions did so in each year prior to March 2008 for which figures are available; how many such claims were successful; and what estimate he has made of the number of eligible married women who failed to claim.
	(20854)

536 N	Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will review the adequacy of the Health and Safety Executive's enforcement regime for the purposes of ensuring that health and safety requirements are implemented by owners of licensed premises.
	(20050)

537 N	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to bring forward proposals to enable employment support allowance to be available immediately to students who suspend their studies due to a health condition or disability.
	(20139)

538	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on services provided by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in the last 24 months.
	(20469)

539	John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will exempt those recipients of housing benefit who are in employment from the proposed change in entitlement from the 50th percentile to the 30th percentile.
	(20624)

540	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent representations he has received on the maximum allowable limit for therapeutic earnings.
	(20621)

541	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on Government policy on the use of pre-employment health questionnaires.
	(20534)

542	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that people with depression are able to participate in the (a) Access to Work and (b) Pathways to Work programme.
	(20535)

543	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department provides to enable people with depression to find work; and if he will make a statement.
	(20536)

544	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that all job centre staff are trained to recognise the needs of people with depression.
	(20537)

545	Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether partners of higher rate tax payers will receive carer's credit once they are no longer eligible to receive child benefit.
	(20518)

546	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the merits of changing eligibility for housing benefit to include individuals undertaking full-time further education courses.
	(20496)

547	Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what modelling his Department has undertaken in respect of the likely effects on the housing benefit budget of proposed increases in social rents.
	(20466)

548	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that the full monetary value of housing benefit paid to tenants is received by landlords; and if he will make a statement.
	(20827)

549 N	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that the planned reductions in entitlements to housing benefit do not result in an increase in the number of children living in poverty in each of the next four years; and if he will make a statement.
	(20172)

550 N	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effects on local demand for school places of the proposed reductions in entitlements to housing benefit; and if he will make a statement.
	(20173)

551 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department's estimates of the number of recipients of benefits awarded on a condition of incapacity or limited capability who will in future be found to be fit for work include assumptions relating to the number of successful appeals against work capability assessments which will be made.
	(19911)

552 N	Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the median gross household income was in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	(20264)

553	Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has carried out (a) a disability impact assessment and (b) any other impact on the effect of his proposed changes to benefits on disabled individuals and families.
	(20834)

554	Simon Wright (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many compensation payments were made for errors by job centres in (a) Norwich, (b) England and (c) each of the smallest geographical areas for which figures are available in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the monetary value of such payments was in each case.
	(20501)

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

555	Mr Tom Harris (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the relationship between murine leukaemia virus-related virus and myalgic encephalomyelitis.
	[Transferred] (20350)

556	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what timetable he has set for the proposed superfast broadband pilots in Wales.
	[Transferred] (20550)

557	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of the planned funding for broadband services in the Spending Review period will be allocated to (a) conventional and (b) superfast broadband services.
	[Transferred] (20551)

558	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the population who will have access to 2 megabytes broadband by the end of 2010.
	[Transferred] (20702)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

559	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average life expectancy is of a child patient treated with conventional treatments for osteosarcoma.
	[Transferred] (20528)

560	Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of breaches of regulations governing the operation of slaughterhouses in the latest period for which figures are available.
	[Transferred] (20734)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

561 N	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of children who will be required to move to another school as a result of their family moving home following a reduction in housing benefit in each of the next four years.
	[Transferred] (20174)


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